It seems like my life took off running a few weeks ago and hasn’t slowed down until now. Well, I’m not exactly free of everything yet, but I’m finally taking a few minutes to sit down and write a blog entry.

Another issue of the school newspaper is yet again upon us, and the hours I’ve spent working on the first edition are quickly adding up. My Saturday consisted of nothing but fiddling around in Adobe Pagemaker — as I am the layout editor — and my Sunday was spent at school doing copy editing. After another hour or two of final touches, everything should be ready to send to the printer. It still baffles me how so many errors can make it through three lines of editing.

I think the Georgia governor is just testing my patience. All Georgia public schools (and several private ones) have been ordered to close Monday and Tuesday (9/26 and 9/27) to save fuel. By not running the school buses for two days, they will save somewhere close to 100 million gallons. There really is no reason for my private school to cancel (because we don’t use school buses), but it’s going to be hard to pull myself out of bed at 8:00 in the morning when I know that nobody else has to do the same. I can’t wait until the weekend.