Okay, just for a moment, please humor my train of thought upon my typing of the word “truant.”
Hmm, “truant” is a funny word.
Wouldn’t it be a blast to work as an olden day truant officer? Traveling around on horseback catching one-room-schoolhouse-ditching kids?
Huh, are there still truant officers today?
If there are, I bet they look like this guy from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
For real, if that dude isn’t the stuff of nightmares, I don’t know who is. Except maybe the flying dog from The Neverending Story. Creepy.
But seriously, are there still truant officers today?
Which is where my thinking stopped and my Internet searching began. And I found this site. Seriously, a page about how to become a truant officer. My favorite is Step 2: “Consider going to college.” Not, “Go to college.” Just consider it.
Okay, on to my real blog. Which, before I took a rather ADD-ish direction, was originally going to be a list of excuses why I’m playing truant from Tag(g)lines. And honestly, that doesn’t sound near as riveting anymore. Not after Chitty Chitty’s child catcher and ehow.com’s intense profundity. So let me just say, I’m in a madcap rush to polish Tuesdays and have been treated to visits from both close friends and siblings in the past week. So blogging has fallen by the wayside.
But hey, at least I wrote this post at the MBT Ponderers last week.
And thanks to personal blog favorite Stuff Christians Like, I’ve recently discovered trippandtyler.com.
And, I now know how to become a truant officer should I ever have the desire.
So, you can’t say my time away hasn’t been productive.
Okay, next post, I promise, will be something of substance. Until then, this video of a sneezing baby panda should make up for any negative feelings you might have for wasting time on a pointless post this ridiculously random Thursday evening:
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Oh, M-Tagg, You just make me laugh, girlfriend.
And I so do not like that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang guy. He is creepy. C-R-E-E-P.Y.
So, will a truant officer show up in your next novel?
Hmm, a truant officer in my next book…eenteresting…it’s an idea! And yes, sooo c-r-e-e-p-y. But the cute sneezing panda made up for the freaky photo, I think! 🙂