I apologize, first and foremost, to my great followers of nine official blogger follower people, and the various other folks that roam in and out of this blog. I have left you un-entertained, and I am sure you've been biting your nails nervously to find out what happenings are occurring in the great state of my life in Maine. To this, I say sorry. To the rest of you who just haven't noticed that I haven't blogged lately, well....you are boring too.
Anyway, my last post talked about hurricanes and such. That's been interesting. Two weekends ago we had hurricane remnants come through town and blow things around. Down in Bar Harbor, a girl was killed because she got too close to the surf and was pulled out to sea. One week later, the remnants of tropical depression Danny came swooping into town, and was actually more damaging and powerful than the hurricane. Strange. In this area, we got close to 4" of rain in 24hrs, and the roads and waterways were flooded. I came home to water dripping from my ceiling and down my chimney after a 15 hour day at work. Yippee to living off campus. This day of tropical depression also happened to be day two of freshmen orientation, which included the first-ever community service day. Nothing says "welcome to campus!!" better than "hey, go out in the 50 degree weather while it is raining and pickup trash next to the bay and paint the high school". Regardless, it was a great success and no one has dropped out yet!
Speaking of work...I've been doing a lot of that lately. As mentioned before, this is my first true day off, which I don't really even know what to do with myself. I've had events pretty much every or every other day for the last week and a half, so I've had a lot of "baptism by fire" opportunities in my world of labor lately. It's been really good though....I've learned how to setup a medium sized sound system and run a sound board (still learning), have educated myself on the finer points of 100 watt radio and FCC regulations, have been privy to H1N1 vaccine processes, helped a fledgling frisbee club get started, and oh yeah....some challenging supervision issues on the professional and student front. Needless to say, for the small physical head that I have, I sure am piling on a ton of hats on it!!
Other good news is that my foot that I had previously hurt walking/running is now healed nicely (thank you Stephanie for suggestions on how to remedy that, and also the internet for many stretches that I do regularly now). So, hopefully this week I am back to walking to work and getting out in the morning sunshine. I've mentioned The Hill to some of you, so I wanted to post a few picks so you see what my walk to/from campus looks like.
Things are good in the lobster world (although I need to buy a big pot sometime soon so I can make a lobster at home):
Yesterday, we took a group of students down to Bar Harbor for some shopping, which was fun for them. Not as much fun for me. See, Bar Harbor is pretty much crazy with tourists all the time...and this weekend was no exception. The one big difference about this visit to Bar Harbor = two cruise ships docked in the harbor...so you know, a few thousand more people in town. Ugh. But hey, I had never seen cruise ships in town, so that was cool. And don't forget The Rena, which is a 140 foot yacht that was in town from Florida...
So, anyway, on this Labor Day....I'm thrilled to have a day off to just chill. Betty the Cat is really not doing well these days, so I am trying to spend as much time as I can with her as I think I have some difficult decisions to make in the new few weeks.
I hope you enjoy the pictures, and....I will try to be better about posting in the future.
Aren't "days off" wonderful? There seems to be no end to the number of things you are learning on the fly in this new world of yours...I am continually impressed and excited for you!
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts are with Ms. Betty as well...I will continue to be thinking about you.