3 Possibilities

Stamped onto the cover of a bottle of Tropicana "juice" is the following: APR3007. This could mean one of three things:

1) It's best if consumed by April 30, 2007.
2) It's best if consumed by April 3007 (Yay! Preservatives!)
3) It's trying to tell me something about financing that I, frankly, don't understand.

You be the judge.

Somedays

Somedays I get a lot of work done.
Somedays is not today.

My Quarter-Life Crisis all over again

About once a year, I start to get restless and realize how boring and repetitive my life currently is. I'm not sure why. But, believe me, when people say, "What have you been up to?" and you realize that all you do is read textbooks and occasionally play video games, and you just say, "Nothing, really. Just studying" it starts to become sad. Perhaps I should travel somewhere. Doesn't matter with whom. Probably to Ireland or Scotland or something. I just need a change of scenery.

DogNabbit!

I wish professors would tell you before hand "Hey, we're not going to get to this week's readings. We are, instead, going to continue to focus on last week's reading."
That way, you could either
a) Spend your time reading for another class, or
2) Do something other than study.

Return of the Warchief

I have decided to resurrect this blog.
I assume that, by now, anyone who was reading before has ceased to do so.
I will use this blog to post random thoughts that have little to do with anything.
Kind of like how everyone use to have their own GeoCities website - or whatever it was called.

I leave you with this thought:
I don't believe that I look any older from year to year.
However, 18 year olds seem to look younger and younger all the time.

Archetypes and Everywhere people

My friend Shannon (aka Sheldon) I think was the first to tell me about the concept of Everywhere People. I'd never really been aware of them until I got to Madison. Everywhere people are, as the name suggests, the people that you see everywhere you go.
However, another one of the requirements is that you have to not know them. They aren't friends, or coworkers, or the person that gets on at the busstop with you. Instead, you see them on the streets wherever you're walking, they're at the store buying things when you are, etc. The people you see wherever you go.

I really haven't experienced this much since leaving Madison. It may be a phenomenon that only occurs under certain circumstances. However, I have discovered a new pheonomenon which I can't really label except for "archetypes". If someone has a better idea, let me know. But these are the people that you actually meet who remind you incredibly of someone else you know. I never noticed it much until I got to law school. But these people often tend to look similar to (sometimes frighteningly so) someone else you know and also often may behave in similar ways. It's just eerie (eery?).

I'd never really noticed this before, but I have often heard, "You remind me of so and so" or "you look just like blah blah blah." I don't know if I do. But it always creeps me out. I'd like to have a convention of these people who look and/or act just like me in order to determine how similar we really are. Although I'd probably just end up feeling disappointed. Or really creeped out.

Barbarian Enters World of Technology! Confusion Sets In Shortly Thereafter.

Last week my cell phone finally showed up in the mail. I'm not proud. In fact, quite the opposite. I've never felt a need to have a phone with me at all times. I'm a firm believer in the idea of "I'm not home right now. Leave a message and I'll call you back." Nothing in my life has ever felt so important that I needed to be reached no matter what.

Someone once asked me what I would do if I got in a car accident. "That's easy," I said. "Chances are, if that person doesn't have a cell phone, one of a dozen people driving by WOULD have one and would feel a need to be that person that calls in to report a traffic accident." Of course, the person said, "What if you were out in the middle of nowhere and got into a car crash. What would you do?" I'm not positive, but I think I said I'd either try and go get help or I may just die. I got a startled response from this. But, really, isn't that what has happened for years? One of the risks of being in the boondocks is that, if something goes wrong, there is a significantly decreased chance of someone coming along to help.

Of course, talk to Kitty Genovese about that. If you've never heard of Kitty Genovese, look it up on Wikipedia.

[/end rant] As I was saying, I never felt a need to get a cell phone. Likewise, I often become annoyed when people's cell phones ring. At all. It's unreasonable of me, but it still gets on my nerves. However, now that I spend more of my time at school than at home (I essentially go home, do nothing for an hour, and then go to bed) I realized it was now imperative that I have a cell phone to reach anybody for any reason. Plus - I got tired of using the public phones. They're free. I just got tired of them.

People - forgive me. I ran out of reasons to avoid having a cell phone. I'm not proud.