Day 5 of 1000

Hurricane Irene is hammering the North Carolina coast right now, but all we have seen is a little bit of ran and a light bit of wind.  The electricity went out for a couple of seconds at three this morning, but the weather is so mild we are not sure whether it was even hurricane related.  We expect the weather to degrade some between now and when it is supposed to be at its worst (for us here in Raleigh) around 2:00 PM, but we still expect it to be just a hard ran and higher than normal winds.  As I right this the winds have picked up quite a bit.  The trees behind the house are really starting to move.

Kelly’s current plan is to try to get into the best graduate school of journalism that will accept her after she finishes her statistics degree.  As part of her goal to get into a great one, she wants to go to something called the World Journalism Institute.  World magazine has a two year summer program for college students who want to be journalists.  They want prospective students to keep a blog and submit articles written for whatever publications are available to them.  Kelly has started her blog here.  You can also get to her blog from the link at the top of the page.  I think she has quite a good writing voice and is doing very well with it.  In addition to her writing, Kelly plans to continue her caricature work with the idea that she will draw and post some political cartoons when she feels like she is good enough.  For practice, though, she draws caricatures of her friends.  I think she solicits permission from her friends on facebook, then just goes for it.  Here is part of her latest efforts:


Kelly’s Caricatures

Housekeeping notes:  Christian is working on getting me a decent theme for this blog.  He came and looked over my shoulder while I worked on it last night and started asking me questions.  It became obvious, pretty quickly that he is way out of my league when it comes to web design.  He did mock-ups of some options for me.  It is not just the layout, but color selection, page load speed, and a bunch of other stuff that he is improving.  The blog will be in a state of flux while he works on it, but it should not slow down the posting.