This is Thirty Day Bus Pass Mission Control in Los Angeles. Our last report from EFD (the "Evacuee") was from just outside San Luis Obispo. We can only assume that the Evacuee is, at this moment, continuing on her 35-hour trip to Seattle on the magical Coast Starlight.
The Thirty Day Bus Pass, from this point on, will be managed and directed from the confines of Thirty Day Bus Pass Mission Control and Headquarters here in Northeastern Los Angeles. We expect to begin receiving and posting physical correspondence from the Evacuee -- dispatches from the front lines of the Evacuee's stormful mind -- shortly.
Like you, we here at Mission Control are unclear as to the Evacuee's planned trajectory or the ultimate destination -- or purpose -- of the Thirty Day Bus Pass. We know only that this was, for reasons that cannot be satisfactorily explained, a necessary trip, and that we will do our best to ensure a comfortable ride for all involved.
Luckily for you, before leaving, the Evacuee instructed Mission Control staff in Reception Theory, which she apparently studied in Germany (in German). She also reminded us that she had taken a class with George Lakoff in college and gave us a brief overview on Professor Lakoff's theories of the metaphor. The Evacuee also managed to remind us that her mother was (and remains) a classicist.
We, in turn, reminded the Evacuee to eat, and to maybe try and quit smoking. And to have fun, of course.
3 comments:
I don't think your role was supposed to be exposing my intellectual pretensions, was it?
I believe the label to this post explains that we are now in charge.
By the way, the guy next to me with all the cannabis facts at his command suggested, when I said that I really wished I could smoke, that a) nicorette could solve that problem; b) enough nicorette within a short enough time could get me really high; and c) I might end up quitting smoking because geographic displacement is good for that sort of thing. He was from Albuquerque.
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