Happpy Thanksgiving??? (Caution: Whining ahead!)

Just a short post to whine a bit. This coming week is thanksgiving and I am finding it hard to be thankful. My Father in Law is in the hospital and not doing well ... I know be thankful that my husband and kids are healthy ... (bloody mary sunshines out there this is my whine)

I am trying to get my degree before my son graduates high school and we start compounding his student loans on top of mine and the stinking school is not offering the classes I need this quarter ... How am I supposed to get done on my schedule if I can't take classes?????

Okay so none of this is earth shattering and I will get to the other side of it so it takes me a quarter extra ... I could always get a job at McDonalds while I take my final classes so that I can start paying on my loans ... (there's that bloody mary sunshine again)

Happy Thanksgiving to all, May you find thousands of things in your life to be thankful for!!!

Rae
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Poetry

Ah, the waxing and waning of flowery pose. I hate it! Why is it that a poet cannot seem to say what is on their mind? It must be cloaked in insinuation, symbol and metaphor. If asked what does this poem make you feel, the question is easily answered. But no we have to try to dig into the psyche of the poet and try to figure out what they were thinking when writing a verse. For all I know the poor soul was constipated and all these flowing rushing and gushing words were what they were hoping was about to happen in their nether regions.

Still I do enjoy reading poetry. As long as no one asks me to tell what I thought the author was trying to say! Poetry can be very relaxing or even stimulating but the only meaning it can have is how it pertains to your life and your experiences. Since I have not lived the poets life I have no point of reference from which to base my thinking. I have only myself and my life … usually a very different life from that of the poet. Perhaps I should write poetry then they could all guess what it was I was thinking of and I could laugh … not even close!!

Procrastination

So here I sit … not getting my homework done … nor working on my story … procrastinating!

So, what does one do instead of the things they are supposed to do?

Myself, I like to play such titillating games as TextTwist, Jewel Quest, Bejeweled2, and Luxor … though the last has me a bit miffed. Why make a game so hard that one is unable to continue it? So what, if the boards start over from the beginning? The point is to do something mindless for a while, not start WWIII!!

But I digress. What do you do to procrastinate? To look busy where the workload is low? Or when you need some mindless thing to do while your brain tumbles over a weighty problem?

I tried music but I start concentrating on the lyrics and forget my problems … now it I was trying to lighten up a heavy day that would be perfect but I am supposed to be contemplating the meaning of life … no good

I tried books … but technical journals put me to sleep and the best sellers totally absorb me … again not good for contemplating.

Then there is always the dream about it and the answer will come to me in my dreams … well unless the answer to every problem is tall dark and hansom … well that didn’t work.

I guess that leaves me with games …

Rae
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