Tomorrow morning, I’m going to go out and buy a newspaper, then write a post telling exactly what page the Journal Star prints this Associated Press story, if it does at all:
From auto makers to Chicago’s Chinatown community, interest groups treated 15 members of Illinois’ congressional delegation to $129,000 worth of trips, meals and...
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in his hometown, Peoria IL. Call me at (309) 863-5748 and leave a message.
Recent Blog Peoria PostsWhen I was, say, six years younger I started getting a clue about who I was and what I was good for. Uh, I mean at. Good at. Heh, heh, heh, anyway. I was starting to figure it out. The first thing I really settled on was that I was a fundamentally lazy person. At my core I was most happy when I was just flopped somewhere and responsibilities were the easiest things to ignore. I understood that this was a major flaw and started trying to get a handle on work and getting off my butt more often. In my head that’s still who I am. I am still a fundamentally lazy person who wouldn’t know ambition or drive if they came up to where I was flopped and bit me in the face. In my mind that is still my prevailing sin that must be overcome and guarded against. Recent events, however, are starting to make me think that maybe I’ve changed.
I got sick this week. At first I thought I was just having difficulty adjusting to Daylight Savings time. I’ve gotten really good at getting up on time and getting on the treadmill first thing in the morning. I enjoy my exercise; I feel better, happier, fitter, and more hydrated ’cause I start drinking water earlier when I exercise. But this past week has been really hard for me. I was having a hard time getting to sleep and then a really hard time getting up in the morning. I was constantly running late and feeling awful while I did it. Instead of being a little giggly to hear the sweet chimes of my Jeeves clock I started having fond visions of just what I would do to a real Jeeves if he tried to wake me up. I felt horrible.
Then Wednesday rolled around. I woke up feeling the worse I had all week. My head was three sizes too big and full of cement. Some shop class had decided to practice their sanding skills on my throat and every last ounce of vip and vigor I had stored had been siphoned off by some evil person with a garden hose. I didn’t want to get up, didn’t want to move. But piano class had gotten move from Tuesday to Wednesday and I had to take Arianna and Samuel. Before that I had to call Dad ’cause it was Wednesday and I’d been looking forward to it all week. And before that I had to walk or else, um, or else I wouldn’t have walked. I would have, gasp, missed a day. And since I have a calendar I keep track of my exercise on anyone who came into my room and understood the arcane markings on the M. C. Escher calendar would know that I’d skipped a day. But, worse than that, I would know! I’d skipped one day back in February, the 9th, and it still haunts me. I couldn’t let it happen again.
I didn’t walk as fast as I normally do (I think I stayed at 2.5 mph the entire time. That’s normally just my warm up speed) and I was seriously dragging the whole way through, but I did it. I won! Then Crystal told me to go be sick after I told her I was pretty sure I was feverish. So I spent Wednesday being ill. I slept, I read, I watched a couple of movies, I slept some more and just generally felt horrible. I somehow managed to bludgeon my body into going to sleep Wednesday night only to wake up on Thursday with a terrible thought. If I didn’t get up and walk then I was going to miss a day! I’d managed to soldier on through Wednesday on shear will power so why would I punk out on Thursday? I was feeling much better. Really.
So on the second day of being sick I was once again on the treadmill. I only walked half my normal time and took it really slow, but it counted as exercise. I could mark it off on the calendar.
Who is this person? Who is this freak who can’t take a sick day when it’s given to her? Why is she on the treadmill? When did I change from the lazy bum who is happy to sleep the day away into this driven freak who folds laundry on her sick day? And what do I do about it now? I was so used to my prevailing sin being laziness that I got good at making myself get up and do. Now I need to make my self stop and sit down, but I’m totally unprepared for that.
I know I’m being funny (ish), but that one missed day in February really bugs me because other than that I walked every single weekday that month. And the one day off was supposed to be a treat, but I ended up feeling awful because I got really dehydrated and didn’t get my blood moving. I gave up on walking every weekday for a month and it wasn’t even fun. So it makes sense that I want to get March right, but I just don’t know how to deal with being driven. It goes against my nature or, I should say, it used to. Now, not so much.
Time magazine asks: http://If Rand Paul Good or Bad for the Republican Party.
Via Rich Miller:
A new opinion by the Illinois Supreme Court is very bad news for not-for-profit hospitals in Illinois who want to qualify for local tax exemptions.
Yes. It seems that it IS legal for cities to make nominally not-for-profit hospitals pay property taxes. Miller links to lots and lots of articles about it. Apparently, this [...]
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