This is one of the funniest (new) things I've seen in a while.
Episode Four - Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
I actually don't know how new it is, but it's new to me.
I think it's sfw...
Do people really do things like these?
Things have been kinda rough the last week or so. Today a friend of mine noticed I have a lump on my neck... BLARGGGG!!
cleaning up my profile, I'm posting my old quotes. It feels like an appropriate time to do some re-adjusting, re-evaluating, re-tweaking.
"there is only one thing you can do
when women get hysterical.
run.
as hard as you can."
~Leandro
I had only just realized that I haven't updated the blog with anything of substance - or anything for that matter. Time seems to fly by... And now I have less than a month in Europe and still feel like I have so much more to do. Fortunately, I'll be leaving on my "big" trip this weekend - Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Rome. Should be fun, hehe.
This will also be the first trip I make on my own - up until now I've always been with friends from school (which has been awesome), but we've all gotta travel our own paths and I suppose it's time for me to go my own way - though fortunately I'll be staying with a friend in Paris and in Amsterdam I'll be staying with a cousin I haven't seen in over 9 years!
One of the best things I've found through travelling is the amazing array of people and stories. I've been in a writing mood and written a bit about it, but I need to polish it, it's not ready for prime time yet. I need to get ready for prime time, particularly since in the last phase of my internship I'll be writing a research paper that my boss wants to get published... It's a daunting task - I've never written anything as long or complex (unless you count my personal writing, but that's different...)
Anyhow, I've taken a long enough break already. Time to get more San Sebastian sand out of my computer and get back to writing. Then again, I'm not sure I'll be getting back to writing... a wise man once said, "I'm not a writer, I'm a re-writer". I can identify with that.
[Gym Class Heroes - 7th Period: 7 Weeks]
If you know me well enough, you know that I can at times hyperfocus on something and forget everything else around me. That can be a handy skill when studying, playing music, creating something, or getting things done at work.
Unfortunately, it's not such a useful quality when you're rushing to get out of the bus to get to work and you end up forgetting your camera in the bus and then chase it down Terminator-2 style until the next stop a few blocks down the road... I wouldn't recommend it, but it's a good warmup and it really gets the adrenaline going...
When I caught up with the bus, a fine Spanish gentleman came down from the bus smiling. He must have seen me running after the bus, realized what had happened and saw the camera and handed it to me.
He or someone else in the bus could have easily just taken it and I would have never known who did it.
I like it when my faith in humanity is restored or reinforced.
Thank you good, honest people of the world.
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word--for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
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I was taking a break from work and sorting blogs I used to frequent to see if anything relevant's been going on and re-found the golden nugget that is stuff white people like.
Being in Spain has warped my sense of time a bit. This is a country where time is often a very subjective matter given that siesta time is from 2-ish to 5-ish depending on the store, and most stores open at 9am-ish and bars and other places close at 4am-ish or whenever people get tired and want to go home (6am-ish). Needless to say, when I go back to the states I'll take some time to adapt to going out at 10pm instead of midnight, and bars and clubs closing at 2am as opposed to 4am or 6am...
Anyhow, bigger chain stores and franchises stick to scheduled and posted times much like their counterparts in the States, but smaller shops are a very different ball game. What's surprised me a bit is that it sometimes extends to business. For example, I've been to a few meetings and seminars and other functions where people arrive on time, but things get started 5 to 10-ish minutes after the hour and people use that time to chat and mingle until things get started. In a sense, it reminds me of MIT, where we start classes 5 mins after the hour and end them 5 mins before the hour. The one exception I've found to the 10 minute-ish rule are meetings with executives from other companies... perhaps it's the fact that things are more formal when several executives are involved as opposed to meetings within the company.
With this difference in time perception and cultures in mind, I found a particular entry that made me laugh. A lot.
White people love: Being Excessively Early For Events, Classes, Meetings, Work, Parties, Etc
White people will frequently show up to various events 15- 35 minutes early for no reason at all. A favorite quote used to explain this phenomenon is “Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable”. What this means and why they live by this quote no one really knows, but it is a mantra that white people frequently recite to themselves every morning, as means or ensuring their timeliness to whatever function, they will be attending.
There is only one exception to this rule, which is when there is a limited supply of something that is deemed ultra-important by the white community, such as concert tickets, computers or other sale electronics, or reality television spots. White people may show up, 8- 24 hours early, instead of the normal 15-35 minutes, for these special cases, even if it means sleeping on the street in middle of winter (which is also referred to as camping) and foregoing “non-essential” things such as showering, brushing your teeth, and even eating...
