Spoke too Soon

The quiet day I was expecting went up in flames early this morning. An article in "Inside Higher Ed" (you all read that, don't you?) listed lobbying expenses at a bunch of universities and reported ours at about double what it actually is. At least we were in good company! Our office and Public Relations were all over it, of course, along with a few other universities for whom they had made the same mistake. Since I'm the one who actually does the lobbying reports that nobody cares about except when this sort of thing happens, I was pretty busy. After a flurry of emails with the editor, I think we got it straightened out and have been removed from the listing in the article. At least it was a web article where that sort of thing can get fixed right away and not a print article where it will be there forever. Then someone sends me a photo from the local news website showing street flooding a few blocks from my house. Of course, they failed to mention that there's a bunch of major underground street work going on at that intersection right now, so probably the storm drains are either blocked or temporarily closed off. Either way, I hope the people over there who just finished repairing the hurricane flood damage didn't get wet again.