Archive for October 13th, 2010

Of miners and mistresses

I’m so relieved that the Chilean miners are on their way out!  I can’t imagine what it would be like to be trapped underground for an hour, much less almost 70 days or whatever it’s been.  I can barely tolerate that I don’t have a window in my office (though I was promised nearly six years ago that it wouldn’t be “long” before I got one) — no natural light for months!  Egads.

What do you talk about with the same 32 other people for that long?  I suppose that’s kind of a lot of people, but still.  How many arguments were there?  Did they keep regular sleeping hours?  Eating hours?  Quiet time?  I heard something about one guy was going on up to six mile runs.  How does that work? 

I can’t imagine having someone I love underground for all that time, either.  And I really never imagined that this would be a problem.  Hmm.

And thanks to Aaron for this op-ed on the frustrating Senate race.

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