bookclub......

ok, so last night was bookclub.....to discuss life of pi.........the evening got off to a questionable start.......as one of the men in the group came in with his glass of merlot and started fussing about his wife who was up half the night, cleaning house with the airconditioner on............at least 3 women (myself, included....) were starting out of their collective chairs when a cooler head prevailed.....he asked that the group keep menopause at home, just like politics.....at least until the book discussion was over..........it goes without saying that the man crass enough to fuss about his wife was a republican.........and the cooler head was decidedly not.............most people wished that the author had left out the crazy meercat island part...............and we mostly wanted to believe the tiger version of the story.......and we mostly liked it.......and then the discussion sank into the depths of partisan politics and i went home..............i am much too mean for these social situtations.........meanmamma unleashed........ouch........not ready for that...........i am currently possessed with locating the missing electric and water bills and checks written 9/9/04......i thought that my spouse mailed them.......and they have not cleared the bank......and the water company has sent a nasty note.......as if in 22 years we have ever failed to pay them......i am confident that my non-senile spouse will discover that he did, in fact, take them into town to mail.....and simply forgot..........i have looked at the bottom of our bed....under the covers..........to no avail *for non-family....this is an inside joke.....my late grandmother once hid her stash of grapefruits at the foot of her bed...under the covers........to make sure she always had one for breakfast.............i have given my family free leave for euthanasia should i even reach the grapefruit stage............but back to bookclub.......i was given grief because i listened to the next book.....dan brown's angels and demons....on cd rather than reading it the traditonal way........scw and i listened to this book from middlebury, vt to just south of the ohio river........i thoroughly enjoyed the pleasure of being read to..........and i do not feel that the lack of visuals (drawings, graphs, maps....) detracted from my enjoyment.....but this is just one meanmamma's opinion......................