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Last year: ...it's just about all I can think about. You'll just have to suffer. |
Shit, I should've cleaned off the rear window before I got started. I can't see anything. Am I going to hit... The side mirrors are useless on this slope. Where the heck is Matt? Oh, there he is. Okay, turn sharp now. Don't hit the neighbor's car, either!
Bye, sweetie. Wave... He looks unhappy. Maybe he's angry I took so long putting the receipt for the hutch on the porch for him. Or is that his "I'm-sad-to-be-alone" face? It's hard to tell from here. Oh, well, nothing I can do about it either way.
I hope the hutch comes early so he doesn't have to miss too much work. Where do I want to put the cut-glass dishes? Well, I'll have to unpack them and see how much space they take up, I guess. I wonder if Dad thought to bring the gold-leaf plates today? He said he'd bring them, but he hasn't.
Oh, come on, is all they can talk about on the radio the Survivor wrapup? I know it was a popular show, but for petesake... I'd almost rather listen to a commercial.
Well, ask and ye shall receive. Maybe they'll play music after the commercials. Is the light going to turn... No, good, I can make it.
What are these people doing just strolling across the road? Oh, I see - they've got kids. For petesake, it's a busy street, people. Pick the kids up and get a move on! Shit, do they even see me? ...Oh, good, they've stopped.
Holy cow, look at that guy in the red sports car. He's closing in fast. Who wants to go that fast this early in the morning? Well, maybe he's late for work. Or on his way home. You never know. There he goes. Bye, Mr. Sports Car...
Shit, I don't want to go to this meeting today. How boring can you get? At least I have the second half of Anna Karenina loaded on my Palm so I can read if it's truly unbearable. I hope it's not [Monotone Man] * teaching today. [Asshole Manager] is a jerk, but at least he can give a presentation. It'll probably be [Monotone Man], though. I think he teaches most of them.
Oh, look! It's my friend, Mr. Sports Car! You sure made good time by zipping around me back there! Why, if you hadn't done that, I might not have been able to pull up behind you here! Heh.
Shit, I forgot to put down my sun visor, shitshitshit that's bright!
Anyone coming...? No. I don't know why I always look. It's not like I have to merge; I never even get out of this lane.
Oh, there's that funny commercial with the guy talking mostly in acronyms. Though I'm starting to get tired of it. Acronyms. What is it with [Monotone Man] and his friggin' acronyms? He almost sounds like the commercial guy. It's not like I can remember that many of them.
I should do what I threatened Dad I would do. I'll stop him at every acronym and make him tell me what it means. How many acronyms can actually be used with the assumption that the listener knows what they mean? Not many. Well, there are some that are so common they've been made into words. Radar, I think. Laser. Robot... U.S.A. would be okay. F.B.I. C.I.A. But how am I supposed to know what T.S.M. and S.D.P. and S.O.W. stand for? Okay, I admit, I know what an S.O.W. is now, but it's not something I'd assume anyone else would necessarily know. He's such an ass.
On the other hand, if I do that, it'll just make the class drag on and on and on...
Christ, there's another frikkin' spiderweb. Where's the... There. That's a tiny one. Okay. Jeez, there's always webs hanging all over this place. I wonder what happens in October and November when the harvest spiders ** come out? Shit, if they build their webs where these little ones do, I'm not going to be able to get into the building in the mornings. I can barely give that one by the door a wide enough berth as it is, and that spider's only the size of my thumbnail.
Jeez, the Brain is really babbling. I should do a journal entry like that sometime. I wonder how early I can leave today? Ah, well. Here we go.
Word of the Day: interpolate - to insert into text or conversation; to insert between other things or parts; to estimate values of a function between two specified values.
News of the Weird: Chihuahua Given Plaque For Bravery Maybe the plaque will lift Toby's spirits.
The Mississippi chihuahua has been given a plaque for bravery, for trying to fight off a pit bull that was threatening his owners' grandsons.
Toby hasn't been the same since the fight, which left him limping and blind in one eye. His owners say he's been sleeping a lot and avoiding others.
But he sat up in his dog basket to receive his honor from local officials yesterday.
The confrontation occurred more than a week ago. The pit bull climbed a fence and went after the boys -- until Toby stepped in. Then the pit bull attacked the chihuahua.
The boys' grandfather killed the pit bull to rescue the little dog.
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Diet Progress: 5 lbs lost
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