Hm. I just installed a new cd-burner. Finished writing a 700mb cd in 2 min 50 sec... on my second CD, with 3 seconds left, BZZZT (power goes off). I thought it was my computer (which crashes a lot now), but then I realized that my power surge light was out... this occurred at roughly 4:10pm (what, Kristen?? How'd you have 50 more min of electricity??!)
I went to my violin lesson at 4:30pm... Obviously, there were no lights and it was incredibly hard to read all the 16th and 32nd notes in the Etude i was studying. My dad arrived at 5pm to pick me up and noted that he took almost the entire 30 min to just loop around the block back to me because traffic was sooo bad (this is about 2mph he was driving at).
At home, we turned on the radio and kept NPR on all the time. We turned on the gas grill and started making food - pissed me off that all stores had to close because of this. My mom came home and finally realized that electricity was out around 6pm because she works at Cornell and they have their own generators...
After dinner, I set up the badminton net and played with my dad for half an hour. Luckily, there wasn't any breeze that I could feel, but even so, the feather shuttlecock still went askew if hit above 10 feet. Lol.
I went to my room later, pocketed my pocket torch (thanks for buying it, Vicki - did you have power in Michigan?) and made sure I had that on to light candles with. I sat around listening to music for a while, and then decided to go read a book by candlelight for a while - I saw Order or the Phoenix lying around and read the last couple hundred pages for the heck of it. Went to bed, and I have no clue when the power went on in the house because I slept for 12 hours.
Gimme a break, I just finished summer school and our 2-day, 3 hr/day regents yesterday.