Things I Never Thought I Would Have to Say, Part Three

“Stop licking the bus stop!”

Vocabulary of the Day:

Post-Herpetic Neuralgia-A generalized painful sensation experienced after encountering a lizard.

SNOW. That's right. I'm thinking this winter's going to be a doozie.

Breaking Biggie News Flash

She won a national Amtrak essay contest!!!

She wrote the essay while we were traveling on the Amtrak Cascade in Oregon in August. The notification was delivered to me by FedEx just now. She didn't win the grand prize of some sort of El Capitan super train, but rather one of 14 "first" prizes of a Polar Express train set--which is the one she wanted, anyway.

Very many thanks to Uncle Nat, who speedily hand-delivered the essays to the only open Post Office at the eleventh hour the night they were due. You need to come play with the train!

Happy day!

Keeping It Surreal

As I pulled up to my dentist's office today, I noticed what looked like a corral next to the building...and in it, a young heifer who tried to eat my coat sleeve when I fed her some stray hay. Dr. Piskorowski's latest rescue project, indeed.

Man, sometimes I just love Ithaca.