Smell the flowers?

I just got back from my first professional sporting event ever in Florida :) My best friend Sue took me to see the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team play the Atlanta Thrashers for my birthday.
It’s weird… it’s not like I’m terribly old I suppose, but this year, for the first time ever, I am actually kind of dreading my birthday. I guess it kind of reminds me about how I’ve really not lost any weight since last year… 8 lbs. I’ve furthered my career a whole lot but honestly, I’ve not stopped to smell the flowers at all. Tonight I realized how much there really is to do in Tampa and how I’ve lived right near there for like 2 years and I’ve seriously only been there once recreationally (the other times were airport trips.)
Right now I’m watching “Dark City” from 1998 starring Jennifer Connolly and Kiefer Sutherland. I hadn’t heard of it until I haphazardly came across it on netflix. I’m not sure how I did, but I did. It came out the year before the Matrix and it seems to possibly have influenced it a bit… it’s a weird ass movie. I’m about 20 min in and I like it so far.
That’s about all I have to report right now. I’m always really busy and pretty lonely…

More than 25.

26) I really wish I could show my students Eddie Izzard because he is so funny and makes you want to learn more about history. Alas, I can do no such thing as he says “fuck” far too frequently though it is done in an incredibly witty fashion.

27) I have an insatiable case of techno joy. I just got a new laptop and I named it “Deathstroke” because I have a newfound unhealthy obsession with DC Universe vs. Mortal Kombat on PS3.

28) I refuse to not see good in people. This can often be mistaken for naivety, however I would argue it is merely a function of my positive outlook on life.

29) For some reason, I really like buying two of the same product at a time at the grocery store. I think this has made me an especially good target for buy one get one free deals.

30) Spicy food makes me feel alive. The fact that wasabi is a fantastic color is also helpful.

31) I borrowed an anthology of African literature from my new coworker about a month ago and I read the first page of a James Weldon Johnson article and had and ADHD moment and have not continued reading the rest of it since.

32) I have never done any sort of drug with the exception to those prescribed to me by a Dr. Even then, I took them only as directed.

33) By the same token, I am the only person I know over the age of 18 that has never smoked marijuana or cigarettes. I used to be proud of this, but the older I get, the more I feel oddly ashamed of it.

34) I sat next to Syesha Mercado’s sister earlier today at my friend’s wedding.

35) I have absolutely no idea why my grandmother, a highly intelligent, cultured, and choosy democrat, has chosen to date an old drunk republican with an assault charge over the last few years.

36) I often wish I had more contact with my family. I can’t discern whether our lapse in contact is due to the fact that they are busy, a lack of interest in maintaining a relationship with me, or both.

37) I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I will probably never have a “life-long” romantic relationship.

38) I really REALLY miss Rina Edge, Erin Bressler, Anna Brody, Adrienne Best, Serina Lidder, and Rachel Morgan-Wall (yes, I know it’s Butler now but you’ll always be Morgan-Wall to me)

39) I’m just so busy I feel like I never get the time to do anything as well as I would like to do it. I just feel burnt out and unnoticed.

40) I wish I had more friends with whom I could discuss NBA basketball in depth.

41) I think Daylight Savings Time is the most ignorant, asinine invention ever. If people are putting this much thought into what kind of light is outside, why are they not putting this much thought into education and health care?

42) For some reason, I really hate watching local news on TV. It usually pisses me off. I usually get my news online from as many sources as I can find.

43) Artificial banana flavored food pisses me off.

44) I often wonder if the Copernican Theory of Heliocentrism is also wrong.

45) My coworker recently suggested I check out this “clothing optional” camping festival thing near here and that it was a good place to make friends. I am unsure how I feel about this suggestion.

46) I was pleasantly surprised to read earlier today that Pope Benedict XVI recently said that evolution was G-d’s tool for creation.

47) I see no real problem with using swear words as long as they are not used in an accusative way. For example: If someone said to me “What the fuck is going on here?” I would take no offense in the use of “the F word.” However, if someone said “You’re a bitch,” I would likely take offense to that as the swear word is directed “at” me.

48) I welcome the fact that our country has a growing number of hispanic people.

49) The highlight of my day so far was overhearing an intelligent conversation about David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and how gay people deserve civil rights.

50) I am an green fire-breathing dragon from another planet masquerading as a human on earth.

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