Jim

“If I were President I’d be constantly unplugging the phone and having to be pried out of the Library of Congress by whatever staff I managed to get around to hiring.”

For a President to do that would be a bad thing how, exactly? Best case: the notion would spread to Congress, as well.

Brilliant piece.

Ta. I’m still a bit weird and shocky. I’m still a little… volatile. I’m getting to know “new me” slowly, I think I had to repattern a few neural connections.

It’s very strange.

Naturally, it put me in mind of more Terry Pratchett- “”You’re not one of us.” “I don’t think I’m one of them, either,” said Brutha. “I’m one of mine.”"

It’s just lousy timing that I’ve been as fragile as I’ve been because things I need to say are coalescing as my own synaptic healing/rerouting process continues.

I’ll try to sum it up. I am not on anyone’s side. I am not a Rayndian, a Conservative, a Liberal or anything else. I’m not a label. I’m myself. A nation of one. I’m a difficult, troublesome person with strong beliefs. Also, I’m going through so many kinds of personal and actual hell that most people would implode in the face of it. I’m somehow managing to still run a company and turn a profit.

I am not what you think I am. I’m just me. I don’t fit definitions, I am not easy to know, and you know what? I like it that way. If I was easy to know, there wouldn’t be much to me. If they’re honest, most people are a lot more difficult to know than you think.

SmartDogs- definitely not. LabRat for speechwriter for someone with much better organizational abilities than mine, maybe. If I were President I’d be constantly unplugging the phone and having to be pried out of the Library of Congress by whatever staff I managed to get around to hiring.

The rest of you- Er, thank you! I apparently need to post my mental “miscellaneous” files more often.