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I had only a few days to read a pretty beefy novel for class— "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places"— about the Vietnam War. Pretty depressing. Really made me appreciate my warm bed and regular meals over this last weekend. I finished the book today, and got some work done for other classes too. My roommate and I are both going home for the holidays this coming weekend, so we had a stogie night today. I had bought a Java Mint on his recommendation, so that's what I had, and he had one too. We were just standing in the parking lot, talking about our homes, and our siblings, and plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and laughed about the raccoons climbing around in the trees. He just left with his girlfriend to grab whatever at Starbucks. So now I'm just hanging in the parking lot, drawing on the last of the Java just as the air is starting to get cool. Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday.
That all sounds rather wonderful. Or at least well put. :-) Okay, maybe not the Vietnam War part. But that's long behind us - or so I hope (does the book suggest otherwise?).
Enjoy your youth, your now. Your "hanging out in the parking lot" reminds me of good times having a smoke while waiting for my first wife to get off the train in White Plains, NY, from Manhattan, so many lives ago.
Wish to fuck I had me a stogie this moment...