“41) How would you describe your ideal job?
(A) Ability to decide for myself what to do and how to do it
(B) Being told what to do, but not how to do it
(C) Being told what to do and getting suggestions on how to do it
(D) Being clearly told what to do and how to do it
(E) I am not sure”

You’re better than this, 41. You’re an actual question, with actual answers. Look around you; look at the company you keep. You don’t belong here.

look whatever you know this rant you've heard it before just call me tomorrow I don't want to type it out again nothing's changed

“I was tired…”

Deep breaths.
If networking really meant going to yoga class with J[], I would be okay with it.

“…If you’re not into yoga / If you have half a brain…”

Irreplaceable.

Forget either/or; this shouldn't have to be none-of-the-above.

This is what you get for having a sister.
That’s okay; it’s not like I’ve not always done this with you all the time, and I’m not even your sister, even though we always say it.

Gift receipt, please? What kind of birthday present is disillusionment. Try instead the best gelato so far found on this continent with secret imported Nutella in a fresh waffle topped with flavored whipped cream, with a side of designed-for-Belgian-royalty dark chocolate.

I feel everyone could use a little more goofdom and a little less fear of recycling bins.

One could find uncanny
How I, Danny,
Having proved double lives can be
Had, do not have any.

“As a child, I knew / That the stars could only get brighter…”

Age used to be a binary: one was either a kid or an adult.

“…And we would get closer…”

And then age became a diversity of demographic strata and substrata: boomers, babies, children of the 80s, octogenarians, teens, tweens, 20-somethings, 30-somethings, young adults, old timers, retirees, newlyweds, freshmen, sophomores, senior citizens, GenX, GenY, GenMe…

“…Now that I'm older, the stars shed light upon my face / but when I found myself…”

Age used to mean something, before self-definition.

“…But it will not present my presence / And it makes my past and future painfully clear…”

You don’t always need to have a next. Sometimes you can have a now.

“…Because I feel blind…”

At Newberry Book Fair, picked up a compilation of linguistics articles, an anthology of short stories, and a parody of Scandinavian travel hints; but not Lolita.

Cat : Soccer :: Dog : [TBD]

“Sell out with me tonight…”

When there’s only two choices, there’s only one way to compromise.
Take the money.
Run.

(It wouldn’t be an overplayed song that I hate if I weren’t forced to listen to it all the time.)

“…They tell me it’s cool / I just don’t believe it…”

Inception mythologically explores the dream/reality dichotomy. A Theseus figure attempts to emerge from the maze and return home, dealing with father-figures, abandonment, and the monster in the middle. I was expecting there to be a more explicit revelation regarding Ariadne, literally and symbolically: while she certainly sets the thread to be followed, for her abandonment to fully parallel would require a bit more of an analogue than is necessarily present within the movie- although the final scene could certainly hint to that. Nevertheless, it is even thematically appropriate that the answer is as indefinite and as derivative as any mythological idea is, different entrances to the same labyrinth.

“I want to be rich and I want lots of money / I don't care about clever, I don't care about funny…”

Society is an economy: a complex system of buyers who don’t have, sellers who don’t need. None of who can see the beauty for the trees; for they have gone too far into the forest. Morality is as abstract as time; the only difference between one year and the next is what arbitrary location some arbitrary person was born. Post-apocalypse began the day parents opened their eyes.

“…And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function / I'll look at the sun and I'll look in the mirror…”

Identity is the difference between what one is doing and what one is thinking of doing.

“…I don't know what's right and what's real anymore / And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore…”

North buy, southeast.
(It doesn’t make sense.)

“So there’s this scene in the Fugitive when he’s running from the Marshall…”

Tell me something I don’t already know.

“We were at this place in Annapolis that serves good seafood…”

I don’t like responsibility.
I don’t have power.

From basement to rooftop.

Mattress stores open are open for 24 hours, even when they are not.

How could anyone be so closedminded about being openminded.

“What I hate most about the Socratic method is how well it works.”

Showing up 15 minutes late to class trying to pass off an incompletely done assignment is not a successful solution to forgetting to do homework, not when the class only consists of 2 people, 1 of who is the professor.

It’s like it lied in the application process, but it’s so much harder to fire an employer than an employee.

Someone crossing the street got mostly across and then turned back, and seemed very flustered about it. I wanted to tell her, it’s okay, we all do it; but she had already started to cross in the other direction.

Still time to change the road you’re on.

She commits not with her heart but with her schedule.

Muppets have eyes, eyes are organs; therefore Muppets are organic.