Cockroaches, Bras, and Family

Today I found a cockroach in my office. Welcome to public service.
I caught it in a cup and took it outside, but I obviously didn't take it far enough from the door since it practically beat me back to the lobby. I encouraged it to occupy someone else's office.
And that entire situation is a metaphor of my short time working for a government run "non-profit."

Also, buying bras is the worst ever. I'm going to start ordering them in bulk. A life time supply. And then I'll never have to spend 2 hours at a mall trying on a million bras. Seriously, I think I have some kind of shoulder strain.

Yesterday at church my grandfather said something kind of profound and I thought I should probably write it down since I'm likely to forget it. He said, "Salvation is the kind of thing you can't work to have and can't stop working on once you get." I thought that was a pretty insightful way of looking at it (insightfully Presbyterian, that is.)

Yesterday we also had a strange quasi family reunion. I think it may have scared my husband straight. One of my favorite relatives came, his name is Dwayne and he's 80. He brought his girlfriend who was "born in hill country" and embodied all the things I wax nostalgic about from Pike County. I loved her. I thought my favorite Dwayne story was about how my grandmother bit his big toe when they were kids and her mother scolded her because "She didn't know where that toe had been. Dwayne had probably been running bare footed through the barnyard." (I come from very practical stock.) But after yesterday my new favorite Dwayne story has to do with him giving his girlfriend's grandson a taste of whiskey and the grandson going to school and telling his teacher that he'd been drinking. I laughed harder than I should have when Dwayne's girlfriend recounted how her kids "don't hold to drinkin" and were somewhat displeased to be getting a call from the teacher who was concerned that they were giving their child alcohol at the tender age of 7. (Which honestly, the fact that the teacher called at all, shows how far the Pike County school system has come. I'm going to call that progress.)

I have Twitter now! They are going to try to force my hand about setting up a twitter for the board, and I thought I should try the whole tweeting thing before I went in to the meeting looking like an idiot. Now I'm a full fledged idiot who even has Twitter. Follow me: @kissthecook2007