bits and bites

1) i was at loblaw's today buying cherries b/c they're on sale for $1.99 a pound. my mom and i circled the fruit section several times but couldn't find the cherries. finally someone directed us toward the back of the store and there we saw a crowd of people standing shoulder to shoulder around a table and picking carefully through the fruit. as we approached, we saw that all but one of the cluster of people were chinese. we joined them happily. they're good cherries.

2) congratulations are in order: the long awaited pride and prejudice (BBC miniseries) is now in my possession for one whole week. when i placed a hold on the DVD at the public library, it was early january of this year and i was around 350th on the waiting list. almost 6 months later i finally get to watch it and have the satisfaction of knowing i saved the rental money.

3) proverbs 10:9 says "whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out." the longer i work for this company, the more i realize how unethical, deceitful and manipulative my boss is. i won't go into all the details, but suffice it to say that she's essentially stealing from families that can barely scrape together the funds to pay for therapy services. i've said it before and i'll say it again: you'd think people who devote their lives to kids who have disabilities are good people, but not all are. there are people out there who take advantage of these kids. i read psalm 10 yesterday and it pretty much describes the most evil person imaginable. unfortunately, it also describes my boss perfectly. it ends by calling on God's justice:

12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted. 13 Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, "You will not call to account"? 14 But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.

16 The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land. 17 O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear 18 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.