Someone had the heaviest leadfoot, paired with the worst luck:
Four speeding tickets issued within three hours
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- An Illinois man and his girlfriend received nearly $1,400 in speeding tickets within about three hours on Interstate 90 in Wisconsin, authorities say.
Piotr Pac, 21, of Prospect Heights, Ill., was cited New Year's Day for allegedly going 100 mph in Rock County at 5:59 a.m., 84 mph in Columbia County at 6:56 a.m. and 77 mph in Sauk County at 7:28 a.m., the Wisconsin State Patrol said.
His girlfriend, Emilia A. Goralczyk, 18, of Mount Prospect, Ill, was cited for allegedly driving the same 2004 Nissan Altima at 108 mph in Dane County at 9:05 a.m.
Pac said Goralczyk had called him at 4 a.m. that day, crying over a fight she had with a friend at a party, so he drove 180 miles to Wisconsin Dells to pick her up.
"I would do everything for her," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
But Pac said he had to be home by 10 a.m. to start work, and he was 2 1/2 hours late, but had called ahead and his boss was not angry.
"You have to have an exciting life," he said, "because (otherwise) life is boring."
Pac, who faces $902 of the $1,393 in speeding tickets issued, said he had not yet decided whether to pay them or ask judges for leniency.
Huh. That's cool, Ginger. Learning what it is reminds me of when I finally wrapped my brain around moot as not meaning already settled or no longer important. When I heard how it is supposed to be used, it was a lightbulb moment.
Words are so cool. Makes me envy erinaceous her linguistic acumen.
Which reminds me, I need to request Patriot's off as coming into Boston on Marathon Monday (and there's always a big Sox day game too) is of the suck.
No, it's great! I mean, if your company closes that day anyway, because it is surrounded on 3 sides by marathon route/cooldown route. And you come in at 10 am, and read in the park, and walk up the marathon route to Kendall (this year I will go on the Fenway Park side!), and when you get to Kendall you see signs that the race organizers are holding up, to encourage the flagging runners: RED SOX WIN!
And the day is sunny and unseasonably warm, and the BU kids are grilling on their front lawns, and everybody is getting absolutely nothing done and it's great. That is my idea of a holiday.
...words are nice. I like words. I like words to be crisp and exact like extremely sharp Chex. Okay, wrong imagery.
Now I want to plot those out and figure out how fast they were
really
going.
I never knew about the usage problem with nauseous. I reject it.
Hee. Ginger is me. I'm annoyed by the verbifying of nouns in general, except when we do it. Also, momentarily. "The doors will be closing momentarily." Holy shit! Where should I stand so I don't fall out when they open again?
According to Sports Night, momentarily can mean both for a moment and in a moment.
Natalie: According to the dictionary, "momentarily" means both "for a moment" and "in a moment."
Jeremy: Well done.
Natalie: "Monad," by the way, is an elementary individual substance which reflects the order of the world, and from which material properties are derived.
Aw. Sports Night. How I miss you.
Also, did anyone notice that the song playing at Weiss's birthday party was the same song that Charlie's band played on Lost. The driveshaft song? Clever JJ.
Also, Sydney was talking on the phone to someone named Joss. So J.J. either likes Whedon or Stone.
Dying....
Will these four minutes never pass?
