Archive for November, 2007


Compliments of Sondra “Golfwidow” Harris: Brain Confetti

Golfwidow has coined the phrase “brain confetti” to describe all the random bits of thought that roll around in all of our heads. It seems, though, that these days, all my thoughts are merely brain confetti. For a person so grounded in logic and reason (mostly), that’s extremely bothersome, so here are some of the half-baked ideas that I have rolling around in my head.

My Confettis, let me show you thems:

  • If global warming turns out to be true, then we’re pretty much screwed. Good thing I have energy efficient light bulbs.
  • I should write something about how I fall asleep when I’m on the phone late at night. Wait, all I can say is “I fall asleep when I’m on the phone late at night.”
  • I’m supposed to be writing an English paper. What should I write it on? Does this topic fit the class? What do you mean only 5-7 pages? Ooh, look! These forums are more fun than the paper.
  • Is “Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo” really all that offensive? Come on, political correctness. Take a day off.
  • 2008 elections are going to suck because there’s not a good candidate.
  • What would thanksgiving be like if the traditional food was bear instead?
  • Man, I had a great idea for a short story the other night. I should have written that down because I surely don’t remember that anymore.

I could keep going because that’s about how disjointed my thoughts feel all the time, but I figure that’s eclectic enough to sufficiently illustrate the point.

Helpful Hints

For those of you with iPods, who also enjoy produce and sports drinks, I give you the following video, so you can always have your tunes ready to go.

Adventures at the Pond

I went on a little adventure with a good friend of mine today. Just down the street from my house, a little pond sits to attract ducks and to beautify the subdivision in which I live. Because my computer decided it wanted to crash whenever I’d try to play Bioshock, I decided to step outside for a while to take some pictures around the pond.

My friend, Phony Bone, from Jeff Smith’s Bone decided that he wanted to live in my camera bag after he and I took some portraits a few days ago, so he tagged along.

As soon as we got there, he was wanting me to take his picture. “Look at me! I climbed this tree!”

While he was running around, I decided to snap a couple of pictures of the tree that was across the pond from us and its reflection in the water.

The clouds rolled in a little later and added a cool effect to the sky. Oh, and the ducks in the pond decided to stop in for a picture.

Well, he decided that I wasn’t paying enough attention to him, so he insisted that I take a picture of him next to the largest pine cone in the world. I mean, look at it! It’s huge!

While he was attempting to roll the giant pine cone away, I decided to snap a couple other pictures before he started pestering me again.

At this point, I was getting pretty tired, so I decided to head home, but he wanted to explore the mammoth caves that are around the pond, so we waved goodbye, and off we went in our separate directions.

All-in-all, I’d say it was a pretty good day of adventuring around the pond with Phony. I wonder what other adventures he and I will go on together.

Cranium Calamity Update

Well, I haven’t really mentioned anything about Cranium Calamity 2007 in a while, but I feel it’s time for an update.

Things have been progressing. Not positively. Headaches have increased in both intensity and frequency, moving from “a lot of days” to every day. The pain, which is hardly affected by over-the-counter drugs often leaves me feeling queasy, but I can’t bring myself to getting prescription pain meds, because I’m already working slowly enough because of it all.

I’m having trouble concentrating on just about anything that requires a whole lot of thought because all my thoughts these days are just fragmentary. These blog posts that I’ve been actually writing (which it’s been a while, what with the pictures and stories and poems and whatnot) have taken inordinate amounts of time. (Just to give you an idea, these 150-200 words I’ve written so far in this post have taken me about 45 minutes. Coherence? It comes not naturally now.) And reading and whatnot for school has become equally slow. I’m behind, plainly put.

I’ve spoken with my adviser, and at her suggestion, I’ve decided to take Incompletes in two of my classes, but I’m going to continue going to class and whatnot, finishing as much as I can for them. The hope is that all I’ll have left are the term papers, and those so I can give them ample time and thought, since they will be part of my senior portfolio when I’m done. The idea is that I can focus more intently on fewer classes, and finish up the other two a bit later, when I’m feeling better.

The later will be the beginning of next semester, after I’ve had my surgery, which is scheduled for December 19. I’m both dreading it and looking forward to it. I mean, I don’t want to have surgery, but I can’t wait to have it all at the same time to relieve myself of all this nonsense.

So, that’s where I stand. I’ve had to make concessions I haven’t wanted to, and with only a month left, quitting is not an option. That, I’m firm on.

Wish me luck.

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