Friday, August 05, 2005 button up your overcoat
Earlier today when I was getting coffee with David, the sound system in the coffee shop played "Maggie May," and it was too bad, partly since that song has irritated me ever since a high school friend pointed out to me that the protagonist of the song is dumping all this stuff on Maggie after pulling her out of a sound sleep, and partly because that's a song that they play on the radio when summer's over. That's it?
No damn way. There's almost an entire August to go.
Typing in real time is the kiss of lame, but you, the internet, deserve to know that it's storming right now. It's bright out, and the rain is knocking the petals off the awful neighbors' white crepe myrtle tree. Somehow, I'm the only one home. I keep telling myself that after daily content challenge subsides, I'm going to have work your ass off month.
The idea is that it doesn't matter whether the work is efficient or achieves any results, but I have to work hard at something every chance I get. I have my doubts. It's harder to maintain the letter of the law in something like that, and I don't do so well in things that require strength of spirit. The non-efficiency stipulation might make it easier, though. I think we all know (because we all closely follow my dumb life) that I can't work towards a goal and meet it. Everything good that comes to me comes around sideways because I did things that I never dreamed would bring about the results they did.
Content challenge was a nice time. I'd keep it up, because it was permission to post every day without feeling like I had no life, but it's hard to structure one's life around the internet. It was a nice drunken 4th of July idea.
Thanks to my fellow challengers, whether you were there in the smoke-filled room that began it or whether you came in late and still have to post for a few more days to maintain your honor.
I may see you tomorrow, or I may sleep the hell in. posted by Frenz | 8/05/2005 07:31:00 PM
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