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Introspection
Aug. 6th, 2012 02:48 pmI want to sing that to the School House Rock "Interjection!" tune but I can't come up with more lyrics than that. Not that that stops me, I can hum, but it's not like I can type that out for y'all's amusement.
Anyway, Curiosity made it to Mars, yay. And I am pleased about it but not, you know, exclamation point-y. Which feels wrong.
And I'm not, on the whole, watching the Olympics. Partially because my preferred method for watching the Olympics has always been to just turn on the coverage and watch whatever obscure event happens to be on and the way NBC is broadcasting does not lend itself to that. When I try, I might get a few minutes of something interesting and then commercials, which I have largely forgotten how to tolerate in the age of the DVR. Or I might get a human interest story, which I have never had much tolerance for. But also, I seem to be having a problem with actually being enthusiastic rather than just theoretically seeing that enthusiasm is appropriate and that's a bummer.
OTOH, normal reactions to normal events seem to be on the upswing, so that's good. And watching the Saints is still emotionally involving, in part because that is supposed to taste like ashes, a little.
Have you ever noticed how epiphanies sound dumb and/or obvious when you try to explain them? Like, everyone knew that already. You even knew that already, but now you really get it so you still want to talk about it. Not that that is what's going on with me right now, exactly, but it's come up for me before and occurred to me again and I'm in a sharing mood, I guess.
Anyway, Curiosity made it to Mars, yay. And I am pleased about it but not, you know, exclamation point-y. Which feels wrong.
And I'm not, on the whole, watching the Olympics. Partially because my preferred method for watching the Olympics has always been to just turn on the coverage and watch whatever obscure event happens to be on and the way NBC is broadcasting does not lend itself to that. When I try, I might get a few minutes of something interesting and then commercials, which I have largely forgotten how to tolerate in the age of the DVR. Or I might get a human interest story, which I have never had much tolerance for. But also, I seem to be having a problem with actually being enthusiastic rather than just theoretically seeing that enthusiasm is appropriate and that's a bummer.
OTOH, normal reactions to normal events seem to be on the upswing, so that's good. And watching the Saints is still emotionally involving, in part because that is supposed to taste like ashes, a little.
Have you ever noticed how epiphanies sound dumb and/or obvious when you try to explain them? Like, everyone knew that already. You even knew that already, but now you really get it so you still want to talk about it. Not that that is what's going on with me right now, exactly, but it's come up for me before and occurred to me again and I'm in a sharing mood, I guess.
