mmagbee

It was a year ago this past Saturday that I came to Baton Rouge from New Orleans to avoid any unpleasantries from a certain Category 5 Hurricane called Katrina; and only expecting to spend a week or so here too. Well, here it is exactly one year later and I am still here. I know my Mom likes having me around (I never did make it into town too much because I worked so goddamn much and the last thing I would have wanted to do during my precious little time off would be to drive an hour to a town that I left in the first place because it bored me cross-eyed) but still, it's Baton Rouge!
Aw fuck it! I guess things could be a helluva lot worse.
In other news, I have been blazing through the Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser and absolutely loving every single page. Not only are they just plain terrific (and hilarious) adventure stories (featuring the ultimate anti-hero - and I do mean ANTI, for Harry Flashman is a scoundrel, coward, liar, cheat, womanizer, and any other non-heroic trait that can be thrown in) but thoroughly interesting history lessons as well (this is what the Young Indiana Jones series tried and failed at doing - incorporating a fictional character within actual historical events). I highly recommend them to anyone - especially if you have lost your sense of childish wonder and spirit of adventure - filtered through wise-ass British Humor, of course.