Friday mousetrap

On the uptown 6 train the other night two office ladies standing near me chatted animatedly, one telling her friend the story of a child who'd gone missing in her office, only to be found hiding under a desk. "I'm telling you, my heart was in my ass," the storyteller said.

This is now my new favorite expression.

In other news, this really makes me miss the days when vomit was the highlight of presidential visits overseas:

In his first day in the capital of a country that was America’s wartime enemy during his youth, President Bush said today that the American experience in Vietnam contained lessons for the war in Iraq. Chief among them, he said, was that “we’ll succeed unless we quit.”

OK, I'm spending my weekend in CAT TOWN. Enjoy yours!