Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:12 AM I dreamed last night that Sen. Lieberman had won the running and was going to be heading the local superwalmart at which I worked. His first directive was to put all the dimpled scissors out of children’s reach. There were Christmas decorations for sale too.
There is an exclamation point in the subject of this letter because laundry is exciting. Well, it’s not usually. I haven’t done laundry since before the war, and… Actually, the last time I did laundry was in Knoxville, TN, sometime in early-mid-August. Aside from simply not having any money, Peter, my room mate, assured me that he would tell a rental company to come by our apartment and install a washer and drier. One of the very neat things about the place I’m living is that it has washer and drier connections. My first response was, “I don’t have a…
Sun, 30 May 1999 22:59:45 > Evidently a good 300 bucks worth of stuff was wrong with my car, since > that’s what they charged. Actually, the air conditioning wasn’t working, > and it didn’t like the rain, so they replaced the distributor cap. Among > other things. > > Well, we really missed you. Mark and I went to the Denny’s right across > the street from the hotel and stayed there till three thirty a.m. or so, > when they seated a couple who seemed to be only interested in macking on > each other in the other…
So… My dad sent me a new computer, only it never came. Fortunately, it was insured. Unfortunately, it was insured by our U.S. Postal Service. I call up my local post office today, “Where do I take this, uh… claim forms thing?” Huh? Oh, you need to take that to the main post office over in the something something shopping center. “And… where is that?” Oh, that’s on Irving Blvd. Irving Blvd. goes all the way to Dallas. That’s okay, I’ll go from Loop 12 and see if I can find number 2701. Nothing doing. I find a shopping center…
So I walk into Plato and Aristotle (the class, not the two guys walking out of the Academy of Athens) this afternoon and notice a new guy sitting in the back. I take my seat, chit chat with the lady who sits in front of me, and wait for Dr. Wood to come in. He enters through the door at the front of the classroom, goes over to the board, and starts writing numbers on it. He’s always writing all over the board, drawing diagrams and pictures and writing Greek words in a mixture of Greek and Roman letters, which…