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[arisbe]

Many, many thanks to you who sent your affectionate St. Ephrem's Day greetings. It was, I am sorry, if mildly amused, to report, a spectacularly, almost a ludicrously depressing day, in which I was not nearly as depressed as I might have been, and, some would say, ought to have been. I salvaged it by reading myself to sleep with five stories by Wendell Berry in a collection called Fidelity which are as fine as anything he has written, and which you really ought to read for yourselves. The next day headed out for the Stamford Sheraton for the annual Cutco banquet, where the Kid was singled out for several distinctions, which pleased me, as does the evidence that she has a new sense of dedication to the knife business. The hotel's TV system seems to be dish based, and presented me with two ads I hadn't seen before, one for a KY jelly that warms up when you rub it, free samples on the website -- this I knew about, of course, as an Adult Education instructor who had to sit through, with his students, the mandated AIDS workshops devised by local Lesbian activists -- so that when I bought a set of practice teeth from the NYU dental school for my wife's brother's daughter in India to drill on, I knew what they had in mind when they presented me with a dental dam as a free gift. (Don't ask.) (Don't tell, either.) The other ad? On the joys of alpaca farming. Now that the bottom has dropped out of the ostrich market.

Cheers, all.

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[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

Well, that post just woke me up this morning! *grin*

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Was it the alpacas, the dental dams, or the hotel full of college kids with knives?

[weret-hekau.livejournal.com]

All of the above! :D

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Well I don't have an alpaca and don't remember where I put the dental dam, but my college kid would be more than happy to deomonstrate the knives to you and Greg. That's what she does. And I get the impression that you are not too far from Hunter, where she attends.