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Y'all running?

I had stopped at this little general store/gas station in middle-of-nowhere Alabama early Sunday. I went to the bathroom, grabbed a diet Pepsi and went to the counter.

I hadn't showered in a day and I had been driving for 15 hours straight. My eyes were glazed over with no sleep and too much caffeine. The guy at the register looked at me and did the math.

"You running?" he said. I nodded that I was.

It wasn't the first or the last time someone asked me if I was running over the past few days. That the way us evacuees have been labeled -- as runners.

News is pouring in that Gustav has spared New Orleans so far and I'm trying to be optimistic. I'm also trying to formulate a return plan. Class has been pushed back until next Monday, provided they get power restored to campus and everything cleaned up.

So, I've got a week to kill. It's not enough time to drive all the way back home to Texas, so maybe I'll just keep hanging in Chattanooga.

Maybe I'll go for a run tomorrow.

Posted by Lara Richards at 8:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)