The orders of the day.

[cygna_hime]

Thanks for all your good wishes; I feel very loved. *hugs everyone*

I have learned several things today.

1. There is someone in the world named Evangelist Minnicomma. I made Mom make that phone call, because I wasn't sure I could say, "Hello, is this Evangelist?" without laughing.

2. For obvious reasons, people named Evangelist are not at home on Sunday mornings.

3. I am doomed to be a total geek. My mother's father is an English professor, my father's uncle (the non-crazy one) is an English professor, my father's cousin is an English professor. It's in my genes! My destiny is closing in!

4. I am horrible at being a Mary Sue. I mean, conveniently placed natural disaster and my relative survives? There's something in the Mary Sue Charter against that. On the other hand, his books are dead. RIP books. *tear*

5. Clearly, "crazy" does not preclude "has some modicum of survival skills". Good to know. Great-uncle Harry is in New York, apparently, staying with some friends. Mom is so, so much more relaxed now. It's wonderful.

6. My idea of cute: the SCA packing up their camping gear and heading down to help out, because, by golly, they know about living without electricity. Sweet, and weird enough to be worth noticing.

7. If anyone can donate time, PeopleFinderWiki needs help consolidating the missing/found persons lists.

I spent 4-5 hours at the Red Cross doing data entry, making phone calls, and generally kicking around. Probably not going back tomorrow (still have only 5 English editorials done, yipe!), but soon. Community service hours yay!

Comments

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

This may sound completely strange, but I think I read about your great-uncle in the paper today. They mentioned someone who had gotten out who had lost all of his books - don't remember if they had a name, though.

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

That would quite possibly be him. That was the gist of the Observer article, too. The world is so completely strange.

[aerinth.livejournal.com]

Glad your great-uncle is ok!

I think I would laugh at that name too.

[stormflare.livejournal.com]

6. My idea of cute: the SCA packing up their camping gear and heading down to help out, because, by golly, they know about living without electricity. Sweet, and weird enough to be worth noticing.

My cousin read a SciFi novel about that, she told me about it this summer... odd

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Your cousin's sci-fi novels predict the future. Don't let her read an apocalyptic fiction. Cthulhu is OK, though.

[scruffbunny.livejournal.com]

SCA? As in The Society for Creative Anachronisms? And here I thought I was one of the very few people who knew about it. My parents were in it, met there, too...