EarthWindFire82 of Memphis

Hello Saints and Ain'ts! I'm feeling better today, not remotely bad.  I've come to realize that I need not beat myself up this week.  I think I did enough of that last week. And the week befo'. Right now, I'm posted up in the Den of Inequity doing what one does in my situation:  apply for ALL the jobs!  Methinks I've put in for about 50+ jobs.  All the interviews I've had have been dealerships.  Apparently, car lots need humans.  I am a human.  Truth be told, I would much prefer a 9-5, 8-4 or something of the sort.  Alas, I cannot turn down jobs if they pay well.  The market likes to hire people who are already working..instead of people who are NOT working and could thus start working almost immediately. Dumbness. The job market right now is not BAD, but it's really petty in Memphis.  Getting to an interview on your own merit is really rough, but not impossible.  Thus far, trying to get somewhere on my own merit seem...

Have you ever really taken a moment to think about your brain? Not Pinky & the Brain, just..you know, the brain in your head space. I thought about it.  Maybe because I need a job and have thus taken to Netflix and thinking. The brain controls aspects of our daily living that we probably don't think about.  Each breath, each movement, each blink..all controlled by the brain.  The physical things going on inside that we don't see, the outside things we observe..the brain.  Then, to add further coolness to that odd looking organ of ours, it works even when we aren't DOING anything, because we are actually DOING things.  When we're asleep, our brain is at work.  Wicked, ain't it? If your brain ever decides it's sick of working, that's pretty much it.  You don't get anothern.  You don't get put on a list to wait for a replacement from a donor - living or dead.  It's why we are told to wear helmets when we ride bikes or skate.  Ti...