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reflectedeveAhahaha, sorry? I spent a good chunk of last night drawing & watching DuckTales with six other cartoonists in someone's tiny apartment. My brain has kept up a running background track of "woo-woo!"s ever since.
Anyway, it's appropriate on a number of levels. The last few days have been pretty bizarre. I've been seeing a lot of talk about how anticlimactic Irene was for various people, particularly in areas where they expected to be much harder hit, but ... Vermont seems to have had the opposite experience. The storm itself barely seemed worthy of the name (just a not unreasonably rainy day), but by evening the river had risen alarmingly, and kept right on rising through the night.
The damage here was reasonably minor, particularly as compared to, say, Brattleboro, but there were some exciting evacuation times! (Not for me personally--my new apartment is decidedly high and dry--but for some of my classmates and school resources.) I will have to post about that in more detail later, since I'm due at a staff meeting in twenty minutes!
Apart from the flooding and related excitement, I've been busy meeting a ridiculous number of people within a very limited time. (I have never moved to a new place, or started a new school, and made this many friends this fast.) It's such a tiny community; I think people are desperate for fresh faces, and we do all have some pretty obvious and important common interests! On the whole, it's really fantastic (I keep getting invited out to draw), although it's also clear that there's a slightly nerve-wracking potential for drama and gossip that I'd like to skate around as much as possible. We'll see.
I should probably wrap up already. :( I miss the internet! This is the first time I've been on my own computer since Friday, so clearly I am even more behind on everything than I've been ... but the Comcast people are supposed to come Thursday. Then I can finally watch the new Doctor Who. \o/ And maybe I'll have some art to post ... I actually haven't been drawing nearly enough, with all the hurricane shenanigans and meet and greets, but that needs to change now.
If you'd be interested in reading future/more detailed posts about my school/town, btw, I have a sign-up poll for an opt-in filter over here (or on LJ). I don't want to post too much identifying info (or photos) publicly for a variety of reasons. The post's locked, but if you want in just comment and let me know.
Hope you're all having a fabulous week (and unscathed, if you're on the east coast)! ♥
Anyway, it's appropriate on a number of levels. The last few days have been pretty bizarre. I've been seeing a lot of talk about how anticlimactic Irene was for various people, particularly in areas where they expected to be much harder hit, but ... Vermont seems to have had the opposite experience. The storm itself barely seemed worthy of the name (just a not unreasonably rainy day), but by evening the river had risen alarmingly, and kept right on rising through the night.
The damage here was reasonably minor, particularly as compared to, say, Brattleboro, but there were some exciting evacuation times! (Not for me personally--my new apartment is decidedly high and dry--but for some of my classmates and school resources.) I will have to post about that in more detail later, since I'm due at a staff meeting in twenty minutes!
Apart from the flooding and related excitement, I've been busy meeting a ridiculous number of people within a very limited time. (I have never moved to a new place, or started a new school, and made this many friends this fast.) It's such a tiny community; I think people are desperate for fresh faces, and we do all have some pretty obvious and important common interests! On the whole, it's really fantastic (I keep getting invited out to draw), although it's also clear that there's a slightly nerve-wracking potential for drama and gossip that I'd like to skate around as much as possible. We'll see.
I should probably wrap up already. :( I miss the internet! This is the first time I've been on my own computer since Friday, so clearly I am even more behind on everything than I've been ... but the Comcast people are supposed to come Thursday. Then I can finally watch the new Doctor Who. \o/ And maybe I'll have some art to post ... I actually haven't been drawing nearly enough, with all the hurricane shenanigans and meet and greets, but that needs to change now.
If you'd be interested in reading future/more detailed posts about my school/town, btw, I have a sign-up poll for an opt-in filter over here (or on LJ). I don't want to post too much identifying info (or photos) publicly for a variety of reasons. The post's locked, but if you want in just comment and let me know.
Hope you're all having a fabulous week (and unscathed, if you're on the east coast)! ♥
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Date: 2011-09-03 02:49 am (UTC)I keep thinking that would make a great live-action non-duck movie.