I’m going to lift you up, so you can reach the indents, and you’re going to climb and get the girls.” I told her.“And you’re going to come u... behind me?” She demanded.“I’m not certain I can reach it by myself.” If I timed the jump maybe. I couldn’t see the wall for when to leap. My toes, I hoped, weren’t broken but they were screaming in pain. I surprised myself at how I pushed the pain off to the side.“I can’t go alone.” She shook her head.“Are you going to lift me and wait down here by. He has done the same for me allthese years. So watch out! The hair is going to fly, the hairspray willfly and he may not have any hair left after I do my super teasing on hiscurls. But I am going to enjoy this. And so is he!I have a picture in my head. Doris Day in the late forties or earlyfifties. Cute as button. Quite used to wet sets, if you can believe thepictures. Demure makeup. Check! Wet set curls. Check! Soft flowingcurls and waves, sculpting a sensuous structure behind each. Go home. That's an order.". I managed to drive the 5 miles home without running off the road or crossing into oncoming traffic, but I was shaking all the way. I went into the house and straight to the bathroom, where I threw up what seemed like everything I'd eaten for the last six weeks. I rinsed my mouth out for about 15 minutes and then went to the kitchen. I don't drink beer myself but I took 2 out of the fridge, popped them open, and chugged them down. I staggered to the bedroom and. Dimwit can’t remember a damned thing, except an insult. It’s all those meetings he goes to,” Alex said.“Meetings?” Sherry asked.“Each time you sit in a meeting with other faculty members, your IQ goes down a tenth of a point. It isn’t all that noticeable at first, but by the thousandth meeting even the most brilliant person is reduced to a drooling idiot.”Sherry laughed. “I’ll remember that.”“Have Gary schedule your defense. That will be the first tenth of an IQ point you’ll lose; but it could.