What broke my day: Really bad fortune cookie fortunes. One of my favorite things about the Ford Dining court (the largest dining court on Purdue's campus) is the fact that they ALWAYS have fortune cookies. Whenever my friends and I make the long trek to Ford, we get a fortune cookie and then go around the table and share. It's a good bonding time. So, yesterday was the first fortune cookie sharing circle of the year. I was super duper pumped and hoping to get an awesome fortune. But it wasn't. There was so much disappointment in the cracking of the cookie, and then reading something that isn't even a fortune. They are called fortune cookies for a reason, not unsolicited sage advice cookies. Maybe the name should be changed. I was expecting to see something that I could add '...in bed.' to in order to make it funny. But what I got instead was, " The constructive use of riches is better than their possession." Okay, technically you can add '...in bed.' to that one, but in that case it would just be an encouragement, still not a fortune. I wanted something more along the lines of, "Riches will come your way." I'm a college student, I'm already broke, I don't need you to remind me to spend what little I have constructively on ramen noodles. I understand that. I want a new fortune. Like, an actual fortune, not some Chinese proverb. I felt left out when I broke open that crunchy, golden brown cookie and read something stupid, when all my friends got to read pure awesomeness. They all got a chance at love, or a promising night, I got my mother in a cookie. It's like the universe wants me to be responsible, and is willing to use fortune cookies as a way to remind me of that. Fat chance on that one universe, fat chance.
What made my day: Skype dates. Most importantly, impromptu Skype dates. Today I got to have an hour long Skype conference with my favorite Dane, Liv. We are exactly the same person. This is probably because we have the same birth date. I don't know how that's relevant, but I'm going with it totally is. Anyways, goofing off, catching up, making new inside jokes, and having a good time, when twenty minutes previous to the said conversation I was turning into a zombie because of how freaking bored I was. Blank stare, drool dripping down, eyes glazed over...the only difference was I don't like brains because I'm a vegetarian, and I have little chance of having an appendage fall off randomly. Unless of course, I have leprosy and just don't know it yet. Not only is she one of my favorite people in the world, we can talk about absolutely ANYTHING and she won't judge me.Also, she approves of my dancing (badly) and shares my mutual attraction for Johnny Depp. It brought a smile to my face seeing her and freaking out about how awesome the word facetious is. We plan on making the word facetious the next attractive. As in, using it in sarcasm, but also making us sound smart because of course it is a big word. The fact that we can so easily connect with people half way across the world is awesome, and I think we take it for granted. 50 years ago I would have needed to take an airplane a bus and a cab to see her. Now, I can click a simple button and ...BOOM there are her facial features in all their glory. Skype FTW. I'm glad that one great hour full of attractive faces, awesome stories, great words, snarky comments, and laughter happened, instead of playing solitaire 200 times. Because you totes know that would have happened.
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