new fad diet!

so. i'm still at work. about to leave, so i thought i'd leave with a bang.

a friend sent me this at work today:
http://www.absolution-online.com/confessional/

and.. well, first, disclaimer: This blog respects all humans, regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, intelligence, appearance, eating habits, and hybrid car ownership status. It may have a problem with people who honestly think the Big 10 is better than the SEC. But that's it.

so anyway, i have to admit i had a really fun break at work with this link (could be testament to how much fun i was already having.. debatable). i honestly thought it was a joke at first, but it ended up being a really fun game. The first time, i confessed 2 A-level ("Most extreme and serious with no mitigating circumstances") sins, and it said i had to fast for NINE days. i think i would commit a lot of sins trying to fast for 9 days.

7 deadly sins to the A-th power will get you 656 hail marys and 20 our fathers and 13 days of no eating! AND just 1 "I'd rather watch tv than go to church" will get you 5 days of no eating, which led me to believe that catholicism might make a serious comeback as a fad diet.

My goal over the course of busy season is to try it once every day to figure out what egregious tv-watching/gluttonous/sorcery combination will yield the most hail marys.

of course, 2 friends sent me this today:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=southernfootball&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1
which i haven't read yet but which looks really good, and i'm mainly just putting it here for selfish reasons so i remember to read it later. hm, selfish reasoning. that probably cost me at least 2 days of eating.

oh, and no, i do not get paid enough. unfortunately, i do not see "Gradually reducing college-educated employees' pay to minimum wage while making them work with monkeys until they themselves turn into monkeys" in any of the sin categories.

don't you think?

i think i find it a little ironic that one whole continent can be trying to lose weight while another whole continent is starving. Ironic that i can spend my whole day wishing i were outside while the window washers scattered around my building probably spend their days wishing they were inside. Ironic that conquering one problem only brings another.

is it ironic that i enjoy making friends with fresh, new, interesting people who have fresh, interesting outlooks and ideas that seem to open new worlds as much as i enjoy staying friends with familiar, good, loyal friends who are familiar and know me and know what i've done and sometimes what i'll do, which is comforting and powerful and seemingly essential? ironic that i love home as much as i love to be away from it? ironic to love routine as much as spontaneity?

Ironic that octogenarians wonder what if? while adolescents wonder what will be? (prepubescents only wonder if people like them. ok, i do that too. whatever.) Ironic that i can write about a few things that are actually slightly ironic and gain pretty much nothing from it, while alanis morrisette can sing a whole song about things that aren't ironic at all, ask the leading question, 'don't you think?', consequently have the whole American population think to themselves, 'yes, i do think!', and gain millions. of dollars, that is. not even ironic dollars. REAL dollars.

so maybe then i'm switching to: i think i find it a little unfair that ________.

blank could be: see above. good things don't always get rewarded. bad things don't always get punished. OJ was acquitted. The bridge fell. Elvis, michael, whitney, britney, et al. all let bad decisions get in the way of making good music. One was incomplete and another was a touchdown.

maybe it's not ironic or unfair. maybe it's just _____. maybe it's just some word i don't know.

maybe it's time for me to go to bed.