I thought about putting this in IMHO, but I didn’t want to miss all of you who really focus and specialize on the mundane and pointless. In fact this is not so much a poll but an idea about whether starting such a thread would have any point. Of course, if it does, its place is certainly not here, as we are explicitly and by statute pointless.
I think it’s wonderful that SDMB provides a space where no points, pointy things, pointed comments, or even much in the way of sharpness is necessary. I relish my opportunity to drift away on tangents, like I still don’t know who won the Superbowl but I’ve heard all about the breast incident at half-time. Really, why are people so uptight about a breast? My coworkers, all of them women, were huffing over half time for pretty much the whole day. I’m like, Jeez, what the hell are you watching that crap for in the first place. But they’re outraged. I’ll bet you this is an American phenomenom. I’ll bet you the rest of the world pretty much didn’t notice, and they’ll pay much more attention to the American public reaction than they will to the event itself.
Yesterday instead of watching the game I went to the Ho Chunk casino and blew about $60 in an hour and a half. That’s the most I’ve ever been willing to lose in one visit. I wonder what it means that I’ve cpme to that realization. Where did it come from?
And I had this name floating around in my head today – “Judge Kennesaw”. And my own voice saying right after it would float through – “Who the FUCK is Judge Kennesaw?” I googled it at home this evening and found he was once the Commissioner of Baseball. But the myster remains. How did the name get in my head?
And briefly I had three me’s going today. There was a me saying, “Judge Kennesaw”. There was the me saying, “Who the FUCK is judge Kennesaw”. And there was a kind of uber-me wondering why I was so obsessed with the name,
And all these thoughts fly around my head at work, and along comes the really satisfying thought that I love my job, and that I’m really good at it, and I work in a place where that gets recognized and people send you thank you notes and little gifts. And since I’m basically a service guy as a media technician and handle various electronics that seems to be a mystery to most folk around, Im on the receiving end pretty often. Last week was a really good one. One day I got thank you notes from the Directors of Medicine and Emergency Services for two different things, and the next day I got a cookie bouquet from the cardiac department.
And not I wonder this whole bragging thing was the subconscious point from the start. I’ve been thinking of going to counseling, but I’m really skeptical that it will help me. Besides, there’s always another me standing over my shoulder and questioning my reasons and motives for every thing I do, or don’t do. To often ridiculous extremes.
Really, I don’t think this thread lives up to the title, as it’s not the most mundane thread. I need to give that some thought.
