Kentucky was pretty much a bust, bird-wise, but it was fun to see a new place. The park we stayed at reminded me a lot of Clarkco, but hillier and with fewer pine trees. Actually, I have no idea why it reminded me of Clarkco... they were very different places. But it did.
We are still running, and it's getting easier even though the jog times are getting longer. I can tell a big difference already. I jogged down to the mailbox the other day and wasn't out of breath at all when I got there. Granted, it's only about 75 yards away, but before starting the program, I probably would have been wheezing. I've signed up for a 1 mile walk/run on the fourth of July, and I hope to run for as much of it as possible. I'm excited. Running is fun. I'm still hoping to be ready to run the Apple Festival 5k in September.
I'm almost done reading
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which has been entertaining, but not as much as I hoped when I first started reading it. It's pretty much a one-note joke, and it gets old after a while. Probably 80% of the book is word-for-word from the original story. If I wanted to read 80% of the original, I would just read the original. The problem with this is that you often go for pages with no hint of zombies, and then when they mention them again, you'd forgotten all about them. Also, in the name of humor, the characters are made to say crude things that they'd never have said in the original or in the time period. There's a running joke, for example, about dances, or "balls," which was mildly funny the first two times, but now I just sigh and shake my head when they say it. I almost stopped reading altogether when Elizabeth said, "I do not care to spend the rest of my life cleaning out [crude word for urine] pots." Elizabeth would never have said that, zombies or no zombies. As a matter of fact, Elizabeth would have never even said "urine," or referred to it at all except possibly if it was a matter of life or death and she was whispering it to a doctor. That's just not how they talked back then. I know, I know, it's just fiction, and it's supposed to be funny, and I should lighten up. But I think that I could take this concept and write a much better version of it without resorting to jokes about bodily functions.
I'm pretty sure that jokes about bodily functions are the lowest form of humor. They're worse than knock-knock jokes. One or two instances can be forgiven (and even funny), but if any movie or book uses more than two of them, it's a sign of weakness, and if the majority of the jokes are about bodily functions, then everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves, unless they are males under the age of 14, in which it can be a little bit excused, but even then I still think they could do much better. I'm looking at you, Larry the Cable Guy.
Does anyone remember Carrot Top? He started out likable and harmless, and then he just got creepier and creepier until now he looks like Chucky. Seriously. You can Google it.
Comments (3)
Yay to Daph for the running hobby! I totally enjoyed this entry. You are such a witty person and an excellent word-smith.
It seems like every romantic comedy these days has some bathroom humor, which, to me, totally takes the romance out of it! I agree with you...it's a really cheap laugh.
I shall never use the word "enjoy" with any form of exercise--except to say that I enjoy it when the exercise is over.
Carrot Top was always creepy.