Someone Please Bring My Brain in a Pan
Posted by RobinMar 3
This is the kind of chronic brain flatulence I’m nursing: I completely blanked on my blog login information. How long have I been doing this? Nearly five years. Next up, I’m going to forget where I live. Please don’t ask me for my phone number; there’s no chance in Hell I’ll be able to recall it.
This weekend did a number on my brain. Not for anything fun, except hanging out in a Catholic church in South City on Friday night, eating fried fish and drinking free beer. The rest of the weekend, I couldn’t motivate myself to do much of anything. I’m not physically sick. I’m not depressed. I’m just … yeah. I can’t be bothered to find a word to describe what I am.
Making matters worse: yesterday was Casimir Pulaski Day. Do you know what that means? It means Sufjan Stevens is sad. So all the kids in Illinois stayed home from school, and we wore butterfly wings that made us look like dumbasses, played banjos, and relived bad childhood memories. Yeah. I don’t like this holiday. For the most part I’ve loved living in Illinois, but there are two things I don’t like: always having criminals in gubernatorial office, and holidays that cancel school to celebrate someone who lived before Illinois was a state.
I’ve got two deadlines today, but I felt the need to empty what little is in my brain right here so that perhaps I can get it together to do my real work. Which reminds me, my second column, The Dive Bomber, debuted in last Friday’s “Riverfront Times”. I researched Dive Bomber #2 last night, which might explain my brain dysfunction. At least I didn’t fear for my life last night. New edition of Throwback of the House should be up sometime today. As will an update at LiveFeed. Which reminds me, we’re still waiting to find out if we nabbed the $10,000. It should take two weeks. Gah.
And since I’m now thinking about those deadlines, I think that means the worm that lives in my brain is ready to do something about them.
6 comments
Comment by Alicia on March 3, 2009 at 10:06 am
you’ll have to check out Demos for a dive bar some time.
Comment by Courtney on March 3, 2009 at 10:18 am
I totally feel you, lady. Growing up in Illinois, we loved Pulaski – but never knew what the day was for or who the hell he was. We just loved that day off of school (;
Comment by Regina on March 3, 2009 at 12:08 pm
New Jersey has no “state holidays” that cancel school. But there was no school in NJ because of snow. Of course, I’ve had a continuous snow day for almost 5 weeks now since I can barely walk and barely drive. But it got me out of shoveling.
PS I finally gave up on trying to remember all my logins and passwords. I downloaded a firefox add-on called lastpass. you just have to remember one master password if you want it to do auto fillin of forms, but other than that, it logs you into all your sites automagically.
Comment by Analogman on March 3, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Where I live, the kids have not a whole week of school since October.
Comment by Robin on March 3, 2009 at 2:56 pm
That’s almost how it’s been here, A-man. In November we had Vet’s Day and Thanksgiving. We had one or two snow days in December. January was more snow and MLK. We had a full week in February, but the other week that should have been full was thwarted by a sick day and a half-day because she got sick at school. Barring plague and weather, we’ve got full weeks until spring break starts on April 8th. That’s the night I’m seeing Morrissey, so I’ll probably cry.
Comment by Analogman on March 4, 2009 at 11:46 am
I’d cry if I had to listen to that music also. ha ha ha
We have a state law here about how many school days a child must attend/a certain date they can not go past. So I think there is going to be some unhappy kids and teachers when they make them go longer this year/or rather battle it out to find some sort of solution.