Today Without Patty: Returning To Our Usual Routines

by Patty

While Patty continues to enjoy all that one can visit in the Galapagos Islands – or at least we assume that, since we have not heard anything from here, and we go along with the philosophy that no news is good news – we have returned to our usual routines after coming back to work yesterday following the Labor Day holiday. But while our routines might be usual, some other events today have not been, such as …

Intern Invasion

It is our first Wednesday with three of our college interns for this semester at work, and it has been pretty busy today, especially this morning, when we had three in at once. Gwynne Murphy, Heather Forster and Samantha Menke all work at least from 9 a.m.-noon here now Mondays and Wednesdays. Couple that with our newest employee, Jen Fair, who handles traffic, and Christina Kester, our new part-time writer who came in early today to make up time, and we had nearly 15 people here at one time, which can get a little crowded even with us being on two floors. And if that was not enough …

Kristi Gets Hurt

We have some less pleasant news to tell about Kristi, who is back in school at N.C. State but helping us when she has time away from her classes and studying. Somebody managed to hit her in a car while Kristi was walking on Western Boulevard, but even though she has had to put ice on her right shoulder, she insists that she is fine and nothing major happened. Even so, we are making sure that no one asks her to do any heavy lifting around here for the time being.

A Podcast Visitor

Ted Abernathy, chief operating officer and executive vice president of the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, showed up in person this afternoon to do a podcast for us discussing growth in the area. He had some fascinating facts to share, and we will try to get the podcast edited and available for download on this Web site as soon as possible. Basically, our rise in population looks to be continuing from all indications, and while there are challenges addressing this impressive amount of growth, the resources are there for us to handle it, according to him.

That will do it for us today. Gloria is coming back from her trip from Texas tonight, so we hope to have some details on that for you in tomorrow’s entry. Until then, take care.

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