While waiting for about 200 pages to print today in my triangle, I was looking at this http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44077710/displaymode/1247?beginSlide=1. (I don't know why I'm not getting a link, but I think it's worth the time to copy and paste.) The children from Ivory Coast and Nepal were the most moving to me, especially the girl who is Sweet Pea's age and has been working a granite quarry since she was three. Can you imagine a place where you send three year olds into quarries? The boy from the Ivory Coast is listed as "anonymous"--is that because he doesn't know his own name or that no one has bothered to give him one? I also wonder about the boy from New York with the flowered carpet in his room--he looks like a young Chuck Bass (if you watch the show "Gossip Girl,") and I'm really wondering if that carpet was his idea, or if it's something really fancy that came with the whole apartment. It's like the Barbie Arms--good art keeps you thinking.
This post was almost called "I am the very model of a modern Major General," because I was wicked* efficient at work today. Midway through the morning I thought about posting that first line from "Pirates of Penzance" as my Facebook status and then adding subsequent lines each half hour or so, but I decided against it. You, my friends, are loved and I didn't want to get that song stuck in your head.
Hopefully I haven't now.
*we should use the word "wicked" more in our daily speech
I am madly in love with the word wicked.
ReplyDeleteIt's grossly underused, rarely misused, and it's a wonderful adverb for just about any occasion.
Used it. relish using it. and love it. Because wicked is Wickedly cool. :)