Philosophical mumbo-jumbo
So I cleaned my room today. And I'm not talking about "folded my sheets over and made sure there was enough empty floorspace to walk from the door to the bed" cleaned, but seriously CLEANED - I took all the crap out of my desk and my drawers, rearranged the closets and the bookshelf, threw out all the old junk that was just taking up space, sent some old stuff to Goodwill, organized everything coherently... it was pretty intense. But I tell you, that place fucking SPARKLES now. I need to add it to that "New 7 Wonders of the World" poll quick, before it closes.
Anywho, whilst sifting through the mountains of crap to make some sense of my room, I came upon something from that reminded me of someone I haven't seen or really thought about in a long time, and it made me feel... for lack of a better word, "weird". You see (and I'm not trying to sound cheesey here), I always try to look for the best qualities in people and bring those out, and it's those qualities that tend to stick with me. Sure, I might get annoyed with people about various things from time to time, but at the end of the day I don't really care about your imperfections, I just like you for who you are. If you're reading this entry, if you're on my Facebook friends list, if you know me in real (non-internet) life, or whatever, I can honestly say that I like you. Seriously, you're cool, you're my bud, you're delightful. But when I was reminded of this particular person today, it also reminded me that they are one of the few people I've ever met where I really couldn't find anything to like about them, and honestly that fact makes me kind of sad. It may sound strange, but it's like I WANTED there to be something I could like about them, to convince myself that deep down they're really a good person, but truth be told I couldn't, and it just kind of made me feel... well, sad. I hope that wherever this person is now they've learned to just be happy, and they've stopped letting negativity define them. I know that was kind of a strange, sprawling little rant there, but it was just something interesting that kind of made me think. And for the record, I wouldn't read into this too much - I seriously doubt that any of you reading this would know who this person is, so I wouldn't try too hard to speculate. ;)
Alas, I cannot let this post end on a wistful/melancholy/slightly-depressing note! I'll talk a bit more about the show. While we're only taking baby steps at a time, we're making quite a bit of progress, and it's starting to look/sound GOOD! Pretty soon we'll have all the costumes up, sets built, props in place, and all that good stuff... should be most excellent. We've actually done a surprisingly decent job of being off-book for the past few rehearsals, so hopefully that trend will only continue to improve. Um... well, I don't really have much more to talk about, so... if you're reading this, COME SEE THE SHOW. "Once Upon A Mattress", at Mountain View United Methodist Church, July 27 & 28 and August 3 & 4 at 7:00PM, or July 29 at 3:00PM, tickets $5 at the door. And reply to the Facebook invite. Woohoo!
So I suppose I'll update again when I have something more substantial to talk about. :p
Anywho, whilst sifting through the mountains of crap to make some sense of my room, I came upon something from that reminded me of someone I haven't seen or really thought about in a long time, and it made me feel... for lack of a better word, "weird". You see (and I'm not trying to sound cheesey here), I always try to look for the best qualities in people and bring those out, and it's those qualities that tend to stick with me. Sure, I might get annoyed with people about various things from time to time, but at the end of the day I don't really care about your imperfections, I just like you for who you are. If you're reading this entry, if you're on my Facebook friends list, if you know me in real (non-internet) life, or whatever, I can honestly say that I like you. Seriously, you're cool, you're my bud, you're delightful. But when I was reminded of this particular person today, it also reminded me that they are one of the few people I've ever met where I really couldn't find anything to like about them, and honestly that fact makes me kind of sad. It may sound strange, but it's like I WANTED there to be something I could like about them, to convince myself that deep down they're really a good person, but truth be told I couldn't, and it just kind of made me feel... well, sad. I hope that wherever this person is now they've learned to just be happy, and they've stopped letting negativity define them. I know that was kind of a strange, sprawling little rant there, but it was just something interesting that kind of made me think. And for the record, I wouldn't read into this too much - I seriously doubt that any of you reading this would know who this person is, so I wouldn't try too hard to speculate. ;)
Alas, I cannot let this post end on a wistful/melancholy/slightly-depressing note! I'll talk a bit more about the show. While we're only taking baby steps at a time, we're making quite a bit of progress, and it's starting to look/sound GOOD! Pretty soon we'll have all the costumes up, sets built, props in place, and all that good stuff... should be most excellent. We've actually done a surprisingly decent job of being off-book for the past few rehearsals, so hopefully that trend will only continue to improve. Um... well, I don't really have much more to talk about, so... if you're reading this, COME SEE THE SHOW. "Once Upon A Mattress", at Mountain View United Methodist Church, July 27 & 28 and August 3 & 4 at 7:00PM, or July 29 at 3:00PM, tickets $5 at the door. And reply to the Facebook invite. Woohoo!
So I suppose I'll update again when I have something more substantial to talk about. :p