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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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Ne Quittez Pas... ...as the French operators say... UD's life is a nice calm orderly sort of thing, especially during her blissfully uneventful summers. She has, over the years, accustomed herself to days structured around reading, writing, hedge-clipping, and apricot tea, with occasional violence in the form of unannounced visits from neighbors. UD is not at all prepared for the ordinary bumpity bumpity of most people's lives, in other words, and she falls apart a bit whenever there's the slightest turbulence in hers. She was explaining this to two sympathetic (pitying?) lunchmates today at Washington's huge, bustling, beautiful Old Ebbitt Grill -- fellow blogstra Rita, of "Nobody Sasses," and fellow GWite and erstwhile blogger Kevan. She was explaining that in the course of the last two days 1.) The main computer in her house imploded. 2.) Her dog got sick (but will probably, says the vet, be okay after they figure out what grotesque thing he ate in order to block his intestines ... AND I SWORE I WOULD NEVER DOG BLOG). 3.) Her daughter and her daughter's fellow choristers had a six hour delay in Atlanta last night before they were able, at one AM, to board their flight to Rio (where they now are). UD's a bit rattled by it all, and she asks your indulgence as she more slowly than usual finishes her main post for today, whose fascinating title she will now share with you: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Fallacy. As that Pythonite used to say, with a lurid American accent, Hope ya like it! But it'll be a bit late arriving, since the UDs are having dinner tonight with their old friends Di and Steve Elkin, just back from Tuscany. |