Random Acts of Journalism

I don’t think i’m going to get to the Shuffle this week…does anyone care? I think not. It just doesn’t seem right writing it on a Wedesday night…defeats the whole premise in my mind. I’ll catch up next week.

Today, i’m in need of some comedy. I don’t know what it is but i’ve been having awful nightmares lately…work related, relationship related, me being a super-hero related…there’s no rhyme or reason, i just wish they would stop. It’s not so much that i mind waking up every hour throughout the night and wondering if the dream was real so much is it that A. my back is a pretzel from tossing and turning all night, B. i’m perpetually tired and C. i can’t avoid waking up in a bad mood.

It’s not that i want to, and i work for the first hour of the day to cheer myself up and move on (succesfully), but my subconcious is just so beat-up in the morning that it takes some effort to get it heading in the right direction.

I had a friend tell me, not too long ago, that she’s never had a bad day…when pressed, she mentioned that in her pre-med studies she discovered that your cells regenerate each day and when you have a bad day, you create a layer of cells that were created on a bad day…these cells stick with you until they reach the end of their life span…if you have enough bad days in a row, your entire make-up becomes a bad mood and all of a sudden you find yourself depressed and unable to escape it and unable to know why. Now, i don’t give the slightest shit whether or not this is medically true at all. To be honest, it sounds like a bunch of hooey, but i don’t care. It’s a terrific sentiment and a tremendous reason to demand of yourself to get out of bad moods and into good ones. I’ve been working on this for a while and although i was prepared to be in a bad mood all day, i had breakfast with one of my funniest friends this morning, laughed at a terrific Onion headline and turned the page on my FarSide Page-a-Day calendar.

In case you don’t have one, here are some of my favorites of the day, with Cows as the theme:

 and since i couldn’t find my favorite one (a bunch of cows standing in a pen looking petrified as the cowboy heats up a brand that says, “THIS COW BELONGS TO DARYL JONES SO HANDS OFF!), here’s a good family guy clip relating to cows.

 Laugh today and generate some good cells.