Archive for September 10th, 2009

The author gives her little brother a piggy back ride on the way home from the park.

I walk through the door, plop my backpack on the table. Slip off my shoes. Tell my mother about the triumphs and travails of the day. Make some jelly toast. Say Hi to Ang, my 6 year old brother. Get a glass of milk. Pet the dog.

The onions for minestrone soup are sauteing. There may be good food in the dining hall, but you can’t get the benefit of smelling it being cooked.

When my eldest little brother was little, he would say “some days little boys like to eat their vegetables, and some days they don’t.” (The days were unfailingly the latter) Some days I like living at home, and some days I don’t. Today, I do. At the end of my four hour Chemistry lab, coming at the end of a 7-hours-in-class day, I walked down the four flights of stairs in Sid Richardson, the science building. “Ah, I get to go home.” Not – “Back to the dorm!” or “I get to go back to my apartment.” Home.

My mom always said “when you’re hungry you know the worth of food” and “when the well is dry you know the worth of water.” Well, when you’re tired and it’s been a long day, you know the worth of home.

After I write this post we will walk to the park.

Time constraints of teaching kept me from doing the whole list, but here are the ones I did complete:

Cowtown Chronicles is writing again and has posted on the government healthcare bill.

The Carter Museum has an interesting blog post on staged war photography.

Job front / unemployment: Kevin at 5ksandcabernets has good news and bad news.

The Roper Files goes to Canada for a vacation, hangs out with a woman he met on line – according to my scansion, it went well – and finds out that Canadian Health is actually pretty okay – “DON’T BELIEVE THE LIES … “ he yells halfway through the post. But since it’s a mega-post, many won’t get this far. Roper, you should break that out into a separate entry …  still, excellent work.

The Business Image reports that TCU and SMU resist beer companies putting their school colors on beer cans.

And @vedo shares on PR aspects of the president’s speech to schoolchildren made two days ago.