some spend hours looking up unconventional methods to curing illness... like the really bright light to prevent SAD and other more controversial/ less legal methods

one doesn't call me back because she was scared someone was outside her house, but then decided it was a raccoon. (that was the entirety of the message ashley hart left me and if you ( Read more... )

so i just got back from a bbq at my boss's house. she is really our head hauncho boss, not our immediate boss. the director of our program and she totally kicks ass. so does her house. i wish she would have given us a tour. it was the first homecooked meal i've had since the night before evacuation. totally kicked ass. sooooooo good. they had ( Read more... )

i'm back in my house. i think someone turned off the boiler because we have no hot water, but no damage, everyone's safe, and the roosters and the little chicks made it through! woohoo!

we may lose power soon so i just wanted to let everyone know that i'm in baton rouge. we're on the outskirts of baton rouge so if you hear anything bad about baton rouge don't worry too much ( Read more... )

greetings from hurricane central ( Read more... )

waiting for hurricane announcements is annoying. we don't know if they're going to be like "ok guys, be prepared to come in in an hour" or if they're just going to call us up and tell us to come at the moment. gustav just became a category 4 storm. woo and there may be tropical storm weather in baton rouge where i'm going so let's just hope i don't ( Read more... )

i forgot. one way you can donate money to my organization without actually giving any of your own money is to use goodsearch.com and put Rebuilding Together (New Orleans, LA) as your charity. you give a cent every time you search for something, which isn't a lot but adds up and is free. of course you could pick a different charity if you wanted to ( Read more... )

today marks the one year anniversary of hurricane katrina ( Read more... )

so as some of you may know, they are predicting that hurricane gustavo will hit the louisiana coast on tuesday. maybe it won't. we will have to wait and see. but in the mean time all of us here are preparing for it. just so ya'll know, i'm staying until 12 hours before the storm touches down to help people evacuate. then i'm taking the last train ( Read more... )

yay!! we're using the dishwasher!!

how does my house respond to a hurricane that may come straight for new orleans causing us to evacuate in a few days? by going to the store and buying more food of course! and we had bread egg, and omelets, and chocolate chip pancakes. yum yum!