Monday, June 19, 2006

English Muffins

What is it about an English muffin? What magical power does it posses which, when combined with plenty of butter, a sausage patty, a fried egg, and a slice of cheese makes it so irresistible. It is the most delicious invention of mankind.

Monday, June 05, 2006

I may have to wait a while longer.

Women are silly. Never before have I felt that my life was in a state that would be conductive to any meaningful relationship with a woman. I am a nomad - this creates difficulty when it comes to developing any sort of long term relationship. On top of that, my financial situation has usually been less than impressive - mostly because of the difficulty in maintaining a steady income with my nomadic tendencies. This doesn't bother me of courese - I've rarely had trouble keeping myself from starving to death, but it seems to trouble other people.

Now, my life is at a turning point and, though I am not there yet, for the first time in my life I can see myself reaching the point where I could have a meaningful relationship with a woman. And so I have started trying to find a woman with whom to have such a relationship. My plan is to start getting to know someone so that when I am fully ready to "settle down" I'll be well on my way. The problem is that I have to go to Jamaica for a month and after that I'll be traveling all over the country for most of the summer and after that I'll be going to school in Seattle for 7 months. I don't get much past "I have to leave on Friday" and all of a sudden the girl doesn't want to have anything to do with me.

So maybe I'll just have to wait until my life has actually settled down so that I don't have to say that I'm leaving at the end of the week and will be gone for a month and then I might not be around much after that either.

Get rid of those crazy kids.

Manilow scares away troublesome kids

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Crazy/Sane and Angela's Ashes update

I'll cover Angela's Ashes first. I can recommend this book even though I haven't finished it yet. Braddock was concerned that the ending might suck and so I can't recommend it. However, this is not the type of book that requires any specific type of ending. It is not a novel, not a story. It's a memoir. If the book ended abruptly in my current spot (about 1/2 way through), I'd still recommend it and read it again sometime (not really "read" because I'm listening to the audiobook, but you know what I mean). Each chapter is like a short story in the life of the author - it can't possibly be disappointing.

Now a bit on Craziness (Insanity) vs Sanity. I suppose that most people believe themselves to be sane - and most of them are wrong. They want to be "sane" (what they believe "sane" to be) and they try very hard to be so. But most people are, in fact, quite insane. The only way to be truly sane is to be a little crazy. I'm not sure exactly what I mean by this, but I believe that it has two aspects. First, you must go through a period of craziness - letting go of your perceived sanity in order to attain true sanity. And second, you must be willing to be perceived as insane by others who falsely believe themselves to be sane.

I have to stop there because they're trying to close up the cafe in which I am composing this post.