Thursday, June 28, 2007

Still More Things

22. Outside my window I can see exactly 18 brand new garbage trucks. I believe number 19 is just out of my view.
23. My favorite garbage truck is the one with the American Flag painted on its side. Where’s a constitutional amendment when you need one?
24. Outside my window, I can see seven brand new dumpsters. No dumpsters, to my knowledge, lurk just out of sight.
25. What are the odds that a conference on trash collection and recycling would coincide with a conference on AP? Feel free to draw any analogies you’d like. I’m too tired to draw analogies.
26. I got wined and dined tonight by a textbook publishing company. They bought me a little fruit, some sliced bell peppers, half a dozen (or more) skewers of chicken sate, a dozen coconut fried shrimp, a handful (pretty much literally) of egg rolls, four cocktails, and two cups of coffee. All that, and I won’t even mention their name on our blog. Man, I’m a cheapskate.
27. In class today, while reading a paper that scored quite well, a student accidentally changed reckless into wreckless. I think wreckless is my new favorite word, replacing the current champion, “crotchital region.”
28. I miss my wife very much. I should probably tell her that.

2 comments:

Christie said...

your wife mentioned to her daughter today at lunch thst she missed you, too. Daughter agreed.

Garbage trucks, eh? Did the Sanitation convention peeple arrive via garbage truck?

Ed said...

I didn't see them come in; they might have fallen from the sky for all I know

I did, however, see a guy lovingly polishing his truck this morning.