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 11, 2006 - 12:36 p.m.
fan2 -an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
[Origin: 1885–90, American; short for fanatic]
I am certifiably insane; Stop snickering and saying that you knew that already. I just got a call from Larry, he has an ticket for me for tonight's Mets game. I of course said I can go. That doesn't sound too crazy till you hear my schedule for tomorrow.
I'll get home from the game tonight at about 1 AM, unless the game goes long or there is a rain delay in which case I'll get home later. Then tomorrow
- 4:30 AM – wake up
- 5:20 AM pick up Nora
- 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM volunteer at WFUV
- 6:30 PM get on LIRR train
- 8:19 PM – 12:19 AM watch Met game
- 1:00 AM get home and get to bed.
I am going to be totally dead. Something tells me that I won't feel like going out on Friday night.
Yesterday was the first day of the WFUV fund drive. They tried something different this year; shortening the drive by 3 days. Previously all the drives started on Saturday. It was called a buy-back. People were supposed to renew their memberships by mail or online early to make up for it. The strategy seems to have worked. 35% of the goal was reached before the drive started.
I was sick for the last 1 – day drive so I spent a lot of time sitting down. I found that did wonders for my stamina so I deliberately sat as much as possible yesterday even though I was feeling fine. I was actually feeling pretty fresh after my 12 hour shift even though I had hardly slept the night before. I guess that was good practice for tomorrow.
The early shift 6AM – 10AM is the one that I tend to know people on. That is for the hard core volunteers who show up every drive.
I wasn't nearly as friendly with the people in the other shifts, so I made new friends.
I made my own contribution yesterday. I always make during City Folk Morning. I always make volunteers give a good quote on why they joined when they do so during the drive and I hold myself to the same standard. This year I said, "I'm making my donation in memory of my mother who died two weeks ago. WFUV is part of the healing process." I knew that would get read even though as usual I didn't get to hear it.
This really was the very best thing for me to do. I was keeping busy, feeling useful, and feeling appreciated. I even had chocolate. Caroline bakes for every drive and made sure to bring chocolate brownies without nuts because she knows I love them. I told her I love her anyway but I love her more when she gives me chocolate.
I got a message from the woman that stood me up on the date Monday. She told me that she had fallen down a flight of steps. I don't know when I'll get the chance but I'll give her a call and try and set up another date.
Class was very frustrating today. They didn't seem to understand things that classes usually have no trouble with. I don't know what was going on. We were doing graphing. As usual the were obsessing on little details about how to write the answer as opposed to thinking about what is going on. On the bright side they got there on time. So many people were late last class. I told them that if they were late again I'd count it as an absence.
OK, I better go now or I'll be late for my next class.
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