Shooting Gallery

The storms seem to be coming off the coast of Africa in waves with both Danielle and now Earl swirling out in the Atlantic.  Current tracks have both staying out of the Caribbean and lets hope that stays the case.  The weather folks here tell us that several more storms are lining up in the Sahara so the shooting gallery that is hurricane alley is open for business.  It has been too hot down here to do much outside after 9:00 a.m. so besides morning walks and work, life is just one day after another as we count down to November.  It looks like our fall term may well have record enrollment at the pace we are on and that is keeping us busy with registrations and paper work.  We are also finishing up the institutional self study so we can file all our documents for the new grant of accreditation.  It seems just yesterday we were going through an accrediting visit and now we have another one next January or February since our current grant expires at the end of 2011 and is up for renewal.  This is also week ten of the term so we are both finishing up our summer term teaching assignments and will be taking off teaching for the fall so this is the last of our classroom work for several months.  And of course, football season is just two weeks away so that will help pass the time to November.