Wayward Gentry is officially up and running again. Thank you all so much for your patience. For a little while there, the requirements of a college degree caught up with me. I sincerely apologize. However, I would like to make it up to all of you: since Wayward Gentry was put on the back-burner in the interest of a certain piece of paper I hope to be handed by Chancellor Zeppos come next May, I'm going to let all of you, my readers, decide by popular vote what I do with my diploma. The options are as follows.
1. Make it into a paper airplane-- a perennial boyhood favorite. The simpler ones fly better.
2. Make it into a funny hat-- jaunty in style, preferably.
3. Burn it-- ostentatious, puerile, and not-quite metaphorical. This one reminds me of a trophy I snapped in half after I lost in the finals of a U12 tennis tournament... afterwards, I wished I hadn't.
4. Hang it on a wall-- hey, it's what all my professors have done with theirs! (pretension, horn-rimmed glasses, and accessorial mahogany furniture optional)
5. Doctor it-- white out the 'English', write in 'Engineering', or 'Economics', and set about making my parents' 200 grand back.
Suggestions are also, as always, welcome.
And Ladies, Gentlemen,
it's a pleasure to be back.
More to come soon.
-CL
