I shouldn’t be allowed to take myself seriously past eleven o’clock at night. I pulled another “Ha ha. Pun.” tonight, and it wasn’t pretty.
Steven and I were downstairs, trying to find something to watch when we were supposed to be going to sleep. Star Trek: The Next Generation was the only thing on, so it was kind of sentimental after all those nights we spent as children where Star Trek was our ticket to one extra hour before we were forced to sleep. But, I got all serious, and started a debate about how I think it’s silly that when the Enterprise goes to a new planet all of the aliens seem to have the same sense in fashion. (This is where it gets scary and I don’t even know how I know this.) The Vulcans have this thing for Mandarin minimalism with a twist, the Romulans have a downright weird obsession with 80s shoulderpads, the Klingons are all S&M with their leather biker looks, and then the Ferengi with their flashy fabrics and stuff. Steven, trying to defend Star Trek, said that it just wasn’t true – after all, some Ferengis wear that band around their head. Trying to defend my own point of view, I said most intelligently, “Yeah, but that’s like some form of rank or something, not a… not a… head thing for fun!” At which point Steven just started laughing and said, “You mean a hat?”
Head thing for fun? What was I thinking?! 🙂 I laughed so hard I was nearly crying, and then of course a Ferengi shows up in the episode we were watching and then I just start giggling more. I think I would have died if that “Loch up your daughters” ad had shown up.
I finished my project. Huzzah! Want to seeeee it? It’s a new version of my portfolio but with more pictures and less verbage. Paul said it’d be much handier for a job application than the other version I have up, which was created for college applications. Anyway, check it out here. It’s all finished except for one section: Advertising. I had stuff to put in there, but I can’t find the disk it’s on, so I’m just leaving it for now until I decide to care. 🙂 Haha, that sounds bad. I don’t mean it that way, honest, it’s just after spending two straight days of making little thumbnails and then organizing pages I’ve had about enough of it. In a day or two it’ll bug me that the one section isn’t done, and then I’ll go back and fix it, and all will be well in my little world. Well, except for the fact I still don’t have a job, but that is completely and totally beside the point. I think.
Finally, Guan sent me an interesting article that I got really flustered about earlier, but right now I’m just too deliriously tired to think about it. So read it, think about it, get mad with me. Then maybe, once we’re all mad together, we can go in there and fix the crap that is known as the educational system. Wouldn’t that be grand?