National holidays

I had approximately the following conversation with my mother this afternoon.

Me: What's up?
Mom: Just got home from work. Your father is making me potatoes.
Me: (Realizing it's about 9:30 AM in Alabama) What's Dad doing home?
Mom: It's Martin Luther King Day...
Me: [Silence] Yeah, I thought MSN was saying something about that...

Amazing how one can forget those national holidays. Ah, MLK Day...when all the other schools got off but Springs was still in session...when the Native American group staged "Indigenous Peoples Day" on Cross Campus...when Levin finally relented and gave us a national holiday off...

Well, it wasn't like I was in class today, anyway.