Just an Old Photo I Wanted to Post...

Caption: "Romney Looks to Tap the Fudge Packers Union."


Definitely my favorite of the last year or so.

A Thought

Simple people see things in simple ways with simple solutions. Complex people see things in complex ways and with complex solutions. Neither are inherently wrong or right. They just are.

Time Spent

For the last couple of months, as I have previously described, I have been dreadfully busy. I'm not going to describe it again so as to not bore you too too much. Suffice to say, it's been interesting. I had been planning to talk a lot about my student teaching. But I never got the time to do that. I'll get to it hopefully this summer as more of a reflective piece. We'll see. I also wanted to do my ranting thing that I find joy in, but haven't had nearly enough time to do that, as you may have seen from the quality of my postings over the past three months or so. Oh well, you'll live and so will I. Regardless, I do intend to think up some more stuff soon... One I will talk about is the value we place on intelligence and the ranking of intelligences. Also, I want to take a look at certain areas that we are woefully forgetting to teach our children about. And, likewise, a rant about drug policy. But, that's for later. Also, in many respects, I have taken to less grammatically stiff prose. So be it. Forgive me for my sentence beginning buts and ands and so on. You'll live, and so will I with a sentence fragment or two as well. At any rate, I'm finding ways to budget my time better and with the extra time I'm forcing into my schedule, I'm going to find something relaxing to do. Fuck knows I need it badly. I don't know what form that will take, but it will certainly not be sleep, although I would like more of that as well. I have an idea, but like I said, we'll see what pans out. In short, since I've figured out the aforementioned (in the last post) I'm going to fix a few mistakes and right a few wrongs and see how far that gets me in terms of happiness. We'll see. But for now, never let things get you down, live your best life regardless of its length or starting point or whatever, and always always always FlyFreeForever.

A Little Under Four Years

A little under four years ago, I set out into a new life and in many ways a new way of life, one that was for the most part devoid of my family and their consistently toxic influences. I did pretty well at it too. It was nice to get away from certain people and their points of view regarding some half dozen of my traits and views. Fast forward about three years or so. Last summer something started bothering me again that struck chords with that past situation I lived in. I didn't realize it at the time, but they had gotten back into my head. I still don't know how or why it happened, but I don't care either. I was lying in bed a few nights ago and it literally popped into my head. I'd figured it out, why I hadn't been really, genuinely happy since about last June. I couldn't believe that they had gotten so far back into my life! Well they're gone from sight and out of mind now. I'll be myself again thank you very much.

Originally I had made a mistake four years ago, a childish one to be sure. I pushed them away to spite them. And it worked for a while too. But as I grew and got older my feelings towards them changed from anger and vindictiveness to something closer to reticent understanding. In doing so, the barrier I erected lost it's power and they flooded back into my business. I realize this now. And in the ensuing years since four past I have come upon a stronger shield, though not realizing it, hadn't used it. Myself. I am my own person and I have to trust myself to make my own decisions for better AND for worse.

So, I'm finished letting their opinions and beliefs backdoor their way into my life and I'm finished letting them have any say in my actions. I am, as I have always been, my own person. It's time I start acting like it. And most importantly of all... I am free.