I am so totally glad to be back in the states. It’s almost like waking up from an 11 month long bad dream. Well, maybe not so much a bad dream as a long, boring, lonely dream
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"...August is the Mississippi of the calendar. It's beastly hot and muggy. It has a dismal history. Nothing good ever happens in it. And the United States would be better off without it..."
"...August is the time when thugs and dictators think they can get away with it. World War I started in August 1914. The Nazis and Soviets signed their nonaggression pact in August 1939. Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2, 1990. August is a popular month for coups and violent crime..."
"...August is the vast sandy wasteland of American culture. Publishers stop releasing books. Movie theaters are clogged with the egregious action movies that studios wouldn't dare release in June. Television is all reruns (or worse-new episodes of Sex and the City). The sports pages wither into nothingness..."
Re: Funny you say that about AugustwhispersessionsAugust 16 2008, 22:22:05 UTC
Yeah, it's not so much August the month I like, because I really don't like it at all, as much as it is what I'm normally doing during August. That's usually my transit/leave/vacation month. I would rather have it during June, but hey... not many folks get a whole month off work each year, so I'm not complaining.
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"...August is the Mississippi of the calendar. It's beastly hot and muggy. It has a dismal history. Nothing good ever happens in it. And the United States would be better off without it..."
"...August is the time when thugs and dictators think they can get away with it. World War I started in August 1914. The Nazis and Soviets signed their nonaggression pact in August 1939. Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2, 1990. August is a popular month for coups and violent crime..."
"...August is the vast sandy wasteland of American culture. Publishers stop releasing books. Movie theaters are clogged with the egregious action movies that studios wouldn't dare release in June. Television is all reruns (or worse-new episodes of Sex and the City). The sports pages wither into nothingness..."
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