A Few Random Thoughts...

#1
Sitting here in the dimming twilight (that word is forever ruined for me. Thanks, Stephanie Meyer), the beginning notes of a symphony started. The crickets started low, and were soon drowned out by the overbearing cicadas. I looked at my tabs on my browser, thinking that I had opened some video or an advertisement popped up. It had started so intentionally. It made me decide that I should propose to the makers of Windows, or Linux, or whatever operating system will give me money, to make it so that when you've been idle from your computer, it begins to chirp like crickets or hum like cicadas. I don't know why but that would be phenomenal.

#2
When I get writer's block, or just get sick of doing homework (or grading or lesson plans, as it may become), I take a shower. Sometimes, I take a shower even when I'm not doing homework, such as when I get done with a grueling Prevention workout (think 50+ aged women) that leaves me dripping with sweat. Anyways, showering is a favorite way to forget about something and to clean myself. Once in a while, I get brilliant thoughts in the shower. Today, I didn't get a brilliant thought. However, I did begin a deep thought that has come back to me throughout the day (that's how I know it's deep... I remember it after 5 minutes).
The thought came about after I started criticizing something that some other person in my family did or didn't do. In this case it was something as petty as not squeegeeing down the shower after using it. To fight mold, or just to make things more work, our rule is that the last person squeegees down the shower. Since the last person was a good few hours ago, it should have been squeegeed, and it appeared to not be squeegeed. I started criticizing the family member who I suspected, until I realized that family member was still asleep. I should've given him more credit.

Now for the deep thought. I should give a lot of people more credit. Or should I? Is it better to give someone a lot of credit, think highly of them, have high standards and expectations for them, only to be disappointed, even betrayed, when they fail? Or is it better to have lower expectations, to NOT give someone much credit, and be pleasantly surprised when they come through? I'm still working on it.

#3
This song makes me want to go back to school and learn French.