What's Running through My Mind

(and maybe why I can't sleep)

As I lay in bed this morning listening to the high school band rehearse a few miles away with the tick-tick-ticking of their metronome, these questions went through my brain:

What did poor Mr. or Mrs. Bubonic do to get such a devastating disease named for him or her?

How on earth can one 50-yard skein of yard cost $100?

What goes through a dog's brain? We know they have emotions. We know they can be trained. What else do they know, and do they think we're idiots?

Is cancer more prevalent now than 100 yrs ago or just more diagnosed?

Are mold and mildew effects of the Fall?

In the Swiss Filtration System, how is caffeine rinsed out of coffee beans without flavor being washed out?

Why did the writers change up the roles in House and will it make the show over-cast?

Will we lose vowels in language due to text-messaging and return to a Hebrew system?

Why is it that someone who is afraid of turning thirty is also excited to learn of a local knitting club?

Why do people I haven't seen, talked to, or thought about in a decade show up in my dreams?

Are humans decaying--not just individually but as a whole?

Will I be able to fly in the New Earth? Will there be dinosaurs and unicorns?

Mmmm--will my homemade apple sauce go well with pancakes?

Bueller? Bueller?