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 ...
December 11, 2004 - 10:06 a.m.
I should not be on the computer now, I should be getting ready for my house concert but I am the king of procrastination. As long as I�m here I�ll write this.
Yesterday I did lots of Festivus preparation. I set a personal record by mailing out 17 packages at once. It should have been 18 but the post office wouldn�t take one without an address on it, they are so picky that way. They were not picky in terms of censoring my mail this time. I mailed a CD, they knew it, and didn�t ask me if it contained profanity. I tried to email the ACLU about that and couldn�t find an email address to handle that sort of complain. On the local NYCLU site it gave email addresses for every office but the New York City one. It gave a phone number and I�ll try and give them a call on Monday. I did write an email to the United States Postal Service. I got an auto-reply and hopefully I�ll get a meaningful one. I asked them the purpose of the rule, what they would have done if it did contain profanity, and the name of the person responsible for the rule.
I went to school to burn more CDs last night and was surprised to find the computer lab so crowded. I have never seen more than half the computers in use before. Last night there weren�t that many open ones so I only used 2 computers for burning. At one point there were no open computers and I felt guilty but that was only for a few minutes and no one came in then. While I was feeling guilty someone came in and walked over to the computer I was using that I wasn�t sitting out. On the screen it said that it was burning a CD and he went right over to it and tried to cancel the burning. Good thing I was paying attention and told him to stop. Can you believe the nerve of the guy? There were open computers then, he just didn�t want to walk over to one of them. He would rather ruin someone else�s CD. There is no reason for someone burning a CD to need to sit at the computer. After that I had to go to the bathroom but was afraid to leave the room and waited till I was done.
OK, I better start getting ready, I�m having 18 guests over today including Deirdre Flint, Lori, Steve, Gella, Chris, Jill, Tim, Rebecca, Melissa, and Yoram.
Wish me luck, I�m nervous.
Russell Wolff came on the wall why I was burning the CDs. He was in the middle of a rehearsal and was kvetching about something. When he left to go back to rehearsal I felt in the show business tradition that I shouldn�t say, �good luck� so I said �break a leg.� Then I decided that as a musician something else would be more appropriate so I said, �break an eardrum.� Perhaps a vocal cord would have been better. So as this is show business, don�t wish me good luck. Tell me to �break a __________�, you fill in the blank with what you think would be appropriate. Let me know what I�m breaking.
I signed the Pro-Truth Pledge:
please hold me accountable.
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