...and foolishness survives.

[flexagon]

It's pretty funny that someone else posted lately about having an attack of the shoulds. I've been hearing a lot of "shoulds" from outside myself lately -- no one person, just various directions. It's sometimes been getting me down, and today it finally didn't get me down even though I kind of feel it, uh, should have. Ah, universe, you silly old goat. But you are raining and I like the sound of it.

I am feeling oddly playful, maybe from dance class tonight. I say let's get jiggy with it -- form a circle with me and let's do the dance of the shoulds. It's a stompy kind of dance. What do other people think you should do? According to various sources, I should be more loyal to my work project, and I shouldn't even consider staying at Colubrid, and I shouldn't leave Colubrid, and I shouldn't work for the large famous search company. I shouldn't take my pants off without checking whether the windowshade is down, and I shouldn't prioritize yoga as highly as I do, and I shouldn't support Starbucks, and I shouldn't mind much when my friends move out of town, and I shouldn't let my cats walk all over the kitchen counters, and I shouldn't carbon offset my flights because the offset companies are a scam, and I shouldn't be afraid of writing a compiler, and I shouldn't wait two hours after getting up to have breakfast, and I shouldn't clip my kitty's claws with people nail clippers, and I shouldn't eat meat, and I shouldn't use a financial advisor, and I shouldn't like the Doors, and I shouldn't have trouble with Lisp syntax, and I shouldn't water my ivy plant so often and... oh good lord, people, I just looked out the window and saw a skunk lolloping down the sidewalk in the rain. The next person to come along was dressed up and wearing heels. There's room for variety in the world.

To quote from a poem I particularly liked (see this post for the whole thing):

I bite on a toothpick and pretend
immortality.
it's all so fair and so awful, it's all so
awfully fair.

my feet walk in cosmic
dust
and foolishness
survives.

Comments

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

honestly, in regards to carbon offsets i think we as a world are kinda fucked. population growth will more then make up for any offsets we create.

just one more reason why i'm glad i'm sterile.

i think you should do whatever you want to do. supporting a love for yoga can only bring balance and happiness into your life. i think i should support ya in whatever ventures you want to do as long as you are not hurting others.

so yah.

[savage-rose.livejournal.com]

"I just looked out the window and saw a skunk lolloping down the sidewalk in the rain. The next person to come along was dressed up and wearing heels. There's room for variety in the world."

That should be cross-stitched on a very large pillow. That's awesome.

[flexagon]

Haha, thanks... that actually is pretty good (and really happened while I was writing this, too).

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I was going to say something similar...very excellent flexy quote. :)

[miyyu.livejournal.com]

Or emblazoned on a billboard.

[perfectbound.livejournal.com]

I should: move to Minneapolis, get an Impressive Job on the east coast, move to the DC metro area, start lifting weights to build up my shoulder muscles for Great Handstand Justice, write a letter to a guy who is a luminary in my field and enclose my master's paper.

(I want to move to Mpls but I can't yet; I am interested in Great Handstand Justice, but not interested in exercise that isn't OMG Super Fun!, which includes lifting weights; I will maybe write the letter someday but omg intimidating.)

(Honestly, I think I'm telling myself more things I should do than other people are. Which is a slightly different kind of un-fun.)