Happy New Fi$cal Year! I always knew I was weird, but when this feels more like a new year to me than January first then I know I must have been conditioned and have a natural predisposition for this. It comes from years and years of public schooling. You don't move to a new grade in January, it happens in August, Therefore, summer becomes the new years break. Similarly, in business, the fun really starts at the end of the preceding fiscal year and at the immediate beginning of the next one. This is especially true in government jobs where you have to hurry up and spend the money before it's gone, and then once the new budget hits, it's like Christmas all over again. Ok, this is really boring, so I'll stop talking about it now.
I sit here at the end of my lunch break with almost a cold. This almost cold is more perplexing than a real cold. If it was a cold, I could treat it or see a healthcare professional whose job it is to specialize in colds and other assorted maladies. If it wasn't a cold then this would be a moot point in the first place and unworthy of blogging. If it becomes a cold, I could take care of it, and if it goes away I could stop worrying about it, but it just sits there as useless as the proverbial screen door on a submarine. As if to vex me even more (or possibly less) it now comes and goes. At one point during the day, my head is stopped up, and then not two hours later it is perfectly clear and I'm at the apogee of good health. It occurs to me that I may possibly be allergic to something in the school, or possibly the school itself. Despite many years of a quasi-science background, and many more years of common-sense that hypothesis actually makes the most sense of anything else I can think of. The lack of credible conjectures could possibly be explained by a serious lack of sleep on my part, but I'm just too tired to contemplate that at the moment. I think I could possibly squeeze in a short nap before I have to go "work" some more. Then maybe I could focus on more important things... I think it's my turn to lose at chess.
Jeff C.
