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...first day of class and telling these ninth-graders that this wasn't my final stop, that I was just doing this to save up some money. It was ridiculous. And I started thinking: I don't mind this job. As a writer it was prime material, to hear how all these kids talked and to have had the experience of being there. But if I hadn't liked doing it, God it would have been...
...lazy. We have jobs and children and houses and substance-abuse problems to deal with. At our age, we don't want to do anything. What we want is to hear about other people doing things and then judge them for it. Which is what news feeds...
...were here first!” “You’re going to have to move.” We apologized, said we were trapped, bowed our heads. Not five minutes after we got ensnared in the portable toilets pen, did we hear a woman’s voice pierce the general hubbub of the crowd, screaming, “Makay! Makay! Has anyone seen my baby? Answer your mama, Makay!” Next to me, pushing through the crowd, a red-lipsticked brown face emerged, streaming with tears, eyes panicked, sound coming from her in short...
...think it’s more of the Beanpot, it’s just so exciting,” she said. “You watch it growing up and you hear about it all year. This is what you play...
...down to street level for a taste of the craziness, and we could go up to the rooftop (where Secret Service Snipers patrolled with binoculars) for a bird’s-eye view, but we could also watch TV within the warm confines of the 15th floor and actually hear the speech and the rest of the ceremony. When NBC announced that the motorcade was leaving the White House for the Capitol, we waited by “Window 21” and watched it pass below. When it announced that the helicopter was carrying Bush away...