Just wow. Ok, you can talk to me again about Harry Potter. I am done.
I was going to eulogize the books. But I am too sad. I feel--as I did when finishing the Chronicals of Narnia for the first time, and the Lord of the Rings, and the fourth Thursday Next novel--that I will never read anything quite like that again.
I enjoy the discovery of reading a new book, especially these fantastical books with worlds quite outside the one we live in...and now I will greet this book as an old friend. I still savor the journey, but there is less discovery. Sigh. It's times like these that I secretly want to be a children's book editor... wouldn't it be loverly to read and comment on books for a living?? I think I would cry of joy.
Farewell, Harry Potter series. I'm not telling you the ending, readers--go out and discover it for yourself if you haven't already. It's worth the journey.
That is all.
23.7.07
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17.7.07
Rant:
To the person sitting next to me in this dank lab that I have been stuck in: learn how to close your mouth when you eat. There is nothing more foul than listening to a person's mouth smacking, chewing and clicking as you suck each little morsel of food off of your molars. You have clearly got a lot of education -- you're a medical resident, which I'd estimate puts you at about twenty years of formal education at this point in your life. Did no one teach you how to eat your food without disgusting all of the people around you? It's quite simple really:
Step 1. Using an appropriate eating implement, place the food carefully into your mouth. (PS: Using an implement instead of your fingers allows your fingers to stay food-free, which means you won't need your mouth to help in the thoroughly-disgusting hand-cleaning process.)
Step 2. Close your mouth and chew, keeping your lips closed so as to keep the food in your mouth from flying out and all over the keyboard of the computer you are sitting in front of.
Step 3. Swallow all of the food before attemping to put more in your mouth so as not to overload it. Of course, if you do overload your mouth and choke, I'll be unable to remember how to do the Heimlich manouver. Sorry.
/EndRant
That is all.
Step 1. Using an appropriate eating implement, place the food carefully into your mouth. (PS: Using an implement instead of your fingers allows your fingers to stay food-free, which means you won't need your mouth to help in the thoroughly-disgusting hand-cleaning process.)
Step 2. Close your mouth and chew, keeping your lips closed so as to keep the food in your mouth from flying out and all over the keyboard of the computer you are sitting in front of.
Step 3. Swallow all of the food before attemping to put more in your mouth so as not to overload it. Of course, if you do overload your mouth and choke, I'll be unable to remember how to do the Heimlich manouver. Sorry.
/EndRant
That is all.
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How Safe Are We Really?
U. S. Heightens Security for Fourth of July
As you can see, I am blogging here on July 4th... from an International Airport heading through one major U.S. city in order to get to a larger U.S. city. And I accidentally left a lighter in my bag. A lighter I just discovered a moment ago. I am sitting at my gate. I am NOT a bad person. I am a patriotic person. All this heightened security... and yet how safe are we really? Any safer for all the regulations? For all the security in this world that is forever changed since the day we will never forget? Are we really any safer? Do you feel safer?
I don't.
That is all.
As you can see, I am blogging here on July 4th... from an International Airport heading through one major U.S. city in order to get to a larger U.S. city. And I accidentally left a lighter in my bag. A lighter I just discovered a moment ago. I am sitting at my gate. I am NOT a bad person. I am a patriotic person. All this heightened security... and yet how safe are we really? Any safer for all the regulations? For all the security in this world that is forever changed since the day we will never forget? Are we really any safer? Do you feel safer?
I don't.
That is all.
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