mountainmelody

In Alabama, only 2.2 percent of the population older than 25 moved here from a different state.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Me
Boy, of slightly redneck appearance
Cashier, bespectacled


ACT I
In the checkout line at Winn-Dixie. Boy, of slightly redneck appearance, is attempting to check out.

Cashier: You’ll have to excuse me. I need to get more tape for the register.
Boy: [Looks back, trying to catch my eye.]
Me: [Looks left, right, back, and down, but not forward. Develops a sudden fascination with shoes.]
Boy: [Mutters incomprehensibly; points at celebrity magazine.]
Me: Mm hmm.
Boy: People are going to get tired of seeing them everywhere!
Me: Yeah.

Cashier returns.


ACT II
Boy, having checked out, lingers near the register. I begin checking out.

Cashier: Do you have your Winn-Dixie card?
Me: I don’t think I have it with me.
Cashier: Then can I have your phone number?
Me: [nearly whispering] xxx-xxxx.
Cashier: Thank you.


ACT III
I walk slowly out of the store. Boy accosts me just inside the door, where he apparently has been waiting.

Boy: What’s your name?
Me: Why?
Boy: Um, you just look familiar. Where did you go to high school?
Me: Not around here.
Boy: Oh.
Me: [to self] Dumb boys.

Exeunt.

Love early mornings and arctic weather?

Set you alarm back and wear your coat, hat, gloves, earmuffs, long underwear, and--oh yeah--your Easter dress to the sunrise service on the mountain, tomorrow morning at 6:15.

And I thought I lived in Alabama, not Alberta...

237 references in bibliography
84 references read
18 years of old magazines read
0 words written

29 percent of U.S. households do not have internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an internet service over the next 12 months.

Of those, 44 percent were not interested in anything on the internet.

17 percent said they were not sure how to use the internet.

In case you don't live anywhere around here, or you have stayed in your house with your blinds closed and your eyes shut for the past week, here's a little pollen update for you.



And apparently it hasn't hit its peak yet.
I hope you're not allergic!

I've become "one of those people."

Today I called someone to ask them if they'd received an email I sent.

Sigh.

(If it makes a difference. the email bounced back several times, and it was something urgent they needed by tomorrow.)

Another way to learn everything!

God made the country, and man made the town.

--William Cowper

Today I was invited to be a part of a global leadership network that will meet in these places:

2007--Ghana
2008--Middle East
2009--Amsterdam
2010--Hawaii

!!!

(Anyone want to contribute to my travel fund?)
:)

Up to 14 percent of computer users reported neglecting work, school, families, food and sleep to use the internet.

The United States spends more on trash bags than 90 other countries spend on everything.

As I was coming out of a store today, something strange caught my eye. The trunk of my car was wide open.

Everything was still inside--no one must have wanted my jumper cables or old sleeping bag. (But they were a little wet.)

If I had bumped the alarm button on my keychain instead, at least I would have known about it right away. :P

Leader: In one place in Jordan, there are buildings carved out of stone! What do you see in this picture? [shows picture of Petra]

Girl: Sedimentary rock!



Leader: This verse says that God loves the whole world. And is Jordan included in the whole world?

Girl (sweetly): No.

Me: Let's go find your mom.

Girl: She has brown hair and brown eyes, and she has clothes on.

Today set a new record: a wreck blocking the road on the way to work, and a wreck blocking the road on the way back from work.

Both on 59, of course.

Today I successfully downloaded a 55-MB file on dial-up.

Since California is nicer than Alabama this time of year, I'll post a few more pictures from my trip.

Even Target has a parking garage. (You can put your shopping carts on the elevator.)