WWPD

this picture of kobe bryant shows him doing something cool whilst about to fall. sometimes, one falls down & it's humiliating 'cause there's not really a good reason. and in these great crises of life, i like to ask the pressing question, what would pedro do? pedro's been guiding me ever since i discovered his inveterate employment with South of the Border. i figured if he's worked at such a multi-faceted yet low-budget "highway oasis" for so long, surely he has some conventional wisdom for the rest of us.

so i'm at a meeting last night & have to get up for some water about an hour and a half in. discussion about serious stuff ensues as i stand to get my water. i failed to check on whether or not my feet had fallen asleep due to being seated in the same position for 1.5 hours. i stand up for about half a second & then collapse on the floor. also, i moaned something indiscernible. this was not due to a twisted/broken ankle or some gloriously painful injury. i wanta say it was because i was embarrassed when i realized why i had fallen. so everyone was a little worried at first, then mostly laughing when i explained what happened. what would pedro have done in the situation? laugh at himself. get up & get the water. then offer to repeat what happened for more laughs. and he would tell the story later with some really amusing embellishments. i didn't do the third thing (or the fourth thing yet), but i think on a scale of 1 to 10, pedro would give me about a 7.

on another, less embarrassing subject, i'm reading the diving bell & the butterfly. more when i'm finished. but for now, suffice it to say it's been wonderful to get more descriptive detail of some of the anecdotes depicted in the film (see 11/15 post). i'll go ahead & recommend because 1, i'm kind of obsessed with jean-dominique bauby's story, and 2, it's very well-written, meaningful, thought-provoking, colorful & honest.