Going through old files from graduate school, I found an invaluable pamphlet. Be a Dedicated Neurotic Remember the Past. . . and Regret it. Abhor the Present. Dread the Future. 1. Become preoccupied with the body, and make a long list of symptoms. Make them sound very clinical and professional... 2. BLAME your boss, your spouse, your partner, your neighbor, your kid. THEY are responsible for your miseries. 3. Feel trapped. You couldn't possibly declare your own independence without hurting someone's feelings. 4. Overeat. Rationalize and eat! Eat an insulated wall around yourself. Diet for a few days and say it doesn't work for you. 5. Self-pity. No matter what, feel sorry for yourself. Agonize over things about which no one cares. 6. Don't ever try. That way nobody can really accuse you of failure. You can always say, "But I could have done it." 7. Stress how shy you are. Insist that the world must come to you. You're special. 8. Your agg...
It was super cloudy here, too. I actually stayed up half the night, watching it online.
ReplyDeleteI am THAT lame...or wonderful.
I'm too tired to discern which word is the better fit.
Last night it stormed up more rain to fill the lake formerly known as our street.
ReplyDeleteWe watched the eclipse today on Jeff's i-phone from the comfort of a booth at Shaker's Coffee Shop. We're super back-to-nature like that.
Miss you.
I'm impressed you stayed awake to catch it. I went to bed knowing I could come out to blogland today and find it somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI was puking my guts out...at least you had snow. We rarely get a white Christmas, it almost always snows around Thanksgiving then not again until January. Washington is crazy like that. :p
ReplyDeletebut what are the red, yellow and orange aliens doing in the picture?
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