How Time Flies!

I haven't been on in forever, because the Brookline wing of the Tsunami passed through our living room while we were in Washington, exploding our house via frozen pipes. It was a real intoperspectiveputter, in light of how bunk I had thought the antidiluvian part of my vacation had been going. What really crushes me is that since the house froze, and though thankfully nothing really important was damaged, I'm most lamenting the loss of a certain rubber tree plant. My mother had gotten it for me in my second week of high school at a Manchester, New Hampshire home depot or something and I had forgotten to take it into my dorm, so it had ended up in the living room in Boston for - jeez - five and a half years?! It sat next to the door to the balcony, so you always had to walk past it whenever you were in the living room and it is sorely missed. But the leaves had turned brown in the cold and the branches were all wilty and oozy even when the house got warm again. It literally crushed me when I cut off its arms to fit it into the trash, one by one, and then lifted the crock it had been sitting on, out of the bronze planter. Underneath it all there was a Friday December 15th 2000 New York Times. Priced one dollar, the cover reads: "House Leader Differs With Bush On Across-the-Board Tax Cuts and has a picture of George and Laura. Even THEY look more innocent back then. The other leading story is "AOL AND TIME WARNER GAIN APPROVAL FOR HUGE MERGER BUT WITH STRICT CONDITIONS" I NEVER read the newspaper, but even I remember that story. So much has changed since December 15th 2000! I think the world's a lot rougher - or at least I've realised that it's rougher than I had thought as a freshman. I think one of my resolutions this year is to read the newspaper, whichever one that is, more. I've already broken the one I had so much wanted to keep. My biggest resolution this year is though, that I'm not going to try and impress people anymore. Well whatever. The ticking crocodile is coming soon to get us all so I'm going to have fun with my hook until then.