Jeremy Stories, Part II

A few years ago, back when Jeremy was still teaching at Jackson Int., Jeremy was having a conversation with a colleague about Easter and Lent.  What did Jeremy give up for Lent that year?

Porn.

Jeremy Stories, Part I

As most of you know, our dear friends the Gibson’s are moving to Colorado Springs on June 11, presumably to convince everyone and everything in CO (including the mountains, climate, et al.) to move back to Houston shortly.  At least, I hope that’s the case. 

Any way, as a tribute to my best friend, I want to chronicle my favorite stories about Jeremy beginning with my favorite one.  (I should say, dear readers, most of these stories won’t translate well to print because the hand gestures and facial expressions will be missing from the telling, but I’m putting the stories out there anyway.)

In high school, Jeremy was on the tennis team and one day was chatting with a girl, let’s call her Rosie (to protect the innocent).  Across the court, two people are having a conversation, and Jeremy describes to her in great detail what they are saying.  She, of course, looks at him wide eyed, marveling at how he could know so precisely what they were saying.

Because he can read lips.

Why?

Because he was born deaf.  But he had a surgery a few years ago to correct it and he taught himself how to hear after that.

And she bought it all.  Hook, line and sinker.

Dear Blogosphere,

I have been sick for 8 days now, and some of you have been wondering about my affliction.

Here is an abridged list of my symptons:

I’m carrying my body weight in mucus in my chest and throat.

I have a fever that is constantly coming and going.  Consequently, I’m breaking out in a sweat every hour or so and am freezing 20 minutes later.

I’m coughing more frequently than I’m breathing.

Ironically, I feel okay half the time.  The other half I feel absolutely abysmal.

LOST post

I really don’t have time to do fully write this out, but I want to get this out there before I forget this theory.

From the past two episodes, “He’s Our You” and “Whatever Happened, Happened”, we’ve learned that our characters are largely repsonsible for much of the history of the Island and the Dharma Initiative from the ’50’s and ’70’s, specifically the burying of Jughead, and Ben Linus being shot and taken to the Others/Hostiles into their care.  Richard makes the point that from this point forward, Ben will always be one of Them.  And we can see the dawning apprehension on Kate and Sawyer’s face that they are ultimately responsible for saving the life of Ben and inserting him concretely in with the Others.  Because of this, he lives to become the man that torments? them their first 108 days on the Island and some of their (Oceanic 6) time off the Isalnd.  This reminds of a clip from the video in Room 23:  “We are the cause of our own suffering.”

The trheory that has me excited (but I may not buy wholesale just yet.)  Many have speculated that Kate’s booty call in “316″ leads to her getting pregnant.  With what we know now, what if that was her plan?  What if giving up Aaron caused her to realize she wanted a child of her own?  And what if she knew she needed to conceive off island to avoid the fertiltity issues that plague the pregnant women?  AND what if a child conceived in 2008 but born in 1977/1978 is the CAUSE of said fertitlity issues?  Think about that.  “We are the cause of our own suffering.”