Various lessons (some profound, some mundane) I have learned over the past month or so:
- If you’re in my neighborhood and you want Starbucks, always, always go to the one at the Target. If Target is closed, seriously reevaluate your immediate need for caffeine.
- Bath and Body Works is not (yet) going out of business. The store always looks like that.
- Proofreading is your friend. Proofreading is your friend. Proofreading can save your ass. Proofreading is your friend.
- Even on the day when you feel the most depressed you’ve been in almost 20 years, it’s still possible to feel just a little better by laughing at something.
- On the same day when you feel the most depressed you’ve been in almost 20 years, rest assured that there will come a day when you feel even worse. So you might as well get over it for now.
- Driving makes me sleepy, even when I’ve had plenty of rest. It’s like a sedative, even though I don’t find driving relaxing in any way. I can’t wait for the teleporter to be invented and widely available.
- Turns out, my mother was right about nearly everything. I’m torn between being impressed and dismayed.
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This (the one on the left looking like she’s having an aneurysm) is the new Miss America. I didn’t watch any of the pageant, I just saw pictures online, and I’m only posting about it because…wow. She’s pretty, but isn’t that dress slutty looking? If you see a pic of her with the other finalists, she stands out like a sore skank. Far out.
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…when you get a mail notification and get kind of excited because hey…you’ve got mail! And then you open your inbox and it’s just a bill.
What a downer.
The funny thing is, I remember when good ol’ snail mail used to feel the same way. Especially when I was in college! I’d head to the front desk at my dorm in the afternoon, hoping to find something cool in my little mailbox, and feeling bummed when it was a bill or junk mail, or a flyer advertising the “Spring Fling” or whatever.
Nowadays I don’t get much snail mail. The occasional bill, tax-related document, and two magazines (Real Simple and Lucky, until it runs out). Instead of regular mail for correspondence I use email; instead of newspapers and magazines I (mostly) read RSS feeds; and instead of paper bills I generally use online banking and e-statements. Junk mail still comes but not in as much bulk as it used to. The junk/spam that ends up in my email mostly gets filtered out – GMail is awesome with the spam filtering.
I still hate getting bills though – e-bills or otherwise.
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