August 31st, 2008

News

You know how kids construct their image of the outside world from scraps of cartoons and fragments of school assignments, and the rest from imagination? So they get lots of stuff wrong–sewer grates are to keep the alligators out of the streets, whatever day is garbage day on your street is garbage day for the whole world–and growing up is the process of idly mentioning these incorrect suppositions and getting them straightened out by the older and the wiser.

Except, some of these suppositions are so irrelevant and minor that you never bring them up, and they don’t get mentioned in a class or conversation for years and years. And then you’re thirty, and you are somewhat crushed to find out over Mexican food that no space program–not Canada’s or the US’s or anyone’s–is working towards the goal of building a glass or possibly Pyrex dome on the moon filled with a breathable atmosphere so that people can live there full-time.

!!!

I can’t even begin to explain why I thought that was true, or why I am now so sad that it isn’t. It’s not like I wanted to spend my retirement on the moon…I just thought I’d have the option.

I’ll keep drivin’ / you keep sleepin’
RR

PS–But the good news is that I’ve had new horoscopes for the past two days–hooray! Of course, today’s includes the line, “This is a powerful move that will make you feel powerful…”