Easter Week at Western
It’s a short week here at WCU. We have Thursday and Friday off for Easter. After five years, I’m still amazed that a state institution takes two days off for a blatantly Christian holiday.
Still, it gives me some time to catch up (at both work and home), and the students love it (well, okay, I have never heard them say, “I love this Easter break!” But you know they do.)
I can’t believe this semester is coming to a rapid close. There will be two more weeks after Easter. Then finals, then, … what?
Stay tuned later this week to find out. Could be some interesting reading coming up.
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No, really.
April 10th, 2006 at 6:54 am
Ooh, good job building tension there David.
I’m not surprised that WCU takes Easter off, because I’m sure the higher-ups realize the amount of travelling and whatnot that students do. I *am* a little surprised that they actually call it “Easter”. Is that what it’s actually called?
(Then again, the word “Easter” doesn’t really connote anythign Christian anymore… I have a Daddyspeak post coming up about that.)
April 10th, 2006 at 8:45 am
DRL! What is new? Let me know! Hurry up and post it!
April 10th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Robert:
Indeed it is called Easter Holiday. See for yourself here (scroll down to near the bottom).
I look forward to your post on Easter. I thought I might get some pushback on referring to Easter as “blatantly Christian,” but I’m not convinced it’s been as commercialized as, say, Christmas.