how to protect yourself fully:
- do not close your eyes, ever.
- never breathe in too deep.
- if you find you are being carried away by the beauty of a song or a cinematic episode or a play or a painting: stop it - leave the room / forest - emit a low grumbling noise to block it out - focus your eyes elsewhere.
- as often as possible think about concrete or inanimate objects or things smaller than you - concentrating on plastic packaging works especially well.
- become one with your cellphone / laptop / internet receptacle.
- grit your teeth.
- stay indoors.
- don't communicate verbally.
- do not sing or skip. ever.
- avoid (at all costs) looking people in the eyes.

oh man. the postal service is working its way deeper and deeper into my brain. slowly wearing me down into a meditative / vegetative state. i am sitting in somebody else's (jeremy went to ecuador this morning) office and just hooked this laptop up to his much-better-than-i-anticipated speakers. it's like ben gibbard is right behind me. well sort of like that, except not as creepy. now, back to jesus.