If I Had a Billion Dollars

Tonight, discussing oue normal Saturday night topics, I announced that if I had a $120 billion dollars I'd build a space elevator. It would be the 3rd thing I would do with my money.

As little bit later I said that the 4th thing I would do with my $120 billion dollars would be to hire Natalie as my full time chef.

Del said, "Out of curiosity, what would be the first and second thing?"

Without hesitation I said, "I'd kidnapped authors and create a 'nature preserve' of a writer's natural habitat. You know, tiny drafty apartments with leaky roofs. And they would write for me."

Del looked horrified.

"Oh, I'd be evil. Whatever I did to get a 120 billion dollars made me evil."

"So the space elevator would be your liar?"

"Apparently."

As a side note, the second thing is less evil: be Ian Wright's sidekick on his travel show, Globe Trekker. It'd be awesome.

Grade Grubbing

Last night I got back my second paper from my Tuesday night class (Social Welfare and Policy) and the teacher wrote "Excellent. Sorry I can't think of a more critical comment."

Excellent! My work is excellent!

I'm so pleased. Really. Last night, despite having a cold and being exhausted, I could not stop smiling.

Even better, the professor used my paper as an example of "what to do." Well, he didn't say, "Melissa did an excellent job and we all so do as well as her paper," but I could tell. Actually, he did say that one paper was 19 pages and that was "correct" length our papers should be at. Mine is 19 pages! And then he added that some people did not have enough references and that one student had nearly 25 references. I had 24! (Yes, I counted in class.)

So, I'm very happy. The other class is doing well, also. Last week our essays were returned and I had a 9 out of 10. Not "excellent" but I'm very happy with that. It's still an A. Woot!

Run Jule Run

Check out the interview Jule did on the run during the Baltimore Marathon. Du bist awesome!