a no-show shadowing session

My writing consultant and I waited it out for 15 minutes but the consultee never arrived. The consultant told me that the policy of the writing center is to wait in order to allow the student a grace period, then the student gets a "strike" and if they have 2 strikes, they may lose privileges of the using the Writing Center. It was nice to have some free time to discuss the freak tornado that rolled though campus this afternoon (which I am able to witness from my dorm room window!) and sort of break up the somewhat awkward tension when I usually shadow.