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The farmer who lives down the road came today and mowed our fields. I also made a short list of fall things-to-do, like clean the bird feeders and hang the storm doors. I finally made it to the hair cutters and had my hair cut. I took a nap. A pretty uneventful day all around. With the flurry of finishing my first college essay in 20 years out of the way, there didn’t seem to be as much to do today. So I guess today was a maintenance day.

My gym routine is working out (no pun intended) and I am beginning to see results. The small amount of muscle mass that I have accumulated is already firming up my soft bits and I’m sleeping better. The endorphin output is making my head more calm as well.

I’m cooking dinner for mom and me tonight. We’re having broiled Tilapia, Delicata squash, and mashed cauliflower. Then I’m off to a Big Book study group for a spell. So, it’s all good, as the Kids of Today are wont to say.

Here are the haiku…

#19.
The morning mist hides
turkeys, pheasants, a young doe,
quietly at peace.

#49.
The dark gray slate heats:
the sunlight bathes and caresses
the small sleeping snake.

#80.
Crisp crunch, juice bursting,
tasting honey laden boughs:
the fall’s new apple.

Johnnyboy

I have finished my CW1 (College Writing 1) homework and I think I’ve finished my philosophy paper. I say ‘think’ because tomorrow I may want to scrap the whole thing. I ended up gutting a whole section this morning because it just didn’t live up to the assignment. I had explained Aristotle’s POV but I had used my own language and my own metaphors instead of the actual facts as the book lays them out. So I scrapped it and rewrote the section. I am much more pleased with this round, having brought up issues and proved them using verifiable quotes. The grammar and spelling is spot on (thank you, Spellcheck) and after reading it, I must say it made sense. Now for the test…

Mom is going to read it tomorrow. She has a great eye for editing and a superior head for abstract thought. I’ll let her take it for a spin and see what she thinks. I also ended the work in a way that lets the reader understand that these 2 guys didn’t exist in a vacuum. They were influenced by those before them, which I state at the beginning, and in turn, influenced those that came after. I really hope it’s good enough. I think that it shows that I have done the reading and understand the concepts that the author(s) put forth. If it passes the first test, I’ll email it tomorrow afternoon and have it in early…

If I chewed my nails they’d be raw.

So I start watching ‘Dark Shadows’ on Tuesday. There are about 17 4-disc collections, so it will take me far longer to watch all of them than it took to watch the the X-Files. I figure I’ll be going well into 2006 with this round. For some reason it just seems better to use NetFlix for this kind of viewing. There really isn’t much out there that I want to watch, although I did watch D.E.B.S. the other night and found it a charming, funny, send-up of the typical spy vs. spy movie with a positive and healthy lesbian love theme. There was no gratuitous male oriented lesbo-porno garbage, and as it was directed by a lesbian, ended with our happy couple riding off into the sunset together. One funny scene, and there were many, was when the former boyfriend of the girl who finds out she’s gay says that it’s OK, because “that lesbian thing is really hot” and the girl gives him this look that says “wow, what a creep!” Very cool flick.
Oh yeah, then there’s “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”—very funny, again. So I guess there are some good movies out there after all…

Whodda thunk it?

Johnnyboy