People are usually a little more talkative and relaxed in the weight room on Fridays, taking their workouts a little slower and shooting the breeze for a while. Some actually do not work out at all, but simply stand with their hand on a machine and talk nonsense. I looked like I was doing nothing, but I was actually between sets, and a guy walked up to me.
“Hey, what did you think of that test?”
“Yeah … I didn’t do as well as I wanted to on it.”
Funny thing was, I had no idea who this kid was. Furthermore, the fact that I hadn’t the foggiest notion of which one of my classes he was in didn’t matter, because that response applies to all three of the tests I have taken or gotten back this week. But I learned a lesson! Poor slash undesirable test performance greases the wheels of potentially embarassing social mechanics (the mechanism of this is unclear and the sample size is 1 … so take my conclusion lightly).
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - I’ve been waiting for this for a long long time. I just may purchase. This is the most beautiful comic strip (taking beauty in many ways) that I have ever had the privilege of seeing.
I’m going to leave this online until I am certain that all people whose buddy list I am on have read this.
The world of AIM and online is a hugless, barren, and lonely place. If you want to do one something right now to improve your life, try this: close AIM, let email pile up, and turn off the computer. That’s all.
Keillor’s Law - This will be printed out, because I need something like this to live by:
“If the romance or marriage needs help, the answer almost always is Have More Fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster. Take a brisk walk. Dance. Take a trip to Duluth. Read Dickens.”
“There are lots of these little guys in “Curse of the Were-Rabbit” — they’re a design motif as well as being characters in their own right. And perhaps the loveliest thing about seeing them, and every other character here, on the big screen is the way their smooth Plasticine surfaces often show the visible fingerprints of the people who have touched them.”
