Posts Tagged "disaster"

A Sunday Surreal

Posted by on Dec 20, 2006 in Explorer, Observer | 6 comments

On December 17th, 2006, my plane from Kansas City left at 7:25am to Miami, Florida, from which I would con­tinue to Bolivia, South America. I was not on that plane. Rewind. Summarized To Do List: – 3 finals – 2 papers – 4 trunks to ship to Bolivia – 1 apart­ment to pack – 3 cars to empty and clean – 1 tea party to hold – 2,730.3 loose ends to tie 12.3.2006 Grandmother is about to leave for KC. She needs a lap­top, des­per­ately, in order to com­mu­ni­cate. Funds were tight, no suf­fi­cient sales. I decided to sell her my com­puter for $250. Bought a new note­book,...

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Major Disaster of Epic Proportions

Posted by on Dec 10, 2006 in Observer | 0 comments

VIDEO: This should not be allowed to hap­pen dur­ing finals week. I posted that so that my Dad could see what’s hap­pen­ing and could fig­ure out what I need to do. I’m liv­ing in Grandmother’s house (she’s in Kenya) while I pack up the apart­ment. The apart­ment is a dis­as­ter because I’ve been pack­ing it off and on. BIG cleanup and pack­ing day was sched­uled for Wednesday, after every­thing else is done. This flood­ing must have been going on for about a day or two. So, today I walk into the apart­ment in order to get some­thing. It was like a rain­storm...

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