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Eyelids as full as Lake Pontratrain; Muffin tops; and SPORTS!
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I fell asleep easily to the sounds of wind and rain, as remnants of Katrina made her way into Ohio. But when I woke up, my first thought was of New Orleans. And, as I listened to the 6:15am news, tears welled up and over my lids like flood water over a levee. You should have seen me when the Twin Towers fell and I didn’t hear from my brother who works five blocks away for a day.
And I’ve only been a visitor to these cities.
Do these occurrences, experienced from outside the locales, make anyone else feel like a television viewer in the movie, The Truman Show? That was the Jim Carrey film in which everyone – including all the people that lived in his town – but Jim Carrey knew that his character was living out life in a completely propped up setting and only Ed Harris knew what would happen.
Other than God, if even God, there’s no Ed Harris character in Hurricane Katrina. Although the prospects of recovery look way beyond daunting.
Here, weather reports predict up to five inches of rain in some areas and maybe tornados, but I’m not blinking an eye.
My former college roommate from N.O., who evacuated to Tennessee, writes that her husband works for a national company and expects to start back to work from TN until they can return home. They’re trying to keep life normal for their third grade daughter, who is obviously out of school – like hundreds of thousands of other children across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
There hasn’t been too much about the effect of the disaster on children, probably because saving them seems to be the most immediate need. I’ve heard stories about babies from NICUs being helicoptered to Baton Rouge. The National Mental Health Association posted some information for how to help children cope.
My friend says not to send any items, just money. We’ve donated through the UJC before and they tell us not to send to local LA, MS or AL agencies because, well, they’re not in their local places right now.
No more word from my friends in Fairhope, AL, which is about an hour southeast of Mobile, on the bay. I’m hoping that everything is alright, just chaotic. Mobile got slammed, too.
__________
So am I really out there with my daughter now, even on mornings like this?
Not only am I out there, but today, I was out there in my vented pink mules, bathrobe (tightly wrapped), pink flower-lined trench coat (such a deal) and a children’s sky-blue rain coat with Impressionist fish and ducks on it. Why the last piece of clothing? Because it had a hood to protect me from the raindrops. I’d melt otherwise.
__________
You’ll never see my muffin top
I caught up with the Sunday papers last night and laughed through William Safire’s rant on the phrase “muffin top.” Do men have any idea about the terms we use to describe some of their less attractive styles and habits?
__________
Go Luxembourg!
Andy Roddick lost in the first round of the U.S. Open yesterday, on his 23rd birthday to 22 year old Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. Let’s give him a collective “awwww.”
I don’t know Gilles, but one of my Chinese major classmates in college was a girl named Christina Hassensomething or other and she was a like a minor princess or something, definitely from Luxembourg (I used to say Lichtenstein to tease her). She had a Zsa Zsa Gabor accent (imagine that in Chinese language lab) and drove a shiny red MG, as a freshman. She was a BEOC (Big Euro On Campus).
Anyway, that’s my encounter with Luxembourg. I doubt that knowledge would’ve helped Andy, except that she was very cute. Of course, now she’s my age and well, I’m old enough to be Andy’s mom. Eww.
Next up for Muller is Robby Ginepre, a little known American.
BTW, have you looked at the printable versions of any draw? They’re nearly impossible to read. Yeah, yeah – I know – I could just enlarge it to like 400%. But seriously, I’ll wait until more folks are eliminated. I just don’t like squinting that much (deepens my wrinkles).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:25 am August 31st, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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31
Close to the source news from New Orleans
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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:22 am August 31st, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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31
Going down, down, down
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Latest news on President Bush’s job approval rate. (45%) (lowest ever recorded for him) (down seven points from January) (poll by Washington Post – ABC)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:11 am August 31st, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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31
Eyelids as full as Lake Pontratrain; Muffin tops; and SPORTS!
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I fell asleep easily to the sounds of wind and rain, as remnants of Katrina made her way into Ohio. But when I woke up, my first thought was of New Orleans. And, as I listened to the 6:15am news, tears welled up and over my lids like flood water over a levee. You should have seen me when the Twin Towers fell and I didn’t hear from my brother who works five blocks away for a day.
And I’ve only been a visitor to these cities.
Do these occurrences, experienced from outside the locales, make anyone else feel like a television viewer in the movie, The Truman Show? That was the Jim Carrey film in which everyone – including all the people that lived in his town – but Jim Carrey knew that his character was living out life in a completely propped up setting and only Ed Harris knew what would happen.
Other than God, if even God, there’s no Ed Harris character in Hurricane Katrina. Although the prospects of recovery look way beyond daunting.
Here, weather reports predict up to five inches of rain in some areas and maybe tornados, but I’m not blinking an eye.
My former college roommate from N.O., who evacuated to Tennessee, writes that her husband works for a national company and expects to start back to work from TN until they can return home. They’re trying to keep life normal for their third grade daughter, who is obviously out of school – like hundreds of thousands of other children across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
There hasn’t been too much about the effect of the disaster on children, probably because saving them seems to be the most immediate need. I’ve heard stories about babies from NICUs being helicoptered to Baton Rouge. The National Mental Health Association posted some information for how to help children cope.
My friend says not to send any items, just money. We’ve donated through the UJC before and they tell us not to send to local LA, MS or AL agencies because, well, they’re not in their local places right now.
No more word from my friends in Fairhope, AL, which is about an hour southeast of Mobile, on the bay. I’m hoping that everything is alright, just chaotic. Mobile got slammed, too.
