im glad the military is visiting our town this weekend . you do n't move around among a different species for most of your life without learning to read a lot of their body language , especially since it 's in such large print . late to bed , early to rise , is more like it , these days . `` there 's always controversy about things like that . by the time he came out , i knew what i had to say . nick dropped his pen and rubbed his hands over his face . 