I’m a rarely crazed. Everything I do is done with a goal in mind. I’m relatively level headed, not given to impulsive acts, even when those acts contain potential for magnificence.
I took off around 1 in the morning, on a 3 hours drive to the beach, to spend 4 hours surfing. The best surf of the season on this coast, after and during the storms which were blowing up the Atlantic Coast. I had missed too much to miss that.
I met a friend at a commuter lot. I got to sleep all the way there, and read all the way home. I was back by 6 this evening. This I say is merely good multi-tasking. I think I’ve not felt this great all year. Four hours I really couldn’t afford to lose will probably keep me going through this term, despite the partial paralysis I’m bound to suffer when I wake up in the morning. I haven’t surfed all year, my stomach muscles are not used to the paddle, and my legs are bound to develop some kind of post lactic acidosis syndrome.
Worth every wasted, potentially painful, second.
So, because I feel rather light of heart, with no desire to bum you out, and my desire to argue is absent, I am posting this delightful, exceptionally funny, cute video which has been around some time, but I hadn’t seen it. I’ve loved this guy forever, but have forgotten funny things as life goes on.
Thanks to Angry African on The Loose
For those coming here for biting political commentary, get thee to Waking Ambrose.
The Mayoralty of Macedon, wearing fiction as it’s mask, will provide your daily dose of it
enjoy..
peace
Thanks for a brilliant comedy of mime with Natalie onstage, by surprise. Your blog is exceptionally well written and spontaneous. I’m just discovering the gems of the blogosphere as I visit each new blog offering. I’m amazed at what I come across. Thanks, Geoff D.
It is a brilliant comedy mime is it not.
I hadn’t seen this. I love the live entrance by her.
This will take me through the rest of the day.
Thanks cooper, you have friends in high places.
Yes, I do have friend in high places, it’s nicer that way.
I grew up in Southern California and yet I have never surfed. Your pain, or rather, your wonderful description of your experience, made me feel a little envious.
It was a blast for sure. I used to spend a lot more time surfing. The last year or so I’ve been consumed with work and then grad school sometimes I think to my own detriment.
Give me the snow anytime. I never understood your desire for traipsing out in to a empty ocean to risk being eaten by the waves.
I glad you got to do it . You have to blow it all off sometimes.
I like David Armand,, really subtly brilliant, her end participation makes it more so.
eH, snow, water much the same to me.
I haven’t watch comedy central in awhile.
Sometimes, the best thing to do is what you aren’t supposed to. Like surf during school, and put up flattering links.
That is exactly what I was thinking at the time.
Well, all I can say is that only a surfer really knows the feeling. I am jealous that you can last 4 hours! My sessions last about 2 hours tops… but then again, I am fortunate to live walking distance from my break and be able to do this every day, tide/swell considering. Sometimes that makes me feel almost obligated to go.
I’m so glad you took some time out to do something you really wanted to do for yourself, thus making the experience so much sweeter!
My friends were there sacrificing to the gods of the tropical storm, they worked hard for this four hours. LOL
As usual I second Doug
In seventeen days I will be back at the ocean. Not that I’m counting
On can never go wrong seconding Doug.
I am thinking of you finally getting back to the beach.
I’m sure you’re not counting, but it’s more like 16.5 now isn’t it?
Little surfer girl!
blue crush!
endless summer!
I never have – since I only was nearby the ocean for my Navy stint (such as it was) but, I’d like to do it! At least with the hope I wouldn’t drown. That would kinda suck.
Dow: 700 points down. Do You think I was just a decent bullshitter about the woes in the economy? Let these idiots continue to stall this “bailout” and watch Wall Street drop like a stone in a mobster’s hiding place of people not liked.
Just because I don’t like the idea of bailing these c-suckers out, doesn’t mean I don’t realize the GREATER catastrophe if we do not. (Granted, I wished we drag all the exec perps into a large conference room, sit them down, with a glass of water and hot lights, grill them for hours, and give them two options: assist (without pay) in the fixing of this crap or FED PRISON without the club.)
Somehow, I think we could get movement if 50 CEOs faced prison.
And the Money needed would be done right – not like having stupid pols trying to figure it all out.
Surfing might be a better option. Hang 10!
I think something I haven’t heard much about is the disaster this is to those past the middle of their lives, pension plans, retirement plans, small businesses would be hurt and in the man who doesn’t feel like bailing out wall street will end up screwed.
I think a shack on the beach on New Zealand is looking good about now.
Hmmm… Clash.
Thought about that group while reading your prior entry about your friends and her right to defend herself.
Know your rights.
this is
a public service announcement
with
guitarrrrrr
know your rights
all 3 of them
i say
number 1…
But today, I’m thinking more along the lines of
Charlie don’t surf.
We could expand on the lyrics a wee little bit.
if you’d like.
but I cannot find the blessed record album!!
damn teener always taking my stuff. …
Hey it’s that time of year.
Surf or library? Take it from the librarian – surf.