Fire Weather
I thought when i began writing this that we would have a few days of scary-ish weather, a little thrill, then we'd continue on with this fucked up September and that would be that. This has been a remarkably cool summer, it's nice there have been no fires. It seemed the one blessing in the most difficult of years. But. Monday, September 7th Three years ago, the skies were orange and the sun was blood red and ash rained onto our cars, and the air was so thick with smoke at work that you couldn't see from one end of campus to the other. I haven't been to campus since March 11th, though when I went to the country feed store in July to get Duck, the blue Andalusian, I drove past it and the weeds were high and the parking lots empty. Six months on, and who knows how long to go. I have told my faculty to prepare not only for fall quarter to be online, but winter too. I will be surprised if we are all back in the spring. I am lucky this way; so many of my friends work for c...