July 11

You had to see this one coming....

Swift had a modest proposal that rather shocked people.

This is a modest proposal that is not intended to shock. I'm serious about this idea. Every day I pass by a huge pack of rabbits, plump, well fed, "free range" style livestock.

Every day I also pass by a barbecue pit on my way back to my cell.

Everyday I am surrounded by hundreds of hungry students.

The photo on the above right is not roast chicken, it is roast rabbit in wine sauce. No word of a lie - in the Cafeteria tonight, one of the entrees was roast chicken leg. The young student in front of me wanted to know if it was rabbit. I couldn't tell if the tone in her voice was nervousness or anticipation, but it led me to believe I was on to something. Without being (or at the risk of being) xenophobic, I have wondered more than once what our many foreign visitors think of all the potential barbecue running about untended here.

My s/s cru has World Cup Fever. They have taken to playing soccer everywhere; in front of the residence, on the steps by the Cafeteria, on the sidewalk in front of the Student Union Building, in the parking lot by the Housing Office.... Everywhere, that is, except on one of the many soccer fields that border the residences. Quite a site to see as they kick the balls off the buildings carefully shielding their ubiquitous cigarettes from unexpected rebounds.

Meanwhile the volleyball nets set up for them on the front lawns go ignored, save for the three staff members hopelessly trying to find positive things for them to do.

I suggest we set them loose catching dinner. They would be busy, the rabbit population would be dented (instead of the parked cars and the pop machines under attack from miskicked soccer balls) and we could all be treated to delicious barbecue. Hey, Elmer Fudd was serious about his work!

Jason Bay got a hit in the All Star Game. Good for you , kid. On Roberto Clemente Day in Pittsburgh. go Canada.

38 to go

Cheers