The fact of the matter is (2011-10-28 12:41:15)

A little bird once told me that those who lie, lie down. Rather than trust the bird I proceeded to watch his flight pattern and analyze his thought process. I found that this bird put all his eggs in one nest. He simply did not take the time to fully analyze the world and all of his surroundings. Not only was this bird a traitor and a master of deception, this bird was also my friend. Sometimes you can't trust your friends.

When the light is out... (2011-01-19 07:02:03)

Today while driving my morning commute, I noticed a traffic light was out at a major intersection ahead of me. Everyone going my direction on the same street as me was simply flying through the light as if it was green, but I instead defied the popular and pushed the brake. "Why?" you ask???????????????????Because I was taught in driver's education that when a traffic light is out and the human traffic light is not present, the intersection becomes a 4-way stop. Yet these people did not seem to realize this.

My dramatic stopping at the light did do one thing. It eventually encouraged all the cars on my street to stop. But, when the cars on the other street began to move, they did not abide by the 4-way stop rule either, in fact they just starting doing the green light method as we had been doing, which angered me greatly as I wanted to go.

For a moment, my mind ran wild as if in some trance. I had a dream; NAY, A FANTASY; in which I ran out into the street and became the human traffic light. Telling cars which way to go as they yelled strange words at me such as "I don't have to listen to you, you're not a cop."

If you want me to clean my room, you really have to be more specific. (2011-01-16 00:19:12)

This one is dedicated to all the children who never wanted to clean their rooms.

Has anyone ever told you to "Clean Up" your room? Yeah? Well why is the term called cleaning UP? What does UP have to do with anything? Why didn't your parents ask you to clean down your room? That would have been funny, right? WRONG!

Maybe this is obvious to some scholars of language, but everyone else: check it out... grab your favorite English-French dictionary (the English dictionary itself didn't cover it).. never mind, I have one right here so I'll do it for you.

Looking up 'ecouter' or, clean - to clean, I am presented with many forms of the word including clean out, clean off, clean up, and... would you LOOK AT THAT... CLEAN DOWN!!! IT DOES EXIST. And what does it mean.. Well, clean up : tout remettrer en order, to tidy up to put into order. Hm, ok sounds reasonable... not that much work. But CLEAN DOWN - nettoyer a fond... NO WAYYYYYYY NOOOOOOOOOO!! NETTOYER A FOND?!?!?!?!?! NOOOO!! That literally means TO CLEAN THROUGHOUT / THROUGHLY! Wow, I am so glad my mom never asked me to clean down my room.

But look on the bright side, if anyone ever asks you to clean up again, you can do a half-ass job... just tidy it a bit. You don't really have to do a good job unless they ask you to clean down.

Babies are like... so anon. (2011-01-14 12:15:01)

I can't get this out of my head. I can't stop thinking about it. The anonymity of babies. Think about it, almost all babies look so similar. The average human probably won't remember exactly what one baby looks like compared to another. We are just like "Yeah, that's definitely a baby" but it ends at that. If you film a baby for a movie or commercial, no one is going to see you on the street in 20 years and be like "Hey, you're that baby!" Because even if you look significant as a baby, your looks change so much as you age but really only between your very early years. For example we can recognize someone who was 10 when they are 20 or even 30 provided they don't completely change the way they look. But we really can't recognize babies. They are so anon. It's insane.

ERC (2011-01-13 08:42:12)

I am sitting in ERC, better known as the cafe of death. Andrei is eating a bagel. I am eating a bagel. Owen is not eating a bagel. The tea seems nice but might be too hot to drink. The tea pot is very nice.

Here I will display my thoughts for you to read. (2011-01-13 00:05:53)

I do not know what else to say about it.