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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Happy John Wilkes Booth Day!
John Wilkes Booth died today. Well... not today but on this date in 1865.
I remember when I visited Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., I was surprised by how small the darn thing is. It's not a very large building in the slightest, and seems completely out of place with the shoe stores and fast food restuarants that have popped up around it in the past few decades. I imagine this is what visiting Greece or Rome must be like. Dozens of buildings filled with history and importance scattered about randomly in a sea of low-rent housing and business districts. My fondest memories of the place, however, involve the carton of gummy bears I purchased for the trip. They tasted so good, and I think I ate like seven packs in Ford's Theater alone. Mm.
Yeah, I appreciate history, but at the same time I appreciate gummy bears a lot more.
I force myself out of bed this morning, hoping to get to class on time. My public speaking course is the only one which seems to care about my attendance (or lack thereof,) and if I’m absent one more time the instructor threatens to drop me. I’d rather not have to take this awful class a second time, and as such I’ve been unusually motivated to show up on time.
Anyway, I throw on some clothes quickly (without showering, which is quite a big deal for me) and rush out to my car. Class starts in 20 minutes, and upon entering the freeway I realize that I’m missing my wallet and my driver’s license. “Oh well,” I think to myself, “As long as nothing happens I’ll be fine.”
Damn right nothing happened, class didn’t even happen. Apparently it’s some sort of artificial school holiday, which means I could have slept in for once. Too bad. Worse yet, I had no less than four offers to socialize last night with friends. I ended up turning down each and every one of them to go home and finish working on a paper which I thought was due today.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. I turned them down in hopes that a new gentlemen friend and I would get to hang out, but then he never returned my phone call. People are so stupid like that sometimes.
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