I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so
What I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are ...
April 17, 2006 - 1:21 a.m.
Today started really well, I went to the Met game. Once again they won. It was a good close game to the eight when the Mets broke it open. Have you noticed how much I'm enjoying the games? When I go to the Knicks it is mainly to spend time with Alan and Larry, I'm enjoying the actual Met games. Which isn't to say that I don't enjoy spending the time with Alan and Larry too.
I am still having major problems doing what I need to do. I don't need any further obstacles but that's what I hit tonight. Today I needed to do my laundry, make up a test, and do my taxes. When I went to do my laundry I found that Penny had left laundry in the dryer. The problem was that she had totally overfilled it. I had left my mother's comforter to be washed, she did but she then threw it in the dryer with a load of other laundry, too big a load at that. The dryer had three times as much in it as it should. The effect? Nothing got dry. I couldn't do most my laundry. That totally threw me off my game. It had a domino effect. The one thing I did was make up the test. I knew I'd do that. I'm always good about getting my schoolwork done. It was a bit upsetting to see how far behind my class is. The second test this semester only covered about 20% of what it usually covers. I am going to have to race through the remaining material. That will probably mean cutting things out. I think I figured out one way of speeding things up. I am never happy with the way the book teaches graphing. I always go by the book then spend another week teaching it from my own materials. This year I'll just skip the book. I'll look through it for some homework but that's it.
I spent a lot of time tonight being dissatisfied with things. One thing is that I have not spent a night away from home since FRFF and I won't until SMAF. I used to get away once a month or even more. I miss that and that fed into a general nostalgia attack I've been having. There is nothing wrong with nostalgia but it isn't good to focus on how things used to be better. I need to work on making things as good as I can in the future.
There was a must read column in today's times,
I'm OK, Your Biased. It gives hard evidence about one of my favorite themes, how people delude themselves. My favorite quote from it:
Much of what happens in the brain is not evident to the brain itself, and thus people are better at playing these sorts of tricks on themselves than at catching themselves in the act. People realize that humans deceive themselves, of course, but they don't seem to realize that they too are human.
So go read the article and realize that you are human. I know I am. Is that a delusion on my part?
It is after 1 AM, I think I better get to bed. I have to do my taxes tomorrow. Maybe I'll do them when I'm giving the test. I actually think I have till Tuesday to file. New York's taxes are processed in Massachusetts, which had the great wisdom to declare Monday Patriot's day; a legal holiday. And I thought the only point of it was that the Red Sox played their game in the morning.
You know something? I'm feeling quite a bit better than I was a few hours ago and was planning writing this. In the interim I read the Sunday Times. I'll give it the credit.
I signed the Pro-Truth Pledge:
please hold me accountable.
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