for those wondering about the title of this blog entry, it's one of my favorite chinese sayings that i will probably never use correctly in conversation. it's just really, really funny. it doesn't sum up the day, it's just the first thing i thought of when i decided to make a title. you should probably google it if you want to know what it means, or just click here. God bless cantodict.
today should have been just horrible, but in actuality it was somewhat of an enjoyable day. i woke up about 3.5 hours later than i wanted to, thanks to my dumb ass setting the alarm on my clock for p.m. instead of a.m. and had some lunch. i went to the smog place, which i'll probably link after i've written a yelp post for them, and waited for about 2 hours in line and got through a whole point in my sermon preparation [1 out of 5, mind you] only to hear that if they were to run the test, i would automatically fail because my check engine light was on.
now i knew about the check engine light already, because it's gone off several times before and it's pretty much always been a false alarm, but i didn't know that having one on was an automatic epic fail! so i had the guy clear the codes and i get to go back on monday morning to get it done. the downside is that now i can't go work for my old boss on monday morning and make some much needed cash before the big move a week later. the upside is i don't have to work on monday! the other downside is that i need to wake up ridiculously early for my appointment.
the rest of the day, i got my sermon done, which was great. it didn't take as long as i expected it to, which is even greaterer. i've been listening to music today, which wouldn't normally classify as weird because most people listen to music all the time, but lately i've been listening to nothing but podcasts while i'm driving. it was nice to listen to music. i picked some nostalgic 311, all albums minus their latest [which i haven't gotten, but it can't be worse than 'don't tread on me' so i'll probably get it eventually] on shuffle. it was nice.
i also listened to everything on all caps and the oceanic six's myspace pages during my sermon preparation, which is funny because just yesterday i posted a status on facebook about how i'm sick of breathy synth-pop... but these guys actually do it pretty well, and their lyrics are lovely. they sing about nerdy stuff like harry potter and zombies, and all of the latter group's songs are about stuff from my favorite t.v. show, lost. though if this season doesn't start picking up quick, it may not remain my favorite show.
anyway, i think my previous two posts are too long, and i've probably alienated people from this blog with my wordiness... so i'm compelled to stop writing now in order to placate the masses that may pass by my words thinking i talk too much [read: the tl;dr crowd, definitions 4 and 6 are my favorites]. but then i remember that i'm not an egomaniac and in the end i could really care less how many people read my ramblings, especially if they think i talk too much. anyone who thinks that i talk too much on my own blog probably wouldn't like me too much in person anyway. so why should i shorten my writing for their sake? i won't. they can diaf.
i don't mean that though. reading through some of those definitions is funny, and it points out another huge pet peeve of mine regarding language: nazis. all types. i love to point out incorrect grammar as much as the next guy, but the difference between me and who we would define as the nazis is that i'm doing it for the purpose of education. does that make me arrogant? some may think so, but i assure you that my motives are [for the most part] pure.
what caused me to think about this? some of those entries are over-complicated! the first entry for 'diaf' is perfectly acceptable, there's no need to go into it any more than explaining the acronym and using it in a sentence. people who want to go further than a dictionary would go are just trying to showboat their amazing knowledge of the english language. to these people, who are certainly a sect of the aforementioned nazis, i simply reply: welcome to the information age, people. we don't need jerks to tell us things that google can tell us. we all have google.
did i really need to link google? does anyone not know about google? i mean, it's a freaking verb in the dictionary now, isn't it? i guess it's like advertising for milk — it's unnecessary and totally nonsensical, but some board of officials do it anyway. but i suppose that would imply that i have a board of officials telling me to raise google awareness. i don't, don't worry. and now i have officially rambled enough. time to watch star trek and wish my beard were as awesome as riker's beard. speaking of beards, leave me a comment telling me what i should do with mine.
as you can see, it's getting pretty beastly.
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