Eventful

My first week of classes went a little like this:

Earthquake
Hurricane
Loss of power
Loss of water
5 day weekend

I don't think I've ever had such an exciting first week back in class. Mostly these things were not pleasant to deal with, although the earthquake was pretty funny - Phoebe took off running and I thought the shelves above my bed were going to fall on my head. It was actually located near Richmond but apparently people as far north as NYC felt it - it was just a gentle rumble here in Newport News.

Campus evacuated for the hurricane and I spent the weekend in Richmond because we have a generator there. Which of course worked for about 24 hours and then had some sort of issue which meant not only did we not have power, we didn't have water, either. I felt completely cut off from the outside world - like, no internet or tv and my cell phone didn't have a signal. It was like living in the stone age. I couldn't even look up the Cubs scores, let alone watch a game. First world problems, right?

Had a really great night on Monday hanging out with Tricia and Derick and Scott, got my email on a 3G network and found out classes would be starting again today. So last night I drove here with Pheebs and went to dinner with Jen, came back and went for a jog, and the power was on. Awesome!

Classes are going fine although I did add a 6th class, Communism's Collapse, which is a 400 level class and Brittany and Rob are in it - plus I think Alex is trying to transfer in to it. It's once a week which I hate, but at least it is good company and it should, in theory, make next semester easier.