current state of mind: sleepy
Searching to find myself
And all I find is you
I could hardly stand myself
So what am I to you?
~ “Every Night” by Imagine Dragons
The world is
going to . . . wait . . . that was
supposed to happen on December 21, during the Winter Solstice. I am assuming
the world did not end since I am still here. Bloody hell. If we cannot count on
ancient stone age societies to know when the world is going to end, on whom can
we depend? Compounding matters is NASA, who has publicly announced that
Asteroid ‘2011 AG5’ will NOT hit the Earth in 2040. It looks like we are on our
own to destroy the world now that celestial help has been shot down, once
again, by scientists. One can read all about how the world will not be ending
at : http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
This week is
filled with excitement; Christmas Eve on Monday, Christmas Day on Tuesday,
Boxing Day on Wednesday, my sleep study on Thursday, and hopefully, I will
spend Friday with my dragonfly. Then next week, I get to have New Year’s Eve at
K-Shrub’s place, New Year’s Day at home, organizing, and then have my root
canal/oral surgery on Wednesday. Oh yes, did I forget to mention that the fates
have generously bestowed on me a toothache? The best case scenario is that the
oral surgeon will retreat tooth #18with a second root canal. Worst-case
scenario is that I will have an apicoectomy performed on #18 and a root canal
on #19 (just in case). You’ll have to Wikipedia this stuff for an explanation,
as I have no desire to make anyone queasy. Moving on . . .
I did a
terrible thing on Monday. Firstly, it should be noted that I was functioning on
very little sleep and I was in massive pain from my toothache. Secondly, it was
Christmas Eve and the emergency dentist could not give me the Christmas present
I wanted, which was a pain-free tooth. Therefore, I took another gift in
exchange; I walked out of the dentist office with the January 2013 issue of
Smithsonian Magazine in my purse. I would like to tell you I did it by mistake;
that the disappointment of the day rendered me forgetful. Alas, that would be a
lie. I rolled the issue up and shoved it into my purse while I was still in the
examination room. Then, I walked right past the table of magazines in the
waiting room and went to my car, knowing that I was likely going to get chased
down by the dental staff. Except, no one noticed. And thanks to this act of defiance,
I will be able to read January’s issue cover-to-cover on someone else’s dime. I’ll
throw it back in the mail to them when I have finished . . . maybe.
I have more
to say; but other things are calling for my attention. So, until we meet again
. . .
PERSONAL NOTE: I appreciate your
friendship. I wish we lived in the same state.
CONFIDENTIAL NOTE: Vos es unus of
quattuor quod illo vos es infinitus recipero quod diligo.
