December 17, 2008
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1 Y'know, the really fun thing to me about the DN is its unpredictability.
2 Quite often I simply sit down and any random thoughts fall delicately or torrentially like rain.
3 Sometimes I will have just returned home from a brutal day in the trenches. My feet will be torn to shreds; my mental state will spin from so much boushit all day; my eyes will fall to my toes and my tongue will drag over the floor.
4 I'll be so tired I will want to hit a pillow and hope I never wake again.
5 And then I'll look around at random things and something will invariably catch my attention.
6 That happened to me yesterday.
7 I had worked the game clock on a coupla basketball games after having spent a little time watching over a mini-banquet put on by our "green" campus club, Forever Green (clever name!).
8 In the middle of the varsity game, I began to wonder who else volunteers to work all these activities. It doesn't even bother me really, because I had to be there for the basketball game anyway, so I woulda been sitting in my room waiting for the time to pass.
9 The kids had a nice day and I wandred off. It was always pretty easy to keep an eye on a coupla clubs or classes. I had quite a few days where I would have class things going on at the same time as play rehearsals. Sometimes I'd even have ATFNL things so that three different things were happening the same afternoon.
10 For whatever reason, it seldom bums me out. I always enjoy something interesting and the students involve themselves in all sorts of fun things.
11 Sparky came by and visited yesterday and we even had time to go up into the booth and check out the sound system in the theater.
12 I finally got home last night at around 9 p.m. Yeah, it was a bit of a longer day than usual, but pretty non-stress. I have all my lesson plans done for the week, so once in a while it feels nice to help some people out.
13 I got home and found a book about how to take better care of yourself, a running theme on books I have lying around.
14 This one had a buncha questions about how I eat and exercise. Naturally, I failed the test with flying colors. I eat whatever I like, lost the will to exercise the second school started, and really do enjoy a variety of foods and drinks.
15 It had one of those surveys asking things like this: "Do you eat burgers, hot dogs, or chips more than three times a week?" "Do you enjoy sweets more than three times a week?" "Do you eat pasta, rice or potatoes more than three times a week?"
16 You get the drift. It has stuff that nearly EVERYBODY does more than three times a week, and then it gave me some syndrome that I'm on the verge of getting.
17 I picked the book up right before I began writing the DN.
18 It coulda been The Scarlet Letter, but not likely.
19 Anyway, I knew that if I didn't even look at the book, I wouldn't even consider the possibility that I had some syndrome or other.
20 But now that I've looked over the thing, I'm scared to death of everything I'm doing right now.
21 I came up with the perfect solution though.
22 I have given up reading.
23 <rim shot>
24 Old joke, and always fun.
25 Anyway, I never know HOW these things happen to fall into our sphere of light right in the middle of the holidays.
26 If I eat plum pudding, for example, my fingers are liable to fall off.
27 Heaven forbid a pumpkin pie.
28 If I eat home-grown veggies and drink twelve-thousand gallons of water a day, I'll lose weight and also keep my feet from having to be cut off.
29 I jest. It's actually a really good book, but yeesh.
30 I'm guessing that nearly every single normal person walking around probably would fail that test.
31 Logic dictates that lots of vegetables and low carb diets are probably the healthiest means of eating we can have.
32 They aren't bloody likely to fill you up, but nice little lifestyle changes can certainly change everything about your health.
33 So I'll take the thing seriously, at least for a while.
34 It's just such a tough thing to attempt right in the midst of the comfort-food season.
35 So I fully intend to begin all of this the day after the day after New Year's.
36 Meanwhile, I'm going to jump into this holiday season with as much joy as I could bring.
37 Everybody is still here.
38 We've fought an entire year of sheer boushit, and it truly 'tis the season now to be jolly.
39 Enjoy the snow-capped mountains and the winter chill. It's absolutely beautiful out.
40 And start taking care of yourself, willya?
41 Peace.
~H~
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