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:: Saturday, July 10, 2004 ::

relax

God, I offer myself to Thee to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do Thy Will. Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life. May I do Thy Will always.

Oh, that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would always be with me, and that You would keep me from evil.

Thank You for keeping me sober today. Amen.

Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature’s laws are more immutable than any despot’s, yet to man’s daily life they rarely seem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do. -- Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Work ... becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how. -- Alice Foote MacDougall, The Autobiography of a Business Woman

I was asked to-night why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won’t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes’ talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day’s work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat, drink, smoke, and relax. 4. I don’t know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don’t want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made. -- James Agate, “Ego 6,” entry for June 9, 1943, The Selective Ego

Not too much to report for yesterday. Work went at a much more relaxed pace, and I finally have time to concentrate on other areas. I don't feel as surly anymore. I guess sometimes I just have to get it out, and do as little damage as possible in the process. After work, I came home, read some more of I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, ate dinner, and fell asleep for a little while. When I awoke, I just relaxed and watched What Not To Wear later before falling asleep for the night. For some reason, I love that show.

Today, I'm headed to the Men's AA meeting at Lambda and then on to Ferris to visit the Patrick family cemetery with my second cousin Jerry.

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