Happy Birthday, Carmen (in 2 days)

Sat Mar 6 02:28:37 2004

Thanks, Carmen,
That was a nice update. Lurk as you wish and jump in when it moves you. I won't have time to send you a birthday greeting on THE DAY since I'll be working 14 hours as a republican clerk holding the election. Okay, it's out of character but I'll do my best not to overly influence the voters. How's Betty Burkhalter doing?
Frances

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 --- On Sat 03/06,  < CAUS@aol.com > wrote:
From:  [mailto: CAUS@aol.com]
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:02:47 EST
Subject: Re: Happy Happy Birthday, Carmen (in 4 days)

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<DIV>Gerry:  Good to hear from you!  I kind of remember the name Donna Storm.  Jog the old memory more please.</DIV>
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<DIV>Well our Beatnik days and nights consisted more of time spent in dark, dank coffee houses listening to Jazz and poetry and talking about things we then considered "heavy" - we kinda got bum-rapped by the general population around our age as we were very different from them...obvious since even looking at us detected that something was weird (he 6'4" - me 4' 10").  We weren't hittin' prayer meetin' and I regarded most things those other Waco females thought as potentially deadly to me.  Bowling and meatloaf recipes would have sent me over the edge at that time.  I still don't bowl but am not currently put off by a good meatloaf recipe! Not your average bears for sure back then.</DIV>
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<DIV>We came to Austin so Jim could take some courses at UT.  I will elaborate later on our lives if you wish, but the bottom line is that Jim (as fine a non-judgemental fellow as ever lived) turned out to be what they now call bi-polar and he put an ill-placed 22caliber bullet in his temple.  I say ill-placed as he lived in a diminished state that would have horrified the James you knew.  He lives in Waco with his brother Alan (and Alan's extended family) who is a judge and some kind of high mucky muck in the Mormon church.  Sometimes paybacks are more than hell though I do not mean to diss the Mormons.  much.  Anyway the kids and I were left without a schekel (did I spell that right, Mike?) but somehow we lived and had mostly good lives.  Gina is now 43 and Mike is 39.  Funny, bright kids if a little out of the ordinary - neither has produced grandlarvae, however.</DIV>
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<DIV>I like to think of myself as evergreen, young that is, but I bear no resemblance to the person I used to be.  I often complain that there is no place for older people to go and be regarded as "cool" - mostly they don't look cool and they nodd off and they use outdated slang and some of them are even Republicans...yoicks!!  I have a couple of friends who go dancing at Don's Depot but I can't even imagine hanging out in the smog of the smoke filled room attempting to strut my elderly stuff.  </DIV>
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<DIV>More abvout you, please.</DIV>
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<DIV>As Frances says, I am a lurker in the list shadows.  I hesitate to hang my thoughts out to dry as many of the list don't know me and wouldn't be interested.  I will certainly share if anything earth-shaking ever happens tho.  I get so much pleasure from reading the thoughts of the others, particularly Wayne's and Mike's.  And the quality of Frances' offerings is often really appealing. I like lots of the others too and look forward to more lurking. Ah, maybe the shadows are where old people can go to be cool.     Carmen, not exectly Electra </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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