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bennnnnnnyboy
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Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Peoria
Gender: Male
Interests: world travel, tennis, road trips, grammar and new words, reading books, cartoons
Occupation: Student
Industry: Textiles
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Member Since:
7/21/2004
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| I would like to officially say 'you are welcome' for getting rid of that horrible blue color (formerly my background). It was burning my eyes out to look at it. I kind of feel like somebody should have told me. It is almost as though I have been walking around all day with spinach in my teeth and no one has said anything.
Also, why is it so difficult to change settings in the New Xanga (new is a relative term). I had to revert to the Old Xanga in order to change my background.
I came to grips today with the fact that I truly hate the word 'normative' because I neither know how to use it nor do I truly understand what is meant when others use it. These people are mainly professors and academics. I have looked up the definition of this word more times than I care to remember but somehow the definition that I read never quite seems to make sense in the context in which I hear or read it being used. Never use this word in my presence.
I will close by providing this link to some Laffy Taffy jokes. Enjoy. | | |
| Guess who just jumped to the top of your Xanga updates list!
Question:
Are we still using this? I was giving consideration to resuming blogging, but if everyone has left the proverbial Xanga building, then maybe I'll go and get a Blogspot.
And wow, I had not realized how wretched this color scheme I have chosen is. If people still hang out here, then I am definitely going to change it.
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| Everyone in Austin thinks that I either,
a) look like a vegetarian
b) look like someone they know
or
c) both
Example a) I was at was Schlotzky's (which, FYI, was started in Austin) the other day where I ordered a turkey sandwich. When I got home with the sandwich, I discovered that instead of meat, I had only vegetables. Apparently the workers there thought that I wasn't getting enough green things to eat (they were actually correct).
Example b) Just now, as am sitting here outside of Starbucks, some guy yelled at me from a large SUV and called me Mort (at least that's what it sounded like). I yelled back that I wasn't Mort and then he said, "Man, I feel like such an idiot!!"
Example c) The other day I went to Thundercloud Subs and the guy taking my order (who was incidentally one of the biggest tools I have ever met) asked me if I wanted the usual veggie sub. I then said that I had never been there in my life. Which made him feel awkward but my pity for him was lessened because he was such a huge tool.
In other news, I find myself experiencing strange feelings: I have a bizarre desire to own things that are burnt orange and are emblazoned with a cow head. It is truly manic. I never thought that I would willing live in Texas, let alone desire to possess University of Texas paraphernalia. I liken the sensation to that of Mardi Gras beads: under normal circumstances I would never want to own dozens of strings of plastic beads, yet under the influence of Mardi Gras, I found myself willing to push old ladies down in the gutter in order to have more beads for myself. While there is no need to push down helpless female octogenarians in order to own things that are burnt orange, the inexplicable sensation is the same. UT is like a drug, always wanting more and more. I have recently desired to own: a UT doormat, a UT potholder, and UT dog booties (though I do not own a dog). In short, I want to bedeck myself in UT garb. Somebody help me.
Wow. On Blackboard (an online student/teacher multipurpose website) at UT, I can choose between the languages English (United States) and English (UTexas). Wow. | | |
| I just noticed something extraordinary - Garrison Keillor (of American Public Media's A Prairie Home Companion) and Rainn Wilson (a.k.a. Dwight Shrute of NBC's The Office) may be one in the same!!
Observe -
Wow, huh?!
Over and Out. | | |
| Tonight I went to see the live (from New York) broadcast of This American Life at my local cinaplex. Towards the end of the show, Ira Glass, host of This American Life, read comments and blurbs from people who had emailed the show. One of the notes that Ira read was from a guy in Peoria, who proposed (marriage) (via Ira) to his girlfriend! And then the fellow stood up and got down on one knee!! And then everyone clapped. They (including me) clapped a great deal. Simply amazing. | | |
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