Friday Fish Wrap: June 19, 2010

Man, am I ever happy to get back to Nevada, no never mind how dysfunctional it may be! Thursday morning, I got up early to jump on my bike for a 12 miles jaunt to simply smell that relatively clean, crisp, cool Great Basin air. My lungs have craved it for the last week while sucking up that Gulf Coast stuff that passes for air. It was hotter than the back gate to hell, and was so humid that the effects of a restorative shower lasted at least five minutes.

There is no amount of hair product in the world that will keep a ‘do’ from giving up, collapsing into a lank, stringy mess in that climate.

Natacha has been provisionally accepted at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Once you got past the professionally unpleasant ‘gate keepers’, the Director of Admissions and the Director of the Nursing program were delightful, and very helpful. So, she will be headed down there at the end of the summer to get through it as fast as humanely possible. She intends to stay so busy that she won’t notice how thoroughly dreary the town is.

Lafayette could be Tennessee Williams’ worst nightmare of a crumbling Old South. On deep fried steroids. And, the food sucks.

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