where's the garlic when you need it?

[Rachel Bray]

I went up to the 5th floor of my building to get a Diet 
Coke and the vampires of the Red Cross grabbed me, threw me 
into a chair and took a pint of blood.  How's that for a 
strange turn of events?  All I wanted was a Diet Coke!

:-)

My lunch buddy came looking for me. "I got worried!  I 
thought you were only coming up for a Diet Coke and it was 
taking so long I thought maybe you got hurt or something." 
(which didn't make sense....I'm not a klutz that would pull 
a vending machine over on me or the such....geesh!)

Oh well.  I'm safe from the vampires for another 56 days, I 
suppose.

Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
Fees, Deposits and Disbursements

The most heartbreaking thing about faithful moviegoing
is that awe, beauty and excitement, three of the things
we go to the movies for, are the very things we're 
cheated of the most. The great wonder of "The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is that it bathes us 
in all three, to the point where we remember -- in a 
vague, pleasurably hallucinatory sensation from another 
lifetime -- why we go to the movies in the first place.