The Worry List

Amy blogs again!

I'm looking forward to Amy's future post about Christmas in NYC. We walked Manhattan at Christmas time last year. Checked out Macy's, FAO Schwartz, etc. It was really pretty, despite the cold. And now Amy has a new camera. Her future Christmas post may be a little off topic, but it will remind me of xmas past.

And now, Professor Amy:

I am normally a bit of a worrier, and I come by it honestly. Whenever I would tell my mom about what I was up to, or thinking about getting up to, she would shake her head and call me by her pet name for me. These days, I find myself sitting in my warm, dry, office on land, reading this blog, shaking my head and thinking, "Oh, Scott."

Certainly, part of the problem is my lack of boating experience (addressed in my previous guest blog). Most of what I know about boating comes from movies involving some sort of man versus nature plotline. Movies like "The Perfect Storm," and "Titanic." Let me know when someone makes a movie about a calm and happy sailing trip down the ICW, and I'll be the first in line to see it.

Those of you who know Cap'n Scott, and his adventures in ingenuity, may also understand why I worry. This is the man who made eggnog by fashioning an egg beater out of a wisk and a power drill. (The nog was delicious, by the way.) And he dreams of making his own pressure-fryer to make the most succulent fried chicken. I think I'm speaking for others as well when I say that we're a little surprised that he hasn't blown himself up yet.

I've joked with Scott that he needs to add "Amy's Worry List" as an additional side bar on his blog. This list would be a tribute to the many times when reading his blog makes my stomach clench (and occasionally turn, as in the "cooking with Scott" feature). At present, this list includes: tugboats, small craft warnings, scurvy, Southern belles, and everything on his "Lost to the sea" sidebar list.

More to come, I'm sure.