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.
October 08, 2004 - 10:48 a.m.
For some reason I was way to tired to update last night. Not that I have so much to report on about yesterday.
I caught someone cheating in my Fundamentals of Math class. I gave a quiz, my quizzes are just fill in the blanks to see if they students had memorized formulae they need to know. I make them clear off their desks before they start. As the quiz began I saw the student looking straight at the open notebook in the chair next to his. I walked over to him told him to just write his name on the quiz, that he was finished. I gave him a zero and told him he was lucky that I really should fail in for the class. He gained some credit for acting mortified the rest of class and apologizing at the end.
After class I was happy to find my office unlocked when I got back to it so I didn’t have to either call security and wait for them to let me in or walk back up to the eighth floor and get the key from Pedro walk down to my office on the fifth floor and unlock in then back up to the eighth floor to return the key then back down to my office. The downside was that Julius was there so I couldn’t really enjoy playing on the computer or making phone calls. Instead I went straight home. I just made the 7:49 train, the earliest one possible for me to make, I get out of class at 7:30.
That meant I had time at home which I used to finish reading The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death. I wonder if there is any relationship between that title The Cannibal Women and the Avocado Jungle of Death a film that Christine Lavin’s aunt was in.
I got my letter from WFUV yesterday announcing the next pledge drive. I’m going to miss one Saturday. I’m making up for it by doing two 12 hour shifts instead of my usual one. I might also come back for a second shift on one of the Sundays. I’d volunteer after school on Monday but I know they don’t usually need anyone in the evenings.
I volunteered at he Kerry campaign to work the phone banks calling swing states starting next week. Someone is supposed to contact me about where to go. I also said that I’d train to supervise the phone banks. I certainly have enough experience at that.
I’ve been in a strange mental state recently. I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the thing that usually triggers my depression and I’ve been keeping my spirits up. I’ve even been snubbed this week, I invited someone to see Madeleine Peyroux with me on Monday, it is now Friday and she never got back to me. Last night I called someone else and asked her to go with me but she wasn’t home so I left a message on her machine. Maybe I’ll hear from her today. The important thing though is that I’m seeing Madeleine tonight and for a lot less money than last time, a suggested donation of $15.
So I’ve been keeping busy with volunteering, post season baseball, Daniel Pinkwater and Madeleine Peyroux. That should be enough to hold off the depression for a while.
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