So today just before 1 pm, I was very hungry. I had forgotten to grab breakfast this morning (due to oversleeping... my life has clearly changed when 6:45 am is "oversleeping"), and had only managed a piece of gum so far in the day. So I go to the kitchen, grab my can of veggie soup and a bowl.
I open the can and start to pour it into the bowl. About half way through doing this, I realize that the soup is not going to fit in the bowl. I continue to pour anyway, and my mind wanders to something else. About three quarters of the way through, I hit the bowl's capacity, and realize with a jolt that I should stop pouring. So I do. I look at the completely full bowl. I look at my can with a fourth of the soup still in it. I wonder what I should do. I don't want to waste the extra soup. And actually I'm hungry. And I want to eat that extra soup, dammit. So I am going to put it in the bowl, be damned!
With no concern for the aftermath, I pour the rest of the soup into the bowl.
Now what did I think would happen? Did I think the bowl would grow? That it was only deceiving me by looking full and that it would actually accommodate the rest of my soup?
No, I believe that I just wanted to eat the soup and to eat it, I needed to put it into the bowl. The laws of space do not apply to my soup bowls. Except that, in a shocking turn of events, they do. And soupy carnage splashes all over the counter tops, wasting the soup I so wanted to consume.
Dammit.
In the epic battle of Mac vs. PC, it's never been left to guessing which side I'm on. I've had a Mac in my house as long as I can remember, and have always enjoyed sparring with die hard PC users (Ashish!).
However, as I am currently sitting on the Riverwalk in New Orleans (in the Plaza de Espana), I would appear to any onlooker to be a PC user. Damn. It seems that my love of all things Apple is limited. First, when I got a new phone a few weeks ago (dropped mine in the hot tub), I shunned the idea of an iPhone and instead opted for a Blackberry. THEN, I got a new Dell at work. Granted, I don't have the option to use a Mac at work, but I find that now I am more likely to tote around the new Dell than my MacBook. It's smaller, it's lighter, it has awesome battery life and (probably the most relevant point), it has a wireless broadband card.
Do you have a wireless broadband card? Because you should. It's amazing. It's wonderful. It's maybe my favorite thing ever this week. How do people live without it? I just don't know. Apparently the ability to click around aimlessly (or even with aim) on the internet while sitting by the river is strong enough to pull me to the dark side. *sigh* I'm not as strong as I pretended to be.
(ps, as quick updates on my life: I have recently turned a quarter-century OLD and am living in New Orleans for the next month. There are many things I have to say about both of these things, but whether or not I will get around to writing about them remains to be seen)
