Rainy Day Miscellany

Yesterday was bright blue and gorgeous. jonquil was in town and we had an excellent lunch and she tolerated me driving her all over hither. Also yon.

Workmen are scraping down the remains of dead wallpaper in the hallway, and we will very shortly have real walls in the front hall, rather than looking like a war ruin. This is happy.

Alas, because it's rainy season it is also ant season. I don't know how they get in, but we're being vigilant about the clean. Even then, they're going places where there's not much to eat (like the bathroom, where we've locked away the toothpaste, the only thing we could imagine they'd be interested in).

And today's circular logic prize goes to a Filipino couple who are being deported. They argued that while they had been trying for years to have a child, which child would help them gain legal status here, their religion (they're Roman Catholic) forbids artificial means of conception. The court pointed out that the mere fact that a child was born here would not have given them an automatic stay of deportation. Unless the child was born with some sort of problem that would qualify it--and the parents--for hardship status. So the couple was claiming religious discrimination Court said, "Nice try, no logic."

And Sarcasm Girl, unhappy with the way her grade in Democracy class was shaping up, has arranged on her own initiative to take a Saturday version of the course at City College, to improve her GPA. Is that light at the end of that tunnel?