A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
Re: Bad Day at Black Rock

From:          LMixson
To:            Elizabeth
Sent:          Friday, May 8, 1998 9:01 AM
Subject:       Re: Bad Day at Black Rock
 
"Sort of bad" sounds a little understated for your night yesterday.  You would think that the professor would find that something was not quite right if so many students did poorly on the exam. Then to have the professor and you fellow student act and say what they did is really inconsiderate.  And top all that off with a $15 ticket for parking the wrong way, that is ridiculous! 
 
Does your bank have an overdraft protection option?  We have our checking set up that if we write a check and there is not enough funds it automatically transfers funds from our savings account.  They charge $3 to do it but, hey, you don't have to worry about it.
 
We had an interesting experience last night.  We got home and found the screen to the bathroom window laying on the ground.  The bathroom is on the third floor above the front door.  I found that strange.  Well when we got in we couldn't find one of the cats.  Then we put it together. The cat likes to sit in the window and watch the birds in the tree just outside the window.  He must have tried to get a bird and pushed the screen out and fell out.  I went outside looking for him thinking he would be long gone.  He is an inside cat, he only has been outside a few times, twice when he slipped out the door and several times on a leash.  But I heard a meek meow and there he was under the neighbors bush. He really wanted to get back in the house.  Our other cat was really glad to see him and just followed him around everywhere he went.  He seemed OK but Anne took him in to work this morning for x-rays.  When Anne put him the cat carrier, the other cat wanted to go to and got in the carrier with him so Anne took him too.  The two cats are just the best of buddies.[1]
 
I am supposed to be switching offices today (maybe Monday).  They wanted to put me and Gary Aiken> (the new guy who is my friend) next to each other. I will still have a window office but with only a single large window instead of my current double whole wall window, oh well life is tough.  Actually I think it will be better as it is on the north side of the building and does not get quite as much sun.  I find that I often have to close the shades because the sun coming in the window causes too much glare on the computer screen.
 
No, I haven't talked much about downers.  Things in my life are going pretty well right now.  I am in more of a "enjoying life" mode.
 
Larry

[1] We got Nebie the previous Christmas, see story. Oliver was Anne’s cat that she brought home with her after she finished Veterinary school.  Oliver had been brought into the Veterinary school because he had a serious infection  which Anne, while in school, help treat him. Although “healed”, Oliver needed to be on a special antibiotic the reminder of his life to keep the infection at bay.  

 
Nebie and Oliver

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