AM Asides

So it’s 8:37am CDT, and I’m going to update all day with what’s on my mind.

8:37am: I am glad to have made it to work when I did, as it’s now raining pretty hard and I don’t like (or own) umbrellas.

8:38am: I am reading a slate.com article on A Separate Peace. This is the book, which when taught to me in 10th grade, made me HATE looking for Deep Hidden Meaning in literature. This legacy carries over to Lost, which I watch only because I like the story, not because I’m trying to find a truth or an obscure philosophical reference.

9:17am: I’m fighting off unholy food coma, because I got myself a Chik-Fil-A biscuit and I got to bed late and awoke at 3am. Also, it’s grey with rain and the office is surprisingly quiet.

9:19am: Dear slate.com, can you please be more like nytimes.com, which only offers a “single page” option if there’s more than one page? Kthxbai.

9:30am: I’m reading the Wikipedia article on borderline personality disorder and suffering from a little medical student’s disease.

9:32am: Further down the article and feeling much better now. Does it seem to you as well that all psychiatric disorders are merely marks on a spectrum?

9:47: Dear HR/Marketing departments at work, Two things: First, having employees pay a little for the privilege of wearing jeans on a Friday is a fine tradition. Having employees pay approximately $180 over the course of a year to wear jeans ONE DAY during the year is either Machiavellianly brilliant, or just plain awful. Not sure which. Second, an employee appreciation day email that has prominently featured on the invite, NO EARLY ARRIVALS, just doesn’t sound very welcoming, now does it?

9:54am: “Natty” is an underused word, don’t you think?

10:12am: wsj.com welcomes my thoughtful comments. Can’t you hear Tim Gunn’s voice when you read that sentence?

10:30am: Reading atl.com article on studying for the LSAT. I’d forgotten about how much time it took to study for that test. Something about that time pales in relation to studying for the bar; however, it was not an insignificant amount of time. I lived with my mother when I took it and I’m now having flashbacks of, “Shouldn’t you be studying?”

11:14am: Break in the lunchroom. Just had a long conversation about the wonder that is reality TV. One of my coworkers has a picture of himself with Kynt & Vyxsin. I think I’m in love.

11:57am: Wondering if the boy would ever read all the texts in my phone. Wondering if I would ever read his. For the record, I would not read his.

12:00pm: Time for a new post.