You ever have those weeks when everything goes just like clockwork--everyone's on time, everything works right, the food's good, and you just have a nice warm satisfaction glowing from within?
Well, last week wasn't one of those for me.
I am usually the most relentlessly positive person I know, even when I get miffed about something. It (the miff-edness) usually passes quickly, and life rocks on along with a comforting familiarity. But sometimes, you know, I'd like to just take a stick and thwack something, or someone--hard, and with great glee--just to get it out of my system. I suppose what makes it even more frustrating is that all the things that cause the unsynchronization aren't insurmountable by themselves. It's just the combined effect of all of it in a row--hurricane building committee house cleaning gas cap funeral nosebleed September 11 ball game dead car battery house cleaning school projects orthodontist broken lawn mower new lawnmower table moving garbage collecting test grading money spending paper typing car repairing teenaged insanity fatigue--that just wears you down.
It will pass, as it always does, but it reminds me of the Jerry Clower story where great American and accomplished tree-climber John Eubanks found that he had treed a wildcat. After becoming entangled with teeth and claws, John begs the Ledbetter boys on the ground to shoot the wildcat, but they were afraid of hitting John instead, but he screamed back down, "Just shoot up here amongst us! One of us has got to have some relief!"
Anyway, there will be more shortly, and some of it will possibly even be humorous (as things told in retrospect tend to become), but first there's that Super Fun Happy Sparkle Joy Fun Monday Morning Staff Meeting Carnival.
Be back in a bit.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at September 12, 2005 08:30 AM