Not that kind of out — as in outta here. Rather, I mean time, patience, energy, ambition, ideas, sync, room, sorts. Otherwise, things are just dandy.

J’ever get that way? What do you do when it happens? It’s a coping skill I’ve yet to master. It is difficult for me to look at people around me who seem to have their schedule/life/affairs in such great symbiosis, while I continue to flail around like a trout on a boat deck. (It’s not really that bad, but sometimes it seems like it.)

Some would say I am over-committed, over-stretched, and under-organized. Maybe I should just be committed.

I covet your thoughts on handling insanity, outside of finding a conveniently located bridge from which to fling myself. Metaphorically, of course.

PS – Loved all your suggestions from yesterday. See how fantastic you are?

…my show opens.

And if that isn’t enough to make me want to yak, I’ve been fighting the dreaded sick headache this morning. What is up with that? I only have rehearsals till 8:30 tonight.

Isn’t it funny how a having a headache makes it easier to complain about things not even headache-related? Hmm.

OK, here’s a task for today (speaking of non sequitur). Add to this list:

Things in the US and Canada to Do or See Before You Die

I’ll start.

1. The Grand Canyon
2. New York City
3. Niagara Falls

Ready, steady, go. You’re helping to plan a future vacation.

Fink out (to the kitchen for aspirin)

You think you’re lucky? You ain’t seen nothin…HA

I give all manner of props to people and businesses in foreign countries who make an effort to communicate with English speakers. Ours is a hideously convoluted language with ridiculous rules and even more ridiculous exceptions. Cripes, our own citizens can’t master it, so how can we expect others to do so?

Still — and I’ll probably reap bitter karma for this — I died laughing at some of these. From the Cheezburger Network people, photographs of signs in non-English-speaking countries:

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Tee hee. Juvenile chicanery from the Fink. I am ashamed of myself.

OK not really.

Hey, guess what day it is. Wahooty-hoo.

If you’re an etymology freak like me, raise your hand.

*cricket cricket*

Anyway. Check this out. Bet you didn’t know some of these: People Who Became Nouns

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You know how they say it’s physically impossible to lick your own elbow? Mm-hm.

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Here lies everything you always wanted to know about donkeys and mules.

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Awesome site that suggests movies according to eight basic human emotions.

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Colgate toothpaste likely wouldn’t be very popular in, say, Mexico or Peru or Venezuela or Costa Rica. In Spanish, colgate translates to “go hang yourself.”

Awesome.