Assorted Bubb

Observation: 2 bunk imitations of The Soup have popped up. one is called the dish, and is hosted by the girl from Boy Meets World. The other is called Sports Soup. If you took The Soup, and mixed in a bunch of jock sweat and testosterone, this is the show you would get. The host looks like McHale, except with a much larger neck and shorter hair. The jokes are dumber, and they have stolen absolutely every aspect of the show, including the guys laughing behind the camera, and the little graphics for the different segments (and even the jokes behind those, Let's Take Some E has become Let's Take A Hit (which shows people getting hit by each other)

Music: I'm liking a ska band called The Slackers a lot. Recently saw shows including Digable Planets (funky hippy rap) and John Browns Body (reggae) both of which were solid. CD of the year is Q-Tip: The Renaissance. What are you all listening to?

Game of the week: Bubble Spinner. Addicting games is worth hours and hours of time.

Phrase of the week: "Gypsy Seats" AKA Standing Room Only Seats. As in "these gypsy seats are great. we can walk in any section with immunity and not leave until we wear out our welcome by trying to steal seats"

Poison of the year: Sizzurp. Sizzurp is a beverage that consists of cough medicine with codeine, vodka, pop, and a jolly rancher. It was popularized by a rap group 3-6 Mafia, one of whose members died from it. I drankk it a few months ago, spent the entire day after vomiting blood (literally, at least a pint), and haven't been right since.

Advice: Avoid sizzurp

Something Old: I've always gained a lot of motivation for living well from the desire to impress some mythical dream girl. for the past few years, this source has been pretty dry because i dont really want girls to fall for me.

Something new: i'm researching whether people infer preference from memory. so if you remember a restaurant experience or a nonprofit cause very well, do you then think that you must have liked it? i'll know in a few days if my tests have worked out and i'm on a good path to a dissertation and a good job, or if i've been wasting the last few hundred work hours and am back to the drawing board. i'll find out in one distinct moment, which is always intense. (i'm 0 for 2 at this point).

Something borrowed: in the book/movie into the wild, they talk about how he had this spirit to explore new places and its unfortunate that he was born after all the places have been mapped and explored. his solution was to just throw out the map.

Something blue: school defines my intellectual life. i dont write or read much at all any more, and dont really have any deep aimless conversations. i say its because my mind is tired from all the school, but the problem is probably deeper than that.