__________
So am I really out there with my daughter now, even on mornings like this?
Not only am I out there, but today, I was out there in my vented pink mules, bathrobe (tightly wrapped), pink flower-lined trench coat (such a deal) and a children’s sky-blue rain coat with Impressionist fish and ducks on it. Why the last piece of clothing? Because it had a hood to protect me from the raindrops. I’d melt otherwise.
__________
You’ll never see my muffin top
I caught up with the Sunday papers last night and laughed through William Safire’s rant on the phrase “muffin top.” Do men have any idea about the terms we use to describe some of their less attractive styles and habits?
__________
Go Luxembourg!
Andy Roddick lost in the first round of the U.S. Open yesterday, on his 23rd birthday to 22 year old Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. Let’s give him a collective “awwww.”
I don’t know Gilles, but one of my Chinese major classmates in college was a girl named Christina Hassensomething or other and she was a like a minor princess or something, definitely from Luxembourg (I used to say Lichtenstein to tease her). She had a Zsa Zsa Gabor accent (imagine that in Chinese language lab) and drove a shiny red MG, as a freshman. She was a BEOC (Big Euro On Campus).
Anyway, that’s my encounter with Luxembourg. I doubt that knowledge would’ve helped Andy, except that she was very cute. Of course, now she’s my age and well, I’m old enough to be Andy’s mom. Eww.
Next up for Muller is Robby Ginepre, a little known American.
BTW, have you looked at the printable versions of any draw? They’re nearly impossible to read. Yeah, yeah – I know – I could just enlarge it to like 400%. But seriously, I’ll wait until more folks are eliminated. I just don’t like squinting that much (deepens my wrinkles).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:25 am August 31st, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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Aug
31
Close to the source news from New Orleans
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Riveting, even if MSM. More coverage on main page.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:22 am August 31st, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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Aug
31
Going down, down, down
Filed Under Politics | Comments Off
Latest news on President Bush’s job approval rate. (45%) (lowest ever recorded for him) (down seven points from January) (poll by Washington Post – ABC)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:11 am August 31st, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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Aug
31
Eyelids as full as Lake Pontratrain; Muffin tops; and SPORTS!
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I fell asleep easily to the sounds of wind and rain, as remnants of Katrina made her way into Ohio. But when I woke up, my first thought was of New Orleans. And, as I listened to the 6:15am news, tears welled up and over my lids like flood water over a levee. You should have seen me when the Twin Towers fell and I didn’t hear from my brother who works five blocks away for a day.
And I’ve only been a visitor to these cities.
Do these occurrences, experienced from outside the locales, make anyone else feel like a television viewer in the movie, The Truman Show? That was the Jim Carrey film in which everyone – including all the people that lived in his town – but Jim Carrey knew that his character was living out life in a completely propped up setting and only Ed Harris knew what would happen.
Other than God, if even God, there’s no Ed Harris character in Hurricane Katrina. Although the prospects of recovery look way beyond daunting.
Here, weather reports predict up to five inches of rain in some areas and maybe tornados, but I’m not blinking an eye.
My former college roommate from N.O., who evacuated to Tennessee, writes that her husband works for a national company and expects to start back to work from TN until they can return home. They’re trying to keep life normal for their third grade daughter, who is obviously out of school – like hundreds of thousands of other children across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
There hasn’t been too much about the effect of the disaster on children, probably because saving them seems to be the most immediate need. I’ve heard stories about babies from NICUs being helicoptered to Baton Rouge. The National Mental Health Association posted some information for how to help children cope.
My friend says not to send any items, just money. We’ve donated through the UJC before and they tell us not to send to local LA, MS or AL agencies because, well, they’re not in their local places right now.
No more word from my friends in Fairhope, AL, which is about an hour southeast of Mobile, on the bay. I’m hoping that everything is alright, just chaotic. Mobile got slammed, too.
__________
So am I really out there with my daughter now, even on mornings like this?
Not only am I out there, but today, I was out there in my vented pink mules, bathrobe (tightly wrapped), pink flower-lined trench coat (such a deal) and a children’s sky-blue rain coat with Impressionist fish and ducks on it. Why the last piece of clothing? Because it had a hood to protect me from the raindrops. I’d melt otherwise.
__________
You’ll never see my muffin top
I caught up with the Sunday papers last night and laughed through William Safire’s rant on the phrase “muffin top.” Do men have any idea about the terms we use to describe some of their less attractive styles and habits?
__________
Go Luxembourg!
Andy Roddick lost in the first round of the U.S. Open yesterday, on his 23rd birthday to 22 year old Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. Let’s give him a collective “awwww.”
I don’t know Gilles, but one of my Chinese major classmates in college was a girl named Christina Hassensomething or other and she was a like a minor princess or something, definitely from Luxembourg (I used to say Lichtenstein to tease her). She had a Zsa Zsa Gabor accent (imagine that in Chinese language lab) and drove a shiny red MG, as a freshman. She was a BEOC (Big Euro On Campus).
Anyway, that’s my encounter with Luxembourg. I doubt that knowledge would’ve helped Andy, except that she was very cute. Of course, now she’s my age and well, I’m old enough to be Andy’s mom. Eww.
Next up for Muller is Robby Ginepre, a little known American.
BTW, have you looked at the printable versions of any draw? They’re nearly impossible to read. Yeah, yeah – I know – I could just enlarge it to like 400%. But seriously, I’ll wait until more folks are eliminated. I just don’t like squinting that much (deepens my wrinkles).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:25 am August 31st, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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