yup.... I'm a prof - and both my kids are students (at other colleges)
.....so we were all affected

one benefit of doing the caregiving thing - I was excused from most of the
picket line duty as a 'hardship' case - i.e. paying someone to mamasit (or
watch the store so hubby could mama sit) would hae cost more than the strike
pay they were going to give me

plus I have very bad feet (got my new orthotics yesterday; here's hoping
they help) ..  so I got paid strike pay for doing an occassional morning
coffee run and getting back home in time for hubby to go to the store

worked for me, but I am REALLY glad it's over

in other news......Ma had an accident last night - and as a result my
neighbours house DIDN'T burn to the ground even though it was on fire and no
one was home.  I went outside to leave the bag of smelly on the front step
(for hubby to dispose of properly when he came home) ..... heard a smoke
detector going off and smelled smoke.... so walked up the driveway a bit and
saw strange orange glow from a window. Wasnt 100% sure it was a fire, but
suspicious enough to go over and bang on the door and see if anyone was home
or whatever.... door was very hot, so I called 911.  Being small town rural,
at least for the time being (there is an awful lot of development happening
'round here) our fire response tends NOT to be the greatest, but they did
show up PDQ and in time to put it out before the whole thing burned