October 10, 2007
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The Daily News
1 Long Tuesday yesterday.
2 Once again, my theory about Tuesdays holds.
3 Lose yesterday and tomorrow's Friday.
4 Anyway, it wasn't bad, for a Tuesday.
5 Besides, I once was told that people who keep talking about "the next big thing" have a death wish, a bit of a misinterpretation of Freud. The idea was that by wanting to go to the next big thing, they are secretly desiring the ultimate next big thing.
6 Not really the case, but if you think I'm going to wrestle with Freud at six minutes past midnight you have another thing coming.
7 Notice how I got that in. What dedication! What chutz. The guy was up past midnight writing the DN, probably by candlelight.
8 The clouds just broke open. It's dark outside, and it's pouring.
9 Once upon a midnight...
10 Actually I'm quite fine as I write this. Yeah, it ruins the morning illusion that I'm writing this over a bagel and some coffee, but really, it truly is just past midnight as these words fall like raindrops.
11 I really just awoke form a coupla hours of a nice nap, so this is the first night that everything got knocked all crooked on me.
12 The beauty part is that I'm nice and rested, despite the hour.
13 The tough part is that once I get back to sleep, I won't technically have had enough sleep.
14 Ever do that? Then you worry all night about not having enough sleep and you wind up fulfilling that prophecy.
15 Well yeah.
16 Naturally it happens on the night of my longest day of the week. Yep. This year, it's Wednesdays. This Wednesday is probably one of the busiest of the year just because we have our rally tonight.
17 You Spirit Week people might focus in: this is a new thing, and all four classes are doing their big Spirit Week skits tonight in the school's stadium. Never been done before, and they all want a HUGE dress rehearsal at 4 p.m. today. This was announced to me yesterday morning.
18 I'm in classes, meetings, and doing things during breaks all day. Ah, nobody wants to hear it. It's like telling people you have a cold. Everybody nods, nobody really cares, and they all want to get WAY away from you when you tell 'em!
19 Anyway, that's just the way day two went. Pretty uneventful. Did a gazillion things, collapsed at 9, woke up, wrote this.
20 It'd make a fascinating book, wouldn't it? <thud>
21 Haha, this is LIVE from Homecoming Week. We had to call the rally Spirit of Homecoming because you can't call rallies rallies anymore. Something about "academic minutes". Ah, nothing like schools and negotiations to change things ridiculously.
22 The other day I told the girl on the morning announcements not to call the Friday rally a rally. I even put it on a piece of paper. It was great. It read, "PLEASE don't call the rally a rally. Huh? I know, I know!"
23 When she picked up the microphone to plug tonight's rally, she said, "...and don't forget to go to the thingy...the whatdyacallit...the thingy we're having on Wednesday night..." A roomful of delighted students cupped their hands over their smiles, all braces and stuff. Classic. True story.
24 Man bites dog.
25 Ha, you gotta admit that was a fun tidbit.
26 So I'm gonna git while the gittin's good.
27 Wish me luck, willya? ; )
28 See ya agin.
29 Peace.
~H~
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