Random

So today is Yom Kippur and it got me thinking that Mormons should have a religious holiday that falls on a school day, so I can have a legit reason to miss class. [I haven’t missed a class yet, I’m just saying.]

Oh! I met another goal I didn’t realize I had until it was fulfilled! [Remember the embarrassing Rebecca thing?] I ate a whole pizza by myself! Twice! Hahaha it was a personal pizza from Kimmel, but still — those are pretty big, so it totally counts.

And I think I forgot to mention something way cool about one of the guys I met at the dance party a couple weeks ago. He’s a chef! A real chef. He apparently just quit working in an Austrian restaurant I think, where he got to speak a lot of German, and “harass Keifer Sutherland’s girlfriend.” [Apparently he thought it was a friend of a friend and so he just went and stared at her for a few minutes, then got called back to the kitchen for something. When he went back, Sutherland was sitting there and the guy realized his mistake.] Good times.

I SAW A RAT IN THE SUBWAY THE OTHER DAY! NOT COOL! It was so gross. It was so brave, too, which I think is the scarier part. He was going to cross the walkway, in the light, but there were people coming, so he went back down on the tracks. I guess he decided that wasn’t good enough, so then he made a run for it anyway. He scurried across two walkways, to run next to a wall and up another ramp, to another part of the station.

I find this funny because when I stopped in the scholastic store the other day, I read a book called “The Subway Mouse” about a mouse in the subway. He finds his way out and lives happily ever after in the outside world, in Central Park I think.

Calvin and I were sitting in Washington Square Park last week, where a lot of people walk their dogs, and I brought up the beginning of “101 Dalmatians” when all the dogs look like the owners. So the next five people we saw bore resemblances to their dogs, which I found hysterical. No joke. Good times.

I think I’m going to have to e-mail my linguistics professor the definition of interesting. “He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.” [name that movie]

I saw some tourists taking a picture of the NYU trolley. Then I felt dumb. Haha.

I think I’m misunderstanding a non-verbal cue or something. When I’m walking down the street, sometimes I’ll look people in the eyes as we pass. I’m doing this so they know I’m there, or not intimidated, or so they’ll think I’m confident, or something along those lines. I am not inviting them to speak to me, nor am I conveying interest in them. Is this supposed to be what looking someone in the eyes means? Somebody please let me know, and let me know what I should be doing instead.

Next post: Max Brenner! =D