Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1 So...Maharishi Mahesh Yogi walks into a bar...
2 Om.
3 Tough day yesterday, but I guess it's all in a day's work.
4 I did all that about Xanga last night and I still haven't had the chance to pull out all stops and begin enjoying it again.
5 It's always something, let me tellya.
6 I so enjoyed being in our theatre last week. People sometimes ask how I'm doing up there at the Chill on the Hill, and most days are pretty fun.
7 But when I go into the theatre, I feel that I'm home again. And the more I stay in there, the more normal it feels.
8 A part of me always enjoyed the darkness and control of light and atmosphere that goes right along with a theatre. I had looked forward to working in there all this week because we have a talent show going up on Friday, but alas! For the past two days it's turned into a voting place, which is okay, but not very inviting for sneakin' on stage with a guitar and jamming for an hour or two.
9 Sometimes I goof on the irony that I'm literally working in a glass house now. The cafeteria at the Chill is my area, and I have been able to hook up a sound system and to sing and play, but I always enjoyed being at the Theatre maybe on a Saturday or even a Sunday and jamming when nobody was around.
10 I find that living in a literal glass house is probably what I like the least about the gig.
11 But it's been a fun ride, either way. The challenges and successes are multitudinous, as is the vast variety of each day. I can literally walk from setting peoples' light cues on the board to walking across to the gym and hopping immediately onto a shot clock in a tight basketball game, and doing both with equal skill.
12 Last week I had one day where I had to set up four mics in four different areas, with almost all gigs happening at the same time. I flew at almost super speed and when I had finished, broke into a triumphant smile.
13 But then there was yesterday. Yesterday I had to give the CAHSEE and then get audited and be at a meeting by 1:15, and to the doctor's office still later to have an infected finger looked at. I failed three of the four missions, although I did make it to all four.
14 All in a day's work. In the midst of this a special education girl whom everyone shuns came in with ideas for dances last week. I was up to my ears in alligators, but I took the time to put her chicken scratches on a Microsoft Word document, and when she came in later in the week, I showed her that I had done that. Yesterday she came with about three-hundred ideas for dance themes. I was too busy, but she had a twinkle in her eye that lit up the room. I intend to get those ideas also on Word.
15 One of my goals is to give one of her ideas over to the Student Council and see if we could do a dance using one of her ideas.
16 As I said, all in a day's work.
17 I now want to create a Xanga, organize Camp Everytown, meet with old band guys and definitely play again (!), hit Tahoe with Ponch and Vicky, and ultimately hop on a train with Rocha and head to Reno for a convention of morons who do this goofy job, and THEN use one of that girl's themes for a huge dance.
18 But...I screwed up the CAHSEE by running too late on it; failed the audit because I couldn't find meeting minutes, and had people upset about a number of other things.
19 Nothing deliberate, but stuff crashing everywhere yesterday. I had to leave the audit to get to a meeting, and THEN had to get to the doctor before my finger fell off. I wanted to drive off the edge of the Earth when I took off.
20 And I almost had my finger cut off when I let an infection go too long. The doctor looked at me yesterday and instantly looked very worried. It had swelled to the size of a plump sausage. He had to use TWO syringes and four or five shots to deaden it so he could do some office surgery to take care of it. He looked worried the entire time.
21 All in a day's work. It's okay now, although it's throbbing like a frightened heart. The doctor fixed it and it should be back to normal by Sunday. When I got into the TOOOOOONDRA the sun shone bright, and all was fixed.
22 Maybe it is just that.
23 Glass houses.
24 When I left the doctor yesterday, I was thankful for my fingers. I was thankful that some weird thing didn't shoot through me and knock me down. You go through those thoughts when something is suddenly wrong.
25 As always, I think life speeds by and gives us lessons. People who live in glass houses often have stones thrown at them, but it won't hurt unless they allow it to hurt. And none of it means shit to a tree when you really anaylyze it.
26 Sometimes you just need not worry about the little things. When I asked Helene's uncle how he was doing a few months ago, he looked at me, and said, "Well, I woke up this morning and I looked at my large toe. When I saw there wasn't a tag hanging on it I knew it was gonna be a good day!" And he broke into a laugh that always makes a room light up, and we all laughed.
27 Sometimes you just need not worry about the little things. I remember a fine fellow named Jack Rice who once said, "Don't sweat the small stuff." That used to make my mom smile and she would repeat it often.
28 And I'll be forever grateful to Maggie Pham for listing the following quote as her favorite in her first ever cast biography:
Don't trip, we got this.
29 Yep.
30 I don't know who's doing the measuring, but when you sit back and look carefully, probably all of us do more good than bad in the course of a day.
31 Raise a glass, to all of us for getting it done, whatever it is, every single day. It ain't easy. But just don't trip. You got this. We got this. We will get by. We will survive.
32 Live life.
33 Love life.
34 It's all in a day's work.
35 Peace.
~H~
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