Archive for April, 2004

four story tantrum

This is an attempt to start writing again, kind of like how you pull really hard on that rope to jumpstart a lawnmower. And then you have to mow the lawn immediately, because it’s sitting there in your garage, internally combusting, and you don’t want to waste any gas. I have a huge backyard.

You know when you’re trying to eat and read at the same time, and you bring your fork to your mouth expecting a bite and you close your lips around the empty tines, and you look down, disappointed? That’s what it’s like trying to start a career in neuroscience and spending all your time at the radio station.

Concrete shoes: this semester is going way too fast. It’s almost over. All the sudden there won’t be any more time to turn in late assignments. There will be finals. I will probably get the first bad grades of my life. What’s so different about this semester? You give it your all, and all that you get is tired.

I had this vision of going to grad school and making important theoretical discoveries and getting a doctorate, etc. That doesn’t seem so right any more. I don’t want to be in school any more. No one understands our universe, and that is beautiful and sad, and how presumptuous of me to have wanted to try.

jimmy carter

Members of my generation: allow me to introduce you to Jimmy Carter, perhaps the only sane AND evangelical Christian politician out there.