My brother called me many times while I was at work. If finally picked up my cell and said “I’M AT WORK” and hung up. Turns out, this was all part of an experiment to see if what our dad told him was right – that there is a system to contacting me via phone.
Danny told me, today, “Dad says that 99% of the time you’re doing something much more important than what I’m calling you about, so if I call you and let it ring just once, you’ll answer if you’re not doing anything important. If I call you immediately after and let it ring, you’ll think it’s an emergency and pick up.”
Yes, the 99% statistic is true – but what my naive 16-year-old brother doesn’t realize is that there are many other factors that fall into how and when AND EVEN IF I answer my phone:
1. is the phone within 3 feet of me (if not, I probably won’t answer)
2. is it an unknown number (if so, I will definitely not answer)
3. is it Danny calling (if so, I will definitely not answer)
4. is it single-digit morning hours at the time of call (if so, I will definitely not answer, but will call back after 10am and angrily explain why I do not pick up the phone that early in the morning)
I understand that I have my quirks when it comes to telecommunication. Really, if everyone can just contact each other via email, my life would be perfect. I can easily ignore emails, not waste minutes listening to my brother talk about all the chicks he’s dating at once, and organize all forms of communication into colorful Gmail labels.
It’s really easy to buy the cheapest product at a grocery store and not think about the rigorous testing that animals are put through to get to the consumer. I’m going to make it easy for you, now, to DO think about it.
These two products are awesome, because they keep me squeaky clean AND aren’t a million dollars like most animal-friendly products seem to be.
The first is Desert Essence Thoroughly Clean Face Wash. It’s gentle, but still aggressive enough to combat oily skin and breakouts. It’s got all sorts of good stuff, like tea tree oil and chamomile. I get mine at Whole Foods, but you can get it on the Desert Essence site as well for $8.99.
The second is Veganu Natural Bar Soap It has the light scent of coconut, has a nice creamy lather and comes in a pack of 3 for only $3.00 on the Vegan Essentials site! This soap leaves no residue on me, really softens my skin, and it’s not a girly soap (Jimmy loves it, too). Vegan soaps are usually $5 a bar and have no lather.
There are plenty of other mainstream products that are animal friendly and cheap. V05 is about a buck per bottle, and they do not use animal testing. Nivea products don’t either.
Really, my point is that you need to shower more. Seriously, you smell.
1. We apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused you.
2. Again, we are truly sorry for any inconvenience this power supply issue may have caused you.
Just tell me why it’s down WHEN it’s goes down (not 2 hours later), and let us know how long you ESTIMATE the downtime will occur.
One interesting part is when Graham Hill mentions that the average amount of time a power drill is used in a household, in it’s lifetime, is 4 minutes. A lot more energy than the 4 minutes of it’s lifetime usage goes into it’s manufacturing and packaging.
Right now I’m watching the National Spelling Bee, which reminds me of all the nerdy competitions I used to take part in as a young student. My crowning moment was listing all the presidents in chronological order, along with their vice presidents and the start and end of each of their terms. My prize was Bill Clinton’s autograph (he was prez at the time), and an announcement over the loudspeaker about my win. I probably had a mullet at the time.
I’ve only taken part in one spelling bee in my life. I actually wrote about it when it happened 4 years ago. Mikeman and I were a team (Parliament Funkadelic), and our rivals were this crazy chick and Jen Russ. Team Crazy beat us, but I did leave with a DVD player that is currently sitting (brokenly) in Jimmy’s closet.
I’ve kept virtually everything I’ve had on the walls of my dorm, cards from friends and family, etc. I keep the stuff from college to present in a big shoebox and everything before then in a pink duffel bag that has a broken zipper. Feeling blue from my wisdom tooth pain and Jimmy not being here, I went through my closet to do some early packing for when we move out in the end of July. Here is some stuff I found from college:
-Tickets for almost every concert I’ve been to. This includes the Belle & Sebastian/New Pornographers show that Todd Fancey put me on the guestlist for and the first Mountain concert I took my dad to. Both EXCELLENT shows.
-Dr. Waters memorabilia. He still teaches at MSU, I think. One is a reserved seating card for when he ate lunch at Freeman Hall, the other is a set of index cards that Michelle Kristiansen and I drew vulgar cartoons on during his class.
-Stuff that Vicki, Barbara and I had hanging on our dorm room door. The theme usually involved George W. Bush having sexual relations with McGreevy, flying alpacas, and Clay Aiken.
-A Christmas card from Tayo, former resident director and abuser of power at MSU. Jefrey is coughing up a hairball onto it right now.
-About 20 Outback Steakhouse pins that I can probably get some good money for on Ebay, but I’ll wait for them to become the US currency in several years.
-A long-winded note that a certain Jeff Gant wrote me after I dropped a class that we were both in. He was upset that I ditched him, but he drew sunshine on the card so I guess it was okay.
-A drawing that Goatee-Keven drew of me when he was sad that he was transferring from MSU and leaving me alone in Dr. Water’s class (Anyone remember him? His name was Kevin, he had a goatee and wanted to be a film major, but there wasn’t one at the time.).
There was a ton of other stuff, but these are the ones that stick in my mind. College was crazy. What’s also crazy is this wisdom tooth that is eating my face. Let’s hope this week is fruitful and nutritious.
These two products are awesome, because they keep me squeaky clean AND aren’t a million dollars like most animal-friendly products seem to be. 
