We Amuse Myself

Tuesdays are the days when I spend all day at the lab. And today at the lab, we had our last lab class, which I don't actually attend since I learned a lot of the stuff when I worked there last the summer. But what I do attend to is the food that they sometimes bring in (Yummyz!). And today, since it was the last class, they brought in danishes (Über-yummyz!)

I ate not one, not two, but five (Three, sir!) three tasty danishes. The last one I ate in the rain while walking back from the lab. Mmmm. Rain danish. I feel like eating danishes in the rain with your sleeve-guarded hand blocking the pastry from getting wet should be one of those little things in life that we don't really appreciate until we can't do it anymore. Like if one day we woke up and there were no more danishes, or no more rain, or no more ability to eat and walk at the same time. I would miss that last one most of all...

Actually that's why I appreciate the rain, since Maryland (at least the part that I live in) has been in a drought since I moved their (Sorry guys, it was my fault) and I think we've only just gotten out of it. Or we got out of it for a year and then were hit with another drought. So when it rains every weekend for several weeks, while others may get all bent out of shape about it, I choose to see it as a good day for the trees and for future us since our fields will yield delicious comestible harvests. And in the meantime we can use the dreary weather as an excuse to catch up on indoor things we've been putting off. Like cleaning. 

Nice try, subconscious. I'm not cleaning anytime soon. 

As my last point for this blog, you know how everyone's always saying (or at least everyone I talk to), if only life had a control-alt-delete function, or some other function computers can do. I have found the ultimate function our live's need; our ultimate thneed if you will. Ctrl + f. I needed to find sooooooo many forms at the lab today, and because people don't know how to sign their names legibly it was taking me forever. And how many other times have I spent hours looking for my German book (which SOMEBODY held on to but didn't tell me) or my cellphone that's fallen down the crack behind my bed, or some other object that has been misplaced. If only I could press a little mental Ctrl button followed by a little mental F key, and have the thing I'm looking for pop up right in front of me, I would save so much time, which I could then pass on to doing more productive and less frustrating things. 

If only we did live in the Matrix.... *sigh*