Does your stomach hurt? Do feel like you want to hurl? Does your head ache? Does the thought of food drive you into a single minded, Pavlovian response?
Suddenly my phone rings. No, that’s not exactly true. My phone started to vibrate in my pocket. Exercising good mobile phone etiquette, I stepped outside to see who was so important they felt it necessary to interrupt the death watch. It was…
Thirty minutes is a long time to wait in a doctor’s office lobby. The only thing that makes it tolerable is I know when it will end. It will be exactly a half an hour. When my time is up I get to walk up to the window, assure the nurse that my air passages have not closed up, and leave. A half an hour in the lobby waiting for the nurse to call you back to the exam room, not knowing when you…
My coworkers bemoan my lack of recognition for my work (at work). They ask me why I don’t call attention to myself. Little do they know I’m calling attention to myself right now. Granted, someone would have to be reading this for it to count as “calling attention to myself.” Would you believe me if I told you that the act of creating a useful tool that others might find…
“whaa whaa whawhaa?”
“ugh.”
“JOHN!”
“Huh?”
“Do you want to go to Adventure Island today?”
“Let me sleep. Just one more hour? Please?”
“John, it’s been an hour. Get up and get dressed. You can eat your breakfast in the car.”
“uuhh… ”
Later that day at lunch in the park, a father and his child…
It is late. You are lying in bed but sleep will not come. You don’t think you are particularly worried about anything, yet your mind refuses to slow to a pace which will accommodate sleep. You know that you will need to be rested tomorrow, and soon you are dismayed to find that it is tomorrow. You think about all the things you could do to fall asleep. Read something really boring? Check.
The elements are conspiring to turn my yard into a rain forest. In case you didn’t already know, we’ve been getting a lot of rain. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem; in fact, rain is generally considered to be a good thing for green growing things. What we have here is a problem in the timing.
I go to work.
I call decide to mow the lawn.
I go home.
The rain begins to…