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.
July 15, 2003 - 12:38 a.m.
I really am getting old. Instead of seeing Carbon Leaf, one of my favorite bands, I stayed home and did laundry. At least Carey can’t make fun of my hobo pants now. Blame her, she told me to stay home.
My big adventure for the day was going to the post office and the supermarket. I did manage to mail FRFF tickets to a certain folk singer who will play the Budgiedome to the delight of certain female Früheads, one of which I spoke to on the phone today.
One of these days when I buy eight o’clock coffee at the Walbaums I’ll remember to grind it before I get home. I always get home, then remember and have to go back to the store. It might be cheaper in the long run to buy my own grinder, I’ll make it up in gas money.
I had a really nice talk with Stacey today. It gave me all kinds of ideas of things to write about. The problem is that was this afternoon and at my advanced age I can’t be expected to remember things that long.
Tomorrow is going to be exciting, I’ll be seeing my new doctor for the first time. I’m going to miss Doctor Meditz, he was the best primary care physician I ever had. One of his talents was recommending other doctors so I’m sure that Dr McCabe will be good. He said that her personality is like mine. That could be a bit scary.
Tomorrow night is my Rotisserie Baseball League’s All-Star game party. One of our three annual get-togethers. It’s the most testosterone I’m ever exposed to.
Remember my student that cheated and then complained about his grade? He has lodged a formal complaint about me to the school. He got four other students who failed to sign on with him. They said that I discriminated against them on the basis of gender and character. For the ringleader he is right on one count. I did discriminate on the basis of his character, he cheated and got a failed a test because of it. I don’t think there are any rules against that. The chairman of my department is being supportive of me. She looked at their records and saw that their grades are commensurate with their test scores. They said that I went out of the way to be lenient to one woman in the class that they pointed out was the most attractive one. If that is what they are worried about I’ll gladly give any of them the grade I gave her, she failed. I did let her make up some tests, she was in the hospital, I think that’s a good excuse. She also never cheated. I can’t say it in my formal response but she also wasn’t the most attractive woman, that honor would go to someone who was one of the best students and got an A.
This seems to be the year I have legal troubles, first being arrested now this formal challenge at school. The last three years have been defined by my problems; 2001 was the year I had cancer, 2002 was the year my father died, and this was the year I was arrested and accused of discrimination.
I was thinking about the way I handle my problems today. It started when I read an old entry about my father dying. That is the only one that still gets to me sometimes. It isn’t a bad grief though. It’s bittersweet. I’d be more worried if I didn’t feel it.
I can handle those types of things yet other little problems that most people wouldn’t think twice about make me depressed. It’s a totally different feeling. I wish I could be as rational dealing with those fears as I am with the big ones.
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