ben

no submarines, no plastic flowers 



September 30, 2008

Very Strange

It seems the two websites that use my name (my tumblr and my about me) are both mysteriously showing no server. This is strange because one is hosted on tumblr, which is still working fine (except my site) and the other is hosting on nearlyfreespeech.net, which seems to be working fine (except for my site). It's actually pretty spooky, like maybe this was a concerted effort to shut down sites bearing my name.

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September 29, 2008

Today

It's been great. I'm not sure why. As said, I woke up at 6:30, but instead of trying to go back to bed, I got up and dressed.

I strutted into town with the intention of getting a Subway sandwich and taking a bunch of pictures. The people around here aren't too happy when you start snapping pictures around them, so I only managed to get a couple crappy shots. The shops were all open, so I did all the shopping I'd been putting off, which weighed me down a bit with cans of soup, pans, meat-free meat sticks, salt, basil, and chili. All the funny looking people made me smile as I walked past them. Even the inept Subway girl gave me a warm feeling of camaraderie with the human race. Also, I was sleep-deprived.

It all caught up with me and I ended up taking a nap. Since then, I've been looking through Beatles bootlegs I don't have and listening to cheesy music.

I'm glad I decided to take the day off of being a drunk neurotic. Maybe I'll go back into town and buy some ice cream and a mug later.

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September 29, 2008

Thinking Out Loud

Since I now have so many followers here, I feel much more inclined to post a lot, regardless of how many people read it. My tumblr followers have plateaued at 72 and I doubt more pictures of my cats and Andy Warhol quotes are going to change that too much. 

I try not to be too banal here, although some might debate how successful I am at that. That said, I'm going to try to post a bit more and talk even more about my life.

I was toying with the idea of buying a domain and making this one of those tell-all blags that get popular based on people's morbid fascination in people who have lives that are worse or more exciting than theirs or are just more candid about things we all go through. I'm not sure I could juggle that for very long and I'd be reluctant to buy a domain for a site I still can't change the template of (hint!).

So far, I've really enjoyed your comments and our chats about grammar, music, and much more.

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September 28, 2008

Things I Consumed Yesterday

10 beers
1 small portion of french fries
7 cherry tomatoes

This is how I stay svelte and drunk.

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September 28, 2008

Now Physically Manifested on the Internet, Too

Okay, I get that I was pretty messed up last year. Bad things happened to me. I did bad things. Maybe not in that order.

So why is it that now, when everything is going my way, I'm so horribly stressed out that it's still physically manifesting? What am I afraid of?

Maybe I should talk to my dissertation advisor. Tomorrow.

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September 28, 2008

Schedules

I keep waking up at 6:30 every morning. This might be great for some people, but I can't start my day that early. For one thing, it's still dark outside, which isn't really conducive for getting up. Secondly, nobody else I know wakes up this early, so it would be pretty lonely.

I spend a lot of my time moping about my room wasting time, you know, so I wouldn't mind spending a lot more of that time sleeping. What I tend to do now is wake up at 6:30, go back to bed at around 8:00, and then wake up again after noon.

I think it's time to find the sleeping pills again.

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September 27, 2008

Dear Neighbor

You're in one of the oldest universities in the world. You have a trust fund. You're studying something like anthropology or philosophy.

What I want to know is who do you think you're kidding by playing that gangsta rap so loud?

You can't possibly thinks it sounds good, and everyone else just thinks you're an idiot.

(Goes back to listening to Hall & Oates)

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September 26, 2008

Chords

Please excuse my lack of musical training, but does anyone know what a 5 after a chord means (like B5)? Google has been no help.  Chord charts all seem to have 6 and 7, but never 5. Is it just a guitar thing? How would I play it on the piano?

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September 24, 2008

Depressed

Tumblr led to the demise of my favorite tumblrer, Pocketnovel. I always looked forward to reading through her drama. She went a bit crazy right at the end and then deleted her tumblr, and still, people continue to eviscerate her. :(

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September 24, 2008

On Sarah Palin

Ben: she deserves to get her email hacked
Ben: if she's going to hack our country to bits

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