Saturday, August 9, 2008


Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Downers


I'll admit it, I'm in a negative mood today. I found making a list of icky things I have to do now, and it made me feel better.

Things that drag me down:
  • Paying a tax accountant to do my taxes, after admitting defeat and filing for an extension.
  • Rewrapping and returning a very large heavy item, paying UPS and at restocking fee, because it appeared identical to me to the actual item I should have ordered.
  • Putting an assortment of pages, taken from various sadhanas to photocopy, back in the right place.
  • Telling my good friend that I found a check I had promised him I would offer to great lama on his behalf, long after the lama has returned to Tibet.
  • Having a Targus Chill Mat—a device that keeps one’s Macbook from frying ones thighs-- break one month after I bought it, and reading the warrantee: which covers “defects” but does not cover “wear and tear” or “consequential or incidental damage.” Should I bother trying to return it?
  • Calling Brinks about discontinuing my alarm service and finding I signed a three-year contract that I am obligated to pay no matter what.
  • Being able to sit cross legged on a cushion for three hours one day, and not being able to do it the next day.
  • Filing.
  • Having my dishwasher break about one year one month after purchase, and coming to terms with the fact that having any repair person do anything to it costs just about as much as buying a new one.
  • Having Christians make elaborate devotional prayers to God and Jesus out loud on behalf of everyone in a group I am apart of. (silent is fine).
  • Having to explain to Jehovah’s witnesses at the door that, no, I don’t believe in God, nor in “creation,” nor that the universe is so ingenious that it must have been made by someone really smart.
  • That I can’t cut and paste things from Word into my Blogger blog using safari—while I can using Firefox.

Thank you for listening!