I have heard people say “Well, Mercury is in retrograde ya know!” about a billion times in the last few months. They say it when they don’t know what else to say. And god love them for it, I guess, because what really is there ever to say??

Anyway: It’s just a weird thing I’ve noticed is all. I could say, “It’s hot as hell out here” or “I feel exhausted” and unfailingly someone would reply with, “Well, Mercury is in retrograde ya know!” And I would say, after a pause, “Uh, OK.” They may as well have burped, if you ask me. At least then it would have been honest.

Have you noticed that everyone is saying “on point” and “killing it” and “current mood [picture of Scully from The X-files]”? Have you noticed that people are saying “squad goals” and “that [blank] tho”? And “rad” and “stoked”? And all this other dumb crap that previously existed but is now spreading like god damn VD at summer camp in any conversation or online interaction you ever have?

Because I sure have noticed!

Man, it used to be that people just kind of talked about some stuff based on their lives and the areas they lived in. Now everyone everywhere is reading the same source, The Internet®, and it has made talking to people worse than ever!

I know absolutely nothing about what is going on in the world. I don’t watch TV or listen to the news or even read any websites. I don’t have accounts on any social media platforms. Maybe it is difficult for people to talk to me because I just don’t participate in the same stuff. When someone asks me if I have seen something, or heard about something, my response (in my brain) is usually “I don’t know what that is.” I truly don’t!

I know I sound like some grumpy jerk but man I just really can’t stand having the same hollow prepackaged conversations over and over again. Yeah, there’s nothing new under the sun, but for god’s sake, how hard is it to say something halfway original?

(Good thing Mercury is no longer in retrograde (whatever the fuck that means (someone recently told me Venus is now in retrograde (ugggghhhh).))

If I wanted to join the crowd, I guess I would dye my hair silver, move to New York City, and go around telling everyone I’m an artist

I get kind of sad when I talk to someone who is both in grad school and engaged. There is some weird sort of finality there, like, “Well, I’m done!”

(And here someone could (accurately) make the joke that just about everything makes me “kind of sad”.)

still lookin for my garth algar~

the goal of every human should be to reduce the amount of suffering there is, or at least not contribute to it

“if you can do no good, then for god’s sake, at least do no harm”

people “go shopping”

When I walk past three or four men in their mid- to late-twenties I feel a sort of dread in the center of my stomach that is unlike anything else

I absolutely hate the Bay Area and I can’t wait to leave it

i am tired of beautiful people