// Challenge Accepted//

I’m often told that I should have my own blog, I should be a writer, or something else that involves me sharing my entertaining and always welcomed horrible humor with the world, so I started this blog a while back. However, work has been a real hair in my ass(generally is come the fall) and I’ve been bad about updating.

So, to get me back into the groove of it I’ve decided to do the 30 Day Blog Challenge put forth here:

http://misstaylorcast.com/2011/06/30-day-blog-challenge/


I won’t be updating this everyday; I know myself, and myself gets lazy(read: hungover). But I will try to do this fairly often, as I’m trying to get a jump start on my New Years resolution of going after something that I enjoy rather than being stuck at boring job for the rest of eternity.

So, here goes Day 1:

Introduction isn’t necessary but I’ll bite on the recent photo:

 

I’m the Indian, or as those PC folk say “the Injun”.

15 Facts:

1-I buy a lotto ticket every Wednesday and Thursday, same numbers each time. One set are birthday numbers, one set is my name counted out, and the rest are various numbers i can no longer remember but I still choose because I’m so afraid that the second I move to other numbers those original ones will finally win.

2-My birthday is 11/11, my brother’s is 9/9, my mom’s is 4/4 and two of my best friends’ are 10/10 and 12/12.

3-Sometimes I really wish I had stuck with acting instead of going for my equally useless degree in American Studies and European Studies. But many of those times are comforted by the fact that I’m making much more than 99% of the people that stuck with it.

4-A lot of my friends pursued what they enjoyed and are actually very successful with it. I’ve had the chance to piggy-back on a number of them, but I’m actually content knowing that I can do a whole lot without relying on others.

5-I once spent a day at a water park with Katy Perry, her family and backup dancers, and my friends. That was pretty swell.

6-I hate Bono(and U2) and Dave Matthews(and band). Generally, I can stand, or better, any other music, and actually pride myself on my music preferences(though, that’s not especially unusual as I’m sure it’s rare to find someone who admits they are lacking in music taste).

7-I want to, and plan to, one day owning my own island.  If you would like to buy one for me, I suggest this company: http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/tunnel.html. Thanks!

8-I wish I was Greek. But not like…dark haired and fat Stavros from the gyro shop down the street Greek. More like Alexander the Great Greek. Sorry Stavros.

9-I’m a sore loser. But I don’t lose often. Winning often is more fun than losing and people knowing you’re okay with it.

10-I used to really want to go into politics, but after working at the Texas capitol for 3 years and then various political campaigns here, not so much. Still would like to one day, but that’s not how I’m going to make my name initially.

11-I like sleeping on the right side of the bed, I’m a big spoon, and I sometimes talk in my sleep. “Talk” very rarely, but occasionally, means “yell”.

12-Lady luck is my soul-mate. My parents refer to me as the child who can step in shit and come out smelling like a rose.

13-I can’t play an instrument for the life of me, nor can I sing exquisitely well, but if you gave me a scene to a movie that needed a soundtrack I think I could find a track that would fit it beautifully.

14-I will beat you at any trivia game.

15-I look pretty amazing in a suit, not gonna lie.

Fleet Foxes Sing Dancing on my own
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// Mad Hatter Day//

October 6 is (internationally?) known as Mad Hatter Day:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ari/madHatter.html

Working sort of as a “celebration of sillyness”, it helps break up the stiffness of a full year in between April Fools Day.

I particularly love this example of how to observe Mad Hatter Day:

We travel around by taking the juice from hundred-million-year-old rotten dinosaur food and exploding it in a metal can.

Love this girl! Shows off her dancing abilities, unique aesthetic, and general adorableness.

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// 2 People Who Shouldn’t Have an Intellectual Discussion, Do//

L: can i ask you something completely unrelated to work?
are all books fictional?
 

me: lolololol  no 

L: i need an example of one that is completely factual 

me: that’s why there’s a non-fiction section at libraries and bookstores 

L: yeah

me: hmmm 

L: but i thinkit’s arguable that historical & biographical books are fictional 

me: gotcha 
k
ind of  
what about anatomical books? 

L: ehh- but they aren’t 100% righ twright? 

me: like “the Anatomy of Dogs” 

L: i mean look at the ones from 1800

me: i mean, i’ve seen documentaries about how they’ve frozen the bodies of animals and then sliced them up super skinny, scanned those slices into a computer and then built a full scale representation
and if you’re just looking for examples, what about like…photography books?  those are pretty factual, since they are just images of the world around us
which, without getting into bullshit like plato’s allegory of the cave, is what it is 

L
: what’s the cave?
   

me
: basically, plato said think of the world like this

imagine you are in a cave, chained up with your back toward the entrance, facing the back of the cave  you can’t move your head; you can only see down the cave

L: anddddd 

me: well, if you’ve been that way since birth, then the echoes you hear down the cave and the shadows from objects moving outside that you see are TO YOU what is real
but in reality, they are only reflections/and hints of the reality that is occuring outside of your vision and hearing  you think the shadow is a movable being, since you’ve seen it since birth, and don’t know it as what we would call a “shadow”  but then, suddenly, you are released from the cave
and now everything that you thought was real is shown to be only the first surface of what reality is
basically, reality and fiction are what you make of it  
that’s how i take it

L: yeah - agreed. 

me: but as for your original question, i’m pretty sure danielle steele novels are real  
otherwise, women are really fucking dumb for reading them

// Overheard at the Office//

“I’m looking for something for Purr-Monster, but all these flavors of Fancy Feast are the same price.”

// Thoughts on Fantasy Football//

My work is starting their Fantasy Football team, and I always am the first to opt out. I posted this as my G-Chat status:

“Mitch: Fantasy Footballs starting again, so I guess that means another few months of hearing about whose warlocks and knights quarterbacks beat whose orcs and woodelves wide receivers…”

The co-worker organizing it chatted me about an hour later:

 Matt:  i love your gchat status…but quarterbacks don’t beat wide receivers…just saying
lol
 me:  I
DON’T
CARE
MATT
IT’S
ALL
FANTASY
Matt:  i know, i’m giving you a hard time
your message is hilarious though
 me:  You may win at FF, Matt
BUT I WIN AT LIFE
 Matt:  lol

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