'Bout head height

Wow-ee. Things are so super busy at work I can hardly even breathe there. There's no way to get caught up. No way. This is the kind of busy that makes you unable to do anything except walk around with your head reeling, searching for the starting line. I'm going into work tomorrow since I went home with a migrane Thursday afternoon which made me even further behind. There were 2 meetings that morning that I had to attend and I just barely made it through, squinting and in a foul humor. This must be similiar to how it was for people when they came back into this city after the great engineering failure and saw what their life had become - how...where to even start? I'm not equating the 2 experiences, just saying I might know a little bit of what was going through some heads right around then.

I decided to drop my price considerably for the spare room and advertise for 2 roommates, particularly for Americorps volunteers who are coming into town for the year. They pull in a cool 800 a month before taxes (!) so I would need two of those suckers to get any kind of help with the rent. So - I've got TWO roommates now which kind of blows in a way since I'm a serious loner but it will also drag me into the land of the living so it ain't all bad I suppose.

How about those 2 disqualifications in the 200 m races? That was close to the only Olympics I've watched and it was unbelievable. All that training, all that sweat, all those years, and then to step over the line, more than once?? Just blows me away. I decided to get cable (or a dish, actually) after all. I've been without a TV since May and if you saw me before that you wouldn't have believed it since that's about all I did. Now I've had it since Sunday and I've watched about an hour total. Without TV I don't miss it at all but if it's here, I will most likely watch the hell out of it. I've surprised myself so far in not being pulled that way, let's hope it lasts.

That photo above is at one of my sites. See the water line? Look up...up...there, right under the fans. See it? It's about at head height. Well, the height of my head I guess. That is the settling line, that's not the highest the water was, that's where it settled and stayed for weeks and weeks. I heard that sharks were found on the lawns here, this area is directly south of Lake Ponchartrain and water stayed in this area for some of the longest time in the city. Thing is this structure was about 95% complete when the failure happened, but anything that wasn't submerged (like ceiling fans) is still likely completely shot because of the heat and humidity it endured hovering over stagnant toxic water in an enclosed area for weeks. So the entire structure is a goner, most likely. It's a CMU wall structure, but if they're reinforced the steel was most likely inundated and compromised. We have to look into the walls to really figure it out, break some of the blocks open.

It's only 9:30 but I'm ready for bed. Goodnight.