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This is not, I repeat, NOT going to be a coherent blog. I am a special depth of tired tonight, and am not planning to be all that entertaining nor insightful. Now, don’t you all feel treasured to know that I care enough to show up on a day when I’m sure to be a total bore, just because I don’t want to let anyone down?
Never mind, that didn’t even make sense to me.
Anyhow, what I’m thinking about tonight are ear worms. No, seriously. I read recently that the Germans have a word for those annoying snatches of song that get stuck in your head and repeat over and over and overandoverandover…till you could scream. And that word translates roughly to “ear worms.” Now, I call that descriptive. Calls to mind that scene in…some Star Trek movie where the bad guy…”someone,” puts those black slimy slug things in the helmets of…some of the good guys, and they crawl into their ears, causing them…some sort of problems. Um, I’m not what you’d call obsessive about details, particularly with Star Trek movies. But if there is any way you actually remember the scene I’m referring to, you know what I mean. That slimy slug creature, sliding into their ears? That’s what “ear worms” makes me think of.
Anyhow (again), that’s not what ear worms actually are. They are, as previously mentioned, those annoying snatches of song that repeat themselves in your head. At the moment, for me, it’s the theme song from “Out of the Box.” This is a children’s show on Nickelodeon (I think). My boys don’t like it, but I’ve heard the song just enough times to make it the perfect ear worm. See, in my head it goes like this:
“Out of the box (clap, clap)
Out of the box (clap, clap)
Something something something
Let’s something something,
Put them all together,
Look for one that’s something something.”
At this point I’m thinking, look for one that’s what, already? How does that go? Then I remember that I don’t care, it doesn’t matter, why am I wasting time on this anyhow? I go on with my day, only to catch myself about 4.6 seconds later, humming, “Out of the Box…”
Hate that.
Anyhow.
Look, it’s your fault anyways. You keep showing up and encouraging me. Let today’s blog be on YOUR head.
Um…g’night.