Packing, watching, wondering, singing, crying, etc.

MOVE-OCCASIONED INSIGHT INTO SELF:

My cardboard boxes sit in piles before me in my new office, still unpacked. They are labeled, in no particular order: "Random Stuff from Window Sill", "Random Stuff from Cabinet", "Random Stuff from Top Left Drawer", "Loose Files and Random Stuff", "Random Papers and Notes From Desk", "Random Loose Stuff from around the room.", "Miscellaneous Random Stuff." Etc. By looking at these identifying markings (ok, scrawl), the astute observer can get a glimpse into my distinctive organizational methods. And, indeed, my very soul.

LFAQs of THE DAY:

What possible benefit did I have marking the boxes the way I did instead of simply labeling every single box "Random Stuff"?

Is anyone campaigning more effectively for Obama than Bill Clinton (Even if he's doing so inadvertently.)

How, upon receiving news of the engagement of a once loved long term girlfriend, can you stop the incessant detonations in the minefields of memory?

But what if the doctor won't give you a prescription for Xanax?

MEDIA OBSERVATIONS OF THE DAY:

a)

Love the way in the before and after shots on the hair transplant infomercials they always shoot the "after" shot to make the guy look like George Clooney and the "before" shot to look like an unkempt pedophile.

b)

In a promo for the new reality show "Moment of Truth," we see a man hooked up to a polygraph in front of his wife and the nation being asked "Would you cheat on your wife if you knew your wife would never know about it?" Surely there are men who would answer "no" truthfully but. alas, it is doubtful that they're the kind of men who are volunteering for this car wreck of a show.

DESCRIPTIVE PHRASE OF THE DAY:

It was a burp redolent of burps to come.

EXCHANGE OF THE DAY:

-I worked to eliminate all extraneous motion
-My entire life is extraneous motion.

TV MOMENT OF THE DAY:

A screen graphic on CNN which read "Experts agree. Bin Laden either dead or alive."

OBSERVATION OF THE DAY:

We are torn between the tropism towards that which makes us feel most intensely alive and that which makes us feel most comfortably dead.

PHENOMENALLY FUNNY NATURAL PHENOMENON OF THE DAY:

Prairie dogs signalling to one another by standing on their two rear legs and throwing their arms up and their heads back as if they just found something uproariously funny, And BTW: It looks even funnier in Hi Def.

MOMENT OF TRUE FEELING OF THE DAY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSO3ZW3hL1Q

Singing along with the acoustic youtube version of Tracy Chapman's "All That You Have Is Your Soul" (link above) and hitting the final refrain of "Don't be tempted by the shiny apple/Don't taste of the bitter fruit/Hunger only for a taste of justice/Hunger only for a world of truth/Cause All that you have is your soul/Yes all that you have is your soul" and suddenly being hit by all the loss and the sadness and the beauty and the truth of things and breaking down and sobbing and then, with my head down on the desk, hearing the crowd roar its approval--of the performance, of the sentiment and, it seemed, of my tears.

RANDOM SINGLE SENTENCE PORTRAIT OF THE DAY:

He always gave you the feeling he was trying to get off the phone even when he wasn’t on the phone.

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