jared at entropy is the man; first reader to get the title reference, or at least first one to vocalize it. he’s got him a fine weblog as well.

rocking the qbert again, doing some laundry, considering the possibilities for this fine thursday evening. i’d like to see zoolander maybe, if someone with a car would like to go too. i don’t care what you say, i’ll support ben stiller to the very end.

there was a career fair on campus today, with long rows of tables between nearly-graduated students and representatives from hiring companies, each one displaying a little sign with the company name and the “desired majors”. although it’s somewhat reassuring that a large majority of them wanted “BUAD”, (that’s me, alright), it put me into a gloomy mood anyway. i hadn’t thought to participate in the career fair because i’m just a junior, but it’s not far off and pretty intimidating. so i went to work and got all introspective about how my life is going to change drastically one way or another in about a year and a half, and i’m very close to the part of my life where i’m going to have to shape that change into what i want it to be, or end up very unhappy. for now i’ll put a lid on complaining about having to join the real world though because that’s so your-typical-college-student’s-malaise, which i don’t want to be a part of. to be honest, i’m excited despite any anxious or nervous underlying feelings.

on a brighter note, later in the day i was passing by the now-vacant career fair tables and ran into a girl named janelle i know, who happens to work for the career center and was probably coming back from helping close up the event. we talked for a few minutes and she said something about how so many people are looking for business majors, which of course invoked little excitement from me, since i’m not so into being known as “one of those”. more importantly though, she said to me, “you should be an author, not a business major… you just seem like the kind of person that i’d like to read what you think about things”. and she’s an english major, so that was an extra nice thing to hear (and it was probably more articulate in her actual words). sincerely though, i think that was an extremely flattering comment. isn’t that what we all want, in some part of us, is for people to want to hear what we have to say? it made me feel good, in any case.

so i told her that maybe i could become one in my spare time while i worked at some regular job to make a living. i also referred her to this webpage, where anyone could technically do just what she said — read what i think about things.

so if she ever ends up here: hi janelle. you’re rad.