Disco is My Cosmos

The Dog Ate My Homework.  I don't know if I actually heard it in school, but I know I've heard it in movies and television. The Dog Ate My Homework. What does that actually mean? Translated, it means the student didn't turn their homework in and has expressed that their dog consumed it. Of course! That's a pretty literal translation. Another translation: the student decided not to do their homework and decided to blame it on an external entity (the dog). There's a few scenarios with this: 1) the student actually has a dog.  The student actually did the homework. The student left the homework out in reach of the dog, and the dog actually ate it (what a poorly trained animal. OR, what a dumb student for leaving your homework out, knowing your dog has a tendency to eat paper). 2) The student did the homework and lost it.  The dog is easier to blame for this misfortune. 3) the student doesn't have a dog and didn't do his homework.  He was flat o...

Note: This blog is a reflection on my personal struggle with emotions.  It reads almost like a children's story, and "monster" may be something different for everyone.  This is what "monster" meant to me. There was a monster who slept under my bed at night.  He was so cranky in the mornings.  He was so loud, it was hard to drown him out.  I would get ready and get in my car and head to work. I don’t know how he got in my car, but there he was, in the backseat, still being loud.  I’d change the radio stations to shut him up.  It helped.  I’d get to work and I was very busy.  Whenever I am busy, the monster would take a nap.  He’d wake and groan now and then, and then he’d sleep again. By the end of the day I would hope that monster would stay asleep.  He quietly came home with me, and he’d softly slip under my bed.  I’d have some hours of solace before bed. I’d wake up the next morning and th...

I was driving to work today, and the song "Stay Where You Are" by Ambulance LTD was playing on my ipod.  I have listened to this song countless times, but this morning it had a different message for me. "Stay Where You Are" It was speaking to my thoughts.  My mind is so often running over things I've done and possible outcomes of the future.  At times, my mind is so full of this "time travel" that I get so fooled by it and think that I am there.  I start analyzing things and thinking of "how I should have done this" or "how I should do that" or "what would be the best thing for me to do?" Sometimes this can be constructive, if it applies to problem solving directly related to work, or planning. practical things like birthday parties.  But more than often, it's just downright annoying.  It serves little purpose but to make me anxious and irritated, possibly also irritating to others who I come in contact with whil...