Well, I’ve mostly recovered from my illness. It’s just a little achiness here and there. And waking up with a nose full of dried snot, which, strangely enough, always results in my drooling all over my pillow.
But enough of that grotesque business. I was ruminating last night after I changed out of my work clothes and into some sweat pants. It turns out that a tight pair of underwear can seriously impare a man’s ability to think straight, and mine were not only tight but twisted all up.
Anyway, after I dislodged that problem, I got to thinking. It seems I’ve been writing about things that happen to me, but only in the morning. Perhaps as this site evolves, I’ll write more about the afternoons and evenings. It’s not like I planned it like that, but it seems to have turned out that way.
Hold on, maybe I did plan it that way, and I’m just set out to confuse you. Of course, I did begin this little diatribe with a morning snot on the pillow reference, so it’s hard to dispute it.
Anyhow, I was wondering if it would be “legal” to post some of the stuff I had written in college onthe site. I mean, it’s not newer stuff. A lot of the things I wrote in college were much more abstract.
I had this English teacher in high-school - actually all of my English teachers in high school - who was obsessed with finding symbolism in everything. We had some books we had to read and she would say that the image of some birds landing on the water here in the book means that someone has died somewhere else in the book.
I scratched my head a lot in high-school English. And not just because I didn’t usually read the assigned reading, either. Sometimes you just read a book for entertainment. That’s how I usually read books. And I just wasn’t into finding symbols everywhere I read.
So when I started writing in college, I immediately started applying faux-symbols to everything. It was kind of like finding common symbols everywhere that were simply red-herrings. Reading my college writing is mostly like wading through a New York fish market.
There are a few pieces that I like, though. Maybe I’ll scan them and put them online…
