I'm free! I'm free! This morning there's a gentle banging on my cell door followed by the key unlocking it and it opening and Deputy Reiss says, "Pack up all your stuff, Banks, you're goin' home. Jail's too crowded." I actually had to ask him to repeat it! But he wasn't lying! So I packed all my stuff and called my Mom but she didn't answer, so I
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"I'm free! I'm free!" reminds me of a joke I heard many years ago: A guy uses his bare hands to dig a tunnel out of jail and after a long time, surfaces in a kindergarten next to a little girl. Looking around, he jumps up and down yelling "I'm free! I'm free!" The little girl looks unimpressed and says "So what, mister, I'm four!" ;)
Welcome back to the Real World (or a reasonable facsimile of ;)
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I only just heard the news today. I thought about you yesterday after I read an article in the paper about Oakland County Jail releasing non-violent offenders due to over-crowding. So glad you made that list!
Now hopefully you can get back to the business of finding a job!
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I thought about you while I was in there, btw. I read a story called "Story of Your Life," by Ted Chiang. Have you read it? There aren't many where a linguist is the protagonist. :) I found it in Gardner Dozois' "Best of the Best" SF collection.
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