Four Thoughts for the Night
1. Thank you to the people who posted poems. It really is a help and something that I appreciate, and if anybody else wants to post one or ten, feel free to do so.
2. Thank you, also, to everybody who expressed support in my going to Japan. When I was first accepted, I consciously and compulsively talked about it to anyone who would listen: family, friends, co-workers, Office Max customers, classmates, random folks chill'n at Starbucks, hobos... you get the picture. Part of the reason for this is the fact that, for me (as I'm sure is true of many people), talking about something, and hearing about it back from other people, reaffirms its reality. Surely it sounds like I've over-dramatizing this, but truth be told I had to convince myself of the opportunity's reality as well as my own ability to do it, and for that I needed some echoes of confidence, which both you and the hobos provided quite perfectly. For that, thank you so much.
Oh yeah, and, from the poem "Questions of Travel" by Elizabeth Bishop, this is officially my new favorite line about travelling: "What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life/ in our bodies, we are determined to rush/ to see the sun the other way around?" Is that a damn brilliant turn of phrase or what?!
3. It occured to me a week or two ago what the similarity is that runs among various people I've had crushes on. I mean, the attitudes and beliefs and characters and looks (and even intelligence level, within certain bounds) have varied wildly. So what is it that gets me attracted to someone, overall? I've finally decided: its that there is some part of that person that already is a way that I would like to be. In short, if someone is in some significant and/or surprising way the kind of person I would like to be, then I'll find them attractive.
... Although, there is still the "at first hearing" phenomenon which marks the onset of my greatest crushes (you can tell a hell of a lot more about a person by their voice, what they talk about and what their inflections are, then whatever you may find out at first sight. At least, that's true for me). But that's another story.
So, I'm wondering if this is a generic truth, something that has resonance with you guys, or simply another symptomatic oddity of my character. What'dya think?
4. Isn't it nasty when medication turns on you? My prescribed decongestant has made me feel like I've had a hangover the past three days at work. I was dizzy and nauseous the whole day, and felt so tired. AND my ear/head ache is still constantly bothering me. Grrrrrrrr! Argh!! At least I get a physical tomorrow morning.
2. Thank you, also, to everybody who expressed support in my going to Japan. When I was first accepted, I consciously and compulsively talked about it to anyone who would listen: family, friends, co-workers, Office Max customers, classmates, random folks chill'n at Starbucks, hobos... you get the picture. Part of the reason for this is the fact that, for me (as I'm sure is true of many people), talking about something, and hearing about it back from other people, reaffirms its reality. Surely it sounds like I've over-dramatizing this, but truth be told I had to convince myself of the opportunity's reality as well as my own ability to do it, and for that I needed some echoes of confidence, which both you and the hobos provided quite perfectly. For that, thank you so much.
Oh yeah, and, from the poem "Questions of Travel" by Elizabeth Bishop, this is officially my new favorite line about travelling: "What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life/ in our bodies, we are determined to rush/ to see the sun the other way around?" Is that a damn brilliant turn of phrase or what?!
3. It occured to me a week or two ago what the similarity is that runs among various people I've had crushes on. I mean, the attitudes and beliefs and characters and looks (and even intelligence level, within certain bounds) have varied wildly. So what is it that gets me attracted to someone, overall? I've finally decided: its that there is some part of that person that already is a way that I would like to be. In short, if someone is in some significant and/or surprising way the kind of person I would like to be, then I'll find them attractive.
... Although, there is still the "at first hearing" phenomenon which marks the onset of my greatest crushes (you can tell a hell of a lot more about a person by their voice, what they talk about and what their inflections are, then whatever you may find out at first sight. At least, that's true for me). But that's another story.
So, I'm wondering if this is a generic truth, something that has resonance with you guys, or simply another symptomatic oddity of my character. What'dya think?
4. Isn't it nasty when medication turns on you? My prescribed decongestant has made me feel like I've had a hangover the past three days at work. I was dizzy and nauseous the whole day, and felt so tired. AND my ear/head ache is still constantly bothering me. Grrrrrrrr! Argh!! At least I get a physical tomorrow morning.