Turning Over a New Leaf...

Okay, bad pun, but since it is the first day of fall...I love my Mustang template, but I needed a change. Converse shoes are so classic. I did some very limited HTML editing, mostly with colors. If I left you off my blog roll, please tell me, and accept a sincere apology. I'm not trying to oust anyone here ;-)

So what do you think?

Oh, yes. The dorm does have power and water as of last night. However, the AC is struggling to get us below 85 degrees...Ahh! I do NOT like Ike.

EDIT: The temperature in the dorm is now blissful. I was afraid it would be another night of sleeping with a Ziploc of ice under my pillow.

I AM ALIVE!!!

I know, some of you were starting to wonder about that (whether I was still conscious, breathing, etc.). Eight days. That's how long I was without power and internet. (I think I may hate candlelight for a long time). Yeah. I was really, really bored. The funny thing is, I slept through the worst night of the storm. Don't ask how that worked. Maybe excess tryptophan in the turkey? Who knows. I was proud of myself - I stopped swatting dead light switches after the first 24 hours.

I am so, so grateful for electric lights. And gas stoves (which work through hurricanes, BTW). And refrigerators. And internet. And car-chargers for cell phones and laptops, even if the cell phone coverage stinks.

So now I'm back at my dorm. Which, um, doesn't have full electricity. It's running on generators, and has no AC. Yeah. I'm not sure this was the best decision of my life, but it was that or wake up at 5 am and drive down here for practice. Thanks so much for prayers of safety - we had one huge limb come down in our yard, but miraculously it didn't hit the house at all, and the cars are fine.

So here's the next call for prayer - electricity for my dorm, which conveniently enough, is the only dorm building without full power/AC/water. Oh yeah, did I mention no water? I worry about myself sometimes.

This Week's Hurricane

I'm calling this a presidential hurricane, although I don't like Ike. I decided around 9 last night to drive home, because my little sis really, really, really wanted me to come back for the weekend. And there were only like 50 people still on campus.

So this is my update/prayer request: safety! We're supposed to get 70 mph winds for twelve hours straight starting around 2 am (great timing, huh?) Raewyn had the bad side of last week's hurricane; I'm getting this week's. It's not supposed to have Katrina-type damage or anything, but it is a massive storm.

Dependent on matters such as Internet connectivity and electricity availability, I'll try to keep everyone updated...