Wednesday, november 29, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 9
Threat of boredom is stifling one,
cold,starvation are not comforting
Thanksgiving rolled around in its usual way, making it
officially all right to snow, and snow it did.
It was a virtual who's who of precipitation. Rain, snow
and sleet possibly a great name for a Southern California
trio, but lousy weather to skinny-dip in.
michael zangari
Right on cue the folks call from I'lorida. It's pleasant
there 85 degrees. My sister is on her way to the beach,
and Mom and Dad are getting ready to ride their bikes
around the block. How am I? Somehow I miss the joke.
I inform them that I am preparing to butcher the cat for
winter provisions, but only after I shovel the snowdrift
out of my living room.
The cat looks at me from the window sill, glances
worriedly at the falling snow and is not amused. Follow
ing her glance, I'm not terribly amused cither. It's really
coming down.
Moldy granola
Of course there is the possibility of getting snowed in. I
casually walk over to the cupboards to survey the possibil
ities of surviving a snow siege. The cat retreats to a defen
sible corner in the bathroom, and I know how Mother
Hubbard felt. I have a moldy box of granola, but no milk.
Thank God mold is organic.
My pre-starvation downs are interrupted by my only
connection with the outside world-the telephone. If it is
my parents again to tell me about their plans to roast
their weenies in the shade, I plan to emit a high frequency
scream that will roast their weenies before they leave the
package. Their weenies are saved by virtue of the
well-timed call of a friend.
She is seeing things much clearer than I am. The real
threat of getting snowed in is not starvation, or freezing
for that matter. The real threat is boredom. She tells me
that it has already started to set in. So much so that she
had decided to write a paper about it for one of her
classes, but she got bored with it and quit.
Phone boredom
I suggest charades, but this proves difficult over the
phone as docs anything else I would care to do. We both
get bored and hang up.
The threat of boredom is a stifling one, I begin to frant
ically search the apartment for excitement. I'm all out of
excitement too.
I start to thumb through my albums. It might be a
good time to listen to all those albums I haven't listened
to since high school. I discover why I haven't listened to
them since high school. I end up pulling out the sound
track to Last Tango in Bcllcvue. I don't particularly want
to hear it, but it's good music to be bored by.
Next I head over to my library. The books are neatly
stacked by size on a bookcase made out of bricks and
boards. The boards are beginning to buckle under the
weight of the bricks, and so are the books. I decide on a
fresh copy of Are you my Mother (I go through about
three a week), and settle down by the fire.
Kitty litter replacement
About halfway through the book I realize I don't have
a fireplace, and notice that the granola casserole I had
planned to eat for the next month and a half is rather
dusky.
I am comforted somewhat by the knowledge that at
least I have something to replace the kitty litter with.
Although I am not generally considered a snow bunny,
it occurs to me that I should try playing in the snow. A
kind of cope therapy that can possibly get me through the
worst. Since I generally run for shelter and shiver uncon
trollably whenever I open the refrigerator door, I think
better of this insane folly and submit to despair.
The snow has stopped and it's official now. We have a
recorded 1 inch. For the first time in an eternity I sink to
my knees and pray for release.
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