ribbons and beaus

right now i am sitting in the empty auditorium…pathology just ended, but here i am. sort of in that hazy post-school moment where you kind of feel like you could fall asleep in your seat and you kind of feel like you could run a marathon (okay, well, maybe at least jog out to my car or something) listening to a little miles d and not wanting to move from this spot – even though the janitor will probably be here any moment and wonder what strange spell i am under that would cause me to choose to stay at school when everyone else has left for home.

but I can’t tear myself from this moment. thinking of life and feelings and all those things i barely lend a single breath to during my crazy busy days. like, for example, what was with the strange hennington kid who came into the library demanding to check out a type-writer?? who does that and why, exactly? uhh...

typewriter?

what is that for again?

but the truth is, we actually had one. and the crazier thing is it still worked! but how do you even come into knowing about stuff like that? sometimes I feel like i just wasn’t cut out for the collegiate world. do you just wake up one day and say to yourself, ‘you know, i could really use a typewriter…that would be so handy’??? and then what exactly prompts you to check out the local library? aren’t libraries for books? books that have already been written, mind you. we are a book haven, not a book-making haven, i thought. but i guess i stand corrected.

anyways, its moments like that that make me say hmmmm. but of course the next thing i know the copier is jammed and someone needs help finding journals about acupuncture and analgesia (never a good combo) and suddenly its time for clin lab and my assessment is still only half-completed and now my flash drive won’t work and so i completely forget about typewriter-boy and my library ignorance and the fact that i still have so much to learn about my job and about life and about air filters and synthetic oils and composting and global warming and (oh yes) disseminated intravascular coagualtion…which is why i must go now and learn more stuff…guess thinking will have to wait for another day.