One of the events that irks me most these days is that of Registering. I have a school going child and it is obvious we are registering for something or the other every other day. I mean a lot does not register for me every day what with so much registering every other.
From registering for the new school year in the middle of the year - that will throw you for a time loop what with added Daylight Spending Time (or was it savings - does not seem likely what with our penchant for the former than latter) and what not added to the mix - to the registration for after school enrichment programs there seems to be a lot of onus on the entire family to ensure that education keeps dripping into your offspring.
Outside of educating they also want you to be extra curricular and register for walk or bike to school day to participate in tile paintings to register to feed the hungry. Then there is the registration for the Archery Camp which will also accept registration for the field trips. I mean what is there to register if you want to walk in the fields?
Ah - not so much registration as much its the disclaimer readathon - we the faithful school adminstration hereby disavow all responsibility of your child's unpredictable behavior and mysterious disappearances if they were to occur. The field must be big or some such.
Having spent a good half day reading the many ways one can absolve themselves of any responsibility we sign in three places and then promptly proceed to forget what we registered for. That has yet failed to register.
Back in the day if you misbehaved they threw the register (a thick ruled page book bound by glue strip binding and hard covers) at you so perhaps it would - register! Now schools simply ask offensive children bearing parents to come and register in the principal's office for their turn to meet him so that they can discuss what is ailing their ward.
I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language. Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds. The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic. Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'. This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...
Until we get deregistered from the planet, this will be our wont, won't it?
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