Many people have been killed and injured in the sweep of tornadoes and high winds across the country within the last few days, including 14 in North Carolina, where my brother and his family live. He lives in an undamaged area, fortunately, but other areas have not been so lucky in places ranging from Oklahoma, to Arkansas, to Mississippi, eastward to the coast.
It's also rather chilly today, with the unhappy words "wind chill" back as part of the forecast. Actual temp is 39, wind chill 26. Wind gusting 35-40 mph.
Only three weeks left of the semester. As usual, I didn't get anything done this weekend. In addition to my dental issues on Thursday, our computers apparently were affected by something. My husband's hard drive was giving him the message that there were no files on it, I had a sudden Trojan horse attack my computer when I clicked on "Add as Friend" on a Classmates.com posting, and my brother's email account (likely an old one he doesn't use any longer) keeps spamming me. I don't click on any of the stuff, but it was nevertheless affecting my computer. It took us hours yesterday to get virus scans run.
My ultra conservative and religious colleague exhorted me to wave a palm frond this week for Easter. I told him I'd rather wave a broccoli spear. He believes that I am a "seeker" and that one day I'll find god. (Why do they keep thinking god is lost? that he needs finding?) I told him that I was not a seeker for god, I was a seeker for truth, reason, logic, rationality, and open-mindedness. He wouldn't know much about open-mindedness. He brags that he has no desire to be "tolerant." Conservatives do so love to demonize language. They demonized liberal, they demonized diversity, and now they're demonizing tolerance.
I'm still fighting eye problems. The floaters are really bothersome. If the light is wrong, it's even worse. I don't see that the super-expensive eyedrops have done anything at all. Sigh.
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