Day: November 5, 2023

7.343. Reflections on a Saturday Afternoon

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This is one of the rare times I’ve needed to compose myself before putting together a ten minute rule. It isn’t that the subject matter is so weighty, but the weight of the individual pieces is incredibly unwieldy. In essence, this will be a series of some thoughts, because none feel linked.

Some Thoughts:

  1. For the first time in as long as I’ve been at my college I am at odds with people. It isn’t so much that I’ve done anything wrong, but that people want to take what I have worked so hard to develop. I cannot stand for that. I busted my butt developing classes and building a strong student following. It doesn’t go away because someone decides they deserve it more than I do. That is ridiculous. If you want to develop a class or a prefix, go ahead and put in the work. Don’t just take mine and act like I ought to be okay with you doing that. What kind of privilege do you think you have?
  2. Speaking of privilege, I have spoken at length about the football QB at my boys’ school who doesn’t have the ability to play at the level he needs to in order to win games. His dream came to an end last night as the game was placed in his hands for us to win our biggest rivalry and secure a spot in the playoffs. The defense got him the ball back down by 5 with 2 minutes left. We had to throw. He couldn’t deliver. Season over. High School career over for my mid kid. He goes out with a loss that he had no way to prevent. Tough emotions there. Moreover, his mom didn’t even show up on time for senior night and blamed him for that. I don’t know about people anymore.
  3. In fact, I don’t know about people at all. The more time I spend in AZ the less I like people in general. It occurs to me that the kind of people you see on youtube, living simulations of life, are the kind of people these folks aspire and pretend to be–without knowing it is all make believe. I don’t much appreciate being around it. They don’t fulfill my need for intellectual conversation or even a healthy good time.
  4. That is it for now. More roils around in my head, but time has ended for today…