15 Feb

Last night was so windy that I lost my cheese again. What was worse, I even lost the box of juice I had sitting on the ledge. The wind must have been rather considerable considering that 1 L box was still half full! I had a bag of Babybel cheese (Saket and Sachi know what I’m talking about) that I was cooling on the ledge. I managed to clamp the end between the windowpane and the frame in order to prevent another cheese disaster. Foolishly, while trying to adjust said cheese, I failed to hold onto the end of the bag in my room and no sooner did I open the window that I saw the bag whisked away by the wind. It too was mostly full and must have weighed about as much as a medium set of keys. Bottom line: it was very windy.

Later that night, as I was working on linguistics, Lainey stopped by with a question about the internships she was applying for. Cable networks do a terrible job of writing instructions for summer internships. While we were checking out the CBS one, we saw a bit on 60 Minutes and something to do with Andy Rooney. The guy is hilarious, and we ended up reading some of his commentary and pieces starting with his brief lesson educating the American public about the Middle East. Just go to this site: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/09/60minutes/rooney/main1301116.shtml...it’s funny stuff. After reading some more Andy and watching a clip of his “average day at work,” we watched a bit of Daily Show.

Jon Stewart had a serious windfall with the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington by Vice President Dick Cheney during a quail-hunting trip. It’s hard to find the event really funny since, after all, a 78-year old man was shot in the face and ended up having a mild heart attack due to pellets lodged in his heart. There’s nothing terribly funny about the event, but the fact that it was DICK CHENEY somehow seems so fitting. It was also extremely upsetting how light the White House treated the incident. Jon Stewart has a right to joke about it; Scott McClellan does not. I mean, if the man dies it won’t be funny for anyone! I also find it aggravating how slow and reluctant this administration is to communicate with the public. I believe that there are better stories to report on than this one, but for the VP to wait days to address the press? It only makes the event even more of a public relations disaster and shows how simply unwilling this administration is to admit mistakes. 2008 cannot come fast enough….

Anyway, after some Daily Show Lainey went to sleep since she was feeling unusually tired all evening and had a lot of paper writing to finish before going to Amsterdam this weekend. I did some more work and reading after she left before going to bed. Cheers!