Thank you friends

I am sorry for being a bloggy slacker and as much as I would love to be able to say I have been far too busy to get on the computer, the awful truth is I had plenty of time but nothing to report. Sometimes I am the social butterfly and other times I revert to its childlike state and become the cocoon. The past month has been the cocoon and I apologize if I caused any concern. I do appreciate those of you who dropped in, very much, in fact, to check on my antics and found nothing new.

In reality, the scary part is that since the spider episode, nothing very exciting has happened, nor have I done anything worth telling. I think I may be going through my mid-life crisis. I would prefer to believe that than to think I may be mentally ill. Try as I might, I couldn't find my "happy place" during this stressful time and I tried really hard to find it. But sadness was the order of most days and I figured nobody wanted to hear about that so I chose to stay completely away from my computer altogether. Okay, I confess, I would try to check my e-mail once a week, but with the amount of mail I would find when opening it, it overwhelmed me and I would close it.

When Virgil told me he was leaving the island for school I was disappointed but I was happy for him and even though it would drop my income by more than half, I knew I would get by okay until Mike said he was moving out and my rent was to go up. I was sad to see him go but happy for him at the same time. But then PH dropped my hours the same week and I kinda lost it and shut down mentally. Spent my first 2 weeks of off time with my nose in a book and finished the whole series of Vince Flynn books. Then a week of catching up on all the stuff I recorded on my Tivo like cable box. Then a cleaning spree. Then a pleading and begging for hours at PH thing. All while trying to get my teeth fixed and juggle that with trying to get more hours. My teeth still are not finished and I will get them done when I return from vacation but I do have more hours at PH and hopefully Virgil will be back in July for the 2 weeks before I leave like he said and everything will be okay.

I seriously debated even going on my vacation because I had to use my savings to take care of the bills and I hate going anywhere and being at the mercy of my hosts to provide for me--food, rides, whatever and I have never been good at asking for help, even when I truly need it. Maybe it was the Counting Crows tickets that ate a big chunk of my savings but I thought I could make it up at work. What the fuck was I thinking? Oh, yeah, I was thinking "what are the odds that CC would be in New Hampshire at the same time I would be on that particular side of the mainland?" and " you can't slap fate in the face when it presents itself that way, just go!". And since all the tickets are paid for and non-refundable, on vacation I will go next month.

And on that upbeat note, I will share this story that my (state job) boss sent to me with you:

The following is an actual question given on a chemistry mid term.
The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared
it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now
have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic
(absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some
variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So
we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the
rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that
once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are
leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different
religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state
that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.

Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do
not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go
to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the
number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the
rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in
order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the
volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls
enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase
until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls
in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes
over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman
year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and
take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number
two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has
already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it
follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore,
extinct ......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a
divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my
God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"

Until later, love love to you all...........