Monthly Archives: October 2005

Writing as therapy

From the Boston Globe : Writing helping young Katrina survivors As for my lil Julie C., who has been up in NYC at a Sacred Heart sister school, she returns to NOLA on Nov 5 and classes will start again soon. Her senior year will stretch into June/July, but I’m sure the graduation on the [...]

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wilma and the workplace

After a weekend of trying to decide if we should evacuate or not, and squeezing in a kickboxing class , AC and I decided to stay in Tampa. All the schools and government offices made announcements that they would be closed on Monday and I assumed my St Pete workplace office would too since it [...]

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Links of interest

Back in the academic groove these days after last’s week stress-o-la time at the job. If things continue in that manner, I’ll tell em to take their job and shove it come January, but so far I’m off to a much better week, although it is only Monday… So I’m trying to focus on my [...]

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still a roller coaster of emotions

As I sit in my cubicle at work, which has sprung a third wall and window-paneling in the past week (don’t ask), I’m tortured by the thought of a world out there that I cannot help and a pretty sunny day that I cannot take advantage of. I know I am repeating myself, but the [...]

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5 days with Katrina

This is an amazing slide show with captions so you can see the dramatic pre-storm, post-storm, then post-levee break devastation that occured downtown and in the Quarter. I’ve gotten preoccupied with the reality of all of this again and it was quite difficult to get through my Rhetoric mid-term tonight. The editing job isn’t going [...]

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my trina

Apparently it’s been so long since i’ve blogged, that this is the 3rd time i am writing this post because other windows I’ve closed have ended up closing all of them. Ugh! I don’t even think that first sentence makes sense but i am too tired and frustrated to deal with it. I only want [...]

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