One week gone by, twelve lessons learned

Time for another post where I ramble about a bunch of unrelated, uninteresting things going on in my life. Behold the power of boredom... it inspires masterpieces like this.

Anyway, here are twelve random things I learned this week.

-Auto mechanics are scumbags. I'd always heard about this one before, but today was the first time I learned firsthand. Apparently a headlight with water in it requires $68 worth of labor to dry it out and seal it off. I'm still scratching my head trying to figure that one out.

-Finding Neverland is an awesome movie... and on a related note, I also learned that I'm a sucker for cute little kids with acting ability. With all due respect to Morgan Freeman, Freddie Highmore should have won an Oscar.

-Never mention your lunch plans around juniors. Six of them will ask you to pick food up for them, and three of the six won't pay you back. One of those three will be someone who already owed you like $25 from a year ago, and obviously isn't good for it.

-Listening to Weezer is incredibly addictive. I had a couple of their albums gathering dust on a shelf until just recently, and then decided to rediscover them. Within hours, I had "Say It Ain't So," "Photograph," "My Name Is Jonas," and "Love Explosion" all stuck in my head. Now I'm hooked.

-EasyCheese sprayed onto sour cream and onion chips... not so addictive. Kinda disgusting, actually.

-All of Boston's pro sports teams both rule and suck. The Red Sox shot to first place in the AL East with an awesome start to their week, but for some reason they can't handle the Devil Rays. The Celtics won their division, but are in the process of being obliterated by the Pacers as of this writing. As for the Patriots... Tom Brady was an awesome SNL host last weekend, but... Logan Mankins? We kinda had some defensive backfield issues to work out, which makes our first pick a bit disappointing.

-Science bowl practices are much more fun when you eat a pound of pistachios in a half hour.

-"Pistachioes" is not an accepted spelling of "pistachios."

-Going to court to plead guilty to speeding is a dumb idea. Rather than just pay my ticket, I chose to sit in a courtroom for an hour waiting for my case, then pay $56 in court fees for a fifteen-second trial. Does that courtroom make $13,440 an hour? Or am I missing something here? Or do I just suck at math? Probably all three.

-Certain people have trouble controlling their elation upon hearing of news items such as school superintendents being fired.

-Certain other people should go to Emerson and not UT-Austin. Moreover, there are still others who should choose Harvard over MIT. Something tells me that my bugging these people isn't really helping anything, so I should just give up.

-Lastly but not leastly (no, it isn't a word... sue me), I need a job. Finding someone dumb enough to hire me is not as easy as I thought. Hmmmmph.

That's kinda annoying... I just talked about everything my brain could find, and I'm done, and I'm still bored. Should I do the crossword? Or start writing the script for Taylor and Evans Go To Sheetz (Or Someplace Else)? Or... god forbid... do my homework? Only time will tell.