Fighting the Current

genetic engineering gone horribly wrong

My hands have been achy for the past few hours. Advil's not helping. I had to take one a little bit ago, and had to eat with it. I was sitting there eating leftovers when I decided to take a vitamin at the same time. The green gel Advil was sitting next to the red vitamin. It looked very much like the pills from The Matrix. Took the red one first. It didn't work. I am too easily amused.

Took my twinkle filter outside just about an hour ago to take night pictures. It as well as my makeshift lens holder worked very nicely. Well, it's easier to appreciate the composition and such when you're not terrified that you're going to be attacked by a rabid animal or sprayed by a skunk... Or worried about who else might be wandering the streets at night.

There was a strawberry in the fruit salad today that everyone swore looked like a chicken. And it did. It looked like a chicken without a beak. It was so weird. Then somebody made a beak for it and its resemblance to a chicken was startling, except that it was really small, really red, and looked like a strawberry. Genetic engineering to appeal to human carnivores?...

I'd much rather be deep than shallow, but I there is a point at which too much depth becomes unhealthy. That Nietzche quote... about the Abyss staring back...

"Ná nocht d'fhiacla go bhféadair an greim do bhreith."
("Don't bare your teeth until you can bite.")
- Irish proverb

The website that was on related it to The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I listened to that on tape. It was very, very thought provoking. But there's no way anyone can fully absorb it all in one shot. I've thought about playing it while I sleep... Wondered what the results might be...

I think the reason why I have been so prolific in this journal recently is because I have not been writing anywhere else, although I've meant to.

So long as the lines do not blur...

And my wrist and hand are still sore. I should rest them.