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Poem, prose and Pruritis

When I am running, I practice the art of meditation in an attempt to zone out. I really value this time. Sometimes I use it to study, review.  It is easy to meditate on worrisome things but instead meditate on the inspirational, the good. like this a friend posted it today

The Impossible Dream

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true 
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

~Man of La Mancha

In Response to Linda

After reading a friend's blog I was spurred to write my own. Having lived with a younger sister and then roommates in college I was scared to live by myself and then by a series of unfortunate events I found myself living alone for the first time about two years ago now. It was the most unexpected growth exercise I have gone through in my adult life. I became more substantial as I person. Read Books, Burned candles, listened to songs on repeat. I learned that I have weird tendencies like insomniac baking and fashion shows of things I find in the back of my closet. 

As an effect of living alone I would prefer watch movies or even TV alone. I am more confident. I take longer to get ready. And treasure long phone calls with friends who are far. But to be fair I also probably eat more, dance worse (no one's watching). 

I think it is something that is undervalued these days. I know girlfriends who have never done it and while I am sure they are happy, I think there is something to be said for being thrust into a new and uncomfortable position and having to rise to the occasion. Be your own entertainment, and become a person of substance. 

Another effect of living alone. I will be so thankful to have a male roommate one day soon... Because then he can lift all the heavy stuff, get the bowls that I never use off the top shelf and screw all the screws into the wall to hang curtains and shelves. 

Rain Rain go away

So today my boss called me "laid back." She said it in an evaluation of me but not in a derogatory sense. It was the first time I think anyone has ever called me that and it felt good. I am laid back. I try to be drama free the only thing is that most days I feel like I do more than most people I know. . . but I think I do that just to keep from being bored. I think I am going to scale back though and just be even more calm. Why should life be stressful? 

A day in the life- Pa Student

So today I wiped a strangers ass from the inside... Well correction it wasn't a stranger it was my cadaver's... but still. Good thing for gloves. 

Also, I almost lost faith in God yesterday. I was looking at some pictures from a lecture on fetal neurodevelopment and *all melodramatics aside* I saw the horrific things that can happen when neural tubes don't close or the skull and telecaphalon don't develop. It is sad. sad sad. Y are there things like that in the universe. I was thinking about that on the way to work this morning and it hit me. The frequency of these are like .5-1/1000 births. But it could be much higher... maybe that is God's grace. There have been alot of things about human anatomy and physiology to make me believe we are fearfully and wonderfully made but yesterday was one of those days where the belief was that the universe was just a random collision of shit. (no pun intended!)