A nice weekend. Most of the Canadians went to their homes to celebrate their part in the gradual eradication of North America's indigenous peoples and cultures, so the campus has been mostly deserted. I thought about walking up to the people I DID see, just to see if they were American too, but naw. Besides, I've already met dozens of Americans over the normal course of my life, so what good would a couple more be?
The squirrels here are great. I never put a lot of significance into why
Todd (Achewood) was a squirrel, but after a month in much closer contact with squirrels, I get it. All squirrels do all day is jump up and down and thrash around in the garbage. They also have PCP-like strength and agility. I saw one jump from a tree to a ledge four feet away, a ledge it was completely level with, just a straight horizontal shot.
The International Student Organization set up a Thanksgiving dinner for international students yesterday night. Most of the people were graduate students, but I saw PIERRE who I recognized from other ISO events. PIERRE is from France, and boy does he hide it bad! The other players in our cast of four were Emma from Denmark and some Iranian guy who said his name several times and spelled it twice, but haha, I don't have a clue. Shit, I guess that's my whole story!
Course selection is terrible. I want to continue with Italian, but is it short-sighted of me to use my college education for that? Maybe I should try to learn something like Mandarin or Arabic that I would have a very hard time educating myself in? I don't know. Whenever I think about making my education "marketable," it requires me to look at my life taking me places I am unable to imagine. I think the way I'm leaning right now is:
Physics
Italian
Philosophy in popular film
Economics
History of science
Philosophy in popular film is kind of up in the air. In its place, I'm also thinking about taking RENAISSANCE LOVERS & FOOLS. This one is taught by my Italian teacher and would count toward the Italian minor I might want (?), and it's a subject I think I would find interesting. Gawd, I have no idea. How is college treating all of you, brothers and sisters? Are you all overflowing with motivation and direction? It's hard for me to imagine this feeling of shiftlessness and uncertainty being a widespread phenomenon!!!
The Nietzsche Family CircusI can't decide whether it's funnier when they
sync up perfectly or when they
does something else.
*EDIT*
I don't know how huge this meme is, but if you've never seen Japanese Woman Folding A Shirt,
you have my sword. Don't be discouraged by the camera work and that crazy wrong language she's speaking, you can learn how to do it! I learned how to do it, and you can too! You can learn how to do it!
Once you've learned how to do it her way, there's kind of nothing holding the whole mess together, and it falls apart when you pick it up. To combat this, I do an additional fold in half, hot dog style, if you grasp my meaning. This also reduces the area the shirt takes up, roughly by half! Here's a picture of my shirt drawer, and also some vanity shotz so you can see how committed I was to that short haircut I had for like a month in the summer.
Hahaha, this doesn't look impressive at all. Well, it's like 4 shirts deep, and I didn't fold these as carefully as I did when I first made my discovery. I probably should have looked at my pictures before formatting and uploading them. Too late to turn back now!
I made the picture face my roommate's side of the room because I envy him for liking Trainspotting a lot and having every picture he's ever taken on his wall. And yes, that IS the Washington Monument floating above my shoulder. That symbol of George Washington's 20-story marble cock is every bit as majestic to non-Americans as it is to Americans. Maybe MORE majestic!
If you think the wiry pubes all over my chin are impressive right now, wait until No Shave November!
They always rave about how great those Japanese are technologically, but I'm starting to wonder if shirtfolding isn't the ONLY thing of theirs I know how to do better!
Ah...
*montage of me in a lab coat nailing a hot dish to a pagoda, a compact car, a panda*
Sorry, I thought I had somewhere else to go with that joke.