a new post, finally!
i wonder if anyone even checks this thing anymore.

you may have heard about the southern california wildfires on the news.
we were driving back from justin's place in santa monica when the first malibu fires broke out.
i'm not sure about the timing, but san diego county also developed many more fires throughout the day and night.

some of my friends have been evacuated, about 50% of my co-workers didn't show up today--also, we did have school/work today. hard to believe since the air quality was so poor. even matt got sent home from work at 10:30 am! let's just say that i made a few calls to the superintendent's office (as well as to the san diego county office of air quality) as a "concerned parent". my first phone call started out with me having one child and then my story gradually evolved to me having "several children"--which, i'm sure convinced them of my actual parenthood--who uses a vague term for the number of children they have??? ha!!!

i'm sure i wasn't the only "parent" who called, because around noon they cancelled school--except transportation would run as normal but parents were welcome to come pick up their children. teachers could leave as long as all of their students were picked up. which didn't happen because so many parents rely on school-provided transportation. anyhooooooo--i came home to matt and 4 episodes of dexter (i can't stop! it's terrible! why am i rooting for him???). now i have a giant headache and a sore throat (lovely, lovely smoke). but they actually did cancel school tomorrow so at least i don't have to be at my best. the fires are about 20 miles away from us but it doesn't look like they're coming towards us. but that's what thousands of displaced san diegans thought last night. i'm packing up our important papers and photos tonight just in case.
welp, better get to it!