teachings of jon
so classes start in the morning and i have just been utterly unable to get my sleep schedule back on track. and i keep meaning not to nap during the day, but i'm just so tired. but i've decided that that's not why i can't go to sleep, but just b/c it's my silly brain that keeps having all these thoughts.
so tonight i finished all my reading at 11:30 and just thought i would turn on the TV and watch a few minutes of wind-down TV. well for whatever reason, in my flipping, i stop at a grown child sitting in a mickey mouse t-shirt and underwear and playing with a remote control. and i am stuck. it's the story of jon, a 43-year old man with a severe case of down's syndrome and a documentary of his family. he wears the same mickey mouse t-shirt throughout and looks like he single-handedly keeps the furby empire in business, if all those kids aren't still playing with them.
but of course it's a moving and uplifting story and his parents take care of him ceaselessly and of course w/in minutes i'm sitting here crying and i'm worried about all the children of the world and how parents do this and what happens to them when their parents die and he just can be so happy when the furbies talk and he plays in the pool and it's all so sweet and heartbreaking and this is another one of my posts that has no point. but you can visit him and his family here.
anyways, my favorite part is when they do christmas and the first thing they show is jon unwrapping a ream of paper. they say that they all try to figure out what will make him the happiest and then sit around watching him unwrap everything. then the mom says, "which usually ends up with us all getting the same thing. like last year with the rolling pins." and they proceed to have home video footage of him opening up 5 rolling pins. which was really funny. he then proceeded to open up a roll of bounty paper towels. i almost think this is how people should do christmas with me.
anyways, the real problem with this is that that was not wind-down TV. i have now gotten all emotionally volatile and i have turned my computer back on and it is only another hour until there is an hour of golden girls on and if this is anything like last night, it will be 3am before i can go to sleep, no matter how tired i am.
i haven't even picked my first day of school outfit! well, i tried to, but then i put that dress on and i could only zip it about halfway. this summer was not kind to me.
ok, that is all.
so tonight i finished all my reading at 11:30 and just thought i would turn on the TV and watch a few minutes of wind-down TV. well for whatever reason, in my flipping, i stop at a grown child sitting in a mickey mouse t-shirt and underwear and playing with a remote control. and i am stuck. it's the story of jon, a 43-year old man with a severe case of down's syndrome and a documentary of his family. he wears the same mickey mouse t-shirt throughout and looks like he single-handedly keeps the furby empire in business, if all those kids aren't still playing with them.
but of course it's a moving and uplifting story and his parents take care of him ceaselessly and of course w/in minutes i'm sitting here crying and i'm worried about all the children of the world and how parents do this and what happens to them when their parents die and he just can be so happy when the furbies talk and he plays in the pool and it's all so sweet and heartbreaking and this is another one of my posts that has no point. but you can visit him and his family here.
anyways, my favorite part is when they do christmas and the first thing they show is jon unwrapping a ream of paper. they say that they all try to figure out what will make him the happiest and then sit around watching him unwrap everything. then the mom says, "which usually ends up with us all getting the same thing. like last year with the rolling pins." and they proceed to have home video footage of him opening up 5 rolling pins. which was really funny. he then proceeded to open up a roll of bounty paper towels. i almost think this is how people should do christmas with me.
anyways, the real problem with this is that that was not wind-down TV. i have now gotten all emotionally volatile and i have turned my computer back on and it is only another hour until there is an hour of golden girls on and if this is anything like last night, it will be 3am before i can go to sleep, no matter how tired i am.
i haven't even picked my first day of school outfit! well, i tried to, but then i put that dress on and i could only zip it about halfway. this summer was not kind to me.
ok, that is all.
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