scatalogical humor today

I have this issue. I try to wake up by 5am, go to the gym, and then go to work. It's a pleasant concept for me -- walks like discipline, smells like discipline... Only I will never be that lord of discipline with the seven habits. So here's the issue -- if I do wake up and do the early morning gym thing, my productivity is all but constipated by 4pm, when I am ubertired.

And then I did some math. It turns out we have to be awake for 20 hours a day, and that's with the liberal 8 hours of sleep. That just seems like too much. I can handle a 20 hour marathon of Law & Order (and probably a 40-hour marathon of Star Trek), just not a 20-hour marathon of my life. Either it's too boring or too involved, or somehow both. In either case, I need a daily 4pm enema, it seems, to pick me up.

I revisited the "South Park" movie last night. It seemed a lot more inspired than it did the last time I saw it. And oddly contemporary, what with the renewed global interested in Sadaam.

I think my complaint of the day is that I've met too many good-natured people here. Too many happy-ish, serene, even-tempered, judiciously critical folks. When you feel like the only spoiled brat in the crowd, it all feels so much more artificial than it needs to.