Putting Off

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Welp, Hank beat his own record last night. When Mike and I went to see him at the Zipper Theater in 2005 he spoke for two hours and forty five minutes and only took one sip of water the entire time. Last night he spoke for three hours and five minutes and took two sips of water. That man must be running on some pretty pungent fumes.

Greg and Sara both really enjoyed the show, and of course, Mike and I were in stitches the entire time. He told this fabulous story about visiting Lebanon and being invited to his tour guide's home for coffee that made me laugh so hard I gave myself a headache.

Have you heard that a ten year old little girl has come up with the new mnemonic for the eleven planets? It used to be My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. Now with Pluto out of the mix, it's going to be My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants. To which I say, "What?" Who the fuck is going to be able to remember that?! The reason the former mnemonic worked so well in elementary school was because it incorporated several aspects of a young child's life - Mom, the love of pizza, education. The new one is fantastical gibberish. I can't speak for anyone else but I know if that had been the mnemonic when I was a kid I would have never learned the order of the planets! Me? I shall continue to stick with the original, minus the Pluto reference - My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us. Nicely misogynistic, don't you think?

Do you guys remember, like, a year ago when I was working my way through a series of forgiveness exercises in order to just get right in my head with the people who had hurt me over the years? Well, I never finished the program, mainly because I ran up against a particularly difficult and time consuming exercise that I didn't want to do, so I just abandoned the whole thing. I'm thinking it might be time to return because, lately, I've been feeling a lot of resentment towards some of the people I put on my forgiveness list. In some cases the resentment stems for legitimately rude behavior, in others it's just a matter of my own insecurities blowing innocuous actions that are in no way directed toward me out of proportion. I need to figure out how to stop letting these people make me feel bad.

I'm also trying to get over some of the more nonsensical fears that stop me from doing stuff I really need to do. For instance, I need to stop being afraid to call other staff members when I need information from them. I need to stop putting off even the most boring and mundanes tasks just because I'm afraid of being bored. Yes folks, that's right, I'm a head case, a whack job, a looney tune. I'm sure this isn't a surprise to any of you.

I need to make a list of all the things that scare me and then figure out why they scare me, that's my first step. I also need to become more assertive, but that will come later after all the fears have been ferried out.

Comments

[electra310.livejournal.com]

You also ditched Neptune in your new mnemonic, which the fanatical Neptune lovers won't like at all. If you want to get vaguely British about it, you could go My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noshies. Or Nuggets, Niblets, Neatly, etc. Or Just Showed Us Newts would also be good.

[dpsycho.livejournal.com]

I always just recall Sailor Moon when I need to recall planetary order. Not that they appeared in order, mind you, but it does help somehow.