Breakfast of Losers
We eat a lot of cereal in my family--breakfast, lunch, dinner, elevensies--and we like it that way, thank you very much. "Well, no one ever died of a cereal overdose," my mom says as she shrugs her shoulders and pretends she is immune to the genetic weakness for boxed grains that makes up the fiber (ha!) of my dad, my brother, and myself. Truth is, she's every bit the cereal junkie the rest of us are, she just has more self-control.
Anyway, no one ever died of a cereal overdose--no one, that is until my mom sent me an email saying that one morning this week a twenty-eight-year-old was brought into the hospital (she's a nurse) after his sister found him passed out in a bowl of Froot Loops. (I don't actually know that it was Froot Loops. It could have been Wheaties. Just trying to "paint a picture." Please don't sue me Kellogg Company.)
So, I don't know if the cereal guy drowned in his milk and died or if he just passed out, was taken to the hospital, diagnosed with Acute Morning Fatigue (I think I have this; 7 a.m. is too early!), and then sent home with a pat on the head and a lolly. It's probably best I don't know since I have a tendency to freak out about my own impending demise upon hearing stories much less personally relevant than the death-by-cereal scenario. If the kid actually did meet his end a la petit déjeuner, I might never eat cereal again, which means I'll probably starve within the month, making mine the first death by lack of cereal. So let's pretend he just had a fainting spell, shall we?
Where was I going with this? Oh dear, I seem to have forgotten completely. Please imagine if you can some sort of magical transition whereby I go from talking about a possibly tragic cereal overdose to talking about how I'm increasingly unsure what to do when I open up Movable Type and click on New Entry. It's not so much writer's block as it is existence block; it's easy to post when I'm out doing a million fun things a day (or even just one fun thing a day), but it's harder when most of what I've been doing lately is commute, work, commute, veg, and sleep, and almost always in that order. In fact, there's been little time for anything else; today was the first day this week I had time for cereal!
Little, insignificant things are happening--perhaps you'd like to hear what word my Tourettesian co-commuter was stuck on yesterday? "shazbot!"--but I feel like I should spend my time and effort writing about bigger, more significant things, albeit with the criteria it not give Simon reason to boot me out onto the sidewalk. It's just...yeah, not that easy. So I feel a bit like I'm letting you down. You, yes, the people through the screen, many of whom I don't even know about and yet thoughtfully consider when putting fingers to keys in an attempt to peck out something of note. I claim Seasonal Disaffection, I claim overworked and underpaid, I claim too many months until my next vacation, I claim blaaaaaaaaah.
I guess what I really wanted to say was that I'm aware of teh suckage around these here parts of late, and I'm sorry. Somehow it's all related to cereal.
I've been feeling the same way. I still can't believe anyone actually stops by.
Even your most drively drivel is worth reading. . .keep writing, no matter what you do or don't have to say.
Just after I had Charlotte, I ate Rice Krispies (which I had never ate until being in the hospital), twice a day for about 10 months straight. Now it is Cheerios. I have some sort of ADD cereal disease. One more reason I love you.
I don't know if the quality of your posts is lacking, all I know is that you used the word of elevensies. I am all for incorporating Tolkien words into day to day speech!
So what's your fave kind of cereal?
so i dunno what you *should* be writing about, but i've noticed that the better bloggers (a crowd with which you are in good company and i am a total stranger) can make the most mundane crap absolutely fascinating. . . like i'll bet you could write something about a booger you once had and everyone, including me, would lap it up like, uh, i dunno, a kid who eats boogers. . .
and don't be hatin' on the froot loops - they've had to pick up the slack ever since trix changed their shape from the pleasingly symmetrical sphere to the crappy fruit shapes. . . i say let the rabbit have 'em!. . .
This is exactly why I post like every hundred years or so these days. Stuffs going on, but nothing note worthy - well its definitly not the screwed up existance I USED to have!
If it were for anything other than cereal, I would be upset. But, cereal? Totally justified. (and at least you do write - I haven't made an entry in my blog since last year)
Well, you might not feel particularly inspired by what's going on in your life, but I kind of like reading about the mundane shit, mostly because my life is pretty sedate. No one can be scintillating 24-7. I certainly write about mundane, everyday crap; not that I have much (or ANY) readership, but even little slices of what life is like can be interesting-- you make them so. Besides, when I read all about how BUSY and GREAT and EXCITING peoples' lives are on their blogs, I sometimes wonder: Where do you get the time to go out every night, hold down a job, complete the Next Great Novel AND blog? Really?
Besides, unhealthy love for cereal seems to be a trend in your readership. We could probably all have a discussion on the merits of different cereals. Which makes it an interesting thing to write about, especially since you got 8 or 9 or something comments on a post about CEREAL. Not bad!
P.S. This isn't meant to sound in any way like, "Buck up, little camper". Just wanted you to know that I enjoy hearing about the stuff that goes on in your life, even if you don't think it's worth writing about.
On my top ten list of favourite foods - Cereal is right up there. I could eat it at any time of the day.
I think it is the time of year or something. I am jumping on the bandwagon of those people who just couldn't find time or fun things to write about. Starting to come out of it a little (I hope) so I am sure you will too :)