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February 26, 2004:

MY USUAL SELF

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Well, dear readers, is it Lent yet? I am ready to give something up for Lent but I can’t decide until it’s actually Lent. Is tomorrow Lent? If so, I shall give something up tomorrow. I shall give nothing up today for it is not yet Lent. Why should I give something up today for no reason whatsoever. I spent most of yesterday flogging myself like Judge Turpin because of my stupidity regarding the bogus e-mail from “paypal”. I hate when I am stupid, but this is what happens when you attain true senility. I should have a pretty good idea today whether they got anything or not – I actually think we would have known pretty quickly yesterday, and I did take every precaution one could take. Thanks to all of you who did make me feel better about said stupidity. I rarely have these lapses, but I’d just finished writing three pages and my mind was totally elsewhere. I hope my mind is back where it belongs. Is it Lent yet? Perhaps I’ll give up stupidity for Lent.

Shortly I will be going to get a haircut. I was beginning to look unkempt and an unkempt BK is not a pretty sight. Actually, a kempt BK is not so hot either these days. I really want to lose at least fifteen more pounds. I am not my usual self, you see, and I must be my usual self. It is quite important that we suddenly don’t become an unusual self, because that is most unseemly. I want to be my usual self because this other self is just annoying me right now. I have indeed lost eight or nine pounds but I must lose the rest of what I want or I shall simply not be my usual self. What the hell am I talking about?

Have I mentioned that it isn’t Lent yet? I’m actually spent waiting for Lent. Do you think people who live in a tent give up something for Lent? Maybe I’ll give up a cent for Lent. I tell you, I am not my usual self, that’s the whole damn problem. Perhaps after I am kempt I shall be my usual self once again.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst we ponder what to give up for Lent.

Wait, I know what I’ll give up for Lent – stupidity, that’s what I’ll give up for Lent. Done. Excellent. Now I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Last night it rained and rained, which I rather enjoyed. I went out to put my automobile in the garage and I got soaked, oh, yes, I got soaked. I was just a fella, a fella without an umbrella. I do not know what has happened to my umbrella but it is nowhere to be found. Perhaps if I was my usual self I would be able to find my umbrella. Perhaps not.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must get kempt, then I must write, then I must prepare myself to give up stupidity for Lent, then I must eat various and sundried foodstuffs, then I must rest my weary self, usual or otherwise. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite children’s songs? Things from Disney films, or Golden Records or nursery rhymes or Peter Pan or Cinderella-type things. And your favorite performances of said songs. Let’s have loads of lovely posts, shall we, whilst I go get kempt so I can at least sort of be my usual self.

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