What is this white stuff?

I am back at school and it is cold.

The ground is covered with a thick blanket of snow - a foot deep, maybe? This is my first winter with snow, and I'm a bit "snow snow snow snow snow!!!!" It's so beautiful - thick and white and sparkly and smooth, and I love the big gaping holes that footprints make. I love the fractal snowflakes, the little many-pointed stars. They're so tiny. It's amazing.

First day of classes was today. So far, I'm hopeful for all of them - the seminar looks promising, the South Indian drumming seems fun, theory is theory, my quintet should be awesome. I'm starting to get back into some sort of practice schedule.

It's so cold outside.