Yep--I stayed home today. The weather hadn't stabilized enough, and the Tulane area floods when someone sneezes. Also, I didn't sleep too well last night. That extra couple of hours this morning was very welcome.

I did go out in the afternoon to pick up some groceries and get gas. I probably had another round trip in the gas tank, but I don't like to cut it close.

Tomorrow, when I get home, I do believe I will need to light the furnace. Yes, it's getting a bit cooler. Tomorrow's high is predicted to begin with a six.

The windows are all closed, and the cats have to use the cat door to get onto the porch. I suspect that tomorrow morning I will be wishing I'd lit the furnace today. I also suspect that I will have at least two cats sleeping on me tonight.

Tomorrow morning I go in REALLY early. There will be a make-up exam for those 15 kids who took off early for a two-day mid-term break. The exam is at 6:30 AM. The only reason I'm doing this is because drop day is Friday, and some of them may be considering that. And, I got off to a bit of a slow start with the late hiring.

The next--and penultimate--chance for making up a missed exam will be the Friday before Thanksgiving. At 6:30 AM. The absolute last chance is AFTER one finishes the final exam, if there is any time left.

Yesterday's rains left the bayous high. A mile or so from here there's one bayou that's 2/3 of the way up the back yard of a nearby house.

I don't think there has been the people-power and/or money available to do a real post-Katrina cleanout of many of the local waterways.

And the newly repaved road (first block of mine) shows a total lack of design--they replaced open ditches with underground culverts. The latter have less volume than the former. I think the road itself--even raised about 3 inches, has more puddles at the culverted end than it did before.

I need to figure out tonight what I'll wear tomorrow--I won't have time in the morning unless I get up incredibly early.