Assorted Thoughts 19: I Will Still Try To Be Funny Even If Nobody Reads It

• I recently had a dream where I was writing an essay for some class or something, and I was really upset when my alarm went off before I could finish the essay.
• Never upset a pastry chef.  You might end up with a phlegm brûlée.
• I make odd noises.  This is nothing new.  However, it gets to be a bit disconcerting when I myself am surprised by the noises I make.  An approximate reconstruction:
• Part of Brain: You've been quiet for almost fourteen seconds!  Time to make a noise!
• Rest of Brain: Okay!
• Mouth: [series of sounds absolutely not reproducible in text form]
• Rest of Brain: What the hell was that?  Did did we make those?
• Part of Brain: Yep!
• All the Rest of Me: Seriously, what the shit is your problem?
• I am enough of a nationalist that I will actively root against the People's Republic of China when they run up against South Korea in the women's recurve team event (Bronze Medal Final) at the Archery World Championships.
• Don't get me wrong, a lot of the bands I like are old.  Not old in the sense of "been retired since the '70s" but old as in "their members are in their mid-40s."  But seeing the Rolling Stones still out there on stage and making records really makes me wonder if there's a statute of limitations on rocking.
• Rape investigators must spend a lot of time worrying about con-genital defects.
• In the midst of a fantastical dream involving zombies and a men's World Cup soccer game (US versus Germany), I started analyzing the pitching performance of the closer for the Red Sox in the real game from the night before.  I'm both impressed that I can do that and slightly worried that I can do that.