Karen asked, “Speaking of things sucking, how’s the divorce going?”“I signed the papers earlier this week. We still have to wait for it all to...become official,” Claudia said. Her husband was not being very cooperative.“That’s good,” Karen said. She didn’t really know the process by which people were divorced. She figured any progress was good news.Not wanting to think about the misery that her divorce was putting her through, Claudia asked, “How does it feel to have your husband at home?”“It’s. And ‘rigid lattice of carbon atoms’?”“That’s ‘diamond’ to you liberal arts types!”“Leave it to a scientist to make a diamond sound ordinary and boring!”We sat down on the couch and she turned so she was partway across my lap with her head on my chest and with my arms around her.“What’s bugging you?” I asked.“Just the usual — fear of the future.”“You’re marrying the love of your life!”“The key word there is ‘marrying’.”“And only having one sex partner for the rest of your life? The one you. However, the town and school where I lived were radically different from the City of Boston which I had visited many times before. At Easton University, I experienced a very different world. Easton University was a school in transition. Five years prior, they were sued by the Attorney General of Massachusetts for discriminatory practices against minority students. So these days, they were on the state’s human rights watchdogs collective radars and were basically forced to diversify a bit.. .. and begin to sing: "What A Friend We Have in Jesus". Then we all go to the Bahamas.These are compliments of the 'Shy One'Two Blondes With Hammers...Lisa & Judy were doing some carpenter work on a Habitat for Humanity House.Lisa was nailing down house siding, would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail & either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in.Judy, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, 'Why are you throwing those nails away?'Lisa explained, 'When I pull a nail out of my.