Prepare to be Scrambled…

For anyone interested in particpating in a Scramble without actually particpating, check here all weekend. I’ve decided to blog the entire thing.

Which means, of course, that you not only get to see how a Scramble happens from start to finish in nearly real time, but you get to watch my personality progress across 48 hours without sleep.

Should be fun — if by fun you mean, “more and more stupid as time passes.”

Not to mention the documentary crew that will be shadowing me/us all weekend. Whee.

But on the bright side, we’ve got a helluva cast — Michael Shelton, Mia Frost, Kevin Van Hyning, and Melissa Bush, among other potentials — and a great crew, including Chance Shirley, Eric McGinty (hopefully), and a lot of eager others.

I’m hoping this will be the one that I watch fondly and proudly.

Your Weekly Eye Opener

From HOW TO CONTEND WITH A BOTHERSOME CO-WORKER:

Your Weekly Eye Opener: “Be prepared. The moment the unwelcome coworker enters your office, put on a mouth guard, start wrapping your hands in boxing tape and calmly state, �It�s go time.�

Find common interests. Immediately interrupt the coworker�s greeting by asking, �Have you found Jesus?� Then just as quickly answer, �Because I already did. This morning. In my cereal box. And just between you and me, I always thought that He would be taller.� ”

There are plenty more in the link. Go. Read. Chuckle softly into your pillow.

And stop touching yourself, please.

When I grow up…

I want to be a grown-up. That’s all; simplicity itself. When I grow up, I want to be a grown up.

I want to have my shit together, internally and externally.

I want to know what I want out of life. No more paradoxical desires — to be rich beyond belief but non-materialistic; to have faith in a higher power but remain open-minded; to be an adult with the heart and mind of a child.

I want to have decided long ago what I want to do with my life, what I would be happy doing for the span of my career.

I want to have practiced and practiced until I’m the best at what I do.

I want to have not screwed myself financially so young; and to have learned from having done so, and not repeated the error time and again.

I want to feel more stable across long spans of time.

I want to not be so aware that things could be worse. I want to not feel bad about wishing for better just because there are others so much worse off than myself.

I want to be able to step back, dissect and analyze my problems, and solve them. A success rate of 3 for 5 seems appropriate.

I want to be compensated for the work I do for other people. And I hope that I can fairly compensate people for what they provide me.

I want to never put the free in freelance. Or the lance either, for that matter.

Or, I want to be an astronaut.

Either one would be fine.