Reconnected!
I finally have internet service at home again. I lost service sometime Saturday but I didn't have time to deal with the problem until this morning. Super kitty and I are thoroughly enjoying our lazy morning surfing the internet, reading journals, checking the weather (hurricane number four is headed this way), and thinking about all of the things that I should try to get done today.
I love my Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I can wake up leisurely. Drink my coffee at home, in peace. I need mornings like this. They help keep me sane.
Since I have been teaching for the last couple of weeks, I finally feeling a sort of empathy for what my professors go through. I am shocked at how much my students don't know. I am dismayed at the fact that I have to tell them everything that they have to do, even though they have directions written out explicitly on their assignments. I want my students to succeed. I go out of my way to assist the students who seek my help. I just don't know how to get through to all of them.
As for the hurricanes... I cannot remember a hurricane season that has been this active. I can't even think of a year when Florida was hit with more than one strong hurricane. We are use to big thunderstorms, but not destroy-everything-in-its-path big storms. The weather channel is predicting that Jeanne will hit florida sometime at the beginning of next week. Since Ivan avoided us, I am still at top preparedness for a hurricane, but I want the threats to end. I want a normal schedule. Not a schedule that depends on where a storm is going and how big it is. I don't want to have to worry about where I will have to evacuate, if I have enough food (I lost a ton of groceries when Frances came through because I lost electricity for three days, I still haven't had enough money to replace it all), if I have enough batteries to last a few days without power.... I have also discovered that it is very costly (for my budget) to prepare for multiple hurricane hits... I have been lucky so far, everyone I know here has been lucky... we haven't had a direct hit yet... I don't know what I would do if I was faced with a direct hit from a hurricane, my apartment would literally blow away and I would have nothing but the backpack I evacuated with...
I finally have internet service at home again. I lost service sometime Saturday but I didn't have time to deal with the problem until this morning. Super kitty and I are thoroughly enjoying our lazy morning surfing the internet, reading journals, checking the weather (hurricane number four is headed this way), and thinking about all of the things that I should try to get done today.
I love my Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I can wake up leisurely. Drink my coffee at home, in peace. I need mornings like this. They help keep me sane.
Since I have been teaching for the last couple of weeks, I finally feeling a sort of empathy for what my professors go through. I am shocked at how much my students don't know. I am dismayed at the fact that I have to tell them everything that they have to do, even though they have directions written out explicitly on their assignments. I want my students to succeed. I go out of my way to assist the students who seek my help. I just don't know how to get through to all of them.
As for the hurricanes... I cannot remember a hurricane season that has been this active. I can't even think of a year when Florida was hit with more than one strong hurricane. We are use to big thunderstorms, but not destroy-everything-in-its-path big storms. The weather channel is predicting that Jeanne will hit florida sometime at the beginning of next week. Since Ivan avoided us, I am still at top preparedness for a hurricane, but I want the threats to end. I want a normal schedule. Not a schedule that depends on where a storm is going and how big it is. I don't want to have to worry about where I will have to evacuate, if I have enough food (I lost a ton of groceries when Frances came through because I lost electricity for three days, I still haven't had enough money to replace it all), if I have enough batteries to last a few days without power.... I have also discovered that it is very costly (for my budget) to prepare for multiple hurricane hits... I have been lucky so far, everyone I know here has been lucky... we haven't had a direct hit yet... I don't know what I would do if I was faced with a direct hit from a hurricane, my apartment would literally blow away and I would have nothing but the backpack I evacuated with...
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