Just to feel Alive

Wow, it has been a week.  How are you all doing?  Well I hope.  Being sick last week really kicked me off of my schedule that was working so well.  C'est La Vie right? I have been so busy playing catch up that I have been missing things that have been going on around me and along those lines I should be focusing on work right now but I figured that getting something out here is probably a good break.

I have a song for you all!  Just to feel Alive

I heard this song the other day on a playlist that one of my newish yet pretty dear friends gave me. Probably considered super cheesy, but hey, that is pretty much right up my alley.  

Lion, Sculptor had never even seen a picture of a lion. 

I said last post that I should start adding pictures and things.  I figured that would be a great way to take up some space.  I really like this one.  This Lion guarded a cemetery in England I think.  I really enjoy the concept of stone creatures as guards.  The thought pleases my fantasical brain immensely.  

One day, 

C. Fletcher

Being Sick as an Adult

I went to bed last night with a bit of a cough and thought, well at least it is not too bad, knowing my body I will be over it tomorrow.  I was WRONG.  I woke up today and thought, oh no.. this is going to be rough day.  I have been coughing non-stop all day and it has gotten bad enough that I have thrown up like 3 times due to just over-coughing.  I feel fine otherwise, I likely have a temperature, but it is mainly just the coughing.  Normally one might say, "Well Colin, if you are coughing so badly just get some cough medicine and you will feel great!"  Yes that does sound like a logical, and reasonable thing to do.  The very crucial problem is that I left my wallet in a different state on accident.  That being said, I have nearly converted to a life of crime because it has gotten so bad, but I realized that it would be very hard to be stealthy when I am coughing every ten seconds.  I suppose that if I want to look on the bright side, I have not surrendered to the life of crime yet so I will not dishonor my family, ect.  I suppose the point of this paragraph initially was to say that being sick as an Adult is not nearly as fun as it was when you had someone to take care of you, but I got off on a very random and fanstastical tangent.  (which if you read this regularly be might be starting to anticipate)

Anyways, I left work early today because I don't want to infect everyone.  I had a very productive day because of it though.  I got to watch some TED talks as well, which if you haven't seen some of those I highly recommend.  They are very well done and very interesting.   I watched both of these and they are worth your time to watch.  Temple Grandin and Jill Bolte Taylor.  I also did a pretty hardcore cleaning of my room and finished two homework assignments which is pretty good for my sanity I think.

Since I had so much me time today, I had some time to think constructively.  If you lead my last post, too much time to think can be a bad thing for me, but today I started thinking about my future, what it will take to get there, and who I want to be when that day comes.  I constantly strive to be the best, but what does that mean?  How can you be the best Geneticist?  or the best Friend, Boyfriend, Husband, Musician, Athlete?  It is a hard road to travel.  It takes sacrifice that most people are not willing to give up.  Where does that leave me?  Do I lay down and sacrifice myself or friends or lovers for that greatness? These are questions that do not yet have definitive answers.  They probably will never have definitive answers.  They will likely be filled with "somewhats" and "sort of's".  Will that be enough?  I hope so.

One day,

C. Fletcher

Randomlings.

I have been debating what I should write about all day.  I have too much going on in my head right now, too much sad, too much happy, just too much.  I think I will just start with this weekend and move on from there.

I had a great weekend.  I got to play ultimate with some absolutely stellar people who really showed me how important the relationships I have made on the team are. It is sad to me that the season is over, but I am looking forward to seeing where the new friendships will lead.

I wanted to think of something clever to come up with that describes what these conversations are; ramblings, random musings, randomlings?, sure lets go with randomlings.  Anyways, This week on randomlings we are talking about emotions.  I seem to be very up and down.  I wouldn't say anything like I have a disorder, but I definitely have really high and pretty low points.  I think when I get too much time to worry about friends and the likes that I start to feel a bit depressed.  Donald Glover in his stand up tells a joke about how he would rather have AIDS than kids, because kids are horrible.  I will post the link at the end, and though I see the comedic exaggeration, I think he has a point. Many times people try to cause drama and are willing to throw others under the bus just because they are bored or the other person has something they want.  I think this is horrible and has really gotten me down lately thinking about the evil in so many peoples hearts.

I think that this has been a pretty poor attempt at a post and I doubt it has much cohesion.  I will attempt to do better later.

One day,

C. Fletcher

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