I know I haven't updated in a while. Summer doesn't seem to have reduced the stress-level of school and being here such a distance away from home. Donating blood yesterday seems to have lowered my immune system and the devil cold I'd been fighting for the past three weeks has once again reared its ugly head. I'm nursing it on oj and beer and cold medicines, planning on sleeping the weekend through to kick this crap. But it's worth it. All I've been looking at the past four days are images of destruction in my dream city, and no one really stepping up to properly help. I'll do anything I can; right now I have no money, but I have blood. So there it goes, hopefully to someone there who needs it. Or to free up reserves to send to them. I'm seriously thinking about going there to do relief work when they finally start letting people into the city, when they finally stop pointing arms at one another and start organizing this situation. New Orleans is my city. It's the city of anyone who has an indepedent spirit, who feels an attachment to the traditions in this country. I may have only been there twice, but it's the city I was meant to belong to. Now, it's gone. The people may be resilient, but it only goes so far... I hope any of you who read this do whatever you can to help. It doesn't take money (which, face it, a student doesn't have) or even resources. Donate your time. Donate your labor. Please. They're suffering horribly, and it's awful to bear watching this happen to my city...my mutterland...
Here's some links to the latest proper (not politically influenced) news to come from folks on the ground, right there on site:
The Interdictor: Holing up in an office building
NOLA Metroblog
LSPD Police Scanner
WWLTV News streaming feed (running sporadically)
Stay informed. Find a way to help. These are your people....
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