This week has gone by so fast. I am experiencing all of this shifts in my life, and although at times it's a little nerve-wrecking, I'm excited about the new opportunities ahead. My head is buzzing incoherently, so I imagine that this will be a rather lifeless post. I have much to share, but little energy to follow through with that right now. ( Read more... )

What is promising is observing how helpful people are when a crisis strikes. Although there are the notorious punks who still refuse to pay attention to the common law of a traffic signal that's out (four way stop, buddy), many people are donating water, ice, radios, and batteries to those without electricity or water supply ( Read more... )

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Went in this morning and maybe ten employees showed up. After everyone hung out in a classroom sharing their experiences, our principal suggested that we work from home. It didn't really take that much convincing ( Read more... )

We finally have power at our apartment complex. The place smells musty and wet, so I'm looking forward to the air conditioner doing its job with the help of some incense. Opening the windows is really not much of an option, as the only downfall of our place is the lack thereof. We have three windows that can air out the fairly large (just shy of ( Read more... )

None of us believed really that a hurricane would make it this far inland. Thursday it didn't really occur to me that we would be closed on Friday, until another co-worker mentioned it ( Read more... )

The first day of school didn’t kill me. I woke up yesterday morning with the jitters, and John’s dad (who had stopped by) was quite amused with me vocalizing every five minutes that I was going to get sick ( Read more... )

So yesterday morning I woke up at 8AM to work on a couple of poster boards that I wanted to hang up in the classroom. I knew a couple of administrators would be at the school, so, providing I popped in there before noon, I would be able to hang them up ( Read more... )

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It’s interesting experience, being fingerprinted and drug tested in less than a week. I feel as if I should be visiting a probation officer or sent off to jail ( Read more... )