BLOG! and MOVING

I have just noticed a trend that I like very much. There is a little thing I can click on to see how many people have read BLOG! in each month since it existed. I have a theory that the most common time that people read BLOG! is when they should be studying or doing homework. Notice how the number of views increases towards finals and then dips down during breaks. November had a small peak and then a drop during winter break. May had a gigantic peak and then fizzled in the summer. To me this says that people get more and more desperate for a distraction when they most need to focus. I am very glad to provide that distraction. Any day I can discourage anyone else from being productive is a good day for me.

On another note... I HATE MOVING. I have moved all my possessions out of my house except for some clothes and blankets for sleeping on the floor. Also, Our water is shut off. After a long day of work and then moving everything I own, I can't think of anything better than coming home to no water and curling up on the floor of my room to sleep. JOY.

Secret Service

When I saw Obama speak at work, I waited in line for several hours with a friend. During this time, there were numerous secret service agents perusing the area looking really intense and ordering people around. At one point a guy in a suit approached and asked what the line we were in was for and I got nervous like he was gonna kick us out for some reason. We did accidentally/on purpose budge in line and it seemed he was on to us.

Thankfully he was not secret service but a newspaper reporter who was just getting the facts for his story. Still, this got my friend and I thinking. We had been ready to do whatever this guy told us to do just because he had a suit on and looked official. It is very possible that if we had showed up in suits and looked really serious, we could have also ordered people around. Maybe this could work at other events too! Like concerts or museums or really anywhere with security. If someone came up to a line full of people and said that they needed to all hold their arms up so they could see that nobody had weapons I am betting they would do it and look absolutely ridiculous without a second thought. They could be told they need to stand in a line that is exactly 3 wide or that all their cameras needed to be inspected or the inside of their shoes needed to be searched for bombs and then some could get confiscated. The possibilities are endless and exciting.

Radio Star

Today on the way to work I was listening to Red Hot Ryan Scott and Tony Tone on B100 and they asked for people to call in to talk about driving before they got their licenses. Being extremely bored I dialed the number and was really amazed when someone answered. Then I was on hold for a little but ended up talking to Red Hot and Tony about the MN government getting shut down so I couldn't get my permit and then my Dad allowing me to drive anyways. Next we talked about when I let my friend's 12 year old sister drive my car right after I got my license. After that, either Ryan Scott or Tony Tone called me sweetie and I began to wonder how old they thought I was based only on my voice. Before I had told them about letting my friend's sister drive, they had asked me if I ended up getting a license, which I did...5 years ago. I am pretty sure they thought it was recent.

Hot VS Cold

I would like to make a case for cold weather. I hear way more people complain about cold weather than hot weather and I do not get it. If it is cold outside, there is an extremely easy fix: SHUT UP AND PUT MORE CLOTHES ON. If it is hot out, you can only take off so many articles of clothing without being arrested. Side note: public urination can get your name on the level one sex offender list. Unless you are intentionally urinating on or in front of a person, I would tend to disagree with the harshness of this law. Anyways, I have never been more uncomfortable than on a hot humid run where each breath feels like I am sucking in scalding vapor and I am getting little or no oxygen from the effort. I do not enjoy sticking to myself, being asked if I went swimming after running, dripping sweat on evrything, or shrivling to the ground and eventually dying. Excersizing in cold weather starts out mildly uncomfortable but gets nicer as your body heats up. Excersise in hot weather on the other hand starts out uncomfortable and then progresses to untolerable until you eventually pass out and die. Though mild temperatures are obviously preferable, if one extreme must be chosen, clearly cold weather is the better option.

Instant Netflix is dangerous

On Friday I watched 5 hours of America: The Story Of Us on instant Netflix. This is a documentary series from the History Channel that talks about everything big that has ever happened in America. I learned about the Pilgrams, the Revolutionary War, the invention of the cotton gin, the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, and everything in between. I think that is all the evidence needed to conclude that instant Netflix is a powerful but extremely dangerous thing. TOO MUCH LEARNING DURING MY FREE TIME.

I also just realized how unintentionally fitting this is since today is the 4th of July.

I got new running shoes last week. I usually get Nikes but they didn't have those in stock at school so this time I had to get Brooks. Let me first say that many people on my team run in Brooks and love them and have never had an issue with them. I have come to the conclusion, however, that these shoes are not right for me. This might just be me being picky but I don't think a running shoe is supposed to slice into your achilles every time you turn a corner. Oh well, I am sure it will be fine as long as it is just a surface wound and doesn't make its way down to the tendon. But seriously, I could cut my steak with the top back edge of my shoe.



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