Red Write and Blue.

I just read on The Writer's Almanac that today in 1935 Congress passed the Works Progress Administration to get the economy going during the Great Depression.

This was the last sentence of the Writer's Almanac entry: It included the Federal Writers' Project, which gave jobs to writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wright.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were a Federal Blogger's Project? I wonder if bloggers would have to write propaganda, though... it would be like the Fox News Federal Writers' Project.

Fun Run

Today, my running partner who is in her early 40s said, "Damn, it's about time for me to get one of those boob x-rays."

I asked, "You mean a mammogram?"

She said, "Yes."


I guess boob x-ray is the technical term.

Overheard Tent Talk

When students are in tents or tarps, they seem to think that no one else can hear their conversations. Because of the rain and wind on last weekend's TAASC trip, we went into our tents shortly after dinner. Here's part of a conversation I overheard:

Players: S and B, 12-year old girls
Setting: Rain, wind, sleeping bags, etc at a campsite near Table Rock
Prior conversation to this: Included musings about the ages of their parents and the age difference between B's mom and dad, "It'd be like us dating a kindergartner!"


S: Oh my gosh, you know what I just realized?

B: What?

S: You have a brother and two sisters. There are four of you!

B: So?

S: That means that your parents did it four times!

B: Gross!