I swore to myself [actually, it was more like a casual goal] that when this page finished loading, I would have something in mind to write about, but the truth is that my cogitations were interrupted by my mother giving me a chocolate chip cookie. Now I know why everybody hates Mondays. Actually, I used to kind of like Mondays because I'd get to see my friends at school again. But now it's just ... [taking another bite of the cookie] ... now it's just a little disappointing. But the chocolate makes up for it. Plus, I leave in half an hour.
So, Gordon C Brown, what exactly IS it that you do at this place you so aptly call "work?" Well, I know everyone who reads this site [which is SO many people ever since my stagnant period] has been dying to know, so I'll let you in on the procedures. First of all, I go to work with my mom at the accountancy that she works at. I sit at the desk, answer the phone, occasionally enter data into Microsoft Excel, but most of the time play Hearts or Minesweeper or look at people's sites. I went through the first three lines of Esther's links today. This Jieling is pretty interesting. She is the third person I know of to have a birthday on July 16th. Tell me it's not a small world and I'll tell you you're wrong. Rediscovered our gov songs, all of which I'll have to redownload as soon as I step foot inside my house again. But I digress. I also sign onto AIM, only to be disconnected every seven minutes [on average]. There are times when I'm not doing anything, it disconnects me and then reconnects automatically, and after having done so it will tell me "You're trying to sign on again too soon. Try again later." or something like that. It's fine, I don't chat that much with people here anyway, and when I do, our conversations are quite short-lived due to the connection problems. On Wednesday I'll bring a camera and photograph my desk. You'll be flabbergasted.
Turns out I'm visiting big sister on Thursday. I don't know for how long, but what I do know is that my Bryson book is due July 7. I'll probably renew it, but who am I kidding? I'll never get through it before I have to turn it back in. I'm currently on page 88 of 478. It's interesting, it just takes a while to read, and the pages are big too! Hmmfph. But I want to make it through the book so I can feel good about being smart. Or merely so I can feel smart. It feels like a history book about science. It's interesting though. I'm not all into geology and paleontology, which is the section I'm on now, so it's taking me a while to get through it. Thus the mastodon trivia fact from the previous post. The guy's name was Cuvier. Georges Cuvier.
I also took up the quest of completing Banjo Kazooie [since I never really fully completed it the first time], and I'll say! This is a pretty easy game until it gets to the end. How on Earth do you raise the water level the third time in the lair outside the entrance to Click Clock Wood?? I can't get to the water switch. =( Does anyone else have this game? It's saddening. I'll have to look at some online game faq or walkthrough to "figure it out." Then I'll have to go back to all the Brentilda locations to write down facts about Gruntilda so I can use them later to beat the game. Oh well, it's summer. That's all for me. Seacrest--out!
Books to read after A Short History ... [if I ever get through it]:
Cat's Cradle
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
Fahrenheit 451
Anything else I can get my hands on.
===EDIT=== I hate when I write something and then later I want to tweak the wording a little bit, so I go back and tweak it and then I forget to change part of the sentence which doesn't completely make it incomprehensible, but makes me look like I've forgotten the rules of English grammar. For example, I changed the I in "I was interrupted" to "my cogitations" but I forgot that cogitations is plural and thus needs a "were" instead of a "was." Vexing! [It's fixed now, but you can still go up and look to see where it is at the beginning of the post.]
Okay, after rereading that edit, I realize that I probably don't make much sense. Things like changing "I was interrupted" to "my cogitations was interrupted." Get it? I forgot to change the was to were. And so I look stupid. Good. If you got it the first time, good for you. If not, don't be ashamed. Plus, no one will ever know. That's my motto.