Hm, my bosses said no to my time off. I’m really bumed about it. I don’t know how to stick up for myself when it comes to people who are in charge of me. Plus I tend to get very emotional when I do try to stick up for myself. I felt bad enough just asking, it felt like I was letting them down by having time off. I guess I won’t let them down because I didn’t get the time off. :(

They are taking advangte of me majorly. :( My boyfriends mom even said so. Every one says I need a new job. :( I think I’ll start looking for one that starts when my contact ends. (It’s very common for new jobs to pop up for that time, because it’s ‘End of season”).

It doesn’t snow where I live in Australia, and the only time I’ve actually been in snow was when I was overseas in Canada, and even still, it wasn’t bad enough to warrant closing of schools, etc.

I’m in New York, so snow is definitely not a big deal. Traffic snarls up, but other than that, I don’t think much happens. Long Island doesn’t get snow that often, though… we just had a freak 2 feet of snow a week before Christmas, and maybe a light flurry or two since.

Now, of course, all of our snow has melted. :P

Anyway, here snows even at the moment. Generally it doesn’t cause huge chaos (except in media - “winter came - omg”). Trains, trams and buses can be late if there is lot of snow or/and really cold, but generally schools etc stay open (of which I was quite sad when I was a kid) and people are not hoarding food. Actually snow isn’t that exciting here, it just comes down, people complain (because you can) and then it melts away.