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.
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going past them into the impossible.
September 18, 2009 - 12:33 p.m.
Where does my time go? I've been in my office for 45 minutes or so and have just now started writing my entry. I only have 50 minutes left till class starts and I want to grab lunch first. I did spend some time constructively. A student actually came to my office for help. That makes me very happy. She is doing tonight's homework while I write this. If she needs help she asks. Did you know you can ask your professor for that kind of help? You can.
Yesterday I finally made it down to the DMV. They have no consideration for bloggers. They didn't make me wait forever so I'd have something to complain about. They weren't super-efficient so I'd have something to praise. No they just did their jobs and I got out of there in about 45 minutes. My car is now registered for the next two years.
My student just asked me something. I'm listening to WFUV on my earbuds while I'm writing this. I told her that if she can't get my attention to just throw something at me. What do my students think of me? I might be strange but at least I know I'm strange. I'm not a freak though, no matter what Lena says. I'm a sexy sexy beast.
I didn't mention it but I'm getting an overnight guest tonight. Lawrence is going to the Met game with me then he's going to stay with me. He's from the Virginia DC suburbs. He's not coming up from Virginia but down from Boston. He was at Fenway last night.
I planned on getting my apartment all spruced up for him. I didn't succeed. Like all my other guests he's going to see how I really live. I think he's the third guest I've had. There's been my sister Alison, Lena, and Jess.
I didn't discuss it with him but I'm assuming that we'll go to the Shea CitiField early so he can explore it and not have to wait on the food lines forever. It looks like I'm having a Shackburger for dinner.
I've been trying become more of a fructivore. I don't eat green vegetables and I eat too much fattening deserts so I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone by not keeping sweets in the house and having fruit instead. The problem is that there are not that many fruits that I both like and am able to eat. Right now I'm keeping oranges, bananas, and watermelon in the house. Next time I go shopping I'll buy apple sauce. I can't eat raw apples but I can have them cooked. I might try to make baked apple. I always liked when my mother did. If I can't find my apple corer I'll have to buy a new one. Where is this line from? "Can it core a apple?" Sorry my mind had to go there. Did yours?
The other day I said that I'd write about things that I'm vain about. I'm busy helping my student and have to write this while she's working so I'll pretty much make this a list with comments.
- My writing. I think Wise Madness is actually good.
- My photography. This is tough for me to be vain about as I have a number of friends that are great photographers. I just realize that I don't have to be as good as them to be good. You can see all the albums I've created the last few years on My Picasa page. One album is called "My Favorites." That's a work in progress. I'm going though all my photos and singling out the best ones. The ones I'm most vain about.
- My sense of humor. I take the Groucho Marx approach to jokes. I keep them coming fast and furious and hope that you find a few funny.
- My cooking. This is the oddball as I don't cook that many things. So why do I think I'm good? I really like what I make and am somewhat creative. I don't just follow recipes.
- Puzzles. I can solve them.
There are more but now I have to get to class. Sigh. Time management is not something I’m vain about.
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Email me: GordonLew at gmail
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile September 18, 2009
