More Musings

At 3:11 a.m., I would like to formally thank my favorite local coffee shop for this insomnia.....with all of my heart...

......in addition to all of the donations from depths of my chronically empty pocket book.

Speaking of the coffee shop.....my study coach, (who happens to be a lawyer) met me at our local "watering hole" last week. (As I said before, it is a lifestyle, comparable to the tag on my formerly charged, once expensive and stylish suit coupled with the lingering scent of, again, formerly charged, expensive perfume). I have to sadly admit that our support is growing into the obscene average of three or four times a week these days....wonder if we can appear on the show "Intervention"? I can visualize my thirty minute episode and me on my knees, begging, "please forgive me, I was just an addict...I didn't even realize what I was doing." By the way, where is the COFFEE in my sweet, caramel, espresso treat, anyway?

Something slightly notable actually occured to us last week at the coffee shop. We were minding our own business, scoping out our choice of unsuspecting men (hopefully single, yes, and wealthy). While slurping down my fix, I observed that neither my friend nor I could resist the subtle magnetic pull of a not overly attractive, yet familiar man on the bench, scanning a paper, over by the window. Who is he, anyway?

His poised, rehearsed presentation demanded our glances, as he commenced to capture the subtle attention of other customers in the shop. I even caught some of the employees eyeballing him.

I afforded the vaguely familiar, mystery man in the room, a yawn and intentional, unimpressed glance. He was blatantly awaiting "adoring" fans. Frankly, I personally wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of acknowledgement. Give me a break, I wasn't even sure who he was. You do have to consider those people in the world who simply resemble notable, famous and quasi-famous people. Was he a news anchor?

I found myself momentarily tempted to submit to my curiousity; however, I opted out. I noticed he wasn't eating or drinking anything!

The next morning, while driving to the office, it HIT me....the man was one of our quite recent, former public officials! Not only that..he is running again this year. Wait a minute, could he have been trying to get votes? Surely not. Please, please call his campaign manager..this will not get him back in office.

.....the tragedy of the uneventful, yet somewhat mind-warping, "quasi-brush with fame" is that by the time both of us (coach) were born, the residue of the smoke filled rooms from the '60's had subsided. What luck, eh? Here it is, the truth, and I gotta say it..... our fuzzy head syndrome is resulting from the massive caffeine consumption. Oh yeah.

Okay, okay, before I sign off today, I want to briefly revisit my former post. I previously suggested that our nation consider the implementation of public hangings. The observation was simply intended to explore the possibilty of utilizing our state-funded executions in a public forum..deterrence could become reality.

Beccaria once said, "It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them."

I am leaving you with a link to yet another addiction of mine, the Nancy Grace show: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/nancy.grace/