Just Another Day

OK, dear blog-land friends,

I just would like to say

I'm still among the living and the blogging,

but

my mind has been terrifically occupied these days.

It's called:

The Beginning of the Academic Year.

But I thought I'd check in with this:

I have for some time been interested

in this whole

December 21, 2012 phenomenon:

the rumored end

of the Mayan calendar,

not to mention that moment of

planetary alignment, when

I think our magnetic polar caps

or something like that

are supposed to shift.

And here it is --

my first experience of a 2012 calendar.

Notably,

it's one put out by the Alzheimer's Association.

And here, above,

as you can see,

is what December of 2012 looks like --

It's worth noting that December 21,

the supposed end of the world and all time

will be a Friday.

It seems suitable.

Perfect day for an End of the World Party.

And I really like this illustration,

as I am certain this is what the world will look like

at the end:

. . . and perhaps we'll all have Alzheimer's,

and perhaps that will be

the End of Time.

~ ~ 

I'm currently reading a book called

The Leftovers

by a former classmate of mine,

a man named Tom Perrotta.

It's really a good book --

Perrotta contemplates

what would happen if

a large group of people just

disappeared

in a "rapture like event."

Heaven forbid it actually be called the Rapture.

Anyway, I haven't finished it yet,

but I heartily recommend it, 

because 

well

it's just damned good.

In it, the people who leave are not

The Chosen,

and the Leftovers, are, well,

just like you and me.

I won't say anymore right now,

but I feel a longer entry coming on.

In the meantime,

enjoy 9/19/2011,

which, I predict,

will be

quite simply

just another day.

The Leftovers, at Amazon