Monday, March 22, 2010

You're my best friend I've never met

You're my best friend I've never met.
 
So...Adam is my best friend.  We've never met.  We may someday.  We may not.  I speak more freely to him than I do to anyone else in my life.  Except my mother of course.  She is also my best friend.  Between these two people, I have more trust and confidence and honesty then I ever expected.  I can tell Adam anything, and I mean ANYTHING.  How loud I burp, the color of my poop, my confusion on weird types of underwear, the fact that I am in a bad mood because of pms, how much weight I've lost, where my saggy skin problems are because of that weight loss, my favorite movies...I can tell him about dates I go on, dates I like and dates I don't like, why boyfriends are dumb, why boyfriends are awesome.  We can discuss anything in the world with no problem.  And we've never met. 
 
Do I want to?  Of course, he's promised me a tv if we do.  But do we have to?  Nah.  The internet is an amazing thing. 
 
BTW...Adam, no one cares about you at work. ;P
 
P.S.  I downloaded the Predators trailer.  Goosebumps yo.
 
P.P.S.  Wait...Adam told me brb mtg via IM this morning.....I see how you are now.
 
Jerk.
 
-Newt

brb...Meeting time...

This is why I love IM. In person or over the phone, it's close to impossible to stop a conversation that you no longer want to be a part of. Sometimes over the phone you can fake the old "Someone is calling through". But then you still seem like an asshole if you choose to take that call and hang up on your "friend". In person, forget about it. Short of dousing yourself with gasoline and lighting yourself on fire, you're talking as long as the other person does.

But with IM, you can have a fairly decent conversation and still end it whenever you want. My favorite is a simple 'brb'. Then just go do something else. Usually the person you're talking to will just sign off within 5-10 mins. At work it's even easier, just add a 'Meeting time" to the end. No one will question that you have a meeting at any point between 9 and 5. I don't recommend using an elaborate story that you'll likely forget in order to get out of an unending IM conversation. When a simple brb will do, why risk future confusion when your friend asks if your brother-in-law's penguin is okay.

So is it ironic that I'm actually in a meeting right now? Possibly. If I truly knew wtf ironic meant, or if I ever used it properly.

- Adam

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

All things in moderation

So, I don't know what to write about. There are a few topics floating around the emptiness that is presently my head. Part of me wants to write about the angst I have going on this week regarding my ex boyfriend, but I don't feel the need to bash him right now. For the moment, lets suffice it to say, he's a prick, and I've moved on, and am willing to view applications.

Instead lets list some random facts that people of the world may find amusing.

1.) I have an irrational dislike of orange peels. I will never peel an orange, and often request other people do it for me. If someone peels my orange I can eat it at my leisure, if they don't the orange will be wasted. I do not, however, have a problem, eating an orange that has a peel attached, IF someone has cut it into pieces for me.

2.) I am deathly afraid of things that fly. Birds, butterflies, anything of that nature. I don't know what it stems from, but I have no problem running away from them. In one instance I even shoved a coworker at a bird at took off running when it fluttered it's wings at me. I ran.

3.) I have been living in video game land for a few weeks. Dragon Age, Bayonetta, and now Final Fantasy 13. I'm loving it. God of War comes out in a few weeks. I don't expect to surface for a few more months.

4.) I want more tattoos. I have 3. I want a few more. I want a connect the dots design of some sort, because it seems cute. I want a chocobo and moogle tattoo. I also want a few more traditional tattoos.

5.) I took my dog for a walk just now. I am now making brownies to work that shit off.

6.) I'm obsessed with hair dye. I am trying desperately to not dye my hair right now, as I am going to cut my hair off this weekend.

7.) I can't draw. At all. Not even stick figures.

8.) I won't the spelling bee several times when I was younger. This makes me a spelling freak. I am NOT a grammar freak. But some people confuse the two.

I don't know what else to write right now. This was all more clever when I was in the shower. But FFXIII is calling me, so basically I do not care about any of you anymore.

Cheers.

P.S. You guys are pussies for making me change the font color today.



-Newt

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

How to waste a beautiful day

Editor's Note: This is not the only way to waste a beautiful day. This is just one suggestion.

Step 1: Get up way too early. This will be easy if you hold a normal 8ish-5ish job and have to drive more than 5 mins to get to work. If you actually want to eat breakfast and/or shower, it will be even easier.

Step 2: Go to work. It is likely that you sit in a cubicle all day within a larger office from which you cannot locate any windows to the outside world. If it's easier to look on your iphone for the current weather rather than look outside, you probably fit in this category.

Step 3: Stay inside for lunch. You may get the crazy notion that you can go outside and get lunch, or even eat outside. Incorrect. That would be taking advantage of a beautiful day. Instead, ask a co-worker to bring you back a sandwich. Bonus points if you get so crazy busy working that you don't even remember to eat lunch. That way you'll be extra cranky in the afternoon.

Step 4: Work late. If you leave at a normal hour you might catch some sunlight. At around 4pm, be sure to start working on something that you can't possibly finish by 5:30 but that you also can't leave until the following morning. Going to the bathroom or surfing the internet doesn't count.

Step 5: When the sun sets, leave work. When the creepy crawlers that live in your closet and under your bed come out to play, this is when you call it a day.

Step 6: Declare it's too late to work out. By this point in the day you have just enough time to go home and eat dinner before Lost comes on. You don't have time to change, sweat for 45 mins and then shower. Yeah, it's definitely too late to work out.

Step 7: Look at the clock. Holy shit it's already 9 pm? WTF.

Congratulations! You've wasted a perfectly beautiful day!

- Adam