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Prices for oil took their biggest leap ever today, to $138.54.  Gas is already well over $4/gallon at most stations in Gainesville; $25 put only a half a tank in our Beetle a few nights ago.  These high fuel prices are making everything we buy more expensive.

I have no proof, but I am making a prediction: these high oil prices are a scandal waiting to be uncovered, quite like the high energy prices in California in 2000.

There aren’t many dates before I met Miriam where I can be certain what each of us were doing separately; June 6th, 1994 is one of the few.

On that day, the 50th anniversary of the allied invasion of Europe, Miriam was in Normandy on a class trip.

It was the last day of my junior year of high school. I distinctly recall my English teacher, Mr. Marks, writing “D-Day” on the chalk board. I also remember one of the jocks in the class casually calling me “a freak”. I had never thought of myself as being different from anyone else. I also recall that the girl with whom I was obsessed (and over whom had suffered considerable angst) asked a guy I considered a close friend whether he and I would be hanging out over the summer. My feelings were hurt when, without hesitation and sounding almost offended, he said, “no!” I had never felt less popular.