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I'm starting to think that maybe I should have thought of brushing up on my long-lost German before my brother's wedding, which is rapidly zooming up in my face like a rabid bee, buzzing wildly around my head with things I need to remember to do (
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Calendar madness! Friends of ours recently got married (after 24 years together, 16 years engaged, and 2 teenage children) and we haven't seen them in AGES. It's not just them, though, we have a whole address book full of friends that we haven't seen in ages. So, when I called to congratulate them on their wedding, we decided it was high time to try and find a date to have dinner together and I sent an email with some date suggestions. I got back the expected response that nope, none of those would work, and so I called and she and I sat with our calendars in front of us and the earliest day that we can get together is TWO full months from now. "We'll hang out together when we're retired," I said, and we both laughed, but damn, it's sad because it's true.
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I just finished reading Lost Worlds by Michael Bywater, and this poignant paragraph of looming loss struck me particularly hard: "And will there come a time when all transport is lost, after the oil runs out and we have done nothing to find another way even though we had all the warning in the world, and we remember jet planes and motor cars and all the casual travel and all the distances we shrank as being just another lost world?"
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Bippity Boppity Birthday Wishes to
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