Dream: Flood

We were done talking with my friend in his dorm room, so we went to find another friend in HIS dorm room. Both guys were there, one was shirtless, the first was wearing a button down shirt that was unbuttoned to show his chest. It turns out they were lovers so my friend and I left so they could have some time alone. As we left the building we walked past the first friend's room and his bed had been removed, presumably to be put in the other room so they could have a king-size bed. We decided to pull his door shut for him so no one could steal his stuff. and hope he had his key.

On our way out in the foyer I stopped and put down my laundry basket to tie my shoes. A class full of tiny children, preschool, walked by, some crying, on their way to refuge from the deluge outside. I tried to talk to them and get them to smile, but they wouldn't. My friend, I don't know who it was, was out the double doors and yelled back in that we had to go so I quickly finished with my shoes and grabbed laundry.

We waded out into the street and found that the water was higher than when we had set out. There were waterfalls and lagoons alongside the street we were on, and tripledecker houses - kinda like parts of Worcester were transplanted into Hawaii. Instead of ankle deep, the water in the streets was now waist high, and there was a current going inland. We struggled against it, and managed to get where it was more shallow, away from the street and next to the buildings. I nearly lost some of my laundry in the water, and even worse, the water bottles me and JT carried. We went around to the back of the building, her first, and tried to go up the stairs to where the other person and the child were, but the building had shifted so that the stairs were too narrow.

I yelled to JT over the roar of rain and water that we had to try the front of the building, and somewhere around then I let the water take my wash. We were trying to decide whether the four of us would be safer waiting it out upstairs in the building, or evacuating to somewhere else, but I wasn't sure if the other two could swim, which they might need already.

My alarm woke me.

Snow

Statement as of 8:04 PM EST on December 08, 2005

A Heavy Snow Warning remains in effect from 4 am to 4 PM EST
Friday.

Snow will begin toward daybreak Friday and will quickly become heavy
during the Friday morning rush hour and last into early afternoon...
when snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour are possible. Expect
difficult travel from the morning rush hour into the afternoon.

Total snowfall of 6 to 10 inches are expected by the time the
snow ends Friday afternoon.
(National Weather Service, Wunderground.com)

Google impossibilities

I challenge you to find, using Google (or another search engine if it fails) the following.

1. LaTeX


2. the grade in which students learn to write a bibliography.


3. an up-to-date listing of Massachusetts public school closings due to snow.

More to be added as I stumble across them... or don't.

Accidental Innuendos

The one innuendo I can't seem to avoid, is when debating the pros and cons of manned spaceflight, I invariably record one of the pros as pubic support. Sometimes I manage to sneak the l in there before the roomful of middle schoolers catch it, but sometimes not. It's a 50/50 chance.

A few weeks ago when studying forces we had a box with some forces on it, and after doing the x- and y-components we had to solve two equations for the two unknowns of tension and acceleration. So of course I started telling the class we had to find T & ... I trailed off, happens all the time, and picked back up with a & T. Only one kid caught it at first, but as he laughed some of the others caught on as well.

At least I haven't yet done any anal sizing of data. That was someone else. :)