Miles Traveled: 246
Car Hours: 4
Miles per Gallon: 29.5 (city miles) and 30.26
Standardized Tests Taken: The GRE
Best Proper Noun: NOVICE FIRE DEPARTMENT (Novice, as it turns out, is the name of the town)
Audio Books Finished: Child 44. I took a break from Americana to read an awesome detective novel about Stalinist Russia. Which reminded me how glad I am to be an American. I've just started The Pirate Coast, which is about America's first black ops mission in Tripoli--as in 'the shores of Tripoli'. Wherein a grand military tradition was established: the Navy fucks things up royally and the Marines clean up the mess. Apparently, one Captain Bainbridge was given command of the Philadelphia, despite the fact that he had already surrendered once. Anyway, while Philadelphia was doing her best impression of a one-ship blockade, Bainbridge ran her onto a reef. Without taking soundings, he decided to attempt to drive over the reef by unfurling all his canvas. He beached the ship higher. Then, he cut loose all of the bow anchors, moved all the cannon aft, and chopped down the forward mast. No dice. So he surrendered. They drowned the powder, drilled holes in the hull, and raised the white flag. The pirates, meanwhile, had been harassing them, but never fired a shot. Why? Well, after the ship was evacuated and all of the sailors sold into slavery, night fell. The tide came in and the ship floated free. The Navy couldn't even scuttle her right.
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I got your post-card. Did you kick the GRE's ASSSSSSSS?
ReplyDeleteLife update: I will also be taking that god-forsaken-test... soonish... maybe. If I make it through the last two and half quarters of my undergrad.
Also: I think you should look into a job in book blurb writing... ya know those stupid things on the back of books that are meant to reel one in but actually end up just boring one to death. I have a feeling that your blurbs would be moving... possibly life changing.