After the party...
The last shrimp. If no one's looking, I'll eat it. But wait, someone else has spotted it and is moving in. Will they be too polite to eat the last one? "Oh, is that the last one? Where you going to have it?" Feign disinterest. "Oh, I guess not...go ahead, you have it." "No, I couldn't!" Pause for a nanosecond. Grab it with a slosh through the cocktail sauce. Yum. "Thanks!"
World AIDS day...
Some of the day's headlines...
- Health specialists urge rethinking AIDS fight
- U.S. Urged to Help Women With AIDS
- HIV Infection Rates Unchanged in U.S.
- S Asia rallies on World Aids Day
- Brazil to break Aids drug patents
- AIDS in India, China and Russia Nears 'Tipping Point,' U.N. Says
- HIV, AIDS Cases Rise Among U.S. Gay, Bisexual Men
- Sex workers join Sri Lanka's AIDS awareness drive
- Asia Marks World AIDS Day Amid New Warnings
- Swedish HIV vaccine due to be tested in Tanzania next year
- Iran's growing AIDS crisis shifts from the needle to the bed
- Health officials blame insurgency for spread of AIDS in Nepal
- Southern African leaders call for mass action on World AIDS Day
- Experts deny HIV drugs 'hold-up'
- Botswana Leader Warns on AIDS: Abstain
And on a personal note, it was 11 years ago this month that my dear friend Darryl succumbed to the disease. His laugh and smile are missed to this day.
