Things from Today, 11/27

Wow I just realized that instead of simply being bored on the interwebz, I can just blog about it and be slightly less bored! Woot blogspot FTW.

Happy thanksgiving day everyone!

Yep, that was just about as much as I'm gonna say about that. meh. *shrugs*

So i had this thought today. What if everyone would say hello and goodbye to everyone else. You get in the elevator with a stranger and say "hello", instead of silently judging them. Then when they're leaving they say "have a nice day" or "goodbye" and it'll be wonderful! we can do this everywhere! sharing a bus seat? "hello, can i sit here?" "Hey, yes ofcourse"...
I feel the world may be a better place.


Laptop keyboards are so annoying. They're too sensitive, too fast for me. I mean, i type fast, with ten fingers, and pretty accurately, but these keys are so flat and they don't really have much depth to them and it's just irritating.

So i was right! I spent my entire plane ride reading. I finished Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", which is actually a play, and almost finished Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely loud and Incredibly Close". R&GAD was fantastic. Basically, Stoppad takes out the minor characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from "Hamlet" and sets them as the protagonists in their own play. The setting is quasi realistic, because so much seems illusional and unreasonable. Though there's defintely plenty of silly and fasecitious dialouge, i think it hides many tragic instances between the lines. This brilliant piece of theater ends with a tragic but inevitable end- and honestly, it was one of those books you close slowly and smile when you're finished with them.

Foer has an outstanding ability to take several drastically different characters and weave them together (think: Everything is Illuminated). This book is utterly honest and ridiculously heartbreaking, but not yet over :] so I will let you know. He is one of my favorite authors, and one of the most distinguished writers of the day- with prose that is moving, characters that are charming, and ideas that are filled with well-versed emotion.

anyway. I'm in california! It's so nice here- almost december and only 65 degrees.

I'm seeing CTY-ers tomorrow and am very happy about that!
hmmmmnomnomnom i'm tireedd (jetlag?)



parking lots are our oceans
and shopping carts are our ships
and we sink in gravel and float through concrete
only to find ourselves in the eyes of our friends.

peace&thelove forever!