I love philosophy, and it will be cool to see what it's like in class form. Also taking an online course should be a fascinating experience (If you're reading this a century from now, this probably sounds like me being excited to ride a horse and buggy around.. this is kinda high-tech for us nowadays, or at least for me. I'm worse than my grandparents with technology. They have iPods and iPads and iEverything syncing pretty much their entire home.) for me in the short and long run. It's also an Honors course that will be graded accordingly, and if I predict accurately, should do wonders for my GPA which is hovering uncomfortably around a 3.9/4.0.
So that's cool.
Today was cool too.
I woke up, cleaned the house, got picked up along with my brothers to go hang out with my dad. Went to North Bergen and looked out on the city. (As noticed, when there's not a ton to say, I don't say a ton.) There was a miscellaneous assorted motley crew of people there. From two about-30 hipsters who constantly groped each other in ways I didn't know were possible to an elderly couple probably reminiscing romantically as well. What a sweet world we live in. There were also Indian tourists rambling in some language I'd love to learn but as of now don't understand, and there presence was kinda a "Go Figure!" aspect of my time in the park. It was a beautiful view. There really is no place like NYC.
Things continued and I had about an hour before I could allow myself to eat. I ate my first bite at 3:30, marking my fast off at 44 hours clean. Not bad if I do say so myself, considering the last hour was legitimately hell on earth. In the form of a grocery store when you have an empty stomach. I was tempted to break the glass where they hold the lobsters and suck out their eyeballs. That's how hungry I was.. Everything looked SO good all of a sudden! After extreme mental discipline and won'tpower that spared a lucky lobster's eyeballs, I was finally rewarded in the self-checkout line with a mouthful of a Roast Beef Hoagie. The best thing I ever tasted, to tell you the truth, but if I ate it tomorrow it probably would taste like it came off of a boot. It didn't have to be great. It was food. And after nearly two full days of no-eating, I was in the clear.
Went to the Parsippany apartment and grilled up some grilled cheese. No longer starving but still hungry, I might have been able to consume it like a civilized human being rather than a primordial gorilla. So that was that. I have rejoined the world of the full-bellied. I heard there was an African country where that's the direct translation of what they call Americans. That might be a lie, it might be a confusion mixup in my mind, or it might be fact, but it's a true concept.
Unless you live in West Virginia or Kentucky or someplace where the homeless are still starving. My bad.
Time at dad's house was all right. Wrestled with the brothers, played catch, ate food, and headed home after a few hours. It was simple, but necessary and well-spent. I wouldn't have done today any other way.
Cade's the only one of us who's spending the night tonight.
I don't know if I regret that or not. I just want to do the right thing. It's tough though, when you don't really know. Most of the time you do, (Stormin' Norman!) and that's when the hard thing is doing it, but I'd say it's just as hard in a different sense when you don't know the right thing to do. I'm confused.
So... God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy. That's what Billy Currington says and I agree with him. So that's today.
One thing that would have been nice but I don't really regret:
Attending Dan Folta's Chinese New Year speech. That would have been sick, well, it must have been, but it would have been nice to attend. Tonight, however, was a rare time segment with my father, so I feel it was a necessary sacrifice. Family comes first, for better or for worse.
So that's my life for today.
And this wasn't no Gettysburg address, but it'll do.
And did you know I miraculously got 78 viewers against yesterday? 1000 views has kinda boosted my numbers sense. Y'all are letting this insanity get to you. In a sick, manipulative, social scientist way, I approve. I disapprove in every other way munificent humanity can come up with.
God bless your souls. You know I appreciate the hell out of you.
Now, see you later!
Til Tomorrow!
In a while, crocodile!
Adios.
To God.
Go with God.
Bye bye.
I wish somebody could tell me to get the hell out.
That's the problem with this place.
I have to be the one to shoo myself out the door.
Nobody else is here.
So you must be talkin' to me.
It's never bad to leave with De Niro at your back.
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