Back to School
Friday September 7, 2001
- TITLE: "Back to School" As far as I know, every school is now back in session. The lastest start I could find was yesterday in Massachusetts. Many school systems - and many colleges - started the fall term back in August.
- "...Organize Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force ..." This is the Western Region's awards ceremony. I have been studying Billy Crystal tapes from
Academy Awards shows. I started taking diuretics on Tuesday and I haven't had anything to drink since Wednesday. If they want me to take a drug test they're going to have a long, long wait.
- "… Air & Space Museum …" We went there every Saturday, then rode the carousel on the Mall, then had lunch, then went home. One weekend, he had to do something with "the guys," and that was the end of that.
- "… Middle East ..." I had people in Dallas, in England, in Israel, and in various Arab countries at various times. Not only did we have to deal with all those time zones, and all those languages, but we had to deal with three different work weeks:
Monday through Friday - Western
Sunday through Thursday - Israeli
Saturday through Wednesday - Arabic.
Didn't know that, did you?
- "… 'Both Sides Now' and 'Four Strong Winds …" "Both Sides Now" is a Joni Mitchell song that Judy Collins sang in the hit version. "Four Strong Winds" is a song by a 60's folk duo named Ian & Sylvia.
Here is my favorite stanza from Both Sides Now:
But now it's just another show,
you leave'em laughing when you go.
And if you care, don't let them know,
don't give yourself away.
and I could SELL that line when I was singing it.
- "...in pieno voce.." Literally, "In Full Voice."
- Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
This is a true story from the visit of Presidents
Fox and Bush to a community center in Toledo, Ohio yesterday:
At one point in the game room, Presidents Fox and Bush leaned over a
foosball table to join a couple of children in a game. President Bush went
from one side of the table where his back was to the cameras, and then he
was told politely by the photographers to go to the other side of the table
so his face could be seen. That put both Presidents on the same side of
the table, to which the little girl on the other side of the table, said to
her friend, "It's not fair, you've got two Presidents, I don't have any."
(Photo: REUTERS/William Philpott)
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