some observations
- The weather now seems to have summer and winter modes, and it can go back and forth within a single day. Morning: ooh, it's 70 degrees! Afternoon: Why is it snowing?? Or vice versa.
- Men are almost universally interested in women's boots. It seems like it is something close to professional interest.
- You win some. You lose some.
- I have expensive taste. This is not necessarily a virtue.
- It is really difficult to avoid buying things made in China. Go ahead, give it a try.
- Hair salons are ridiculously overpriced.
- I cannot spend less than $195 at Ikea.
- Cheap lamps are not durable.
- Wool rugs shed.
- Exercise makes everything better, and yet it is so hard to find the time/ motivation.
- Thin asparagus tastes better.
- Drinking lots of water improves my mood. Drinking lots of alcohol doesn't.
- Losing weight is not as easy now as it was ten years ago. I think this has more to do with my metabolism than climate change or some other mysterious external force... but either way these are factors I cannot control.
- Political red herrings are more common in the media than political realities.
- Sugar is my most deeply entrenched addiction.
- Moby makes music for ambivalence and/ or organizing one's closet. There seem to be no emotional highs or lows whatsoever. It's just... there.
- Oysters have no real aphrodisiac effect that I can detect after eating a dozen or so.
- Reference books published before 1930 are almost always hilarious.
- In eleven days I will be in Denmark for the first time ever. I'd never really considered going to Denmark before.
- There's never as much time as I think there will be.
Comments
#11 & 12 - absolutely. So true.
You nailed it on #13 as well. The good old metabolism shifts out of overdrive and everything's different.