To Typhoon #13

Dear Typhoon #13,

First of all, I am very disappointed that you missed Tsushima, ~completely~, after news reports suggested that you might come this way earlier in the week and give me my first day off from school due to typhoon. I've never been in a typhoon before and was kind of excited for the new experience. Also, missing school due to typhoon is so much cooler than due to the immense amounts of precisely-timed snow of my childhood. The plows can come out in force during a snowstorm and school can prevail, but I doubt wee island folk could do much against your dangerously-strong winds. I was looking forward to battering down the hatches and hoping that my sliding doors held. Especially against such a terror as yourself, typhoon number 13!! ... a superstitiously important number and quite fitting for my first typhoon experience. (Just think.. instead of this drab letter to you, I could be writing an "Ode to Typhoon #13" right now! ... but nay, you've missed your chance for greatness and immemorialization. Sadly, you typhoons are named by the order you arrive in a certain typhoon season. You missed your chance this go-around.)

Secondly, I could have used a day off this week. Yes, I know, I already got Monday off due to "Respect for the Aged Day" -- disrespectfully shortened by moi to "Old People's Day"-- but it was my first visit to a new school and a particularly trying school at that. Things brightened a little today, my third and last day at that school for awhile, but it was generally a slog.

For shame, Typhoon #13. I'll expect more from you next year.