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I’ve been having trouble concentrating.  I’ve been wondering what it’s all about.  I’ve been having a really hard time focusing on tasks and getting them accomplished.  Other than sounding like an add for some Pfizer drug, I have also been lacking an appropriate metaphor or analogy to describe this feeling.  Just now I thought of one.

You know how, in Springtime, bees hover around flowers sucking the pollen or whatever out of the pistils of the flowers?  It always looks to me kind of like a helicopter before it touches down.  Sort of wibbly-wobbly, and all noisy and vibrating.  Those bees, the way they do that almost-set-down helicopter thing from flower to flower, that is how my thought process has been lately.  I can touch every flower of thought, but I can’t rest on one long enough to suck the pollen out of it.

Sucks.

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I Saw it on the Interwebs, Random Thoughts

I Have No Excuse – Also, My Opinion on That “Kid Stuck Behind The Couch” Video

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I have no excuse as to why it has been so long since I’ve updated my poor, neglected blog.  Maybe it was the 20-plus page papers I had to write to finish out my first semester of graduate school.  Maybe it is the entire month’s worth of work that I neglected while I was writing said papers.  Maybe it’s because I have felt VERY uninteresting lately and haven’t wanted to bore you.

Obviously I have gotten over the last one.

As a writer, I prowl around the internet looking for interesting things to write about.  Aol is a surprisingly great source for some of the blogs I write for, as well as some entertaining nonsense that amuses me.  I ran across this opinion piece and figured you shouldn’t be deprived of MY opinion on the subject.

So there’s been this video zinging around the internet of a little kid who is stuck behind the family couch.  This article that I linked to above denounces the parents in the video for recording their kid’s discomfort for a few minutes before getting him out from behind the couch.  If that’s not bad enough, between the crazy amount of spam comments on the post, there are people sniping back and forth about how this is “child abuse” and one person even shares their personal tragedy of their parents taking a picture of them when they had bad poison ivy.  Others talk about how “real” fear involves the child being beaten, and that people really need to find a better way to spend their time than denouncing some parents who want to share a cute family moment with the entire world-wide internet.

Here is the video.  See for yourself.

I realize that I promised to share MY opinion on the subject – something well within my rights since this is, after all, my blog.  The problem is that people are so lame and stupid that it practically takes all the fight out of me.  It makes me want to throw up my hands and burrow down into the couch cushions.  Do I think it’s OK for people to put their personal family videos on the internet?  Yeah.  That’s kind of their prerogative.  Do I think that they have a right to put videos of their kids on the internet?  Again, that is their prerogative, as long as it is wholesome and all that.  Some of my favorite stuff on the internet involves cute kids saying cute things or cute cats with stupid captions.  In that way I am like 90% of the internet population.

So, sorry about me.  I don’t think the kid in the video above is in real distress.  I don’t think he’ll be traumatized by this event, nor do I think that his parents are bad parents for pausing to record a funny moment with their kid and to teach him to tell the truth when he gets into a sticky situation.

That’s what I think, Folks.  What do you think?

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I Saw it on the Interwebs, Random Thoughts

Brain Dump

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It’s been a while, and I apologize for that (to the two readers who actually care – you know who you are).  I’ve been super busy, for one, and for two, I haven’t felt all that effervescent and clever.  That usually makes for some pretty “blah” blogging, as you can tell from some of my older entries… “Gee I have a migraine again” or, ” I hope I’m not getting sick”  Not very interesting, I’m afraid.

So here are a few snippets of things that have occupied/amused me in the past few days that I thought I’d share with you:

1.  I saw some real Gideons.  They were giving out tiny green Bibles on campus on Tuesday.  The tiny Bible has the New Testament, and also Proverbs and Psalms.  It’s like a “best of” compilation…all the important Jesus stuff plus all the highly quotable and frequently quoted stuff.  The man handed it to me and said, “Keys to the kingdom?”  I thanked him and smiled.  Later, walking to a class, I saw one of the tiny green Bibles on the ground in Schafer Court.  Its cover was slightly crumpled.  That made me sad.  I picked it up (it was slightly sticky) and carried it to my next class, and put it on a bookshelf in the conference room.  There.  That was better.

Incidentally, I’d like to admit freely that in retrospect I really wanted the Gideons to be wearing fezzes.

2.  Speaking of fezzes, Hubs and I went to the Pork Festival at RIR a few weekends ago.  I was DD, because the guys fully intended on abusing the “all you can drink” portion of the event.  Hubs didn’t really believe it was “all you can drink” and hightailed it over to the beer truck asking the attendant “can I really come back as many times as I want?” to which she replied, “Yep.”  He wasn’t so much asking for himself, but for our friends who might have incited a riot if told that there was a minimum.  Hubs didn’t get housed, but friends got pretty toasty and sang hymns on the way back to the car (which, even with  me sober, took 20 minutes to find).

Right.  Fezzes.  The Pork Festival was put on by the Acca Temple, who are Shriners.  I was expecting lots of fezzes and maybe even some tiny cars.  I was truly hoping for the opportunity to ask a Shriner where they buy their tiny cars.  Do they come in kits?  This is a question that I’ve wondered about for a long time.  Alas, there were only two Dudes in Fezzes and no tiny cars.

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This tiny picture represents my very favorite part of the festival.  These guys are the Acca Temple Country Western Band.  As you see, the upright bass player is one of the two fez-wearers I could find.  They were awesome.  I would seriously go to a Shriner event to see them play again.  I want to write them up on that Richmond website I write for.

So that’s just two, Folks.  I have to go finish this crazy project I’m working on (crazy because I got WAY too in depth on it) and then write some articles, go make copies of the crazy presentation, and head myself down to VCU.

I won’t be such a stranger.  Promise.  Plus, I should have a guest blogger coming up sometime soon.  Won’t that be nice?

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