Monday, May 29, 2006

my newest post ever.

It's late for a worknight. This memorial day weekend kind of spoiled my appetite for laboring in the heat....grrr............I really am thankful for the veterans sacrifices. I hate to think of myself not remembering them at the very least. I didn't watch saving private ryan, i kind of reserved that for veterans day in a tradition i established two years ago.

I wish when i typed the background was black, it's just more mood friendly. The stark white is well, stark, like moby dick. If you've ever read Moby Dick you'll remember that there are pages dedicated to man's irrational fear of things stark white. Ironically, i picked back up my copy of Moby Dick today in an effort to wade through it again. I've been treading around page 200 for a little too long. My dad has been reading a book called "The glory of their Times" about classic baseball players from the turn of the century. He's been telling me i'd like it for a month now.........tonight i picked it up as I was watching a Royals game because i couldn't go to sleep (irrational fears) and in the first few pages there is a description of how Moby Dick is a book about whaling, but not really just about whaling. Just as this book "isn't really just about baseball"........weird that both books were randomly on top of each other on the coffee table in the living room. Egghh.......also my dad discovered that there was a guy from the early 1900's from his hometown area that played for the Brookly Dodgers that he never new about but learned this weekend while at his high school reunion. He came home and sure enough Dazzy Vance ( i think that is hi name) is in the classic book, which i now must read.
There is a bunch to life that seems to be an endless metaphor.........
I really should try sleeping now..........

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i love you very much andy j. jensen! all your posts made me smile. you are a very special person with great people skills and fashion sense to boot! what a combination!

it's 11:30 and Ben is still not home yet. crazy starbucks employee.

so i just wanted to tell you that you are special. And I know that for a fact. I am special too - and I keep having to remind myself on a daily basis, since my current work enviornment seems to be void of all compassion and humanity. Yes, the general competitive nature has overtaken and everyone seems to be looking for the next opportunity to squash someone's sense of self-worth in order to gain another step on the never ending ladder of something that makes them feel like they are the best. it is so silly. and I have not managed to put it very eloquently. it is a sad, bitter place - and i can't help but feel like it doesn't have to be that way. but in the mean time, i will just have to maintain a good attitude and take it with a grain of salt, and become a bad-ass painter! is there such a thing as a bad ass painter? because that's what i want to be!

have a good day - and lots of good thoughts for you,

rachel

June 2, 2006 at 9:40 PM  

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