With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2002-10-15 - 11:00 a.m.
My mother had her cataract surgery yesterday. The plan was to get to the hospital at 11:30 and she’s be operated on at 1:00. I’ve learned that unless you are the first operation in the morning they are never on time. After getting settled in pre-op they came and told us that they wouldn’t start till 3:00 at the earliest. My mother wasn’t allowed to eat or drink so she was very uncomfortable. When they started the IV it was supposed to help the thirst but I know from experience that it really doesn’t. In addition the TV set by her chair was broken. So we spent most of the time talking while I graded my tests.
She finally went in around 3:30. I went to the waiting room and finished off my tests. Then I took a nap while watching The Thing on TV. I woke up just in time to hear them call for me to go to post-op. The operation took about an hour and my mother was fine. I ran and got her a donut to break her fast.
She was a bit woozy from the anesthesia but was otherwise fine. She had to wait a half an hour then I drove her home. This morning I had to wake up early and drive her to the doctor. She removed the cup over my mother’s eyes and checked her out. While I was there I made an appointment to see her. I’m finally going to get my eyes examined and get those bifocals. Yes I’ll be officially old.
I wish I hadn’t had to grade those tests. The results were not good. The average was around 52. I told them repeatedly there would be a definition of the derivative question on the test. I went over how to do it in great detail. It really isn’t difficult. About half the class didn’t have the vaguest notion how to answer the question or even seem to know what I was asking for. I told them it would be the hardest class they ever took and that it would require a lot of work on their part but they didn’t believe me. The direction on one question was “Differentiate the given function.” That is exactly how it is phrased in the book on the homework problem. One student asked me “Does that mean take the derivative?” Yes that is what it means but how could he be asking me that then? I used the term every class. It was in all the homeworks.
I decided that I’m going to trade my entire class for Renita. Her class seems like a good match for mine.
I don’t know what brought this on but for some reason I was thinking about the way I treated someone who I haven’t seen in months yesterday. She was someone I tried to be friends with but the friendship was a total failure. It is so tempting to say what she did wrong but that is totally not the point. My problem now is that I don’t want to be close to her so I tend to act cold to her whenever I see her. If I don’t she starts acting like we are friends and then we have conflict. I can tell she feels hurt though. There is probably something better I can do but I can’t figure it out. So now I’m just stuck with some random guilt. Maybe if I say three Hail Murrays I’ll feel better.
Hail Murray king of bass, Früvous is with thee.
Blessed art thou among früheads and blessed is the fruit of thy bass, rhythm.
Holy Murray singer of Pisco, sing Bed and Breakfast now and on the day of Frücon.
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