I am presently at work. I work at the local public library. I feel guilty calling it work since they are basically paying me to sit in a chair for four hours. I am not complaining, but sometimes I feel as though I'm ripping my employers off. And here I am. I'm not even sitting in the chair I'm supposed to be in. Instead I am mindlessly wandering the internet like a little lost lamb. I have no idea how a little lamb would behave if it were to become lost nor do I think that the lamb would reliease that it was lost for a very long time. Perhaps that is the definition of the term. You wander around, not realizing your lost and that is what makes you a little lost lamb. If only I had a brain.

There is a verse in a Presidents of the USA song "Lump" that talks about a girl who stood in line to get her brain but the one she got was rotton and insane. Sometimes I feel like that. That same song has the line, "Life limped along at subsonic speeds." Once again, I'm not sure what subsonic means, but I doubt anything with a limp could move that fast. I like that song. It's catchy.

I didn't have a very satisfactory Christmas. All my family was away doing Germany or their ex-wife. Oh, I forgot to tell you people. I have decided to hate my brothers ex-wife. I'm not the sort of person to hate someone, usally. I try not to make a habit of it. However, there is a special place reserved in hell for that women, so I don't feel so bad about hating her. Besides, most of my family doesn't like her either. She's kinda (makes high pitched whisling sounds and twirls finger around her temple).

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I miss a lot of things. I miss my old creative writing class. I miss my friend Sara and her friend Megan. I miss all the relationships that I let slide, because I'm an inept moron like that. I've been called a very bad name by someone who used to be my good friend. But most of all, I miss not having to work hard to get good grades in all my classes. I know that all this hard work can only be good for me, but I would still like to get straight A's for very little effort again. It hasn't bee a good year.

I'll write more later.
Mark

It is three days till Christmas and I still haven't completed my shopping yet. I do not plan on being very extravagent when buying gifts for my friends but I still need to get them a little something.

Back to Gorillas in the Mist.

A high school teacher from NY had broken his ankle while playing basketball. He received standard treatment from his local hospital. After his cast had been removed, he was still in pain and had a slight limp. Aspirin and other pain relievers became ineffective. Taking a friend’s advice he went to see an acupuncturist. After having two sessions a week for a year his pain had greatly subsided and he lost his limp. This teacher is just one of the many people who have benefited from trying unpopular, or alternative, medicine.
Alternative medicines include treatments such as acupuncture, specialized diets, and reflexology. Some of these practices, such as the kentogenic diet, are formally recognized by scientific doctors and are used regularly in their practice to treat epileptic patients. Other alternatives medicines, such as aromatherapy, are more experimental and relies more on the attitude of the patient rather than the healing power of the treatment. Doctors are worried that the public will neglect formal scientific treatment when seriously ill in favor of these unproven and sometimes superstitious cures. Several alternative treatments are based on far-out spiritual theories and age old myths involving ideas such as the chi, life force, and the ki. These practices are collectively considered ridiculous by mainstream doctors. However, despite their mystic characteristics, could there be truth behind the old wives tales?

This is not actually a post. This is my homework. You see, my school has this online PowerVault which allows the student to access their documents in the school system. However the system was down last night and I couldn't get into this document. I am putting it on this blog so that I can get to it even if the system is down again. Better safe than sorry.
Marke