Perfect Storm @ MindSay

Because of what seemed like a perfect storm of insomnia, hot/humid weather, and way too much coffee I got about two or three hours of sleep last night. I'm pretty much running on coffee right now. I got going at around nine in the morning by just throwing on the cleanest clothes I could find and slapping some deodorant on and heading out the door (yes, I know it's gross but I'm an unemployed bachelor cut me some slack).
I made a few phone calls to the temp agencies I've interviewed with.  I then just slacked off for the rest of the day. I ended up going to Barnes & Noble just for their air conditioner. I flipped through the pages of a book about music for a while and then just browsed the isles. I ended up buying a novel on clearance for $7 (I know, I'm unemployed, I should be saving all my money. Well, fuck that I need some entertainment to save my sanity)
While at BN I ran into Chelsea. It was nice to see her and catch up. Of course, as I always do with members of the fairer gender, there were awkward pauses sprinkled in with the conversation, I talked too much, and generally acted like a big dope. I really wish I had at least made an effort to  look  nice today, instead I ran into her looking like a slob (and a sweaty slob at that) especially since Chelsea looked good today (or maybe I'm just a little biased)
Right before I ran into Chels, I got a call from one of the temp agencies basically offering a version of my old job again (to explain, my father advised I not put Demmer on my resume because the reasons that I was fired don't look good, not the best advise but not horrible either but I did it anyways). The lady at the temp agency told me the job started today. I had to turn her down, I used my school schedule as an excuse.
Unfortunately, this is the third or fourth time an agency offered me that job (not the same agency each time however). In the field I'm trying to find work in the only place in town doing any real hiring (other than union contracts) is Demmer. Needless to say, this is unbelievably frustrating to me.
I went home and tried to take a nap but was too pissed off at my misfortune of being offer a job I'd been fired from before more then once. I called my dad to talk me down. He told me to come down to the shop for a change a scenery to calm me down. So, I worked the shop for a couple of hours.
And now, I'm at my favorite coffee shop drinking my fourth cup of coffee (iced because of the heat), listening to Regina Spektor, feeling very sleepy, frustrated with life, and just plain depressed.
So, that's  been my day, hope yours has been better.

Mark

P.S. Sorry for all the parenthesis, but that's just the way my mind works, you know?
P.P.S I was going to make this a "friends only" blog entry but decided against it at the last minute.

When the storm broke
When the rain began to fall
When the thunder and the lightning struck
And the rain and the four winds did howl?

It is a glorious time to be alive in the midst of a summer's storm. And here I sit in the dark with my laptop providing the only light within my house that is artificial. The house though is occasionally illuminated by the flashes of lightning that light the afternoon sky in all their brilliance...

This is the second storm of the day for we had one in the morning that though it was intense, it was also brief in its intensity. This second storm is far more wondrous in amount of rain, the roar of the thunder, and the flashes of the lightning - it is a perfect storm complete with the loss of electricity so that the only sounds that can be heard other than my banging away at the keyboard are the sounds of the storm...

Nature in all its glory is a sight to behold as it unleashes its fury upon the earth. The rains as they wash clean all that I can see beating to their own rhythm with the thunder kicking out a strong beat as the lightning adds its own light show to the symphony that lays just beyond my window. The winds that drive the whole show are blowing with such force as to move all the that is not strapped down or of great mass about - exchanging one's possessions for the possessions of others. Everyday is like Christmas when the storm fronts roll on through...

And now I sit here in the dark as the symphony of this storm subsides. And I look out at the world and see that though some things have changed, for the most part, the world as been returned to the way it was. And the rains have nourished the greenery and they shall burst forth anew with the new life giving waters and they shall flourish much like the flourish of horns that will signal the destruction of this world...

And now the storm has moved on to some distant place, and yet I can still hear the distant sound of thunder like some far-off train moving through the sky. I should have hopped aboard when I had my chance, but I just sat in awe as it chugged on by me. And it will continue to roll from town to town as it makes its way to the sea and there it will die like so many shipwrecks over the long and storied history of the Earth...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...

The thing that truly is underappreciated is thunder and lightening during a snow storm...

The sights and sounds are a thing to behold...