4/10/10

Today was a rainy day. I talked with Howie under the porch about how "there's only just so much playing video games and fucking you can do before you just get bored. You want to get out of the house and get a job." I told Howie that I completely agree, although I didn't have exactly the same problem as he did.

In the morning I got the idea of using an old set of stairs to let us down into the trench for digging. The stairs slid down the mud into the well perfectly, as if they were made for just that occasion. The digging was off and on, with spurts of progress mixed with long intervals of hacking at hard mud and not getting much deeper. A lot of time was also spent standing around. This was going on in my brain, an idea for a new rap:

Take a shit, yo, in yo pants, then you do a dance, take a shit yo, at a school, don't you know it's cool? Take a shit, yo, in yo pants, then you do a dance, take a shit yo, at a school, isn't greatness cool? Don't you know, bro, take a shit, drop em pants and go, don't you know, foo, at ain't cool, dat you stay in school? All my brothers say, I'm a load, dat I'm gettin old, but I tell em lookin fellum I ain't what a momma said....(chorus)....Look foo, dis a rule, take a shit inside em pants, if you can't foo, do a dance, den em fall em ants. All em troubled fools wit em rules, dis I only one: take a shit foo, in yo pants, it is really fun (chorus). Look foo, do what Jimmy do, he em drop em pants, what you say, foo, that ain't cool, I said in em pants (chorus)....etc. I think you get the idea.

These are all of my favorite songs as of today:
http://www2.mrtzcmp3.net/A_Clockwork_Orange_Beethoven__1s.html
http://mp3bear.com/tchaikovsky-nutcracker-sugar-plum-fairy-dance
http://mp3bear.com/mp3-01-the-ecstacy-of-gold

etc. I will try not to bore people to death.

http://mp3bear.com/bernstein-leonard-musical-west-side-story-mambo-meno-presto

Today I read the next paragraph in Luke, Luke 17:20-21. "For behold, the kingdom of God is among you." This was refreshing to hear at lunch in Winthrop, since I wasn't exactly "observing" anything spectacular, as Jesus says it is. After work I read the next section, Luke 17:22-37, about the final judgment and the coming of the Son of Man. "Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather." "Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it." I also read point 2352 in the Catechism on masturbation.

2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action."¹³⁷ "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."¹³⁸

To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm

I responded to Tatiana's response to my facebook message. We are talking about the movie pi, which she said was her favorite movie a year and a half ago when we went out to a restaurant in Harvard Square.

John should be sleeping over tomorrow.

I spent 15 minutes doing mental prayer in the weight room of the condominium (there's only old people here, and no one's ever in the weight room.

I'd like to make a movie called "In da Hermitage." I had a better idea at work today, but I forget it.....etc.