a celebration of 2008–the year of the muskrat

I found a post from Immoral Matriarch that inspired me to, like she did, list some of my favorite Muskrat moments from last year:
May:  Muskrat is invited to speak at a local elementary school and posts the questions the children ask in Answers to the Children’s Questions.  He is unlikely to be asked to return.
June:  [...]

friday the 13th, august 1993: dressed like a rat, i made kids cry

The summer after I graduated from high school, I was the rat at Chuck E. Cheese pizza in Goodlettsville, TN.
My last day was Friday, August 13; the next day, I was to begin packing for college. I’d worked all afternoon in the gameroom and only had about 15 minutes left before I would end the [...]

from the vault: Friday, July 17, 1989 (the day i crapped in a sauna)

Today we went to Capitol Reef National Park.  Then we went to Arches National Park.  In Capitol Reef we saw 11 deer.  We saw a black bull next to the road.  Dad moo’d at it, and it looked at us real weird.  I took a picture of him.  Tomorrow we will go to Colorado.  We [...]

from the vault: this date in 1990 and 1988

Tuesday ,June 26, 1990:
Today, we drove to Glacier National Park.  Kevin and I played in the snow and threw snowballs at cars.  It was fun.  We drove to the top of a mountain and then back down and out of the park.  Then we crossed the border into Canada.  I went to sleep until we [...]

from the vault: why i became a lawyer: chapter 1 (i assume)

I often take time on Thursday nights to look through “the vault” to see what I was doing 20 years ago and whether or not it’s worth publishing for the world to read (or ridicule).  I certainly don’t expect to gain any insight from this exercise…I usually come away thinking I was not nearly as good [...]

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