Friday and I'm Bored

Good day, People of Stroock's Books and other assorted visitors. 

We approach this Friday with melancholy and indifference. 

We had pleasant temperatures these last few days. The pleasantness is coming to an end, with temps expected to climb into the mid-80s today. Oh well. 

The NY Post reports: 'FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.' Good. No one is above the law. Hopefully this is the first of many such raids. One day we will tell you people a story. 

Book sales are in the crapper this week. No idea why. Reminder. Book sales are an art, not a science. They are also fickle and temperamental, like a woman. Like your first serious girlfriend, and you're trying to figure out what set her off but have no idea because it was the way you reacted to something she said that she thought was really important but you didn't since, you know, you don't have estrogen poisoning. 

Fun fact: did reader(s) know that if America annexed Britain it'd be the poorest state in the Union as per per-capita income (37,000 quid for Britain vs 52,000 bucks for Mississippi)? Also, Bostonians would no longer have the worst accent in the country. Britain sucks and everyone in Britain knows it. Exit question: between Great Britain and Mississippi, who has worse weather?  

What Will's Listening to: As we write this, we're listening to Mel McDaniel upon the recommendation of this blog's Confederate leader...we don't hate it. Heh, our grandmother referred to her home state as 'Loo-sianna' too. Hmmm the last time we flirted with Country was 2005. Back then it was Big and Rich, SheDaisy, Toby Keith, Los Lonely Boys...

What Will's Watching: speaking of the Deep South...pre-season Giants football, for some reason. Why not. We caught Jaxon Dart's series as the Giants starting QB. My did he look impressive, in a preseason game against New England's second string. Still, Dart is the next Eli Manning, surely. 

The NY Post reports that some of murderer Brian Kohlberger's professors expressed concerns. As a teacher and professor, we've all been there. We've all wondered. We never had a student that we thought would be a psycho- killer. We had some real weirdos though, that's for sure. There's a couple of kids we could see going on a stabbing spree, but not a shooting spree. The distinction is important [Is it, knobhead?-Ed]

Related: because we were bored, yesterday afternoon we cast about for adjunct professor jobs. This exercise was mostly frustrating. We started at Raritan Valley Community College, of course. We saw some people that we knew lo those ten years ago are still there. The bastards upon whom we exercised literary revenge are gone though. Ten years is a long time, and lord knows what campus is like these days. Still, we miss teaching. We do miss it so. Reminder: in 2008 we sent RVCC our resume on a whim and wouldn't have done so if the campus wasn't five minutes away. A year later, as we held our newborn in our arms we picked up the phone and saw RVCC on the caller ID and said, 'Now? Really?'