JB’s Blog

Sure…it seems perfectly simple.  You snuggle up right behind your girlfriend, put an arm around her, and then…there’s that other arm.  This is the problem with any sort of snuggling.  While one person is perfectly comfortable and does not want to move, the other is going, where the hell do i put my left arm.  First comes the slight numbing.  Then comes the pins and needles sensation.  If you are grinning and bearing it, you’ll get to the "rubber arm" stage.  This is when you tap your arm to see if there is still feeling, and the arm simply flails around.  By this point, you have to move until your arms are free.  The problem is, now the other person has their arm trapped somewhere.  Luckily, if you’re with the right person, as I am now, it’s very much worth it, and you don’t even think about it.  Of course…if any of you have some solutions or can relate, feel free to share

So a month and a half ago I switced to Cingular for my wireless and got the Nokia 6102 (flip) phone.  During the past month and a half my electric razor also happened to be going off randomly.  Then the other day, my phone went off right next to the razor and then my razor turned on.  NO WAY…WAYYYYYY.  I had my roommate call my phone while it was next to the razor and sure enough it went off again!  I do not even have bluetooth on my phone.  I also noticed that my speakers make a funny sound right before my phone is about to ring as well.

This has lead me to wonder what it is doing to me!  Maybe I should not be throwing it in my pocket anymore!  In fact, tonight my phone called someone while it was in my pocket and closed.  Oddly, I was thinking about her on the time.  Maybe my phone is synced with my brain.  If that is the case I am leaving my phone here and I will have it make me dinner or at least call for delivery so I have food for when I get out of my evening class. 

Just to get right into it, ear muffs should make a comeback…seriously.  Hats suck.  Yes, I know…your hat is cool…so cool that you wear it all day long even when you are indoors.  Well my hat is alright, but I do not want to wear it indoors.  In fact, I do not even want to wear it at all.  There is always that one bump in the hat that you cannot get rid of, no matter how hard you try to stretch the hat down.  Then there is the the problem of having to take off the hat and dealing with hat hair.  Nothing like taking off a hat and having your hair stick up in 32 different directions.  I am aware that the hat keeps your head warm and thus makes you warmer in general, but it’s mainly my ears that sting, and I think ear muffs would get the job done.  So to someone that is a trend setter…please make earmuffs cool.

This past week I was on jury duty.  As such I picked up the two free newspapers at the subway entrance each day.  Here is a comparison of the two front page stories from Tuesday, January 3, 2006.  Metro had a headline about the miners trapped in West Virginia.  AM New York’s big front page story was about David Lee Roth sputtering on his first day replacing Howard Stern on FM radio.  Front page news folks.

So the other day my friend told me her friend asked her "Do you want to give me a ride to the airport at 6am tomorrow?"  She said you should write a blog on that. 

We can file that one with some of our dumb telephone phrases.  "Do you want to…"  should never be used when asking for a favor.  Why?  Because it makes it more awkward for us to say no.  (sidenote:  ever notice awkward is an awkward looking word…they should have a term for a word that looks like what it means)  You very well can’t say, "NO!  Who the hell wants to get up before the sun you dumb f#@!"  That’s not going to fly.  It also sounds ridiculous to say oh yes normally i’d love to…but i have a thing at um 5:30am.

So how do you get out of taking someone to the airport at 6:00am when they ask if you want to do it?  You say listen…I’ve got to be alert at work tomorrow, it’s a big day, etc.  Here’s $40, take a car service you cheap s.o.b.  When my dad asked my cousin to drive him to the airport early in the morning, he offered to give him some money to do so.  So there ya are.  If you friend doesn’t offer to pay you, say you know someone who did so.