I’m back in my office for the first time since August 26th. I was amazed to find everything pretty much just as I left it. If anything the place is cleaner than it’s been in a long time.
It’s good to be back, but things are a little different, a little weird. There’s a bunch of [...]
I thought we were done getting supplies from Habans Elementary several weeks ago. But we keep going back to Xy’s old school for more stuff.
Today we got some help from some of the SWAT guys who are camped out there. These cops can’t go home because their homes were flooded. They can’t take up residence [...]
I had a roofer lined up to fix the hole(s) in our roof, but after waiting for six weeks or so, I was starting to get worried.
A couple friends asked me if I would be enlisting the services of Quickdraw to fix my roof. They remembered the fiasco of the past summer. Quickdraw will go [...]
We have neighbors again!
We’ve been the only people living for blocks in any direction, but now there are some Mexican guys living in the upper apartment of the house two doors down.
I know they’re Mexican because Johnny told me so. Johnny is the Indian-American slumlord who owns the four buildings immediately adjacent to ours. The [...]
The University wants staff back next Monday, according to information posted on the website. What’s incredible to me is that this news has only come out one week in advance. But after four months away from campus, I am more than ready to get back to work.
I was astonished to discover mail in our mailbox this morning. It must have been delivered Saturday, because I only filled out the little form to resume delivery on Friday, and I believe today is a federal holiday (since New Year’s Day fell on a Sunday).
And what cool mail it is:
A Christmas card from David [...]
Goodbye 2005. The general consensus here in New Orleans seems to be: We’re glad to see this one go.
I used to think of the year I lived in Sweden as the worst in my life, wrought as it was with teen angst and personal conflicts and the pain of apostasy, not to mention the cold [...]
Xy and I are back in our flooded home, trying to help rebuild New Orleans.
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