Of Life and Times

The ride home from work today was full of talk of campus changes, department and university politicking, etc. After a few minutes of the kind of social commentating that spectators usually engage in, Elaine told me about her drinking glass. She has a heavy cut crystal class that she uses at work for drinking her water. The facets of all those cuts are quite impressive, and look very nice when you have a colored liquid in the glass. She has a cold, so she was drinking some cranberry juice today.

As she sat there, thinking about the latest issues of the math department she realized she had taken into her mouth a leaf from her drink. Still not fully aware of what kind of leaf it was she mulled it around in her mouth, trying to determine with her tongue what it was. She swallow the juice, leaving only the leaf in her mouth. As she looked into the now almost empty glass to take her next swallow, she noticed the other roach floating in the bottom of her glass.