I got a job I got a job I got a job I got a job. Not only that but i've composed a disney-esque melody to go along with my newly celebrated "I got a job" phrase allowing me to sing it internally throughout the day while doing menial tasks.
Brushing my teeth has never been so self-fufilling.
Sincerely,
Meghan R Keaney
newly elected
Communications Manager
United Way of Mass Bay.
George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill had an infamous animosity. Shaw was a socialist and a vegitarian. And Churchill was, well, Churchill. They hated the very spit out of each other. Anyway the joke goes like this:
George Bernard Shaw once gave Winston Churchill a pair of tickets for the opening night of his Pygmalion and remarked, "Bring a friend -- if you have one."
Churchill, unflustered, responded, "Matters of the state prevent me from attending the premiere, but I'll be there for the second night -- if you have one."
it kills me.
"You're what the autumn knew would happen
After the collapse of primary color
once the last absolutes were torn to pieces
You could begin."
(Adrienne Rich | November 1969)
Sitting, on the last symbolic day of summer, waiting for the rain to start. Weather dot com has called for rain. CNN has called for rain. But the skys are blue, and though the air in Boston has begun to taste like fall, I'm thinking we've all been fooled again.
September has become such a strange month. Once home only to my birthday and the start of school, it has juxtaposed two of our largest national catastrophes. Both unimaginable: one because of how terrifyingly unnatural it was, how blanketly man-made and hellish, and the other because out of nowhere, something as simple as water became a WMD.
It's remarkable, the absolute ordinariness of some of the things that can level us. It's surprising, even now, how you can feel things changing in a vague and prodigeous way.
