Give me a Minute to Win It!

So I just sent an email in to NBC stating my interest in being on their new show "Minute To Win It". I have never wanted anything so bad in my life, I would totally KILL that shit. Freddy started this new thing thursday nights at Cosmics where you can win a free drink by completing one of the Minute To Win It tasks. Needless to say I was not able to complete the task... but it was a lot harder than the ones on the TV show usually are! You had to blow all but one playing card off the top of a root beer bottle in less than sixty seconds. Harder than it sounds.

I totally spaced tonight and when I got off work at two I went home to take a nap. I ended up waking up at 8:30 instead of around six to go to Claire's for dinner. I felt terrible!! I am going to have to make it up to her BIGTIME!!

Ended up stopping by Grace Moran's house for a short visit, saw some people I have not seen in a long time, it was fantastic!

I started listening to RadioLab's podcasts because my coffee bud Laura said they were awesome. Right now I am listening to their episode on Mortality, and vegetative states, and the development of how we determine death. You know, how it used to be by breath, the heart beating, and now brain function. I guess there are "11 Meditations On Death" that they are talking about. I just got done listening to them interview a man who jumped off a bridge, probably the golden gate. How he woke up that day and knew it was just the thing to do; he knew that he was going to die today and it was okay. He was on the bridge, holding the railing, about to jump. And as soon as he saw his hands let go of the railing he thought "Oh no. This was a mistake! Someone help me." But there was nothing he could do - he just dropped and hit the water. He survived (obviously), but what an experience! They also talked about this lady who went to see a neural psychologist, and at first seemed fine. But she eventually started talking about how she didn't think things were real. She then asked him "Am I dead?" And really. When you die, do you realize it? I mean. How would you know if you are dead or not?

Deep Thoughts. Everybody listen to Radio Lab.

"Now, a consequence of this cosmic scheme is going to surprise you. When you die you are grieved by all the atoms of which you are composed. Well. I mean they hung together for years whether in sheets of skin or communities of spleen, but after your death they don't die. Instead they part ways, moving off in their separate directions; mourning the loss of a special time they shared together. Actually haunted that they were once playing a part in something... larger than themselves. Something that had it's own life. Something that uhm... uh... that they can hardly put a finger on."

-David Eagleman from his book "Sum".

Don't stop believin', folks.