All the circuits have gone random, captain!

What a world lately, eh? Sometimes it feels like there’s so much Truth crowded up on the front porch that it’s temporarily blocking up the door, unable to get inside and actually cause any change (or damage).

Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, health-care in crisis, damn near the whole world involved in fighting in the Middle East over shit that nobody who’s paying for it understands, creationism refusing to die (thanks, Louisiana), America drowning under the weight of its obligations to large corporate powers (and starting to spread them; watch out for that “treaty” that’s going to push America’s gods-awful copyright crap onto the rest of the world, and tighten things up even more in the US in the meantime)…and yet, I don’t know about everyone else, but things continue to chug along for me, personally, for all the world as if all this stuff is only theoretically real. I feel like my cat, laying on the floor washing my tail while the world boils by.

I pay for gas, and my iffily-funded nonprofit job hangs in there week after week and I’m somehow mostly just excited about getting a haircut today.

People are having sex in confessionals, married couples are doing it 100 days straight for science, and I’m enjoying watching Torchwood in the evenings way too much for someone with a college education.

The good ol’ Church of Reality wants Atheists to give up on their obsession with “God”, which is just as wishful as a size-12 woman winning a major beauty pageant…but hey, one of them happened, why not two? For me, I give up — I’ve decided that I believe in kungfu, hail the White Crane, a-men-Iiich!

All this…stuff…and yet it’s the little things that make us happy, in the end. Haircuts, and the new alarm working perfectly this morning, and an impending weekend truly, actually “off”.

Hubble? Great. Economy? Yup. Presidents? Sure, why not, I’ll have one. And a small Frosty.

I want to learn to snog like they do on British TV.

I want to prove the pure rationalists wrong in a way they can’t logically deny.

Something big and cool and important could happen tomorrow…

…Or maybe not. A nice plain Saturday would be perfectly fine too, I think.

ALSO! I got the Ubersleep books yesterday, and they look quite fantastic — once again, I’m really happy with Lulu’s job on the production end, and their quite reasonable prices. The First Edition of the book has my thumbs-up. Yay!