From the police blotter in our local weekly:
"A 14-year old female dialed 911 because she was upset with her parents because they would not allow her to go out that night. An officer informed the girl of the proper use of 911."
Kids these days....
I am listening to In Cold Blood by Truman Capote these days, in the car. It was my "three-strikes and this form of entertainment is OUT": I found the Sue Grafton crime novel I'd borrowed from the library annoying beyond belief and although I sort of enjoyed Nadine Gordimer's Beethoven was 1/16 Black, I found the cadences of it a bit pretentious as well.
But Capote is just right (so the game is on) - what a gift for language he had, and how perfectly he evoked the salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners of mid-century. I am only on disk 2 of I think 13 but I am enjoying it so much that even my 1:40 hour commute last night did not annoy as it might have.
(What's up with Thursday traffic anyway? Monday through Wednesday is a dream commute. Who ARE all these people who materialize on Thursdays??)
I don't teach on Fridays, which is good, because school got cancelled mid-day today, which would have been a reprise of the Black Thursday (see??) commute-from-hell on Dec 13. Snow-schmow.
We have shoveled the driveway and walks once, but we'll be doing it in the morning, no doubt. We must return Miss Kitty to the State of Insanity. Murp!
PS: confidential to my "North Dakota" reader: I'm working on squirrel cuisine. Stay tuned...
Posted by otto0114 at February 22, 2008 08:30 PM