I took another crack at the news and I think I am starting to get the hang of this.

Here it is. Warning, it’s over 10 mins long.

I think I am relaxing into the idea that I don’t need to try to do “headline and a joke” typic comedy like Kimmel or Colbert, because that’s not what comes naturally to me.

Instead I just need to comment on news items in my usual sarcastic snarky and insightful way and let that be the content.

I feel bad about not at least including some pictures and/or text, though, but I had a lot of video to edit and less time than usual.

Less time because today’s vid is not the first vid I tried to make today. I was originally doing an acapella of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler but halfway through editing it I decided that I did not like how it was turning out so I shelved it and decided to talk about the news instead.

So between spending 45 mins editing an acapella I ended up not using and then recording and editing ten minutes of news commentary, I did not have enough time and energy left to add any ornamentation to my ANN (And Now the News) vid.

Lame name, I know. It’s a placeholder.

I mean, I could do a lot worse but still, I want something a tad more original.

As for Sobeys, they were the grocery store at the other end of town from me so I didn’t go there much. We got out groceries first from Towers department store and then from the IGA that took over when Towers went bust.

That’s when the grocery department became an IGA and the department store part become a (sigh) Zellers.

Man what a downgrade.

Had a poke you in the eye appointment today. The usual palaver with the imaging my retinae (looks at the green X, blink twice, now don’t blink…. flash!) and testing my eyesight (first the right eye… good… then the left eye…. yikes) and testing the pressure within my eyes (just let me touch this thing to your eyeball) and then waiting in one of the little exam rooms for Doctor Vaezi to come give me the jab.

I am quite happy to report that it hurt a lot less this time. Instead of feeling like, well, a needle in the eye, it felt more like a fairly gentle poke in the eye, and that’s way better.

I wish I had thought to say to Doctor Vaezi, “Quick, write down everything you just did and give it to the other doctors here!”

It was probably helped (a little) by the fact that I took a Xanax this morning. I was feeling very strange when I woke up. Kinda tense and squirrely and spooked. And I had already been thinking about taking a Xanax to deal with the anticipation of eye agony, about which I was feeling anxious, so the weird emotional affect I was experiencing just sealed the deal.

I feel better now. But it was very unpleasant. I don’t know if it was just that I was feeling grumpy about having to get the eye poke or whether I had some kind of nightmare I don’t consciously remember or what.

But I was absurdly on edge and I dunno why.

I was also sleepy, which was a pain. Almost drifted off a couple of times in the waiting room for my eye appointment. Glad I brought a book.

Also my phone. At first the screen was weirdly dim, but then I turned on the “adaptive lighting” feature and suddenly it was bright and pleasant.

I guess I know why that exists now.

More after the break.

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Yet another ellipsis…

You know, an ellipses…. to indicate a pause of an unspecified length…

That’s how I feel at the moment : like I’m in an ellipsis, a time between times, a moment between moments, in a land between the walls of reality.

I could make a really good wimpy folk song from those images. Good thing I have already made my vid for the day.

I guess this means I am in some sort of transitory stage. I’m moving from one emotional state to another and right now I am on the slender road in between them.

Lord knows where I will end up, although I suppose if I was a lot better at traversing my inner landscape via its own emotional schema (as opposed to order rigidly imposed from above by my fascist superego) I might have some idea where I’m going.

But it’s not important. I don’t need to know where each road goes before I walk on it. It’s fine to walk into the unknown in order to see what’s out there for me.

Whatever it is, I can handle it. I’m a highly resourceful and adaptable fellow when I give myself a chance to be. I don’t need to be so afraid of the world.

The problem is that when you stay out of the world, it’s easy to imagine that it’s a horrible place out there, at least for you.

In fact, you have every reason to project all kind of horribleness onto the world in order to justify staying locked away in your hovel of a home like a good hobbit.

I mean hermit. Eh, either way.

Myself, I don’t consider the world to be a horrible place in general. I suppose I’m too realistic and pragmatic and logical for that. The world is too big and complicated a place to make sweeping generalizations about and any that you make, even ones that are completely contradictory to one another, can be proven with evidence if you are selective enough in your intake.

So why not at least try pretending that the world is a great place and looking for evidence of that instead of compiling a crap list of reasons life sucks?

Alas, it is never that simple.

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.