Good Old School

What's better than waking up at six in the morning to go get your education, the basis of your future life? School: where you get to see what the term one-on-one time means when your teacher asks where your homework is*. School is also a place to meet new people, usually by thinking in your head, why the heck can't this person walk any faster? Don't they know I have a bus to catch? In school you'll learn what frustration really is, and you'll also be able to see (live!) what snobby little brats are. You will be given small tests (free!) that will show you that you were able to remember things from 2nd grade. School is the best place to go for 25 minute lectures (guaranteed!) and classwork assignments given a minute before the end of class. Everything here is guaranteed, or the PTA will ask for even more money. Go to how to torture Katie.com for more information. And don't tell me school is good for you in the end. You've never been to my school.
*Thank goodness I have not had that happened to me!

This Catastrophe!

*Warning* Sarcastic post ahead. Hurricane Irene was devastating! We lost power for 5 minutes and we had a branch come down! They even closed the first day of school!!!!

Okay. I'm done being sarcastic.

It means nothing (nothing!) when they close school. School will be delayed with a DUSTING of snow. Imagine what it's going to be like this school year, if they close the first day (the first day!) of school. I'm not really complaining, I'm glad we have no school, but you have to see where I'm coming from. School is closed because some people have no power. Understandable. Now, since school is closed, Baltimore County will call homes to tell them that school is closed. Of course. Now, these people who we're closing school for, right? The ones with no power? Well, they have no power. Your thinking "yeah, I know that". But, they - never - get - the - message. Because - they - have - no - power. See? Kids stand outside for the bus for 20 minutes (It's the first day, so they'll already be out for at least 10 minutes anyways), the bus never comes, the parents drive them to school only to figure out that school is closed. Maybe some people will figure out, if people call them on their cell phones, that there is no school. But others won't.

Back to Hurricane Irene.

Did we get a hurricane last night? I never knew. I believe it "hit us" really early in the morning, so we were all in REM mode (REM: Rapid Eye Movement [I can't believe I didn't lose all my knowledge this summer :-D]). I'm feeling murderous at the weather people right now, who are still trying to make us believe that it is the end of the world and for ramping it up for all those places where it wasn't a huge issue. Yes, branches fell down here and yes, by the ocean, on as far east as you can go in the US, it was worse, but evacuating NYC? How would it be worse there than it was here? The mayor said, "All who stay behind may as well be prosecuted" or something like that. I saw people walking around with umbrellas and people sliding on the water on the streets. And when you really do need to evacuate, people will think that it's no big deal. Ughh... I need something to cheer me up.

It's Been A Little Shaky Around Here...

I bet you know exactly what I'm going to talk about, but I'm going to say it anyways. The earthquake. I was sitting on the couch and I actually didn't hear it when I heard Mom yelling from her room where she was putting Ruth down for a nap. I, of course, ran upstairs and I was TERRIFIED out of my mind because I thought something was wrong with Ruth. I had that feeling, where adrenaline pumps throughout your whole body and you're ready to do anything to stop the problem, but you also feel that you might collapse any second. And then I felt it. It felt like somewhere, miles underground, the earth (which it was) was shaking. I immediately registered this as an earthquake, and it was so weird because I never felt anything like it before. Now, I have told myself, as like a personal rule, that in any natural disaster to go downstairs in our unfinished section where there are concrete walls and is partly underground. I was SO stupid. I didn't include an earthquake, because I really thought I would never feel one. It was literally one of the weirdest sensations I've ever felt. So, in my panic (I was actually feeling somewhat relieved because Ruth was okay, and I was so worried that something was wrong with her) I went to the worst place to go during an earthquake. That was all in about 30 seconds. I was personally shaking so hard it was almost hard to believe it was over. After that little trauma, I thought I would go back downstairs to make up for the terrible impression I had made during the earthquake. I was never able to make that up. The girls were terrified to go upstairs (which is ridiculous) and joined me downstairs. Oh, and did I mention that the whole time Ruth was just waving at us, which is her way of saying 'night-night!'
I'm also really excited for this hurricane.