I just realized the people I recognize the most often in Chapel Hill are those who are homeless. I rarely see my friends, old instructors, moody coffee boy-baristas when I walk around.

As a kid I had a picture of homelessness as a person who comes and goes with the trains, not staying too long in one place and always having a beard. I think most homeless Chapel Hillians have been here longer than I. The generosity of young southern students runs in abundance (did anyone say thursdays?);  there are lots of new faces (filtering through the great tar-heel-blue admissions doors before being spit back out) who have never seen the men along Franklin playing drums, holding wilted boxes for change. Next time I see one of the homeless men., I will offer to payment for their recollections of southern student antics they've witnessed on The Hill. I bet they have some great stories.

Literary Genius.

I probably have about 15-20 passwords and login codes I use each day. Today over half of these login codes expired. It's a huge pain to reset all my codes and then remember them.

The system analysts aren't very forgiving. If you misspell one of your codes, it locks you out of the network; you have to call IT and stand in front of a tribunal before they'll give you another password reset.

I had a stroke of brilliance, I will change all my login ID's and passwords to one code! I tried: NaNcY_dRew112, gone. taCObell34, taken. I decided then to use my favorite author's name, I am so smart. My favorite author is the great Salman Rushdie, I hastily entered these into the wizard behind the curtain computer mainframe for approval. Approved! Wow, now I only have 1 password to remember, glorious, glorious! My new login ID code is:

"Rush_Die13".......

Then I saw what I did.

...did I mention I work in a hospital with folks who lack senses of  humor?  and I just told my password to the internet, heck.