…and there\u2019s really only the one thing wrong with napping…and that\u2019s that i had a lovely half hour nap this afternoon, but now when i should be sleeping, i\u2019m WIDE AWAKE.<\/p>\n
a minor flaw. i could very well be wide awake at 4 a.m., like i was last night, so maybe i\u2019m just having my wide-awakeness a little early tonight.<\/p>\n
the other night when i wrote about the triathlon, i really got very sad about the whole thing, very weepy and despondent about the prospect of coming in DEAD LAST in the race, which i was sure was going to happen. i must interject that at least i was feeling weepy and sad because of a race instead of because of some man. but anyway, i was incredibly over-tired and that\u2019s why i had a little breakdown. i guess i didn\u2019t get really upset until i stopped writing about it. or perhaps i was just being self-censoring, as i do way too much anyway (THIS IS CENSORING?? you\u2019re asking yourself. trust me, it is).<\/p>\n
B. (Bubba) gave me a pair of quick shoe laces. they\u2019re not called “quick tie” because you don\u2019t actually tie them; i don\u2019t know the official name. you lace them into your running shoes and then instead of wasting precious time tying your shoes in between triathlon events, you just pull the shoes on without tying because of the clever stretchy laces. i may or may not be able to figure out how to actually lace them up. i\u2019m going to work on it tomorrow.<\/p>\n
it was very sweet of B. to do this for me, but i honestly think it\u2019s going to help my overall time, which is sure to be VERY VERY SLOW and i keep trying to STEEL myself for coming in last. steeling away, am i.<\/p>\n
randy had a great idea for improving my speed – he talked about a toy he had as a kid, it was called johnny something maybe, but i think i\u2019m just makng that up – it was a man with a jet pack on his back, or you could put the jet pack thing in a car or a space ship or a boat, and it would propel it along. randy said i need a jet pack for the swim, and this is, of course, the perfect idea. i only have a few days to find one, but i\u2019m sure they must sell them on ebay.<\/p>\n
i saw “bewitched” tonight, finally, and it was kind of disappointing. it could have been better-written, as is the problem with most comedies. i bet somebody had a great script, and then they messed with it and made it worse. dumbed it down. but it was fun going to a movie, escape from reality and all of that. i want to see “batman begins,” too. <\/p>\n
so much to do, so little time. <\/p>\n
that\u2019s not really so accurate with me. i feel kind of busy lately, but it\u2019s not like i\u2019m rushing around like a mad person. i\u2019m sure i\u2019ve written about this before, but i think it was a long time ago – the fact that all of america seems to be caught up in this frenetic pace, and everybody needs to take time out, get away from it all, but nobody has any time because of the many demands on them, or the demands they put on themselves – but that\u2019s just not how it is with me. i have many fewer responsibilities than most people, for one thing, and i know i\u2019m one of the few lucky people who actually has time to nap. actually, my sister naps as much as she possibly can, but the rest of the time she\u2019s flying around like a maniac. i never achieve that, and i don\u2019t really want to.<\/p>\n
i don\u2019t know why i keep thinking about early america settlers so much lately, but i keep thinking about how hard that life had to have been. and then i think about what they\u2019d make of our lives now. for one thing, they\u2019d think camping was INSANE, since we have so many miraculous modern conveniences. but perhaps they\u2019d prefer sleeping under the stars. but just think about how our lives in now way resemble the settlers\u2019 lives. weird, isn\u2019t it? and what will it be like at the beginning of the next century? and do you ever get depressed thinking about the fact that you won\u2019t see it, do you ever sit around and think about the fact that life is terminal? when i start thinking like that, i know i\u2019m in a downward spiral. nothing can make me feel quite as bad that quickly as thinking about the fact that i\u2019m going to be dead at some point. this it the advantage that animals have – they never waste valuable time worrying about the inevitable. my cat, winnie, as a matter of fact, is stretched out beside me, napping in paradise because i gave him the rest of my ice cream. for him, life couldn\u2019t possibly be any better.<\/p>\n
there\u2019s a screenplay idea for you – early american settler gets transported into the future. a big rip-off of other time travel films, but maybe it has some potential.<\/p>\n
watching the trailers tonight before the movie, it seems like every movie now is about action heroes. i once wrote a script about a woman action hero who saves the world, and a producer i told about it wouldn\u2019t even read it because he said nobody wanted to see a woman saving the world. i was clearly before my time.<\/p>\n
maybe i\u2019ll start some kind of movement, some movement involving napping and relaxing and hanging out and doing fun, creative stuff as much as possible, and then i can write books on the subject, and can do infomercials and then have a talk show or maybe just be on talk shows; having my own show would be too much work, and then i can go around and give lectures on the topic, and then i can get really really rich and buy a house in malibu. christine and i talk quite a bit about buying a house together in malibu someday, except she doesn\u2019t really want to because it\u2019s going to fall into the ocean eventually, and i guess i don\u2019t really want to because it\u2019s just too crowded in southern california. so instead of malibu, somewhere along the western coast, maybe northern california. i\u2019d like to drive up the coast again and explore it; the last time i did that, we were in much too big a hurry (with no reason to be in this big hurry), and i keep thinking about the beautiful places we rushed by.<\/p>\n
travel, time to do some traveling again. must get to work making a plan. a list. prioritize, strategize, alphabetize…<\/p>\n
but first, i\u2019m going to be just resting now.<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
grace still feeling very alert and awake but maybe darkness will promote sleeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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