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May 23, 2002
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Hi again. I'm back. I took a break from adding additional journal entries a few months ago because some students discovered these pages. I knew I hadn't put anything here that that absolutely couldn't read, so it wasn't a huge deal, but it still made me uncomfortable. It made me feel very self conscious about what I could say on these pages. But there's so much I want to tell you about that I just couldn't hold back any longer.
I saw something heartwarming tonight. I was waiting to use the phone booth at the corner (we can't make local calls from the phone in our apartment) and a police car came racing down the main road and stopped at the intersection to block traffic from the side street. I had seen something like this a few months ago - I was waiting for the tram when 5 police motorcycles came racing up the street. Two of them stopped to block traffic at the intersection, and the other 3 went on ahead to block the next intersection. Then, racing up now traffic-free the street, came a very ordinary -looking van flanked by 7 more police motorcycles. I don't know what was going on, but it was like something out of a movie. OK, but back to the original story...The police car blocked traffic, so I was expecting something exciting or dangerous to come down the street. Instead, what I saw warmed the very cockles of my American heart; 4 big, green John Deere combines. The only more-American thing I could think of was if several big apple pies came driving down the street too. Beautiful.
Posted by neal on May 23, 2002 07:49 AM