February 24, 2009
Student Protest
NYU students took over the food court to protest, um, something. Actually a whole list of things that began with asking for amnesty for protesting, NYU financial information (including employee wages or salaries) and ended with scholarships to Palestinian students and aid to Gaza.
Watch the video of the end of the protest.
After you've watched, please explain to me the difference between water bottles and "corporate water".
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February 01, 2009
Ice and Snow
The ice storm came Monday night. All night long I could hear the sound of branches splitting and crashing to the ground.
We lost power on Tuesday morning. We may have it back within a week to ten days. (According to the news, some places in Kentucky may not have power back fully for months.) It is a lot like last September when we lost power after the remains of Hurricane Ike came through...only much colder.
We were without power for six days that time. It was miserable. No lights, no Xbox or Wii, and no internet but at least we didn't have to dig out of the driveway and the weather then was mild. We kept the windows open and dined by candlelight (mostly on carryout food).
Fortunately this time we had someplace we could go to while we waited for our power to come back on because this time the temperature has been below freezing until this weekend.
