Here's the deal.
I keep not writing because I have nothing to write about, and then if I do think of something worth tossing out general commentary on, it just seems so arduous. Some people have to try to cross the countryside while other people throw rockets at them, I have to come up with some statement of what I've done lately. We all have our crosses to bear.
So here are some things I should have written about, and haven't. If you haven't already heard everything I have to say about a topic, just ask.
* New Orleans
* San Francisco
* Corporal punishment and retaliation, and how people who are 31 maybe shouldn't get all "whoever's stronger has the power, that's just reality" after they've just had a "whose dick is bigger" contest with an eight-year-old
* The Cough of Unrelenting Tenaciousness
* Why Microsoft spell-checking software doesn't flinch at "tenaciousness" when "tenacity" is an actual, real word
* The inexplicable "planning" of the construction work near the library
* How when you drive around with the windows down people feel it's okay to mock your hair
* How I decided to get my air conditioning fixed, and then had a friend volunteer her husband to do it, and how I then pissed off said friend, and now I don't know whether I'm still supposed to come to their house, or if I should just get it fixed
* All the movies I've seen lately
* My two-year-old niece's weirdly Victorian habit of calling entire families by the name of the male head of household
* How kids these days are bugging the shit out of me
* How all of the Goodwills in the I-72 corridor have gotten rid of their dump boxes, and also refuse to accept more crap right now
* How I've been to more movies in the last two weeks than in the last two years, and how most of them were perfectly tolerable
* Decatur Celebration
* Pringles with jokes printed on them
* The effect of Pringles-worthy jokes on park district softball teams
* Craptastic but summerific books I read
* The end of Schaffer's bowling alley, and the rise of O'Flannagan's Irish Pub and Restaurant (and Bowling Lanes and Banquet Hall) (and I am not making all of that up)
* Paul Harvey's ludicrous American Marine Saved by the Healing Power of Thinking About Wal Mart story, and how Paul Harvey can't possibly still be alive anyway, and how do they think we're buying this shit?
* The pressing urge I feel to go eat and drink and shop and run around everywhere in town RIGHT NOW before the tidal wave of students eddies in, even though I've had two months to eat and drink and shop and I've mostly just stayed home
* And just where the hell has summer gone?
I'm betting there were others that are best left forgotten. What's been on YOUR mind lately?
posted by tornadia @ 7:29 PM
6 Comments:
I've been wondering lately why people lie about stupid things, especially when it's trivial to call them on such lies, e.g., I sold my house for $25,000 more than I really sold it for (don't you realize that this information is public? anyone with a computer can look it up), I usually run a 15K in X minutes (same thing: most organized races offer statistics on race times; all you have to do is google the site and look up the name), I make $100,000 a year (B.S., you only make $70K tops).
I don't know why this bothers me. Am I the only one who calls people on their obvious lies? (I do so intrapersonally, btw, I am not tacky enough to do this to their faces :-)
I think the proper response to that is "...and?"
"I make $100,000 a year."
"...and?"
Am I supposed to make flattery impressed noises because you're vain enough to tell me that? Once upon a time, that would have been considered so tacky.
I was trying to say that people generally lie about their income (not that I, personally, make $100K).
Yeah, I got that. People say a lot of ridiculous crap.
I, for example, could claim that I worked my way though college as a pool shark.
whaaat? you didn't?
It's funny--having read this again, later, I assumed I was talking about a shark. In a pool. Which is actually about as likely as the other, really.
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