Assorted Thoughts 20: I Would Rather Do This Than Useful Things

• I am seldom as frustrated and embarrassed as I am when I'm forced to voluntarily and consciously give up on a book I'm reading because it's too bad.  I feel like I should still be able to push through and finish it, but sometimes it hurts too much.
• Most awkward phone call I've made in some time: calling the local Borders (closing as the chain goes under) and asking the guy answering the phone (who will shortly be laid off) when the sales start so that vultures like me can pick over the store's corpse.
• I get a bit of a kick out of how surprised people are when I'm not a raging asshole.  So I do something nice every now and then just to throw them for a loop.
• There are two types of gamer girls: the ones who are large and anime-loving and weird, and the ones who don't exist.  With apologies to the gamer girls I actually know who don't fit the context of the joke.
• Note to self: If the realty office is showing a potential tenant around the apartment you will soon be vacating, it's considered bad form to play the Dead Kennedys' "Let's Lynch The Landlord."
• Fun field trip activity: go to a store, buy knives, rope, sponges and bleach, and while checking out, strike up a conversation with the person on the register where you repeatedly insist that you're not a serial killer, and try to persuade them you're really not trying to hide the evidence.
• Underwear made of snakes: a pythong.