Garden III by Tea Leaf Green

I just woke up from a nap in the recliner. To this song. It was excellent.
Now I get to write ten to fifteen pages about Revolutionary War pensioners.

Lamberton is the first name of one of the guys I’m writing this huge paper about. Its a great first name. So is Hezekiah. And Jair, Ozias, Elihu, Philemon, Cuff, Comfort, and a bunch of other great first names that haven’t been seen in hundreds of years.

I’m writing about Revolutionary War veterans from my hometown. To find out about their personal experience in the war, I’m looking through their pension applications, where they have to prove they were in the war, usually through a list of battles they were in, people they served under, or an anecdote of something that happened.

That’s what I’m doing tonight. And tomorrow night.

Alex turned me on to these guys. The song is Soldat by 5′Nizza:

So spring weekend is over, and I still have faith in humanity. Probably because I didn’t go out much. But last night I went to bed feeling good. I don’t know why, but a feeling of good hit me when I was getting ready to go to bed.

I’ve been taking down notes of what I’m thinking about before I go to sleep. Not of everything, but of the things I want to remember. It usually takes me about an hour to fall asleep, unless I’m actually tired from doing something, which is rare. So I’ve got a lot of time to think. Like when you take a shower, and ideas come to you. Its the only time of day when you’re away from distractions that keep your from quality time with your mind. I’m glad I’ve been taking down these notes too, because I’ve gotten a lot of decent ideas, and I would have otherwise forgotten them.

Joe: i didn’t do anything for earth day
Joe: except the usual small miracles that make every day a celebration unto itself
John: good
John: fuck holidays
John: I was thinking about that today, and how much I dislike the idea of that
Joe: right, we don’t have to care about the earth any day but today
John: concentrating all this [whatever] for one day of a the year, and then going back to normal afterwards
Joe: i think it’s supposed to be more like new year’s
Joe: where you think about how you can more wisely spend your next year
John: and we all know how well that works out

I had been thinking about the worthlessness of holidays, then Joe chimed in on that, and a little later Dan did too. Good.