| | How's that working out for you?
-What?
Being clever.
-Great.
Keep it up, then. Right up.
So
today I've had a bad day. I woke up ridiculously late (think - time
when most latecomers get to work as the time I woke up today), I was
super busy at work, I barely left on time (6:30 on a Wednesday since I
have small group), I didn't get to sit down at all on the subway (not
that that's too bad, I like to subtly give up my seat without drawing
attention to myself - I'm ninja!), and for the ultimate defeat of the
night: I sucked at Cranium.
Okay,
so if you know me, or if you're a long time reader, you'll know I link
a lot of stuff. You'll get the idea that I sort of like reading things.
I know a lot of useless stuff. I am a limitless fount of facts,
figures, and fortunes of history, celebrities, and the normal day to
day, amongst others. I like reading obituaries on the Economist because
I find it interesting to sum up someone's life with a little simplicity
mixed in. I find war, battles and strategems incredible and I like to
know pretty much everything. I feel like I'm an unpretentious
know-it-all (or at least I hope I'm unpretentious - whatever
condescension I exude, please I mean no harm - I just think that
perhaps you care about something just as much as I do).
So what does
all this have to do with anything? I blew. I absolutely blew. I
couldn't get a single factoid-based Red question right. I fumbled the
celebrity-based Green section. I got a useless blue, only after another
team picked it up. I dont' know what it is in particular. There's
everything that went wrong with what I did. I am not mentally agile
anymore. I have no recall. To be fair, I should have seen this coming.
I had possibly my most sluggish Jeopardy first rounds that I've ever
experienced. I can usually finish one or two categories, this time I
was drawing blanks and waving my arms in disappointment. Pretty much
the situation at church. Other teams were smoking it up, and we were
just plain far behind. It took at least 2 or 3 rounds to get on the
board, so much so that I think Ern's
team was already halfway done before we go our two spaces. I would like
to pride myself on being good at "smart games" compared to normal luck
based games (ironically I sucked at Settlers of Catan last
time too). I consider myself probably below average on an athletic
scale so if I don't have my mind going for me, what do I even have?
I
suppose on the positive side, and this is not being sarcastic, I hit
only 3 lights on my way to church (the route is from Bayview to Midland
on Finch), I came home to food (when uptown, mom usually FINISHES
cooking during jeopardy), I got to watch a round of jeopardy, I read the chapter that I was supposed to (14), and I got to play Zigity!
Now, a question of etiquette: as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch?
On a side note, the Watchmen looks haunting. As it should.
I'm
glad this post didn't turn out to be one of the many starts but
unfinished posts that I have "saved up". Guess what folks, those ain't
likely to be seen in the light of day. |
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