Still around

I’ve been really busy with school, but now that summer has rolled around, I’m going to try to start posting this again. I totally haven’t said this before. No, really, I think I actually have some things I want to post about now and enough time to do it.

I got a new Android phone. It’s pretty kickass. Only complaint is that it doesn’t come with an SD card. I’m going to buy one of those today so I can use the camera and other things.

I’ve got to go run some errands and things, but I’LL BE BACK!

I’m still here (physically, though not quite mentally)

No, I haven’t abandoned this little blog-thing of mine. (Ok, well, I guess I have, technically, but you know what I mean—I haven’t forgotten about it, and I do still intend to use it, even if I’ve sorely neglected it lately.) I’ve just been preoccupied and distracted by a lot of other random stuff, which actually has given me plenty of things to write about, but of course, my distraction and preoccupation with them prevented it. (Does that qualify as “proper” instance of irony? I think so.) I’ll probably post something or another later today, and I’m also going to finish up and backpost the many post drafts I started but forgot about.

First-world problems, queer edition

DT: don't you love it when you change the channel and the first thing you first thing you hear is "bareback cowboys!" only to discover its an ad for a rodeo

DT: disappointing

Cowboys: Giving us gay guys blue balls by barebacking since…we stole that term for something decidedly different than its original meaning.

Ever wonder what English sounds like to non-speakers?

Well, now you know:

This is Prisencolinensinainciusol (try saying that five times fast), a song by legendary Italian entertainer Adriano Celetano. The "lyrics" are actually incoherent jibberish intentionally made to sound like American English. It's really quite an earworm, despite being complete nonsense.

To me, it sounds like a cross between some generic Germanic language with a Southern American accent and Québécois French (what a strange combination, eh?), but that may just be the familiarity of those to my ear.

From a conversation with my friend Patrick:

Lui: A guy at a bar said education sucks because kids don't know cursive and because they teach math which NOBODY uses. Lol. He said this to me and I was fighting not to lol.

Moi: because dem fancy letterins is more useful than mathematics

Wonder what that fella would think of me: a math-education major with pretty good cursive penmanship.