[say, don't you know me, i'm your native son] [i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage]

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i stayed up half the night watching cnn, drinking wine from a plastic bacchus cup in front of the television, listening to arlo guthrie's version of "the city of new orleans" over and over, stunned silent.

i have to go to orientation for school in a little while. talk to me anyway. tell me that you're safe and warm and dry, if not happy. tell me something good, please.

good morning, america. how are you?

Music:: i'm the train they call the city of new orleans

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good morning, america. how are you?

So i take it I'm not the only one who's had that song stuck in her head for going on 48 hours now?

(every time someone says "the city of New Orleans." EVERY TIME.)

by far not the only one. i've had arlo guthrie on repeat since last night.

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Also, if you want something amusing and totally not hurricane related, feel free to laugh at the dilemma I was having on my home computer last night:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/silverakira/87158.html?thread=489846#t489846

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For what it's worth, I'm safe and warm and (mostly -- damn humidity) dry, up Boston-way. I just heard on NPR that Katrina has veered east somewhat, potentially reducing the damage it'll do to New Orleans.
Good thing: it's almost fall, when the air turns crisp and the light slants a little bit differently, time for hot cider and pumpkin beer and sweaters.

HA! it won't be fall here for at least another two months. not everywhere has fall in september, after all. :)

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Fair point. It's still pretty summer-seeming here, for the moment, but that usually changes around here by mid-September.

The news I'm seeing now seems to suggest that New Orleans was spared much of the worse damage it could have sustained, though I guess around a million people don't have power.

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Long before the SuperDome
Where the Saints of football play
Lived a city that the damned called home
Hear their hellish rondelet

That was in my head all night...

i really wish someone would actually finish that musical and put it on broadway.

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I'd go.

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dude, seriously, I can't get it out of my head.

it doesn't help that i listened to it close to 25 times in the last 24 hours, either.

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This may or may not be of interest to you, but I'm in Raleigh through tomorrow.

do you have a car? do you want to come to carrboro and have dinner with me? because i just finished a day's worth of orientation and there's no way in hell i'm coming all the way over to raleigh tonight. :)

(next time, a little more notice and i will totally come over and have dinner & drinks with you, yo.)

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No car for me, sadly.

Sorry for the short notice, I only found out I'd be here a few days ago and realized you were in the area today. Next time (whenever that may be)!

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next time! whenever it is. :)

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I'm up here in DC, dry and happy, for the most part. I walked to work this morning, and there were loads of people out walking and biking in their business clothes (good to see with the gas prices and all). My first class is on Thursday, and I'm really, really excited for it - Intro to Museum Administration.

Have fun at school today, and try not to stress out too much over things (like the hurricane) over which you have no control. I know it's hard.

I'm tracking the storm, trying to see how much damage it's doing to Mobile, AL, where I have several cousins, including a set of quintuplets. The storm's supposed to pass right over Nashville in a couple of days. Glad I'm not there, but I'll be in contact with all my friends who are.

orientation for graduate school is officially the stupidest thing ever.

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Time to turn the iPod on. I've got the Willie Nelson version. I'm tired today, but well. Seems it was a sleepless night for a lot of people. When I get tired enough that I can't concentrate on work I think I'll be trying to figure out how to get Martin Sheen elected President.

send me the willy version?

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I'm dry and content, I suppose. Like many, I didn't sleep much last night. My office is caught somewhere between relief at what we missed and concern about those who are getting the brunt of Katrina. Things are under control with the recovery from Katrina in South Florida, so some of the the people who were sent down to help will be coming back sooner than expected.

Another tropical storm/potential hurricane is projected to hit this coming weekend, so I am starting to keep an eye on that as well.

if a storm heads your way this weekend, feel free to evacuate to my apartment in chapel hill, which will actually be empty save for a lonely kitty. :)

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I'm dry, but I'm sore from the first leg of the

silvana move, and I pinched a nerve something wicked awful in my neck last night as I slept, and now cannot turn my head.

It's not, you know, a hurricane or anything, but enh, you get what you pay for.

I give you this icon in honor of your earworm!

i was listening to my pete seeger/arlo guthrie live cd last night and i thought of you! does ou kick off this weekend or next?

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Real-time blog from WDSU-TV, New Orleans (http://www.wdsu.com/news/4908558/detail.html)

cross-post from

cityscapes, if any of the storm watchers are interested. :-)

hey, thank you! that's fascinating.

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I have my first class today. Flash back to our first day of class senior year, a day when everyone was also glued to CNN.

But the way things are going, looks like it could've been a whole lot worse for NoLa. Let's hope the levees hold out.

second day, yo. (the cnn i was glued to was in collier... were you there too min? it's all a blur.)

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i was there for some of it in collier. mostly i was in the watson lounge trying to hold

aliceayres together. :)

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one very good thing:

baked tofu! marinated in copious amounts of oil, braggs, garlic and ginger and slow cooked for a couple hours. mmm.

also, this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/4194098.stm) made me chuckle.

and yes, i'm safe and warm and mostly dry, although that's not very surprising, given my location.

if you were entirely dry i would worry about portland. :)

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actually, i was entirely dry up until today, which is often how it is here in the summers. rain in august is rare, and the first hard rain in september feels so so so good.

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Welcome to the South, lovey. Enjoy orientation--think of me when you pass Pettigrew Hall now and again, for it was named for an ancestor of mine. (maiden name's Pettigrew)

hello, you! i was wondering where you'd gotten to!

would you like a visit, in october, maybe?

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