“How many times have I done this…”
No poker, events full, a dearth of free stuff- but GenCon was nevertheless full of nothing but fun times. It’s not what you do, but who you do it with.
“…Ooh, solitude / Forever me and forever you…”
8/13/08
8/11/08
8/7/08
8/6/08
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.
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