24 March 2007
great mysteries of the universe.
It probably won't surprise you to know that being home sick for three days in a row leaves you a lot of time to sit and contemplate. Of course, the one thing that kept trying to creep into my head was the one thing I wanted to think about the least, so I ended up watching a lot of movies and falling asleep at a lot of inopportune moments, the timing of which seemed to instill in my brain a few of the world's most inexplicable situations, which I've chosen to share with you, dear readers, in this particular entry.
There's the wind
and the rain
and the mercy
of the fallen
[and the beauty of the rain
is in the way that it falls]
- How is it possible that Ms. Tucker knows every I.B. student by first name? It's impossible that everyone has been in to visit her; most people are afraid to even come within a 10-foot radius of the I.B. office without moral support, and anyway, one visit isn't enough to recognize someone explicitly, especially when you consider that (hopefully) people aren't wearing the same clothes every time they talk to her.
- Why do we buy toasters? Toast is actually just really really dry bread. Toasting your bread is the same thing as just leaving it on the counter for a few weeks, minus the possibility of mold or other infestations. If you want to save money, just leave your toast out for awhile. The only downside to not having a toaster is you have to know several days in advance when you're going to want your next piece of toast.
- How can boys be so wondrously, inexplicably stupid?
- When did Rick become a genuinely friendly, pleasant, enjoyable person? Why did this happen? (Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I like new Rick.)
- How is it that after all this time, even after it's been proven that all their music literally sounds exactly the same, people still try to insist that U2 is somehow groundbreaking? No, Bono does not care what happens to a lot of little starving African orphans. Well, maybe he does, but he's also sure to get his smug face in all those photos: it's not like the publicity doesn't matter. And anyway, I don't think they've ever recorded anything worth listening to.
- That no matter how many times a friend has hurt you, let you down, disappointed you, lied, made you feel like shit, ignored you, whatever, there is nothing more painful than losing one. That there are some people we keep coming back to no matter how many times they blow us off. We all have someone like that, and they don't deserve us, and the great mystery of the universe is that whether they deserve us means absolutely nothing, because we love them anyway.
- Where does lint come from?
- That no matter how many times they swear it won't happen, girls always end up becoming that thing we always say we hate: girls whose boyfriends are their only friends. Girls who leave their best friends when their boyfriends call. Girls who don't call their best friends back. Girls who never have time for their friends because their boyfriend wants to hang out. Girls who just don't need their friends anymore.
- That it is impossible not to be cheered up when listening to Ben Folds.
There's the wind
and the rain
and the mercy
of the fallen
[and the beauty of the rain
is in the way that it falls]
3/24/2007
