Smooth Chit

I’m drinking a green tea (with citrus!) drink, and I can’t decide if I like it or not. Every sip tastes completely different, which makes it difficult for me to make a definitive decision.

Today I am going to go have smoothies with a nice young lady that I met through my chemistry lab. The only problem with that is that I don’t really like smoothies, so while I’m sure she won’t care if I get a coke or something, I still feel like I’m living a lie. In a couple hours though it will all come out and I’ll feel better about it.

I also feel like a bad person when I chit chat with someone who I know I will never be friends with. I know that it’s completely irrational, because everyone talks with people that they aren’t going to become best friends forever with, and it isn’t as though I’m really even lying by omission here, it just feels funny. I don’t mean people who I just won’t see again, but when I can tell that our personalities just aren’t going to be compatible. It’s like a bad date, and I don’t like it.

I just finished a book by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas called The Harmless People, and it was very good, although it was a little sad. It’s about people who live in Africa and hunt antelope. Some of those animals are really beautiful. I am particularly drawn to the greater kudu. They are absolutely huge and gorgeous. They don’t even look real, even in person (hey, I’ve been to the Wild Animal Park).

Who decided banana should be the base fruit in yogurt? They aren’t that fantastic, especially when combined with other fruits. Strawberry banana? I’m sorry, I just think that as a culture, we could do better. Same with orange and cream--I’m going to have to give that an F.

The classroom I’m sitting in has stools instead of real chairs, but the problem is that they don’t move in or out, they only swivel around. This sucks because it makes my shoulders sore no matter what I’m doing. I can’t imagine that I’m the only one who is bothered by it, either.

I really don’t like peer-editing in English classes because I feel that it often ends up being an unequal exchange, and today I got shortchanged. While I love the praise, telling me that there’s nothing that needs fixing is completely unhelpful (unless you’re grading me) and while it’s a sweet sentiment, it’s also a lie. And lying, like drugs, is bad, m’kay?