Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

I just walked into a wall at my office and gave myself a bloody nose. No, I'm not joking. I have witnesses. What the hell is wrong with you, you might ask? I have no idea. I am at the reception desk while Melissa is at lunch and we have a new wireless headset. I had gotten up to tell someone he needed to move his car in the parking garage, and then I promptly turned directly into a wall. I was so shocked that I just kept walking, with him calling after me, "Are you OK?" I then of course put my hand to my nose and discovered it was bleeding. I went to the bathroom to check it out and discovered that I had a little tiny cut on the bridge of my nose, and what looks like it will be a nice bruise, and one nostril was bleeding profusely. Nothing appears to be broken... good thing I have a nice strong Italian nose, haha.

And it appears to be slowing down now, so I'm not worried about bleeding to death from my nose. But I am starting to get a bit of a headache, although the bridge of my nose seems to be in tact so I still think it's not broken or anything.

But really, I mean, people have teased me about being klutzy before but this takes the cake. I wasn't disoriented or dizzy or anything, I just forgot where the wall was and turned my face right into it. SMOOTH.

Here's a photo for your enjoyment, though what I actually should have photographed was the pile of bloody tissues in the garbage. Nice.

It is so painful to me that people continue to have this conversation. Not just a conversation, but court cases. There is some school district (well there's more than one, but one specific one just mentioned on the news) that is being sued by 6 parents and the ACLU because they are requiring that so-called "intelligent design" be taught alongside evolution in their public schools. The theory is that the universe is too complex to exist without some intelligence behind it.

Let me review for you:

1. First of all, nobody cares what you think, it's mixing religion to teach kids as fact in school that there is a diety controlling the universe. Sorry, whatever you believe, that's true.

2. Secondly, it only seems to people who can't get over themselves that we're so important that there must be someone intelligent controlling every miniscule detail of our existence.

Even if you are someone who believes in God in one form or another, you really should be able to grasp the concept that it's a big universe, that we're not the most important things in it, and that we only think we are because we are us. Get it? It really hurts my brain to think that people are so impressed with themselves. Look around guys, we're not that great.

No not medically, mentally. I am to the point already in my life, and I'm only 29, where there's very little that I actually care about anymore. I've narrowed my focus down so much to what I care about that it encompasses very few things and people. And even for the things I'm supposed to care about I don't do a very good job of showing it.

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