Monday, September 01, 2003

Also, I have no idea what you're talking about.



I've been thinking about how modern humor has certain forms, certain patterns. Don't know if I'm quite interested enough to go into it here at length, but I keep thinking about it. Especially when the same pattern hits me as funny over and over again. Maybe the judge of whether someone is truly funny is whether they can come up with new patterns.



I've also been thinking (at this point you're probably realizing that this post might not turn out to be too interesting - sorry) about how odd it is that we gravitate toward these male/female couples - or, to be all-encompassing or at least more-encompassing - two-person romantic clusters. 'Cause I just wonder sometimes why I can't just live with a bunch of my friends. Throw in some dogs, kids, and cats (in that order), as well as my Other, and we can each have our own rooms and sneak out our windows if we feel like it, and have House Dinners every night. Why the hell not?



Why do we only build extremely tall buildings near other extremely tall buildings?



Blogger sure is snazzy now.



Also, why can't we sleep in pods? The best night of sleep I've ever spent (well, the most interesting at any rate) in terms of innovative ways to sleep was in this HUGE pit filled with foam cubes made for practicing gymnastic flips into. Because, really, any position you wanted to assume was possible. My mind was blown. I never got to go back. Oh, and one thing I'm going to invent, for women with hourglass body shapes, is pajamas with built-in padding at the waistline so that you're never stuck sleeping on your side with your hips and shoulders caving in toward the waist. You wouldn't need them, of course, if you're sleeping in a pod or pit of foam blocks, because there wouldn't be any nasty flat surface to deal with, but in case you are banished to sleep on the floor, a board, or an especially hard mattress, you will need these pajamas.



Did you know you can get botulism by eating the contents of an extremely dented can? The video at the Student Health Center told me that.