Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Cokey McCrotch
Today I spilled Coke all over my crotch because the girl at the Crest drive-thru didn't put the lid on tight enough. And you know what I did to protest? I just let it dry ... naturally. I didn't even change my pants. This was my way of saying, "F you, Crest and lids and Murphy's Law! You can't stop me with just uncomfortable wetness!" But then I wonder: am I just one step away from peeing my pants and being okay with it?
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Reading is Phundemintal
I've been reading a lot more lately. I suppose there really is something to the whole "summer reading" craze. I always thought it was made up by book retailers and libraries. But I was wrong. It is possible to actually want to read a lot more during summer and I have had a full-fledged craving for literary knowledge lately. I began my binge by finishing a book that had taken me 9 months to read: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius."
Let me back up. Earlier in the year I had promised myself I was going to take the GRE this summer. Well, I began to study for it and realized that, after a year off school, I had once again become an idiot (with no special powers). I thought that I could do a couple things to get my mind back in the swing of education, as it were. One of them was to read more frequently. (Another was to go down to the Food Bank and look down my nose at people but that got old.) Once I finished the last 50 pages of AHWOSG, I jumped right into "Fight Club." I devoured it in about two days. I hadn't sped through material that fast since reading everything J.D. Salinger wrote one week back in 1997. I thought I'd slow things down and take it easy with a girly book called "The Lovely Bones." No such luck. I wanted to know what happened to that little dead girl's family so bad that I couldn't stop reading. One night I had planned to read a chapter before going to bed and I completed the book. It had to have been close to 100 pages I read in one sitting. Yeah? Well, it's unusual for me. In all, it probably took me a week to read.
I know you are "fascinated" by all of this. I can tell by the look on your face. My point is that reading has become cool again. (Because apparently I went through a phase where it wasn't?) I'm not neglecting my mind anymore. Now, when I get home at night, instead of falling asleep to ESPN News, I fall asleep while I read. Next on my list is "The Chronicles of Narnia," a C.S. Lewis special that I guess everyone except me read as a child. I hear there's a talking Lion or something. Sounds fine.
Whatever happened to the GRE, you ask? Well, we've parted ways for now. I'm lost in a new summer love and GRE is backpacking through Europe with the GMAT and LSAT. Let's hope they have a three-way.
Let me back up. Earlier in the year I had promised myself I was going to take the GRE this summer. Well, I began to study for it and realized that, after a year off school, I had once again become an idiot (with no special powers). I thought that I could do a couple things to get my mind back in the swing of education, as it were. One of them was to read more frequently. (Another was to go down to the Food Bank and look down my nose at people but that got old.) Once I finished the last 50 pages of AHWOSG, I jumped right into "Fight Club." I devoured it in about two days. I hadn't sped through material that fast since reading everything J.D. Salinger wrote one week back in 1997. I thought I'd slow things down and take it easy with a girly book called "The Lovely Bones." No such luck. I wanted to know what happened to that little dead girl's family so bad that I couldn't stop reading. One night I had planned to read a chapter before going to bed and I completed the book. It had to have been close to 100 pages I read in one sitting. Yeah? Well, it's unusual for me. In all, it probably took me a week to read.
I know you are "fascinated" by all of this. I can tell by the look on your face. My point is that reading has become cool again. (Because apparently I went through a phase where it wasn't?) I'm not neglecting my mind anymore. Now, when I get home at night, instead of falling asleep to ESPN News, I fall asleep while I read. Next on my list is "The Chronicles of Narnia," a C.S. Lewis special that I guess everyone except me read as a child. I hear there's a talking Lion or something. Sounds fine.
Whatever happened to the GRE, you ask? Well, we've parted ways for now. I'm lost in a new summer love and GRE is backpacking through Europe with the GMAT and LSAT. Let's hope they have a three-way.
Friday, July 16, 2004
Dear Gournal
Today I spent some time working and writing and then I went to do improv shows at Comedy Sportz. I can honestly say that most of it wasn't funny. Although, the audiences aren't as discerning and seemed to enjoy it and laugh anyway.
Afterward, a few of us congregated at the Six (code for VI or Village Inn. Similar to IHOP). It becomes harshly apparent to me in these social situations that only a few of us on this earth are meant to "get" each other. Some people just should never mix or socialize. Snobbery, you say? I say snobbery indeed. Pass the f-ing syrup.
Afterward, a few of us congregated at the Six (code for VI or Village Inn. Similar to IHOP). It becomes harshly apparent to me in these social situations that only a few of us on this earth are meant to "get" each other. Some people just should never mix or socialize. Snobbery, you say? I say snobbery indeed. Pass the f-ing syrup.
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
It's time
Everyone's doing it. I mean, I'm usually ahead of the trends but I was way off on this blog thing. The truth is that all they had to do was make it free and easy and I was in. So here is a blog; a blog written by some 30-something guy in Provo, Utah. I guess I hope that people will read it. If for no other reason than my life's little stories might make them feel better about themselves.
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