I am a troubled zombie.\u00a0 Not supposed to have any thought, only cravings for human flesh, particularly brains.\u00a0 Troubling something buried deep within me, is the question, Why does scorn, violence, and compulsion come so easily?\u00a0\u00a0 How can I be experiencing any cognitive dissonance when I have so little cognition left?\u00a0 But a powerful inner voice that will not be silenced tells me that I belong on the side of light.\u00a0 I value all that is light and goodness.\u00a0 Why then, does writing such dark tweets comes so naturally.<\/p>\n
This was to have been my Antidote post.\u00a0 But my zombie mind could not retain the one essential detail of the rule – the 8:00 AM deadline. \u00a0I remembered it as 8PM.\u00a0 Now mid- Sunday afternoon, enthusiastic to re-engage in Twitter versus Zombies, I find I am doomed to be a zombie for eternity – or the next rule change-whichever comes first.<\/p>\n
And I did not intend to become a zombie in the first place.\u00a0 OK, I admit, “After a night’s troubled sleep, I jump back into the fray and defy the loathsome horde.\u00a0 A Pox upon all your undead houses!<\/em><\/span>” was kind of asking for trouble.\u00a0 But I had my defense all planned.\u00a0 Before posting, I had my next tweet already copied into memory. I pasted, “I #dodge you, foul fiend, and leave a #picsafe pan of freshly sizzled bacon to distract other mindless #tvsZ zombies<\/em><\/span>” as soon as the first was tweeted.\u00a0 My downfall was that I had to attach an image and type the twitter handle of the first zombie who bit me.\u00a0 (should have gone with a reply) With image attached I was at 152 characters, now had to quickly decide which derogatory adjectives to delete.\u00a0 (should have realized that 22 chrs to spare wouldn’t cover a handle and link) Of course, during such a long delay I got a second bite, and my strategy went down in flames.\u00a0 And here’s the kicker.\u00a0 I had already planned out such a clever #safezone<\/a> across the river from an old graveyard and downstream from a healing spring.<\/p>\n So here I am, stuck on the dark side.\u00a0 Now, will my desire to engage win out over my revulsion at what I have become.\u00a0 I see some #nvzc (non-violent zombie coalition) tweets.\u00a0 \u00a0Perhaps I can be a “vegetarian” zombie.\u00a0 If Edward Cullen could do it, why not me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a troubled zombie.\u00a0 Not supposed to have any thought, only cravings for human flesh, particularly brains.\u00a0 Troubling something buried deep within me, is the question, Why does scorn, violence, and compulsion come so easily?\u00a0\u00a0 How can I be … Continue reading