8.25.2008
Maybe I'm just "odd"…
So… I haven’t stopped working all weekend… It’s nuts. I am reading contracts, evaluating pages of “legalese”, and generally hoping I contract a Amazonian virus so I can be bed-ridden for the next 4 months (not so much…).
I am sitting here writing this and thinking about how odd it is that I am cognizant of the craziness of my schedule, yet undeterred from attempting to accomplish each and every one of my goals. I am writing this knowing how odd I am. Like a deer in the headlights, I want to run away, but I’m too stupid to know where…
Isn’t that an interesting situation to be in? I’m not sure what all to make of it, except to think that maybe it’s fine to be odd as long as you don’t pretend to be OK…
Oh well…
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By the way, my limited mental capacity is not the only oddity in history. Here are some other “ODD” dudes:
- Charles Darwin married his first cousin…
- John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day — November 22, 1963
- Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, immigrated to the United States in 1939 and fought against his uncle…
- Thomas Paine was elected to the first post-revolution French parliament, despite not speaking a word of the language…
- William Howard Taft is the only US President to come third in his campaign for re-election, losing to eventual winner Woodrow Wilson and fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt…
- Albert Einstein was offered the role of Israel’s second President in 1952, but declined…
- Ancient Egyptians used slabs of stones as pillows…
- King Charles the Second often rubbed dust from the mummies of pharaohs so he could “absorb their ancient greatness…
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Not sure if I feel any better after prepping that list…
Oh well – time to stop obsessing over it!





