November 8, 2004

• I just did something I’d wanted to do all summer.  I drove down to the river, carefully making my way through the seagulls, past the geese who never even flinched, just stood their ground, all the way to the end.  This is a very narrow strip covered in large rock, treacherous looking but drivable.  It is exposed during the day, except for high tide.   Usually there are people fishing with their families camped out for the day, but today it was just me and one other guy.  I got my requisite number of words done and went to Burgerville for a  mocha perk.  Still in my pajamas, with a sweatshirt thrown over, I took off with nothing but a five dollar bill.  Instead of turning back down my street I thought I’d go for a little adventure.  This sitting in front of the computer all day is getting boring.  I had needed a little pick-me-up after staying up until 12:30 last night, waiting for my youngest to get home from work.  She busses at a restaurant.  Typically she gets home around 10:00, which is pushing it on a school night.  Conveniently, for her, when I called her cell phone, it started ringing over on the kitchen counter.  I would have been really steamed but I had been engrossed in the book so when she came through the door I wasn’t sufficiently outraged.  Shocked was more like it when I finally glanced up at the clock.  She merrily breezed through some mention of dinner with Jane after they closed up.  Then she jumped in bed, in record time.  I figured I’d pump her in the morning.  But when she didn’t want to go to coffee I said okay and rolled back over in bed, forgetting about the inquisition.  I think she did something she shouldn’t have last night.

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