Strange Company With A Strange Ending

In the drinking episode that took place last night (JP where'd you go?), I met and discovered yet more reasons why this town is so weird. This town brings people together from all over the place. I know that's somewhat true of most towns, but a popular get-to-know-you game is to ask the other person after a few drinks, "So why did you move HERE?!" The answers are always surprising.

We drank at the semi-ritzy Waterfront bar. I like that bar because it's got a lot of atmosphere. Also, all the rich business types go to "let their hair down" there. I wrote a collection of short stories based entirely on going out to my favorite spots and watching people and listening to them. It's still a sort of a pastime. I watched a rather stuffy business woman have a shocking number of martinis. I watched a man who looked just like a Greek statue, tight curls and all.

The more interesting people were at my table, by far. I met two other agency members, one whom we call "Einstein" who had come from Manhattan and the other, Sister Mary of Our Lady of Perpetual Litigation is a lawyer for mental health cases. Einstein runs the mental health nonprofit in town. The lawyer is a nun and probably somewhere in her seventies. I watched Sister Mary of Our Lady of Perpetual Litigation knock back two margaritas and three cigarettes, and I'm pretty sure she said "shit" and called someone an "asshole." Highly amusing. What they are both doing in Morgantown after having had such interesting lives elsewhere is beyond me.

At the end of the night, I think I got talked into taking a cat; I'm still being talked into taking it, although I have to iron out a kink or two before I can have it.

So, I guess the moral of the story is, go out drinking with nuns and you'll end up with a pet? Or something?

Still not quite sure what happened.

-- Virgil