Daily Newsie

Confession: I skipped class tonight. I had a nightmarish sort of day, and I simply could not face three hours of endless babbling on about other peoples’ families. I have difficulty getting a word in edgewise in that class, thanks to a particular classmate who talks all the time, and besides, I don’t really want to share my family stories with people who likely wouldn’t appreciate the humor in my younger brother consuming a stick of butter while my older brother and I were supposed to be watching him, then throwing it up on the couch just as everyone was getting ready to leave for church. The class tires me something awful, and I really didn’t think I would be able to stand it tonight. So I sat on the couch with The Fiance’, eating pizza and watching TV instead.  It was nice, but now I suppose I should get cracking on one of the three papers due in the next two weeks.

I’ve been reading Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata” lately. I like how it sounds, but the part about avoiding “loud and aggressive persons” because “they are vexatious to the spirit” makes me think I should probably dial it down a few notches. My father always liked the first line — “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence” — while my favorite line is toward the end — “With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world” — but the whole thing is pretty nice. I especially like the part about the universe unfolding as it should. I don’t know why it’s held such appeal for me in the past few days; it must be because everything is getting a little hectic at work and at school, and it just makes me feel better to think that, even though I’m not behind the wheel (or at least not paying the least bit of attention), the fabric of my life is knitting itself in exactly the right pattern.

Heavy. It may be time to stop thinking and just go to bed.