feb 17th

- Apirl 1st is on a Sunday. Work is closed on Sunday, effectively ruining any opportunity to pull pranks. So that means I have to formally extend April Fool's Day throughout the whole week. You've been notified.

- Half an hour into the four hour day, and only one person has been here so far. I like this pace.

- You know how people repeat a saying or thought that has been said a hundred times already, only they think you've never heard it before? For example, somebody was talking to me recently, and they used the old "men and women shop differently. Men go in, grab what they need, and leave," etc, etc. Seriously, who hasn't heard this a million times? Repeating it like it's new makes you sound like a pawn of normality. A pawn, I say!

- Which leads to the abundance of mediocrity and complete lack of nuance in thought that pervades society. The media is predictable; any given situation, you can foresee what angle they are going to take. People think what they are told to think, and talk about what pundits tell them to. I know people who come in to work whose sole thought process is what they see on ESPN.

It's the same with politics. People repeat ads verbatim, and know very little about the actual candidates. Voting records are ignored and the media determines how a candidate appears. People vote based on which party seems to be popular, or which candidate is more charismatic, or how they handle themselves in debates. In the worst case, they vote for morally corrupt adulterers because they play the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show. The level of thought sometimes doesn't go above peer pressure.

The college class room is no different. Professors spout off their agenda, and students with no foundation absorb it like Peter Petrelli at a Justice League Convention (talk about mediocrity..., could I have forced that simile any more?). The whole situation is very bleak. People don't think anymore, and when they do, they use their emotions to do it. Logic has been abandoned.

- Join us next week when I freak out about the crudity of language.

- I wasn't very funny this time, but that's okay, because I'm still smiling over that St. Valentine's paragraph. I'm a great admirer of my own work (ego!).