Last night my roommate and I were sitting in front of the couch watching the Olympics when a McDonald's commercial came on. We'd both already eaten at this point but I jokingly turned to her and said "Kaitlyn, let's go to McDonald's". I expected her to laugh and joke back, but no, she paused for a few seconds, whipped out her phone, dialed SafeRide, looked back at me, and said "Okay. Let's go to McDonald's."
We wound up being picked up by the nicest SafeRide driver ever. His name is Robert, and he was just so chill and polite and funny. He asked us what we usually got at Mickey D's and we kept trying to convince him to try a McFlurry, but to no avail. Alas. He dropped us off, we grabbed our order, and then he came back and picked us up/drove us home.
I'm going to miss Kaitlyn so much. Nobody else in my life appreciates the magic of the McNugget to its righteous extent like she does.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
I came to a startling realization today.
All my favorite artists have animals in their name!
Grizzly Bear
Fleet Foxes
Andrew Bird
Phoenix
Bat for Lashes
Foals
WEIRD.
...I spent about 20 minutes pondering this today instead of working on my metrics problem set. I would feel worse about wasting time if it wasn't for the fact that those 20 minutes probably wouldn't have really helped me on my problem set anyway. I got stuck within five minutes into it and decided that eating chocolates and listening to Ke$ha's album on repeat was a significantly better way of spending my evening. I think I made the right decision.
Grizzly Bear
Fleet Foxes
Andrew Bird
Phoenix
Bat for Lashes
Foals
WEIRD.
...I spent about 20 minutes pondering this today instead of working on my metrics problem set. I would feel worse about wasting time if it wasn't for the fact that those 20 minutes probably wouldn't have really helped me on my problem set anyway. I got stuck within five minutes into it and decided that eating chocolates and listening to Ke$ha's album on repeat was a significantly better way of spending my evening. I think I made the right decision.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
O Hai.
It has been a little over four months since my last update.
Oops.
The reason why I stopped updating this blog was because I kept getting weird paranoid writer's block. I would start writing entries about a new idea, get a few sentences in, reread them, think about how stupid they sounded, and delete them/go find something to eat. In all seriousness, I think I repeated this exact process a few dozen times before I finally decided to give up on blogging altogether/go to McDonald's.
I'm also somewhat off put by the fact that this blog goes in no direction whatsoever. It is really like a self-indulgent diary in which I talk about everything, which at the end of the day really means I talk about nothing. Even when I try to think of something that could tie my entries together, I really can't settle on anything. I'm just not passionate or vocal enough about one single subject that would translate into consistently enjoyable or interesting blog entries. Perhaps that will change in due time when I become cultivated in one particular interest or hobby, but for now, I'm not going to force myself to stick to one topic of discussion.
But what I will try to do is update at least two or three times a week. I've realized that my love for writing is more important than any weird self-esteem or ego problems I have about sharing my thoughts, and that at the end of the day, I am a happier person when I have a space to project my thoughts. So watch this space!
Oops.
The reason why I stopped updating this blog was because I kept getting weird paranoid writer's block. I would start writing entries about a new idea, get a few sentences in, reread them, think about how stupid they sounded, and delete them/go find something to eat. In all seriousness, I think I repeated this exact process a few dozen times before I finally decided to give up on blogging altogether/go to McDonald's.
I'm also somewhat off put by the fact that this blog goes in no direction whatsoever. It is really like a self-indulgent diary in which I talk about everything, which at the end of the day really means I talk about nothing. Even when I try to think of something that could tie my entries together, I really can't settle on anything. I'm just not passionate or vocal enough about one single subject that would translate into consistently enjoyable or interesting blog entries. Perhaps that will change in due time when I become cultivated in one particular interest or hobby, but for now, I'm not going to force myself to stick to one topic of discussion.
But what I will try to do is update at least two or three times a week. I've realized that my love for writing is more important than any weird self-esteem or ego problems I have about sharing my thoughts, and that at the end of the day, I am a happier person when I have a space to project my thoughts. So watch this space!
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