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Wednesday, February 12, 2003

And God said...

The other night I was watching this thing on Bravo where the cast members who do the voices from the Simpsons were all on talking about the show and how they got the gig and all that. And the guy interviewing them (he's famous, they spoof him on Saturday Night Live) asked each of them, "When you die and go to heaven what do you hope God says to you?" They must have been prepared for the question ahead of time because they all had cute snappy answers. So it got me thinking. I think I would like God to put his hand on my shoulder and say, "You did the right thing."

I spend so much time and effort trying really hard to do the right thing. Sometimes, though, the choice isn't very clear-cut. Sometimes doing the right thing means hurting someone else...or choosing the lesser of two evils. I'd like to think that when I finally close up shop and add up the receipts of my life, the numbers will show that I did the right thing more often than I didn't.

9:15:45 PM comment []

And that's why they call it Terrorism

So I'm in full-on freak out mode right now. I don't generally freak out (my brother just read that and snorted coffee out his nose.) Okay, let me clarify. I don't mean I don't freak out -- on the contrary I freak out quite often -- but about silly trivial things like dinner not turning out exactly right or a bad haircut. But when it comes to the big stuff in life -- death, terrorist attacks, war, that sort of stuff -- I'm pretty controlled. But for some reason this time is different. I think it's partially because the news is actually advising us to buy duct tape and plastic sheeting and seal ourselves into a room, for Pete's sake. And partially because of the complete unpredictablity and inevitability of the impending attack. We don't know what they'll hit us with, we don't know when, but we're pretty sure it's coming. That's for sure a prescription for a freak out. When it happens, whatever happens, I just hope I and the rest of my entire extended family are home safe and nowhere near it. And I really really hope we don't have to use that plastic sheeting and duct tape.

9:10:11 PM comment []