sometimes you make me smile

Metro, center of my universe. You so rarely fail me.

Played cards, drank coffee, smoked too many cigarettes, talked politics with Rock Star Nathan, and listened to insane stories from Jim and Elisa and others. Gene corrects my grammar and my sentence construction all the time now. For some reason, this amuses me to no end.

Called the police on my cell phone while driving down to report this insane Camry. Right after I hung up I saw a cop tearing down the road in pursuit, and I felt a stir of evil joy. Eat it, jackass.

I feel better after spending time with my friends, and why this should come as a surprise is still a mystery to me. But I drove homewards singing U2's "Ultraviolet" with the windows rolled down, and it felt alright.

school

Too bad that Emily is turned around so you can't see her in the foreground. She appears so young, and it's hard to believe she's got kids and lots of degrees.

I sat back there by the window every day, between Gunter the happy German businessman, and Tomas the pleasant French student. (We had two Tomases, which caused no end of confusion.) But for the record, that's what a Czech university classroom looks like.