Facts and Falsehoods about November 3, 2008

Falsehoods first this time

• I am voting tomorrow
• I don't want to vote tomorrow
  
• This isn't the most important election since 1968, so it doesn't matter that I can't vote
• Whatever I did with the whole mailing my absentee ballot application thing, it sure worked

Facts

• Voting is the most important thing you can possibly do next to actually running for office
• Which means that I have not met the most important responsibility I have ever had
• That's pretty much it.

Facts and falsehoods about Halloween weekend

Facts

• I visited Corvallis, Ore.
• Corvallis, Ore., is a nice town
• But, I wouldn't want to live there
• I partied with the second worst person in all of Oregon
  
• (after Bill Sizemore)
• Is Bill Sizemore Shaun Sizemore's uncle?
• ??
• The truck stop in Coburg, Ore., is one of my favorite places
• There, you can buy a gun
• Or a sword
• They also have restrooms
• and phones at every table
• They love the Ducks
• I love the Ducks less
• A party with free beer = Christina's toilet getting plugged
• Nobody knows who Tom Joad is
• My favorite experience: stumbling to Mike and Glen's house at three in the morning dead drunk while listening to "Pyramid Song" by Radiohead and smoking a Marb. 27. It was a misty, spooky night and it felt like the apocalypse. It turned out that the soccer match I was going there to watch was a rerun. I didn't leave their couch until two the next afternoon.
  

Falsehoods

• The homeless have their own cigarettes
• I did a lot of coursework
• Spending eleven hours straight on a friend's couch is good for your back.
• I'm happy with the way my life is going
• Those three guys who got hospitalized weren't starting anything
• That sounds ominous, don't it.
  

Things I am excited about

Here is a list of things I am excited about:



Well, they're pretty much all in that poster...

Facts and falsehoods about October 27, 2008

Facts:

• I have to conduct an interview in t-minus 47 minutes.
• I do not have the energy to conduct an interview
• I do not speak Spanish
• I am the only member of the Espresso Roma Eugene team who does not speak Spanish
• This is a communication problem
• I miss my pens
  

Falsehoods:

• I should like to live the rest of my life in the manner in which I have lived the last four days
• My house is very clean
• Beer pong, hooray
  

Facts and Falsehoods about 10-22-2008 or "the cool side of finding out you've always been deformed"

Facts about yesterday

• it is evidently abnormal when, in a normal standing position, the direction your feet point in is 45 degrees outward from the direction your knees point in.
• It is also evidently abnormal when, in a normal standing position, your knees do not touch.
• This had never occurred to me.
• Therefore, I have deformed legs
• Therefore, I have to spend the rest of my life icing my knees for twenty minutes each night, performing special stretches, and wearing orthopedic inserts in my shoes.
• Therefore, I was a little bit bummed
• But at the same time, it explains a lot.

Falsehoods about yesterday

• Cold
• Shorts would have been a bad choice
• South Park is still funny
• South Park has been consistently funny for the last eight years
• My roommates hate South Park and would not watch the same new episode twice in a day
• Life is better now that my iPod headphones are broken
• People who already have their own cigarettes are the last people to ask you for one
  

Truths and falsehoods about October 21, 2008

True facts about today:
+My boss seemed genuinely afraid that I would hate Mexicans. Strangely, he also seemed genuinely afraid I was an illegal immigrant.
+My editor was really certain he loved Cookin' With Coolio, which I told him about. He was somewhat less certain about what article I should write.
+This song is very underrated.
+This soccer team is very overrated. Especially this man.
+As a Polish American, Scottish American, and Catholic American (sorta), that hurt to say.
+I can already tell I'll hate my new job.
+That's a good thing.
+Shorts were a bad choice.

Falsehoods about today:
+My roommates are awake.
+My roommates have left their rooms.
+The mail has come.
+I don't need another cigarette.
+I'm pretty glad my writing partner Jake is in Spain so I don't have to see his bizarrely hairy nose around here, especially on his birthday.

New job, or "Dishwashing AGAIN???"

I'm just about to leave my house to get trained at my new job. I vowed once never to wash dishes again. When I went back to Eugene, I would get a desk job in one of the campus offices, where I could spend 99.9% of my time studying. But it turns out most of those were already taken by the time I returned, so I was left with this. Now every Thursday through Sunday from one to eight, I'll be working the machine at Espresso Roma.