July 10, 1992
Dear Everyone:
I don't know if I mentioned this, but our manager,
“Crow”, was going through the attendance records for our group (we have
one career hypochondriac along with a couple of professional
procrastinators) and discovered that a couple of us, including me, have
had zero days of "sick leave" for several years.
So, he called the two of us into
his office and said, "I don't know about you, but I think that deserves
a day off."
I bit my tongue not to yelp "I can't take a day
off! I've got too many meetings!"
With this in mind, and in view of the fact that
there seems to be something of a family reunion brewing in
Canby,
“Jeannie” and I have decided to drive up to the old homestead the Friday
before our annual trip to
Ashland.
Don't panic, Mother, we've
already reserved a room at the Canby Inn.
Judging from the
very impressive
computer-generated calendar that I received in the mail yesterday from
“Richard” and “Marge”, “Jeannie” broadcast this news some time ago, in
spite of the fact that we only made up our minds last Sunday.
So the schedule looks something like this:
|
Friday |
7/24/92 |
Drive to Canby |
|
Sunday |
7/26/92 |
The most incredible Birthday Bash this side
of the Mississippi (before, during and after which Mother will
not be allowed to prepare, cook or clean
anything. It’s her
Birthday, too. |
|
Monday |
7/27/92 |
Drive to Ashland.
Reservation at the "Cleopatra", Confirmation #2106 |
|
Tuesday |
7/28/92 |
Backstage Tour (and finally a look at the
new Pavilion) Shopping, shopping, shopping |
|
Wednesday |
7/29/92 |
As
You Like It |
|
Thursday |
7/30/92 |
Ladies of the Camellias |
|
Friday |
7/31/92 |
Dinner,
Jacksonville Inn, 6:00 |
|
Saturday |
8/1/92 |
Drive home |
In other news…
I finished
Capital Games, the book about the
Clarence Thomas
-- Anita Hill
Senate Confirmation Extravaganza. It
was quite riveting, in a boring kind of way.
Face it, outside of
L. A. Law, how
interesting can a couple of lawyers be?
I found out a lot of interesting things, such as
how the Supreme Court justices are confirmed by the Senate.
And how, until the last century,
it was routine for the Senate to reject, on average, one out of every
four nominees.
And as for the infamous FB I report on Hill's
allegations? The one that was
supposedly leaked to the
Newsday reporter, which
had certain senators screaming at certain other senators?
Well, it wasn't leaked at all.
It just never entered their fuzzy
little heads that the reporter could, through his sources, find out
about Hill on his own.
Actually, this book has everything:
Sex, violence, intrigue.
Sex: Well,
sexual harassment, anyway. Plus
references to pornography and a ludicrous attempt to imply that he'll
made things up after reading the book,
The Exorcist.
Violence: Early
on in the confirmation proceedings, as one senator was grilling Thomas,
Clarence's sister, Edna Mae, was overheard to say, "if I wasn't a
Christian, I did take my Bible and slap that senator in the head."
After the confirmation, a senator that had given
Hill a particularly hard time met with a group of (understandably
hostile) professional women and said, "I certainly hope we can raise the
level of discourse and debate even though we may want to flatten each
other's brains."
Politics is so violent.
Intrigue: Intriguing
how those guys thought that they could just breezed through all this
without letting the people of the United States catch a whiff of it.
Wrong.
Love, as always,
Pete
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