October 18, 2006
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1 Sometimes you're just minding your own business when life climbs all over you, ever notice?
2 I was rolling along at a pretty swift clip when I got slammed by some poundingwaves. Well, not literally, but you know those sorts of things that just suddenly have you deep in the waves, up to your chin.
3 No point in boring people with details. Grades are due and it's right smack in the middle of Homecoming Week, so you can imagine.
4 Anyway, it's cool man. I'll just pull an all-nighter.
5 Shyeahright.
6 I've talked of "all-nighters" before.7 Here's how I usually feel after an all-nighter.
8 Truly. Nothing like a dog to illustrate a point.
9 It's funny; it's about 1:45 in the morning and I'm still tacking away at the keyboard, searching for just the right DN pictures that might work.
10 It's actually a fun hobby, the good ol' DN.
11 I swear up and down that I have never once written one single piece.
12 It's Hemingway. Joyce. Neuman,13 Or maybe it's just the wee people.14 They are the imps and sprites of the night, Queen Mab being perhaps the most famous of them.
15 What's pretty consistent about putting together the DN is that whenever I'm really ready to get some serious sleep, I can't find a picture that goes with the words, to save my life I can't.
16 Like, the dog who looked like I felt after an all-nighter saved the night for me, truly. Here is the runner-up choice:
17 Not bad, mind you, but he reminds me of one of Ponticelli's old guitar students who just couldn't cut the mustard.18 It happens every DN. In fact, I googled "Queen Mab" for this edition, and the best picture they gave me was this one:
19 I gotta ask.20 All a friend can say is "Huh?" Great spaniel thought, I must say.
21 Anyway, you get the idea. I'm sure you've all googled for one thing and wound up with a St.Bernard or something else completely unrelated to your search. You're looking up Dore paintings, for example, and a duck walks across your screen.
22 Which is FINE at like 9 at night, but when time is ticking, you really don't need St. Bernards or even ducks, which are cool.
23 But there again, if I wanted the full-size duck, I would have to have signed in to some website or other, because this guy has the market cornered on his unique duck. So it takes an act of Congress to get it into the DN.24 By the time I'm done doing all that, I've gone off my diet and eaten an entire box of Cheez-It's, and my neighbor is honking his stupid horn three times to awaken his wife at 2 a.m. to get up and open the garage door for him.
25 Life is hilarious sometimes. Every time that guy comes home, he beeps his car three times and she comes running out like a Ninja Turtle
geisha.
26 And I just keep munching on Cheez-Its because, well, one does. It says Get Your Own Box on the back.27 I gotta get up in three hours and finish grades and spend all day and all night at the school again.
28 So I'm outta here.
29 Hope you enjoy your day. Smile on a duck today, willya?
30 Peace.
~H~
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