A Call From the Wild
This is some depressing shit. There is no humor in me today. Those images in the news have shaken me.
That said, I'm feeling the need to connect with my Hombres, and I realize I haven't given the Teo update in many months. Have I? I don't think I have. I think I've promised the updates and not come through. So....here are some quick facts:
- Teo will be leaving Metropolis (both figuratively and literally) for Champaign-Urbana. Great Plains, here I come. One year of an internship and then this whole thing is done. I'm looking forward to it. I will live in a Greg Brady attic apartment, complete with beads in the closet doorway and a bathtub under an eved ceiling that disallows a standing shower. None of this am I making up. I am looking forward to it, and despite some surely cold mornings sitting in the tub while I hose myself off, it should be a fun year.
- Speaking of the whole thing being done, I take my final exam for my final class tomorrow afternoon. After 4 1/2 years of classwork, I'll be free an clear as long as I answer 27 out of 45 questions correctly. That is the number to reach 80 (after consideration of my midterm and other stuff), which is the passing mark. Since the subject is neuropsychology, I'm predicting not much higher than 27....maybe in the 33 range or so. Which would give me a solid B, and anyone who has ever taken a last class will understand that you can't care less about the grade as long as it counts.
- I'm still reading Nietschze, and I really don't understand much of it, except that it is either more difficult or less difficult this week due to the news. I can't tell if it's easier or harder, but it is more relevant, and way more of a mindfuck, and damn if he hasn't made me think about a whole bunch of existentialist shit.
- Despite or because of everything that is happening in my life and the world, much of which is good and much of which is not, I would really like to move to a mountain top in Alaska and play sudoku for a few decades.
Very strange post. The humor function on my computer is broken. As is the cohesiveness button.
Hombres!
posted by Teodoro Callate @ 8:50 AM
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It sure does seem like the third week of April is a disastrous week across the board. If I'm not mistaken, the Columbine shootings, the assault on the Branch Davidian compound, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Virginia Tech assault all have happened around the third week of April. And all of them seem so senseless and tragic - and what can I say that hasn't been said better by others. It's all just awful.
On a happier note, I hope your final exam went well. I remember my final (undergraduate) exam - I had Vinnissimo meet me at the classroom door with a bottle of champagne, which I asked him to pour over my head. It was great. I don't think I did anything similar for completing my master's work. Considering the degree you're completing and the work it took to get where you're at, there should be some sort of grand celebration. Since I'm a few thousand miles away, let me know what celebration I can have on your behalf. Maybe a tall coffee?
I like the notion of the bead door and Greg Brady. That's good stuff. Was that from the episode where he started calling his parents by their first names?
First off, I'm better this week. As we humans are able, I have recovered and processed the tragedy to the point where I am once again able to crawl out from under my desk and rejoin the world. We deal with things. We can do that. We are strong, resilient creatures, and I'm not making that up.
The beads are real. Ask LB, because she saw 'em and pointed 'em out. As a guy, I looked right past 'em, because, you know, there they are, right where they should be.
I had forgotten that he called them by their first names, and I just laughed out loud.
You can fly to Chicago and pour a venti coffee right over my head, and I'll give you a big fat kiss hello right on the pucker. Of course, I don't graduate for well over a year, so we can put off that little celebration, and even refine it if we feel the need.
I'm about to go to the Niezstche group now. Looking forward to completely and totally understanding the nature of good and evil. I'm sure we'll completely cover it in 90 minutes.
More later. My coherent button seems to be working again, so hopefully I can generate a better Teo update in a few days.
Hombre!
I think it's great that you would be in a group that would still recognize the greatness of the Green Bay Packers' legendary Ray Nitschke. He was truly one for the ages.
But what does that have to do with good and evil? (And why can't I let go of this joke?)
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