The Frumious Bandersnatch

I don't know why, but I have been SUPER cranky the last two days. Everything bugs me -- too cold in the office, too hot outside, a/c at home is too loud, nothing on tv, blah blah blah.

I was feeling that way on the (very cold) bus this morning, and I decided to resort to my old cure for the crankies ... reading Jabberwocky:


JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Now don't you feel better? Seriously, I could use a Tumtum tree right about now. I am so annoyed with just about every aspect of my job. It's not exactly stressful (well, sometimes it's stressful) but it just gets soooooo unimaginably boring. I feel like the creative parts of my brain are going to atrophy. Some day, when hubbyhubs opens a kick-ass charter school in Brooklyn, I will teach English and be happier. It's not that I don't like being a lawyer -- I love learning about the law, writing about the law, crafting cogent and convincing arguments, etc ... What I don't like is pasting together the same cookie-cutter documents over and over for every case, and devoting all of my mental energy to making sure I don't miss a deadline, and fighting with opposing counsel.

So, yeah ... I'm not really sure where that leaves me. But while in uffish thought I stand, at least I have the Jabberwocky to amuse me.