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As August winds down and we head into September this past weekend was the last one before, as Katie likes to say, "my mistress begins to want time with me". By mistress, she means of course football season. Though somehow calling football a "mistress" just seems strange to me. Obsession sure, but mistress, not hardly? Regardless, with our cable just having added ESPNU and the Big Ten network (though no Longhorn network just yet) we are definitely ready for the games to begin. The hope here is that last years disaster of a season is not repeated. In this family we celebrate "first day of football" as a holiday and it will be Arianna's first. We have her Longhorn onesie ready to wear and new decals for both cars.
We have two weeks left in our summer term and are getting ready for the grand opening of our new classroom building. It has been great watching it go up all summer and now that they are in the final stages everyone is watching and the excitement is rising. The celebration with the ribbon cutting is set for the 23rd though we actually will start classes in it on the 19th. I have my surgery on the 14th during the off week between classes and should be ready to go by the 19th. I meet with the anaesthesiologist next week to finalize everything.
We hope all our relatives on the east coast came through Irene OK. The locals down here have questioned why the fuss over just a Cat 1 storm because down here going through a Cat 1 as we did with Gustav and then Paloma a couple of years ago was easy. But we forget that those were small storms no where near the size of Irene and that had this Island been hit even by a Cat one for as long as areas were hit by Irene we would have massive flooding and issues too. The storm season isn't even yet at its mid way point so we are still being vigilant.
