vintage_belle | (no subject)

Dear Everybody Who Has Compared the Nuclear Reactor Situation in Japan to Chernobyl;

STOP IT.

STOP IT RIGHT NOW.

Yes, it is worrying. Yes, there is some new piece of news about something going wrong everyday. Yes, I know you're saying that it's not actually Chernobyl yet. But that's getting lost in translation. Nuclear experts can't even agree about the extent of possible damage in a worst-case scenario. With the days passing a real threat becomes that much less likely. All you're doing is sending my mother into a panic.

I am now getting called at 4:30 in the morning with her telling me that she has a travel agent holding tickets for me on a plane that leaves TODAY. I can't leave today. In fact, I can't leave until the 25th without breaking my contract and getting fucked over for it, and I do not need calls at 4:30 every morning between now and then.

So stop it.

No love,
Me.

In other news, school started again today. At least for today and tomorrow we have a grand total of three periods (I even have class second and third), and then the kids will go home at 11:30. I will... sit here. And stare at my computer screen. Or something.

All the lights and heaters are off to save electricity in the wake of rolling blackouts. (Where I live we appear to be exempt from them. Either that or we're off the grid because every morning we're told they'll happen and every morning they don't.) The kids aren't allowed to use their actual classrooms because those are on the third floor and they're not allowed higher than the second.

It's better than sitting at home like we've been doing the past 3 days, though.

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Honestly? The news is absolutely terrifying from this side of the ocean, but that's also the nature of American news coverage - the scarier, the better for ratings. They're so vague on specifics and so willy-nilly with "maybe" and "possibly" that it's hard to know what is fact and what is hypothetical...

Although I can imagine your frustration, I can also really feel for your mom and what she must be feeling at the thought of you being there while all of this is going on. I have been worried about you also, but I'm assuming/hoping that if you were in any sort of pressing danger, you would be aware of it.

The 25th isn't too far away, hon, I really hope that you can continue to stay safe (and that your poor mom can manage to hold onto her sanity through this whole mess) until then. *hugs*

That's why I wish my mother would stop watching the damn news. Japan takes threats of any kind with seriousness that borders on paranoia. One cow with mad cow and they stop all meat imports of any kind. A bomb sent from Yemen to America through a corporate account and Japan refuses to allow private citizens to send mail over 1lb there. If there were real concern the government would have ordered the entire country evacuated.

I know it's hard for my mom. I know that she'd like me home today, but I can't do that. I've told her why. I just wish she'd listen to me instead of the myraid of conflicting reports that don't help anyone.

I'm afraid that you're her baby so she's gonna freak out when there's even a chance of harm coming to you. Hell, my brother is 41 and my mom still has freak outs when something goes wrong for him and his issues are nowhere near as scary as earthquake/tsunami/possible nuclear fallout while being halfway around the world (which is probably the part that is freaking her out most)...that worrying is something subliminal that They put in the baby books for Moms to learn even before we're born. But hopefully she'll save her freak outs for a more reasonable hour of the day because nobody needs that at the ass-crack of dawn.

Hopefully the next 7 days bring a little good news and peacefulness to Japan and to poor frazzled you AND to your poor frazzled mom :-*

Also, that icon? Made me laugh out loud. That was perfect for that comment!

Toma makes very good 'why do I put up with you?' faces. XD

I'd be okay with the freaking out so long as it's done at a decent hour. I can at least fend it off when I'm awake. I just wish the news would stop making it worse.

...after seeing the news that the State Department is sending in planes to fetch Americans on Japan, I am guessing your mom's not calmed down any :-| I kind of wish your company would take into account the circimstances and release you from your contract early. It's not like you'd be leaving for no reason at all, that's a pretty viable reason, IMHO.