i got home from work, turned on the fan, got naked, made some pasta and veggies, ate said pasta and veggies naked, sprawled out on my bed, took a deep hunka oxygen in to my lungs, and said “this is okay.”

it is so humid here in the swamp. it weighs you down and causes moisture to accumulate along the nape of your neck. your soft hair quickly frizzes into knots. sweat causes your fingers to stick to everything. baring everything to nothing. the heavy air tangles your thoughts and emotions until you realize you are just sitting in the middle of the dusty floor, not accomplishing one thing. you feel droplets slowly crawl their way down your cheeks. but you are not quite sure whether they are beads of sweat or tears or both. your keen awareness begins to fade. you don’t really know. but does anyone know? does anyone know whether this is what life entails? suffocating, idle heat. infiltrating your mind and leaving you with no rest, no relief, and no where to go.

there is a wonderful little button to the right of this pixelated window mindlessly filling with text. it says save as draft. i use it often. i’ll write something. usually half thinking, half wandering in my thoughts. feeling my way through a never ending maze of a lot of who knows and i don’ts. does that even make sense? no. so that is where the save as draft button comes in. it’s a saving grace tool. i read through the mass of text and more often than not, barely recognize my own words. or i realize that this adds nothing to the world of the wide web, the creative masses, the blogging geeks, the people who stumble upon this tumblr.. or tumble into this stumblr of jumbld text. (the e is not obscure enough for the hipstrs) yes. that’s it. so I click the little button. and done. saved as a draft. and, one, two, three days later…it no longer is relevant. so it stays with all the other drafts and collects megabytes of dust. that doesn’t quite make sense either. just roll with it. 

i should use this thing more often though, right? it has been a pretty good collection of cool pictures and weird songs and some more cool pictures. maybe if i come across a really mind blowing quote.. i’ll throw that up too. things are good. preparing to escape the humid swampy (not the good swampy) concrete jungle for a short time. sweat is accumulating on my arms as i write. nasty! my life is not of any extreme extraordinary fun at the moment. working for an orthopedic surgeon and at a physical therapy clinic. seeing some pretty interesting cases. learning what the best position is for my body when it is on it’s feet for 10 hours straight. the shifted weight left to right with the occasional slight lumbar flexion is seeming to do the trick. trying to get some long runs in. but i swear! the humidity here is rough. so you gotta either jet out real early or later in the day. later in the day the bugs are out. i call them the nasty gnats. they just fly into your mouth or up your nose while your running and then you either gotta hock an awesome loogie or blow a sweet snot rocket. i’m sure the tourists like that one. in fact, pretty sure a couple was taking a photo of me blowing boogers today down on the waterfront. wild creature, i am. 

speaking of wild creatures.. or wild creatures that have been domesticated… i went to the zoo for the first time today. pretty crazy stuff going on there. they had some huge pandas. a few cheetahs. a zebra. some more pandas. and a salamander. oh..and the baby otters. those critters are awesome! and there was a giant elephant. i felt kinda bad though, ya know? the typical “these things are supposed to be out in the sub-saharan vastness of land… not in these plexiglass artificially filled cages.” but a zoo is a zoo. and i don’t think these animals are going anywhere anytime soon. they probably wouldn’t survive that long either. being fed by weird humans every day and staying within the safe confinements of the smithsonian institution. the tourists though! they were awesome! such weird people out there… i sat on a bench for a good twenty moments just observing the random quirks and perks of all the people and strollers and leashed children. interesting, to say the least. and that is that. i now sit among a colossal amount of stuff deciding how i can get rid of it all. ciao.

Such a wonderful tune to get you going in the morning!

Nothing that a little Wilco and some coffee can’t fix. Determined to finish everything today on my plate so I can look forward to the weeks ahead!

I was always right
about the morning