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The Existential Comedy Hour
Wanderings of an Overeducated Mind
Created on 2008-01-14 21:20:41 (#14676543), last updated 2008-10-22
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Bio don't you hate being at parties, and people ask you 'so, what do you do?'
as if all we are is what we do to earn money in our wonderfully capitolistic 'mine is bigger than yours' society...
i long for someone to ask me questions like: what makes you cry? do you like to make others laugh more, or laugh yourself? what was your earliest memory? what would you do if you only had 30 days to live? what makes you angry? does your dog love you?
so...what do i do...i think, way too much. i read, and sometimes it's my choice what i read...;) i write, more to remove things from myself and get them out than to have anyone else look...i ruminate and ponder until i'm tired of my own armpits, then i go outside and touch trees, grass, leaves, anything real. i kayak until my arms ache, i do taiji, i cook delicious food and brew a mean homemade liqueur...
i love my dog more than i believed possible. the kindness of others often makes me cry. i love making people laugh, although of course it's a defense mechanism...but i love to laugh too...injustice and apathy make me angry...i know my dog loves me...my earliest memory is of being in the bottom of the family canoe and feeling the sunlight warm the aluminum and by extension me..feeling the drops of water from the paddles being raised and lowered falling on me, and looking up and seeing my father in this incredible halo of light
what would i do if i only had 30 days to live? exactly what i'm doing now...well, i'd probably eat more ice cream, frankly, and worry less about the clove cigs i just gave up
i've been an actor, stand up comic, teacher, hospice worker, pizza grunt, coffee bitch, poet, corporate power-suit diva, and corn factory worker...i remain irreverent,squirrely, and deeply loyal to those i love...i must have coffee in the morning, and i've been known to scream at the moon near snoqualmie falls...i'm often either too serious or too sarcastic, and what i most long for is to sit peacefully under a tree and just be...
there. that'll do.
as if all we are is what we do to earn money in our wonderfully capitolistic 'mine is bigger than yours' society...
i long for someone to ask me questions like: what makes you cry? do you like to make others laugh more, or laugh yourself? what was your earliest memory? what would you do if you only had 30 days to live? what makes you angry? does your dog love you?
so...what do i do...i think, way too much. i read, and sometimes it's my choice what i read...;) i write, more to remove things from myself and get them out than to have anyone else look...i ruminate and ponder until i'm tired of my own armpits, then i go outside and touch trees, grass, leaves, anything real. i kayak until my arms ache, i do taiji, i cook delicious food and brew a mean homemade liqueur...
i love my dog more than i believed possible. the kindness of others often makes me cry. i love making people laugh, although of course it's a defense mechanism...but i love to laugh too...injustice and apathy make me angry...i know my dog loves me...my earliest memory is of being in the bottom of the family canoe and feeling the sunlight warm the aluminum and by extension me..feeling the drops of water from the paddles being raised and lowered falling on me, and looking up and seeing my father in this incredible halo of light
what would i do if i only had 30 days to live? exactly what i'm doing now...well, i'd probably eat more ice cream, frankly, and worry less about the clove cigs i just gave up
i've been an actor, stand up comic, teacher, hospice worker, pizza grunt, coffee bitch, poet, corporate power-suit diva, and corn factory worker...i remain irreverent,squirrely, and deeply loyal to those i love...i must have coffee in the morning, and i've been known to scream at the moon near snoqualmie falls...i'm often either too serious or too sarcastic, and what i most long for is to sit peacefully under a tree and just be...
there. that'll do.
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