"Are you suicidal?"

"Are you suicidal?"
"Only in the mornings." - Ocean's 11

The morning has been slow. It's pretty slow when you wake up, head out the door, and sit in a classroom and have none of the professor's information targeted at you penetrate your cranium. I can't even tell if that's a properly structured sentence. Yet, this is the challenge everyday: to wake up and do the meaningful work of changing the world. That is a very broad description of how your mornings should go. But it's true, life does not have time for you to rest. There's not enough time to think of all stuff that you could be doing with your life. Just do it. I have a lot of trouble following my own advice. It is difficult to be conscious of your actions, trying to keep your integrity intact, and have that "just do it" attitude. "Ricky Bobby isn't a thinker. Ricky Bobby is a driver!" - Taladega Nights. You should still get out of the house as a minimum requirement for living out your life. Go to the gym, go to a meeting, a concert, work, anything. If you are going to stay home, do something productive. Watch "good" television (i.e. The Sopranos or any other HBO or Showtime series), lay out your career goals and formulate a plan, do anything that will make you able to say that you did something that will somehow benefit someone in the future. It doesn't even have to be that serious.

For example, today I enabled pirate talk on Meebo in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day (Yeah, that's today). By typing in "pirateon" in your IM box, all of your IM conversations get translated in pirate tongue. I had a conversation with myself to see how it worked.

Convo w/ meself

below: pirateon
below: hello
Below: avast
below: hahaha
Below: hahaha
below: my friend
Below: me matey
below: what you doing?
Below: what ye doing?
below: right?
Below: right?
below: savvy?
Below: savvy?
below: how did you do that?
Below: how did ye do that?
below: oh well
Below: oh well
below: keep talking
Below: keep talking
below: see what people say
Below: see what landlubbers say
below: this is like talking to myself
Below: this is like talking t' meself
below: except i'm talking to a pirate
Below: except i'm talking t' a buccaneer
below: have you heard of Jack Sparrow?
Below: have ye heard o' Jack Sparrow?
below: How was your day?
Below: How were bein' yer day?
below: Fuckin' bitches with my peg leg
Below: Fuckin' bitches with me peg leg
below: Haha
Below: Haha
below: so how are the ladies?
Below: so how are th' ladies?
below: they're doing well
Below: they're doing well
below: have i lost my pirate tongue?
Below: have i lost me buccaneer t'ngue?
below: nope still got it
Below: nay still got it

Convo with my sis

ng ulo: aye lubber!
below: HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
below: are you on meebo?
below: did you really just say aye lubber?
ng ulo: what are ye talking about?
below: on meebo, if you type in "pirateon", it translates your ims to pirate talk
ng ulo: eww, arrrr..
ng ulo: i dern't do that

ng ulo: i were bein' suppose t' have work at 9
ng ulo: but that winsome lass gave me th' day off
below: [10:39] ng ulo: i were bein' suppose t' have work at 9
[10:39] ng ulo: but that winsome lass gave me th' day off
below: i'm assuming you said "bitch"
ng ulo: how about i said "s h e"
below: hahahaha

And I'm sure someone out there got a good laugh out of those convos. Meaningful work accomplished.