Big chair
Mon Sep 26, 2005 18:48 (UTC -5)On Saturday some guys in a truck came over and brought in a big chair. I had vaguely heard some mumblings about bringing a new piece of furniture into this “computer room” as part of my parents’ master plan to make it less “computer” and more… “room.” (The other parts of the plan are moving the computer to the opposite wall so that incoming guests cannot see it, and painting the former computer wall red.)
The chair is brown leather and it shows some signs of use because it is used. It looks to be about one and a half times the width of a regular chair, so it’s not quite a loveseat, but it can fit two people. It’s very comfortable also. Already I’ve spent many a minute lying across it. I imagine I could take a nap in it if I were tired enough, but that hasn’t happened in recent (or not-so-recent) memory.
On Thursday my friend Michelle asked if I would be interested in going to an anti-war protest in Washington over the weekend. I said I’d consider it — it didn’t sound like a bad idea — even though I knew my parents would say no. (It was something like $90 for the 20-hour bus ride there, plus the cost of food.) Needless to say (even though I’m saying it), they said no, so I was basically stuck at home over the weekend. (I had a lot of homework to do anyway.)
You can imagine my surprise when I saw footage from the demonstration on TV — I had thought it was going to be a little thing. Ĝangalo, an Esperanto news portal, reported on its main page that there were 100,000 protesters. I printed out the article and showed her today at school. She said that they had made front-page news just about everywhere. Also, she had a souvenir for me: a poster from the demonstration.
Square America is “a gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography.” I find this interesting because my dad just showed me some old photographs of my grandparents and the boat that they apparently used to have. You can learn some cool things from old photos.
