Hodge and Podge (if you click on the links they’ll work)

So I started writing this ridiculously long and detailed account of my current bout with the flu. Unfortunately I was so busy at work yesterday, I didn’t get to finish. The world is a lesser place because of it too.
But on the bright side, I am feeling much better (which is the opposite of how I was feeling two days ago: hating every waking moment).

I am going to be on a plane home in a week. As it keeps getting closer I keep losing more and more interest in this place. It is funny, less than two weeks ago I had no idea when my leave dates were. I might as well have been a 4th grader going to school everyday. This all changed drastically when I saw my name up on the big calendar.
The world I know went from bliss to bleh.
All of a sudden every waking moment, as well as half the unwaking ones, was spent thinking about how great it is to get back home. I started making little lists of all the restaurants and bars I wanted to hit up, little excursions to go on, and normal things from my old routine that I would do just for the hell of it. I can’t wait though. And now instead of thinking about all the great stuff ahead of me, all I can see is all this crap I am swimming in now.
I can’t imagine what the last day of leave is going to do to me. I’ll probably try to run off to Canada or something. Be a fugitive and stuff. Do you think they would send Jennifer Lopez or Tommy Lee Jones?

While I am on the subject, if I were a fugitive I would probably run off to France and “hide out” with Roman Polanski. Can you run from the law for any crime in France? Do they limit it to just the crimes committed at Jack Nicholson’s house? Or is it legal to rape children in France? Do the French at least try to catch French criminals?
Wouldn’t it be hysterical (and before you start writing your damnation of my sense of humor, by hysterical I mean 450 tons of irony) if some American celebrity, we’ll use William Shatner, raped a kid in France and fled to the states? France is screaming for justice, and George Bush replies from his ranch,
“I don’t know about your so called evidence and witness testimony, but you’re not makin’ freedom fries out of Captain Kirk!”
Now I used to be under the very false impression that Polanski had simply been in a consensual relationship with a near adult, and that they got married after she became of age. Then I realized I was confusing reality with Samuel L. Jackson movies.
Seriously though, isn’t an American studio aiding and abetting a fugitive by financing his movies?
Couldn't the US have tried a litle harder to snatch this guy back and let the boys in San Quentin repay the favor?

Sleep sound kids. Your heroes, the San Francisco Giants, beat those idiot Mets today and are in first place.