cake and icy.
an open letter to chuy
23 December 98
Dear Chuy,
Happy Birthday.
What do I get to look forward to on your birthday? Why this!
Freezing Streets Cause Deadly Accidents
Austin's freezing drizzle
made driving
treacherous early this
morning. At about 1:15 this morning, a minor accident in the Southbound
lanes of I-35 near 290 turned into a 35 car pileup that claimed the lives
of a 30 year old man and a 19 year old woman. Another fatal collision involved
an 18-wheeler near 183 and Evelyn Road in Mustang Ridge.
So, it looks like my dad is coming to pick me up when all of his work
gets done in Round Rock, and then we will slowly make our way towards Houston.
Then my mother is going to drive me back to town and stay the weekend with
me. Good news: no driving... Bad news: that play that
I was working on for you to direct is getting pushed back again probably
because of the weather.
Although last night I thought of a new ending, since I've resigned myself
that I cannot make it snow in Hyde Park and clean it all up within five
minutes.
Thanks for you and your wife staying up very late with me and playing
Monopoly last night. I have a hard time sleeping when Eric's not
around. Good thing we stayed inside, huh? My father said that
the accidents were so bad here they were on the Today show this morning.
Have I told you what interesting e-mail I get? Yesterday's email
for example, taught me things I just didn't know before:
| Hi Pamie--
You'll be amused to know that the medical term
used to describe the
sensation of bugs crawling on your skin (in the
absence of real bugs
crawling on your skin, of course) is "formication".
No kidding.
http://www.uia.org/uiademo/hum/m4094.htm
Possible contexts: "My shirt made me formicate";
"I'm plagued with
formication by the very mention of Jesse Helms"
Just thought you needed to know.
pamie-
If your cats are anything like my hellion, Bubba,
you might want to stay
away from those Pappazan chairs. My husband
and I have a full size one of
those. We have to keep it sitting like
a basket instead of chair or the cat
will wake us up with a crash. I'm surprised
he hasn't broken the chair yet.
Here's what he does: He runs as fast as
he can and jumps into the middle of
the chair, where he immediately propels himself
to the top of it, hitting it
as hard as he can. He then rides the chair
to the floor and takes off as
fast as he can like he never even slowed down.
This is the same cat who
steals quarters and has a tendency to bite people
who stare at him. He's a
very odd cat.
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Where else can you learn so much? I'll tell you, nowhere.
Squishy is all you need. Anyway, have a safe trip and keep warm.
Give your family my love. I'll see you when we all get back.
pamie
"Boring! When's Eric getting
back?"
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