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Jul. 9th, 2002 03:23 pmAt lunch today, wandered over to Summer Soulstice, a weekly thang at the Christian Science plaza. Imagine a reflecting pool the length of a football field, and absolutely no one allowed to set foot in it "for their own safety". And at the very tip of it, like the dot on an 'i', is what's *supposed* to be a fountain spraying water into the air for kids to play in.
Only thing is, it's either broken or the CSers are conserving water, because instead of spraying water it's burbling. I've seen some sad sights in my time (my own life during junior high, to name one example), but five hundred kids with towels and bathing suits gathered around a puddle that 3, maybe 4 kids could fit in---that's just cruel. If this was taking place at Camp X-Ray, the BBC would be all OVER us.
Speaking of them, I wonder what things are like with the troops and Afghan prisoners these days. Cuba in the summertime, for folks used to a high-altitude mountain environment...I wonder how you say 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity' in Pashto?
Only thing is, it's either broken or the CSers are conserving water, because instead of spraying water it's burbling. I've seen some sad sights in my time (my own life during junior high, to name one example), but five hundred kids with towels and bathing suits gathered around a puddle that 3, maybe 4 kids could fit in---that's just cruel. If this was taking place at Camp X-Ray, the BBC would be all OVER us.
Speaking of them, I wonder what things are like with the troops and Afghan prisoners these days. Cuba in the summertime, for folks used to a high-altitude mountain environment...I wonder how you say 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity' in Pashto?
