@第一个:
早上下楼买吃的,突然想回味一下红遍大街小巷的被寝室湖南哥们所鄙视的不正宗的湖南米粉.
'老板来碗牛肉细粉加个鸡蛋'
'要牛肉的还是牛杂的?'老板一脸热情.
我心说这家伙什么毛病=。=
'一半一半吧..'
铁勺在牛肉锅表面熟练地晃动几下,轻巧地捞起4粒牛肉扔进碗里.
在牛杂锅里如法炮制,只是捞起来的杂碎多一块,那块蝴蝶形的不知是牛的什么部位的肉挂在勺子边缘,一半悬空在外面.
我紧盯那块东西,试图用意念使它翻身掉进勺子.
老板也盯着它,思索片刻之后轻轻一抖手腕,蝴蝶肉绝望地掉回锅里.
我终于崩溃了
'老板这肉也太少了点吧'
'嘿嘿'
老板傻笑两声,精准地把那块蝴蝶挑进纸碗.
随后一个虎皮鸡蛋也飞进碗,正好压在蝴蝶上面.
我端起碗,得意地离去.
@第二个:
今天很早就开门了,趁着早上凉快我把买来的牛肉还有杂碎什么的切好煮上.
刚煮好就来了一小伙子,一看就一大学生,特有才特潇洒那种,我想这孩子有出息我可得给他多打点儿.
'老板来碗牛肉细粉加个鸡蛋'
嗬,这普通话多标准.
'要牛肉的还是牛杂的?'我赶紧问.
不知

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in