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October 5, 2025:

WHEN FOUR IS TEN

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Well, dear readers, I am still extremely discombobulated from last night. Briefly, here is what happened. Lately, I’ve written these here notes, posted them, done my pre-bed stuff, and then sat on the couch like so much fish, just watching thirty minutes of whatever and usually dozing off – that way, all I have to do is go right to bed. Perfect. So, I wake up from dozing. Check. It feels like I was out for quite some time. Check. I walk into the kitchen and look at the oven clock – four o’clock. Say what? But check. I brush my teeth, turn out the porchlight, and get in bed. And I begin to not remember writing and posting the notes. Weird. I don’t remember doing Flonase and pills. Weird. Did I? Are the notes up? Did I change to topic? I get up and go to the kitchen and look at the clock, which no longer says four o’clock – it says ten o’clock. Say what? Was I hallucinating earlier? Had someone slipped some LSD into my Wacky Noodles or had I just turned into a literal Wacky ME? And so, no I hadn’t written or posted notes, no I hadn’t done anything, no, I hadn’t eaten since Wacky Noodles. So, I had to wrap my head around all that (no mean feat) and I turned on the porchlight, and here I am writing these here notes after being slightly detoured by a telephonic call. I’m having a snack so I can take a damn pill, I Flonased, I’ll take a Melatonin and hopefully get myself together. I imagine I must have dozed off around six-thirty, so that was a nice little nap. And I’d already slept a total of nine hours after an up and down evening. All I did during the day was go to the mail place, come home, make Wacky Noodles – a very good batch – had an Instacart food delivery – just a few things – and that was really about it, as boring as it all sounds, but that’s what happens when you sleep until three in the afternoon. And now, I am listening to the Jaws soundtrack, the new release fiftieth anniversary – sounds much better than previous releases.

Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’m hoping I can get my body on some kind of normal schedule so this doesn’t keep happening, I will now check to make sure that no one has snuck into the home environment and put LSD in my food, I’ll make the pasta in pink sauce and I have some sweet Eyetalian sausage to add to the red onion and peas, so that will be tasty, and today will be a ME day and I will make it a goal to watch at least two motion pictures, at least two irritating YouTube videos, at least two interesting YouTube videos. I’ll do some organizing, but mostly I’ll relax. And I don’t care who knows it.

This week is very busy. I must prepare for our first casting session, I must have bloodwork, a couple of meetings and meals, a second casting session and callbacks, and lots of other stuff.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, get myself together on a more regular schedule, make sure no one has put LSD in my food, I’ll eat pasta of my own making – pasta in pink sauce with sauteed red onions, peas, and sweet Eyetalian sausage, watch two motion pictures along with four YouTube videos, organize, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, still a bit discombobulated by four being ten resulting in Wacky ME.

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