my “new normal”

July 18th, 2010

There is a lot of talk when you are in treatment or recovery about adjusting to a “new normal.”

I have decided that my new normal necessarily needs to involve a little bit of abnormal. By which I mean silliness. Frivolity.

One of my dear Twitter friends, Melissa, is a kooky, brilliant sociologist and improv actor. She keeps me engaged by thinking deeply about illness. She also knows when to make me laugh hysterically at the absurdity of it all.

Melissa has brought to my life a new adventure: the video comedy challenge. We come up with a concept (say, brushing teeth) and we have to make videos of ourselves doing these things and then post them on YouTube. Oh, and they are supposed to be funny.

Here’s the latest comedy challenge:

Yeah. I think I’ve left normal in the dust long ago.

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