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Stumpage Reports
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Monday, November 18, 2002 :::
A Couple of Bozos on the Bus:
Lately I have been riding the Wolfline Bus to and from class. I have been riding enough that I'm starting to recognize the same people on the bus at different times. Two people usually riding it when I catch it on the way home around 12:30 or 1:00 PM:
Billy Bob Thornton Looking Guy: I see this guy almost every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton but he does not have that unbalanced gleam in his eye. He has a permanent two days growth of beard, but neatly trimmed. This guy also has a black baseball hat on backwards, I have not been able to see what the logo is on it yet. He keeps a "tough, above-it-all" look on his face, but I can tell he is really a scared little boy.
Girl With the Sunshine Smile that Breaks My Heart and Makes My Day at the Same Time: I don't see her often enough, usually once or twice a week. I think she is pretty by most folk's standards, but for some reason when she smiles, she looks so happy, and lights up the whole damn bus. When I see her smiling it just makes me happy, but also breaks my heart with those thoughts of "Tom, you'll never even get up the guts to even speak to her let alone try and look at her again before this all-too-brief bus ride is over who are you kidding go read your damn William and Mary Quarterly." The scene of her smiling the other day with the bus window as a backdrop with the falling leaves around the scarecrows in front of the chancellor's house made me tingly all over and glad to be alive. Last week she was reading a book by Donna Tartt, I think she is a real author you have to have a brain to read. I'll be checking on what she's reading this week. Maybe she'll have one of these and need some help with it:
Reading:
The Civil War and Reconstruction, by David Herbert Donald, Jean Harvey Baker, and Michael F. Holt. Probably will be reading this one up until 5 minutes before the final exam. I won't bother to list it anymore.
"Political Dialogue and the Spring of Abigal's Discontent," by Elaine Forman Crane, in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, Vol. LVI, Number 4, Oct. 1999.
Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865, by Thomas Connelly.
Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies, by John Bell Hood, Lt. Gen., CSA
::: posted by tom at 9:41 PM
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