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Friday, September 13, 2013

Assorted Week-Thoughts

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          Recently I've been talking to someone who seems to get every single obscure reference I make.  It's kind of cool to be able to say some piece of a reference and have my audience understand it, but at a certain point it makes me feel like I'm not an individual anymore.  Of course, that's my inner hipster running loose, but still...  Anyway, earlier in the year Alex gave me a book, The Name of the Wind, in which there is a scene where the lead starts a line from an obscure play and the person he says it to finishes the line.  I read that right after I'd figured out that my friend has a similar (though slightly more expansive) world experience to me.  She can always lose me on a reference, but I've only been able to manage it once, and I don't even remember what it was...

          My mother has a standing offer to her children that she will proofread our papers if we ask her to.  Well, I was running close on a paper (within 12 hours), and I sent the following message:
"Could you proofread this?  I kinda sorta...procrastinated like a boss...
Love you.
Thanks."
I never say "like a boss".  It really isn't in my standard lexicon.  But at 1am, I'll use any phrase that comes to mind.  And this time, it was "like a boss".  It was weird...

          Last night, one of my (our?  A friend of my roommate) neighbors came over to play music.  He's a DJ, so I wasn't sure what to think, but when he got here, he turned out to really know his stuff.  More electronically than musically, but that's better than what I was expecting.  He started making some beats for my roommate to play guitar to, but it sounded a bit empty, so I came in with background chords.  The rhythms lined up real nice, and my roommate did some picking patterns over the top.  It was REALLY COOL.  I enjoy music. :-P

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