want to hear a couple things i saw today? of course you do, you poor, passive reader. you’re powerless to stop me.

firstly, it was about noontime on a 68 degree, sunny, beautiful southern california day. i was skating toward the food court to grab some juice and i passed something that really frustrated me, for some reason. it was a group of maybe 8 to 10 kids in navy blue t-shirts with their little acapella group’s name on them, singing christmas carols to random groups of people around the center of campus. it was so weird though! they’re wearing t-shirts, and it’s 68 degrees, and there’s nothing even remotely christmassy anywhere around. it was just so…wrong. i mean, they could at least wait until nightime when it’s cold, and wear sweaters. or even if they had santa hats on, or something. but it was the least christmas-feeling situation, and there they were singing right along. it felt like something from a bret easton ellis book. very weird. and angering, almost.

secondly. i’m sitting on a bench drinking my juice. a girl on a bike rides along the wide central sidewalk, and is talking on a cell phone. see ’em everyday. but right as she passes some other people, and my bench, her keys fall out of her pocket/purse/whatever. without stopping, and without even putting down the phone or stopping her conversation for a second (she turned by holding the phone against her should this whole time), she just sort of loops back around, takes the keys out of the hand of the girl she had passed who had picked the keys up for her and held them up relay-baton style, and looped back the way she was going originally with only a very hasty thank you. it was such a strange scene to me. i don’t know if it was impressive or depressing.

oh, and i had my last finance class of the semester today which means i am fucking ecstatic. nice. i think i’ll watch fight club or play lots of grand theft auto to show my contempt for the Man. yes, that’s my pathetic form of personal rebellion, for right now.

digging the new look so far? i was going to do it over christmas break when i had nothing else to do, but then i realized i’d have to take my laptop–which has photoshop loaded–home with me, and i have to travel light for my illinois adventure, so i don’t want to have to do that. the point is, after fooling around with it for a few days, collapsing got it’s early christmas present from me: an non-template look. yummy.