Unintelligent Design

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 | comments (4)
I think I may have missed a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. C has probably suspected as much since we began co-habitating, but I've not made the realization until now. I noticed as I was swimming today that breathing came easier, movement came easier. Far easier in the water then out of it. Of course, you say, things are easier when you're weightless, when there is no gravity. Yes, yes. But this is different. When I'm swimming things don't hurt. Moving seems natural. All is well with the world in general and with my body specifically. As soon as I get back on land, things go horribly wrong. Various aches and pains commence. The pavement is hard and unnatural underneath me. A tense feeling in the back and hip. An inability to breath right. In short: It all goes to shit.

I yearn to devolve. I yearn to return to the primordial ooze. I yearn to be a fish. Tell that to the Kansas Board of Education. My design weren't so intelligent.

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You need a therapeutic massage. Swimming will still be nice, but massage will help relieve your evolutionary aches and pains.

Posted by Reya Mellicker on Nov 16, 2005 at 6:15:04 PM
I've never been much for massage, but you're probably right. I am starting up chiropractic stuff again, so that's something, at least.

Posted by Rothko on Nov 16, 2005 at 6:25:31 PM
gravity is some serious shit!

Posted by Laundro on Nov 17, 2005 at 11:31:51 AM
Thanks for helping me remember why I don't live in Kansas. But I do have a couple of cousins who are currently enrolled in the school system there. Maybe I should get them Origin of Species for Christmas. Not sure my aunt would appreciate that but I am all for being the "cool" cousin.

Posted by James on Nov 17, 2005 at 6:16:21 PM
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