State of the Union

Here is what I know:

* My job requires me to have keys to three different golf carts and carry a walkie-talkie. This makes me happy. Listening to the conversations happening over the radio makes me feel connected to everyone else. It's white noise that is occasionally personal.

* Potatoes are incredibly versatile, yet differ from tofu in that no matter what, they always taste like potatoes. Science needs to do something about this.

* Asshole the Cricket was viscously massacred by my roommate while he was trying to take a shower. My roommate has been given a metal. Asshole was unceremoniously dumped in the trash. And this is what happens when you wake me at night. Be warned.

* Peter Cetera's "Glory of Love" (most famously known from the motion picture "Karate Kid" starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita) sticks in your head like cold molasses. Seriously. Get this out of my head.

* I wonder how Jimi Hendrix would have affected the rise of the hip-hop movement if he had lived. I feel like his blues influence would have helped create some amazing songs.

* On that same thinking, Janis Joplin would have been twice married and had three kids. She would not be in music anymore. She'd live in Oregon.

* Jim Morrison would have gone bald and yet still made it look hot. That's all I know about that.

* Spying on people will always creep me out. As will clandestine organizations. Unless I'm in them, then I feel that they are fabulous.

* I have yet to meet a person who doesn't want to belt out the "NA NA NA NA-NA-NA-NA NA NA NA NA HEEEYY JUDE!" climax of the Beatles' "Hey Jude".

*In 2000 my friend Amy and I wrote predictions about where we'd be in the year 2005.
I was completely wrong about myself.
I am very, very happy about this fact.

* Reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close during the 5th anniversary of 9/11 brought back feelings I didn't know I had.

* When (and if) I ever settle down with someone, I will miss feeling giddy and nervous about them. There is a terror and a delight in uncertainty.

* I've been checking books out of a library owned and run by a 10 year-old. That is fabulous.