Morning Thoughts

Slept in this morning. Well, compared to what I've been doing lately. Just sort of let myself wake up, which evidently happens now at 8:15. Huh. Had dinner with fiorituranotte and others -- take-out from Nancy Chang's. Yum! A little shingdig for her friend T., who is moving to Dallas soon. Nice time all around, but I'm starting to get to the point where I'm wiped around 10 p.m., which is ... odd.

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Some small time ago, onda_dog asked me to help judge a poetry contest for kids in the Northwest AmeriCorps. It was a terribly fun experience -- I always love these sorts of things, because the kids are always extremely exuberant and have so much love of what they do, it can't help but be a little infectuous. In any case, I was glad to do it, and yesterday I got the book of the winners in all the categories. Much, much fun. I've been enjoying thumbing through it immensely.

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I know bears are the number one threat to America and all, but perhaps they're not all that scary (ganked from charlotte_buff):



From Yahoo News
Jack, a 15-pound orange-and-white cat, sits under a treed black bear in a backyard in West Milford, N.J., Sunday, June 4, 2006. When the bear climbed down, the cat chased it up another nearby tree. Neighbor Suzanne Giovanetti thought Jack was simply looking up at the bear, but soon realized the much larger animal was afraid of the hissing cat. The cat's owners called it away and the bear ran off. (AP Photo/Suzanne Giovanetti)

World Cup

Elsewhere, in discussion of Group B, I said: "I never bet against England, even when I know I should be looking at Trinidad and Tabago."

I think people suspected I was joking.

And while a draw is not the same as a win, a draw for the least respected team in the game against Sweden, whom everyone was raving about, strikes me as pretty gosh darn good.

I stand with England first, T&T second in the group.