8/3/08
Everyone should have a completely useless skill which they are superlative at.
When I was little, being fascinated by calendars, I was able to recognize a month’s general pattern (starting on day X with Z days) as being identical to month M of year Y.
This is the type of skill whose acquiring is too dependent on the wonder of childhood; not knowing what is and isn’t important to be learned, the forming brain learns to instinctively be able to recognize certain combinations. Certainly the smaller set of existing months aids, but growing older, it is less learning and more memorization.
Now I’m not even sure what year it is.
When I was little, being fascinated by calendars, I was able to recognize a month’s general pattern (starting on day X with Z days) as being identical to month M of year Y.
This is the type of skill whose acquiring is too dependent on the wonder of childhood; not knowing what is and isn’t important to be learned, the forming brain learns to instinctively be able to recognize certain combinations. Certainly the smaller set of existing months aids, but growing older, it is less learning and more memorization.
Now I’m not even sure what year it is.
8/1/08
Some days you don’t get free frozen custard. Some days you get a free cookie instead.
Some days you get a free cupcake. Some days you have to steal another cupcake to pay someone back because they stole you a free cookie.
Some days you fall in love. Some days unrequited love of one is rewarded by requited love of another.
Some days the hours never last long enough. Some days the hours never come soon enough.
Some days they won’t let you back. Some days the lobster dies.
“…You can’t always get what you want…”
Some days you get a free cupcake. Some days you have to steal another cupcake to pay someone back because they stole you a free cookie.
Some days you fall in love. Some days unrequited love of one is rewarded by requited love of another.
Some days the hours never last long enough. Some days the hours never come soon enough.
Some days they won’t let you back. Some days the lobster dies.
“…You can’t always get what you want…”
7/31/08
Sometimes, on Wednesday evenings, I would go to the Women's Building... and we'd talk.
We’ll be right back after this lobster.
We understand each other in a way you never could! We both watch Lost, both are Jewish, both lived in Umrath, both did W-S Wednesday afternoons, both hosted sleepovers, both secretly dated a troupemate half a semester younger, both started off freshman year so pure and innocent that we didn't even drink and then got progressively more evil with every passing semester...
We’ll be right back after this lobster.
We understand each other in a way you never could! We both watch Lost, both are Jewish, both lived in Umrath, both did W-S Wednesday afternoons, both hosted sleepovers, both secretly dated a troupemate half a semester younger, both started off freshman year so pure and innocent that we didn't even drink and then got progressively more evil with every passing semester...
7/28/08
7/27/08
Saw Dark Knight. With Heath Ledger’s tragic real-life death, the Joker receives more attention than it might otherwise, but with the character of Two-Face also: the film is about the tragedy of villainry more than heroism.
7/25/08
Almost as good when I defined avuncular to someone asking what it meant after I used it in a sentence just before it popped up in the quiz, was when freerice defined playa=beach.
7/23/08
7/22/08
While I appreciate a hidden order to the universe, I don’t think that biorhythms would be satisfactory for me. Periodic cycles are too logical; subtraction from birth too simple. The process by which biorhythms would work does appeals: looking for coincidence of 3 factors, and applying that to events. However, I have found too much symbolism to constrain an order to only 3 factors.
7/20/08
“1) If you could change one life-changing event in the life of someone important to you, would you?
2) Which do you think is easier to do: be friends for many years, or be life partners for many years?
3) Have you ever walked away from someone you considered a friend?
4) If you had to choose between telling the truth and hurting a friend or lying and making them happy, which would you choose?
5) Which would you rather hear: a truth which will hurt, or a comforting lie?”
The relationship is what we make it.
We each need the other to be comfortable to be comfortable.
“On the count of 3, let's both be comfortable, okay?”
2) Which do you think is easier to do: be friends for many years, or be life partners for many years?
3) Have you ever walked away from someone you considered a friend?
4) If you had to choose between telling the truth and hurting a friend or lying and making them happy, which would you choose?
5) Which would you rather hear: a truth which will hurt, or a comforting lie?”
The relationship is what we make it.
We each need the other to be comfortable to be comfortable.
“On the count of 3, let's both be comfortable, okay?”
7/19/08
9:06 wake up before alarm
9:11 be invited to Cardinals game
12:25: accidentally take workphone on lunch
1:15 have a rude customer overhear you unprofessionally talking about them
1:16 take a break
1:31 mail a letter to ex-gf
2:00 receive mentoring from Dr. Cox’s cousin
3:02 receive free tickets to a comedy show
3:18 help an undeserving customer
3:58 help a clueless customer
4:49 help a customer despite technical difficulties
5:32 help appreciative customer
7:36 arrive in the 2nd inning
7:55 crave pizza
8:00 find toasted ravioli, Asian Stir Fry, and quesadillas- but no pizza.
8:05 crave toasted ravioli
8:10 find pizza, but no toasted ravioli
8:15 just get nachos instead
9:00 leave in the 6th inning
9:18 talk about customers on the walk back
9:19 be approached by appreciative customer
9:20 have date try to set you up with appreciative customer
9:45 start telling about day
11:37 finish telling about day
11:38 realize that it’s not over yet
9:11 be invited to Cardinals game
12:25: accidentally take workphone on lunch
1:15 have a rude customer overhear you unprofessionally talking about them
1:16 take a break
1:31 mail a letter to ex-gf
2:00 receive mentoring from Dr. Cox’s cousin
3:02 receive free tickets to a comedy show
3:18 help an undeserving customer
3:58 help a clueless customer
4:49 help a customer despite technical difficulties
5:32 help appreciative customer
7:36 arrive in the 2nd inning
7:55 crave pizza
8:00 find toasted ravioli, Asian Stir Fry, and quesadillas- but no pizza.
8:05 crave toasted ravioli
8:10 find pizza, but no toasted ravioli
8:15 just get nachos instead
9:00 leave in the 6th inning
9:18 talk about customers on the walk back
9:19 be approached by appreciative customer
9:20 have date try to set you up with appreciative customer
9:45 start telling about day
11:37 finish telling about day
11:38 realize that it’s not over yet
7/18/08
“I think sometimes there are perfectly normal-seeming days where we wake up one person and go to bed another.”
I really wish go to bed could take a second object there. I guess it can, like a future form to to bed, meaning to seduce. It's too profound a statement to not have clever wordplay.
It should eventually get there.
“A quick swoop in to mention K[] just enough to agitate me (if I were as easily agitated as she last recalls me) and then Oh Whoops I Have To Go To Bed.”
<payoff on the syntax joke>
I really wish go to bed could take a second object there. I guess it can, like a future form to to bed, meaning to seduce. It's too profound a statement to not have clever wordplay.
It should eventually get there.
“A quick swoop in to mention K[] just enough to agitate me (if I were as easily agitated as she last recalls me) and then Oh Whoops I Have To Go To Bed.”
<payoff on the syntax joke>
7/17/08
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