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Archive for June, 2009

As I inhabited my cage this morning, curiosity took hold of me and I followed a web site link to another web site where I read the e-mails sent by South Carolina governor Mark Sanford to his mistress south of the border, like the Frank Sinatra song “South of the Border.”
What a bad writer.  It [...]

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The thing I like most about the governor of South Carolina going to Argentina to cheat on his wife is that he told his wife that, rather than have sex with a different person, he was taking some time off to write.  The equivalent excuse for me would be to tell SW that I was [...]

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Moviez

SW and I went to see “The Hangover” last night. It made me wish I were eight years younger, because then I might have liked some of it.  Probably not, though.

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Memoir

This is the sign in front of a nightclub in Missouri.  When I am finally done writing my memoir, I will go there and have a good time.

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Spanish class

Virginia Woolf writes, “Should you wish to make sure that your birthday will be celebrated three hundred years hence, your best course is undoubtedly to keep a diary.”  If she’s right, then what will keeping blogs get us, three centuries from now?

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Up!

I slept 8-1/2 hours last night and I feel better than I did yesterday.  I think the trick to not letting a class you have to take but don’t want to that lasts from 10-12 every day from getting to you is to wake up early enough that it feels less like the first significant [...]

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This is a bicycle SW and I saw in New Orleans.  We thought it might be made of wicker.  I envied its sturdiness, because my bike is made out of straw.
Late in the night, on Bourbon Street, we ate these oysters:

And I missed my friends:

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