#119

Before I even started the real meat of this post I realized that while I am 119 posts in, I have made my students write 145 journal entries this school year. You will have to add about 25 days to that and you'll get the final number.

But on to semi-non-important matters. Here are topics that strike me when I'm on the can, staring at the rays of the morning sun, or when I'm crouched tense looking for that damn roach that was so pleasant to wake me up in the middle of the night.

Reading multiple books is a bad idea. But sadly it happens. In this case all the books I'm reading are just great so I don't have such a big problem. One of them "Hardcore Zen..." made a mention of how enlightenment is sometimes perceived as a retirement. The whole concept of "When I 'get it' everything is going to go according to plan and I can chill for the rest of my life..." Thinking about that concept and still having not put in my retirement papers; I realize that's not how I want to be like when I'm older.

Retiring one day a week (Sunday) is enough for me! To think that such a state could exist longer than 24 hours doesn't work with my mind. Also the fact that everything will just be smooth sailing doesn't compute. I do agree with the saying "everything will be alright in the end..." BUT every moment of my life is fill with multiple endings. Do all of them come out alright? Not really but I get by.

Those are my thoughts this morning.