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11/28/2004: "time to sleep"

Didn't get much sleep over Thanksgiving, was out to all hours doing all sorts of nonsense, so I'll keep this short. Hope your vacation went well. Anyway, I did get a chance to start and finish about a boy. It was nearly identical to the movie through the first two-thirds, but the last third was nothing like the movie. Very fast and enjoyable read. Many parts were funny and sad, just because I act exactly like the 12 year old boy...I quote the below, and if you haven't heard the last line from me before, know that I say it all the time:

Will: "What if Rachel and I don't split up? What if we stay together forever?"
Marcus (12 year old): "Fine. Great. Prove it. I just don't think couples are the future."

"Oh well, thank you....Einstein." Will had wanted his comeback to be sharper than that. He wanted to think of the name of some sort of socio-cultural marriage expert whose name two twelve-year-olds would instantly recognize, but Einstein was all he could come up with. He knew it wasn't right.

"What's he got to do with it?"
"Nothing," Will mumbled. Marcus looked at him pityingly. "And don't patronize me."

"What does patronize mean?" Marcus asked, in all seriousness. So there it was. Will was being patronized by someone who wasn't even old enough to understand what the word meant.

I still don't know what it means. Anyone have an example for me?

Also got through about a third of Making Weapons, Talking Peace which is the autobiography of one of the physicists involved in the construction of the atomic and nuclear weapons. Very interesting, but a very slow read as well...