how i get through a long day.
my friend jen, recently made a post about those cheesy tropical island desktop backgrounds. the post was about how these fantasy images are like a portal that can take you from your soul-sucking office to a happy place. go read it now if you're intrigued. but please come back.

while i don't have a picture of myself drinking a corona on a beach in mexico as my background, i do have my own method of dealing with stress at work. let me explain to you my reasoning before i tell you what i do. my brother is the program co-ordinator at an old folks home here in YK. every couple weeks they have a "dog therapy day". so they bring dogs into the home because dogs make people happy.

so when i can't get a concept nailed, or i can't think straight, i head over to cute overload dot com and look at the kitties and bunnies. it's really lame, but it does make me happy. it's actually boarderline embarassing. yesterday i started giggling in my office. here are some of my favorite cheer-er-uppers:


it's hard to tell because of the angle, but those bunnies in the last picture are really big! which intrigued me to find a really really big bunny. i found this guy!
just look at that him! he's soooooo cool. don't you just want to hug him!? and he's real! so now, whenever i get stressed out, i make up a story with this guy as the lead character.

for example. imagine coming over to my apartment to watch a movie with bunch of friends. all of a sudden this guy casually romps into the room chomping on a bundle of carrots. and at first you think, "cool! dylan got a dog...and then you take a closer look...and you think....NOOOOooooooo...that's an ENORMOUS bunny."

i asked age if she would let me have a bunny like this some day. she told me i couldn't because the big guy would be so disgruntled from such a traumatic childhood...or bunnyhood...that he would probably eat someone. plus he would stomp all over the furniture and probably break the couch.

it's ok little guy, i'll be your friend.

love,
/dr.

ps. that bunny DID make your day though right? common!
pss. my mom thinks i'm losing my marbles.