The return of the entry

Since Paul so graciously helped me to figure out how to rewrite my CD-RW, here, without further ado, is the entry I wrote on the 12th (I haven’t changed any of the time references):

I’ve had a number of interesting-to-ponder questions come to my mind in the last few days.  A couple of them are too ponderous for me to feel comfortable to put on this weblog, especially since I really don’t know what I think of them myself.  However, I will offer you these two on a somewhat lighter note:

- when talking with one of the other English assistants while I was feeling down a few days ago, she told me, as if to cheer me up, “Well, just think about it this way – it can’t get any worse than this.” I told her that that didn’t cheer me at all, quite the opposite, and I prefer to think of it in this way: “it could be much worse.” (…I started to write an explanation of why that is cheering to me, but then I realized that would somewhat negate the point of asking this question, so I’ll leave it be.) So, here’s the first question: which way do you prefer to cheer yourself, given these two choices?

- I got to see my favorite episode of the fantastic TV show “Stargate: SG-1” last night.  Those of you who know me and who know the show, you get one guess as to which episode this is.  Taken your guess?  That’s right – the episode where everyone gets caught in a time loop and repeats the same day hundreds of times, with only Til’k (spelling?) and O’Neill able to remember the previous go-rounds.  While laughing at what the pair decides to do when they realize that they can basically do whatever they want without fear of any consequences (since the slate will be wiped clean at the end of the day), it occurred to me to wonder what I, or other people, actually would do if given that option.  The cynical part of me immediately said, “for an answer, look to the looting that occurs after a natural disaster or during a riot.” But that doesn’t seem to me to be a complete answer – it’s not something that I would choose to do were I given the option, certainly.  So, for the question: what could you do if you knew that there would be no consequences to your actions?

I know that neither of these questions is exactly novel, but they have been on my mind and I thought that I’d share them.  For some crazy reason, some people out there (you, gentle readers) have decided that it’s interesting to see what’s going on about me and inside my head, so I will not fail them.  ::smile::

On a different note, I saw a gentleman walking down the street the other day whose facial hair combined color and placement to an amusing end.  The gentleman had hair running along the jaw line, close-trimmed, and a little tributary of hair running from below the middle of his bottom lip to join with the hair on his jawbone.  This isn’t that unusual of a shape, but the fact that the hair along the jawline was white and the little bit of hair on the chin was black, combined with a strong jaw to begin with, created an oddly pugnacious look.  Since white naturally tends to stand out and dark tends to create the look of a hollow (thanks for the instruction in stage makeup, Stephie – it’s come in handy!), it looked as if he perpetually had his lower jaw stuck out in an overgrown “I don’t wanna” pout.  As I said, unusual on a man who looked to be near 50.