The Observer's Blog

Paul Fess

Today I decided that I would try to go to the grocery store before mass instead of my usual trip after. I thought the Superbowl had already begun, but I never actually checked as I was too engrossed by the QE marathon. I got to the store at the peak of the pre-game shopping madness. I circled for abotu ten minutes before abandoning my plan and instead returning a book to a friend. After that though I tried again, thinking surely the game must have started by now (I now know it hadn't) and after circleing for another 10 minutes I found a spot. Sweet. As I walk up to the store I realize there are no shopping carts left at the entrance, so I grabbed one of those little baskets and decided to only grab the essentials. I fit about 50 pounds of stuff into the little basket, and just barely made it under the 20 item limit. After mass though I decide I really do need milk (they were out earlier) so I return to grab that and some much needed thin chips. Well the thin chips were still out, but I finally got my 2% milk. And who should I find in the milk section but Paul Fess! He's a friend from high school that was quite talented at playing blues guitar. He always seemed like he never had his stuff together after high school (the last time I talked to him I think he was doing telemarketing), but he's apparently graduating from the great University of Texas at Austin in May, just like me! Way to go Paul!