People I Have Met This Week

1.

A pack of girls on a bar crawl who were so drunk they were falling out of their chairs. They could, however, remember all the lyrics to "Jesse's Girl."

2.

A man driving a pick-up truck to ran a 4-way stop and almost slammed into the side of my car. As he was driving around me, he wagged his finger at me like I was a petulant child. As a general rule, I do not experience road rage.

That being said, I would tear this man's heart out through his nostrils.

Random Observations

1.

The people across the street have just played "I've Got Friends (In Low Places)" three times in a row.

If subjecting your neighbors to a Garth Brooks threepeat isn't grounds for justifiable homicide, the American justice system is for naught.

2.

I recently finished a 67-page thesis entitled "The Last Laugh: Humor and Death in the Essays of David Sedaris" about the manner in which Sedaris writes about death in two of his essays. I chose two essays, because there were only two essays. In the latest New Yorker, Sedaris has an article called "Memento Mori" that is almost exclusively about death.

I'm just glad, as an English Honors graduate, I can appreciate the irony of this.