Ole Girl and the Monocromes

Welcome to October.

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Management


My mom is in this doomed battle with nature right now. Every night I come home and leaves cover the driveway. Every morning I wake up and all the leaves have been blown off the driveway. I am wondering 2 things:
1. Doesn't she know that she is going to lose considering fall has just begun and I live in a forest?
2. Am I going to be like this when I am older?

Maybe it's her old age, but I do recall my biology classes, and they tell me that leaves fall and will continue to fall, till December at least. Then sometimes, all the leaves don't even come off the trees. Why this obsession with the driveway? Why is she waking at 6 am to clean off the driveway? So many questions for that one.

Ever since natural disasters class started, something strange has been going on. Each week we take a different topic, plate techtonics, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc. So last week we talked about forest fires. a few days later all I hear is about the fires in LA. A couple weeks ago we talked about hurricanes. Bam comes Katrina. The volcano is Central America was especially odd considering that yea, it's hurricane and wildfire season, but volcanoes just randomly explode. So when we studied that and a few days like pop goes the volcano, that was just creepy. This past week we talked about meteorites and if the world get hit by one, I swear I am going to freak out and then ask my teacher for the winning lotto numbers. Because clearly, is has some type of power.

My teacher, whose name I don't know still, likes to end each class by playing the 'worst case scenario' game. He takes whatever the disaster of the night is, and asks us to think about what could be done to prevent it. Example this weeks was a meteorite hitting Las Vegas and covering most of the states in 2 feet of ash. He will then tell us about what state the States are in and asks us to figure out how to rebuild and rescue the people.. I always answer the same thing, you can't fight nature. Nature always wins.

A few weeks ago in small group discussion Mathias and I came up with the idea of the government having a massive reserve of funds for natural disasters. We calculated that if the average nationwide disaster happens roughly once every 50 years, that we could have 1/5th of the nations economy stashed away if we each put 27 cents a day into a natural disaster fund. Now I know that sounds strange, but we looked at a lot of figures, well he did, and we took a lot into consideration before we got this figure. I mean, for the low, low cost of 27 cents a day we could help protect at least part of our nation and havea jumping off point when it comes to clean up efforts. We sound like a bad infomercial, but everytime my teacher asks what we can do to prevent or fight a ND the answer always comes back to the low cost of 27 cents a day.

Man, I should be president. We would have a nation-wide mag-lev train system and a natural disaster fund. What more do you need?

Remember to see the brighter side.