Day 234 of 365 days.
See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…and one night…one night they decide they don’t like living in an asylum any more. They decide they’re going to escape! So like they get up on to the roof, and there, just across the narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in moon light…stretching away to freedom.
Now the first guy he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daren’t make the leap. Y’see he’s afraid of falling… So then the first guy has an idea. He says “Hey! I have my flash light with me. I will shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk across the beam and join me.” B-But the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says …he says “What you think I am crazy? You would turn it off when I was half way across.
–The Killing Joke
In sixty two hours I need to present my paper on professional wrestling as a performance art to an international conference on Pop Culture. To say I’m freaking out is probably a little bit of an understatement. I still don’t have a strong conclusion written. I’m about halfway through that. And I still need to edit everything else I’ve written so far (over the last several months) and practice reading it. My mother and Stephanie both seem happy with it, but they know a lot less about cultural theory. Of course most people I’m speaking to will know a lot less about professional wrestling. I don’t know, I’m probably way overreacting. But I’ll be a lot calmer Thursday afternoon when this is all over. If I’m not completely mad by then.
You’d turn it off when I’m half way across… hehehehe.
I love that book!
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Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
This picture frightens me a little.
I hope everything goes well! I’m sure you’ll be brilliant.
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Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
Oh noes!! Don’t freak. Hope it goes well!
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Poor baby… I think you may be already mad. Alas, probably also inherited. On the plus side, truly crazy people don’t care that they’re crazy! You’ll do just fine 🙂
Nice!
Great shot. But then again you knew I’d think that didn’t you? 🙂
@Mikey aka DaSkinnyBlackMan: yeah, me too… and I even love the joke.
@Rachel.::.K: thanx for the vote of confidence.
@Agent Retro: me too. Thanx.
@lrayholly: so what are people who do realize they’re crazy?
@MegaBee: thanx.
@[AJ]: yep. Thanx.
Great shot! Beautiful teeth, too… no silver, lucky you! 😉
@Reluctant Suburbanite: yeah… my dentist says that the enamel on my teeth is so hard, I’m essentially immune to cavities. In all likelihood I’ll just lose them when I get old, my gums receed and they all fall out. (My gums aren’t nearly as good as my teeth). But so far so good. Also, after badly mangling my jaw when I was a toddler (and essentially growing up being afraid to smile), I got braces as a teen to (very painfully) reconstruct my smile, so they’re pretty straight too.
This shot is scary…..but I like it! Oh and today was SO NOT a bait, that was a last minute, I have to get something up while my computer is behaving, not even caring about my SP today shot. You’ll know when it’s a bait. I will show you baiting….maybe tomorrow ;-P
@PhotoKat: oh come on… it’s so much more fun when you don’t think you’re baiting. 🙂
the original shot for everyone who doesn’t know where it came from and is too lazy to click on the link. 🙂
I think he’s much scarier than I am.
People who DO think they’re crazy are just sadly mistaken… probably just a little eccentric, a little off center, you know the type 😉
@lrayholly: so we blame the parents?
sounds like performance anxiety. i’m looking forward to your picture after your presentation, when your relaxed, with that "it was a piece of cake" look.
Well, the rule is: You can blame only one of them 😀 And yes, I just made up the rule, that’s my job, I’m the Mom!
@ms.Tea: yeah, its mostly just nerves. I’ll get through it. I hope.
@lrayholly: I notice you didn’t specify which parent to blame.
Remember this? "If something ‘goes without saying’, Let it." I was ‘Letting it.’
@lrayholly: heh
I’m still confused about why you’d have started it already if you still have 62-x hours left to do it. 4AM on Thursday seems like the logical time to start 😛
@wooble: damn… maybe that was my problem… should have held off and done it the old fashioned way.
Wait a minute… performance art? You mean it isn’t REAL?!
@tomato_sutra: that’s kind of what the paper is about.
lol at tomato sutra. You’ll be fine as soon as you start talking I reckon’
hee hee, great joke by the way
@SU365: actually, I’m not worried about the public speaking. If there’s anything I’ve learned being a pro-wrestler, its getting over stage fright. I’m sure there will be far fewer people listening to me than I speak in front of whenever I do a promo in the ring. What I’m actually worried about is making sure the content of the paper is interesting and informative.
Oh, and that Joke is from the book, the Killing Joke. Its an old joke, but its the joke that the Joker tells Batman at the end of the story and it’s the only time the modern Batman has ever laughed, to the best of my knowledge. Anyway, I love that joke.
don’t go crazy!
ugh i can totally relate. haha
@Lauren Peralta: don’t go crazy? Its already too late. 🙂
well, just one more day…then you can calm down. i’m sure you’re getting worked up for nothing…you’ll rock their worlds!!!
good luck! love the work on this one!
@pi c’s: yep… one way or another it will all be over in a few hours. Thanx.
This rocks!
I know you will kick ass on your presentation, Mav!
@sadandbeautiful (Sarah): thanks. I certainly hope so.
Oh man, you really crack me up. And impress the hell out of me. Hope the presentation went well!
@KarenMarleneLarsen: it did. Thank you.