Anne’s Diary (Page 29)

Or maybe through the minefields, when it comes to 9/11, because it has a different meaning for everyone.

We all remember where we were when events like that happened: when the Kennedys were assassinated, when the planes hit the Twin Towers.

Whitley and I had only recently lost our cabin in upstate New York and moved to his hometown of San Antonio, into the condo we’d purchased for Whitley’s mother which, now that she’d died, belonged to us. We’d packed up our things and driven West in the middle of a blizzard, and now we were lonely, missing New York, not sure about being in Texas.
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One of the most startling things you learn when you interview (and talk to) "contactees"–as I do– is that the Visitors SMELL bad.

In a past diary, I speculated that perhaps the Grays are autistic, based on the idea that autistics are often "savants," making them a higher form of evolution. I also noticed this from the quarter-of-a-million letters I read from people who have had Visitor experiences. Whitley has noticed this.
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There’s a wonderful song and dance number in the middle of the film "Singin’ in the Rain" in which Donald O’Connor sings a song called "Make ‘Em Laugh." I’m in that strange position right now–we have a seriously ill friend far away in another city whose kids are asking us to send her amusing jokes and stories to cheer her up (but I won’t "sic" our Jokester friend on her because that would probably kill her outright!)
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We have a grownup friend with the sense of humor of an 11-year-old-boy. He lives in another city, but that doesn’t stop him: he likes to phone us and tell us jokes from the kids’ section of the Sunday cartoon supplement and now he’s purchased a joke book filled with this kind of half-baked humor. Throughout the day, he calls and tells one of them to whichever one of us in unlucky enough to answer the phone before we notice the call ID.

An additional problem is that he is a TERRIBLE joke-teller–he does not know how to deliver either the set up or the punch line–so even if they ARE funny, they don’t come off that way.
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