*America Update*

So today is Sept 11 again. I bought the New York Times Sunday Edition today and actually sat down and read the thing. I bought it several times in New Paltz but is always just turned into an unread pile in the corner. Now i read todays edition from front to back (no mean feat i tell you, thats over 200 pages) and i was really surprised by the lack of articles on Sept 11th stuff. There was no talk of any big concerts or marches or nought. Now i know that that may not surprise us at home because it happened so far away but last year in New Paltz several of the major TV stations gave hours to relatives rading out the names of the dead. One year it was parents reading the names, next year it was children and i cant remember what it was last year, then there was a big candle-lit vigil around the campus, which was kind-of spooky. This year i have heard nothing. I suppose it is kind of over-shadowed by the whole Hurrican Katherine thing, its a pity they could not have spelt the name right.

With regards to that things seem to be settling down in some way. They are still taking people out of the city and trying to clean up and the 'evacuees' (not refugees, only foreign types are refugees, American are evacuees') are still moving around the country. Appearantly it is the biggest organised movement of people since the Civil War. There are a few up around us and staying with our next-door neighbours. It odd, all their worldly posessions bar the case or two they have and their two cats are gone and the places where they worked are also gone. They are saying that a lot of them wont be going back and settling in their new States.