Hey so Hurricane Hilary downgraded to Tropical Storm Hilary and then pretty much just dumped rain on us and didn’t do a lot else where I live in East County. Which is a good thing for us. Looks like the deserts and Mexico were hit much harder. Thankful for the fact that we weren’t. Certainly we still had to prep to teach today…presumably if there’d been more damage, they would have given us an extra day. As it was, I did a bunch of planning Saturday afternoon because of all the threats of power outages etc. that were gonna happen. Education rarely stops for natural disasters.
This was Saturday night, I think.
Strange though. We don’t get hit directly by these things normally. The remnants come off the Gulf of Mexico or up from South America. Our winter storms were worse than this in terms of wind. That said, we had one branch that decided to become heavier until it touched the end of the driveway.
We went out to deal with it, which of course was harder than we’d hoped, and that’s when the rain got really heavy, so we all ended up soaked. Nothing else was an issue though. Knock on wood. Tree trimming is one of the biggest expenses on my property…and one I often can’t afford unfortunately. It’s on my list.
The skies were beautiful on Saturday night. We don’t face west, but we get the reflections on clouds…
The calm before the storm…
Which ended up being pretty calm here.
Thankfully.
I ironed Friday night…
And Saturday night…
I swear, they don’t look very different. They are. I know that. This is taking a long time.
I feel like I would have been more efficient if I wasn’t running around worrying about a hurricane. I guess that’s normal.
And Sunday night…
Doesn’t look like much. I have three pedestals done. Granted, they are complicated, but I’m not being fast about this at all. Any plan to be done by next weekend seems like a giant joke right now. I guess I just go with it. It takes the time it takes. It’s taking that much time because there are lots of color decisions to be made, minute ones. Not big overreaching ones. Accept it and keep going. I think I’m still in the 300s. Am I? No! I made it to the 400s last night. So I’ll be surprised if I’m done by this weekend. I have so many 2-hour meetings after school, no joke, ugh. This week sucks.
One thing that didn’t suck was a mini-art retreat a friend put on Saturday morning. I missed coloring with markers. We had three prompts for this one.
Then three for this one…
Which we folded into a book…
Intriguing…
Would have been cool to do with my art classes.
So glad I’m not teaching art this year. Then we did another all-over one and turned it into a book.
Less abstract.
So ironing all week. I’m already exhausted, so that’s fun. Egg/eyeball demo today…decided against doing it as a lab. I haven’t grocery-shopped yet due to hurricane prep/worries, so that’s happening after a 2-hour staff meeting and 40-minute paid interview today. Ugh. Need to prep some stuff for later in the week and next week. Two evenings of sex-ed committee meetings with ‘concerned parents and school-board members’ who think we are grooming students. Idiots. If I’m grooming them, they would be kind, turn all their work in, charge their chromebooks, and wear deodorant. I did review all their ‘All About Me’ papers yesterday, so I know all the nicknames, but no, I’m not calling that one kid Heisenberg. Not happening. First full week of the school year with kids! It’ll be long and painful. Wish us luck.
Yeah that too.
Kathy Nida 