Well, I spent another day marinating in Old English. I'm going to go put in an application to be a 911 dispatcher tomorrow. I think that would be a lot more interesting than the monkey work I'm doing now. My favorite TV channel is Court TV, and every now and then they have a 911 dispatcher on the stand, telling about the screams and gun shots from the 911 calls. That would be cool.

I was on TV once, way back when I was in fifth or sixth grade. My class took a field trip to one of the TV stations in St. Louis and some of the students got to be contestants on a children's game show. Not me. I got to be the big dork spinning the wheel that decided what questions the luckier kids got. The host would say "Spin the Wheel, Ruthie' every time I was supposed to spin the stupid wheel. After that every now and then someone at school would tease me by repeating "Spin the Wheel, Ruthie" over and over. God, how I hated that. I'm sure I was absolutely adorable, but I'm glad I don't have a tape of it. It's one of those things you wish you could forget, but you know you never will.