The last week before I came back to work was CRAZY! We were warned and worried about a Hurricane Irene coming up from the south, which was, once it slammed into the Outer Banks in North Carolina heading straight into Long Island. It's was all anyone thought of for days...preparing food, water, ice, batteries, candles...tying down furniture, evacuations of homes and hospitals on the coast and then hunkering down to wait. All things considered, Long Island did pretty well, lots of coastal flooding and a storm surge, trees down....many without power still to this day, but no one was killed. All around though, is the buzz of chainsaws. There are leaves and branches littered all around and even more are plastered onto all the screens and windows. I feel for all those people who live near rivers, where the rains just filled them to capacity and they flooded the areas. I will take a seacoast over a river any day. At least the tide goes out.
The summer is officially over for me....I am back to work. Classes have not started yet, so it is quiet, but the students are moved in, Matriculation Day is here, and a new batch of freshmen will be filling our halls tomorrow for the first day of classes. I am teaching two classes, but they are both late starts and do not begin until the middle of September...but I am all ready to go anyway. I am thinking of trying to get put all my lectures on Power Point....that way, when a Senior Moment strikes, I will be prepared...but I hate Power Point!
Today is my daughter Cara's Birthday....the day she turned 18 she started college...jeez that seemed like last year...time sure flies.....she is out of college 11 years already!
