Thursday

"As genes for beauty were favored over those for taste,

the skins grew tough and bitter

around mushy, sugar-soaked flesh."*

 

 

Though this has the feel of the opening scene to Hannibal... when I read this quote I couldn't help but shudder and think what a metaphor it is for society and how we worship beauty and not the "meat" of who people are and the way they think.  Not to go all Capitol of the Hunger Games with this but it is strange to me the things we/I/Snow White overlook for a nice eye catching thing. 

 

 

Thoughts of an overeducated overprivileged millenial:

• paper clips make good hair ties (open one end - weave over hair - instant bun
• all colors can be washed together on cold
• working a xerox machine is worth thousands of college credits 
• good chicken recipes make boyfriends happy and impressed
• formatting excel spread sheets make you miss group projects (and always delegating this task
• instagram likes = virtual hugs
• 7th grade math haunts me every day
• keeping my office orchid alive makes me feel real pride
• I read this article about how sitting all day is killing my body and it made me think about this image again from Walle
  

  
• I don't save much money bc therapy, hair color, acupunture, yoga, organic food, and weddings are expensive.  Mostly weddings.  Can we go back to the good old days of backyard bbq's with real flower crowns and a weeks notice? I'm thinking Forest Gump style when Jenny walks out of the house and it's all so relaxed (granted she might have AIDS at this point and his family had a huge plantation home so maybe this was not that simple).

•  I love when adults use emojis right but not when they have braces - I stare
• I have an inordinate amount of friends who started non profits, have traveled the world, are photographers as a hobby, and escaped a 9-5.  How did I miss out on this/these?
• owning a home terrifies me more than just about anything except spiders in said home
• I want to read this book that Stephen King wrote about writing and his teaching days.  To have had him as a teacher....to have a teacher again.  I miss high school/college and learning things full time but I don't want to just go to grad school to go bc I don't know what I want to study- except if I could do what James Franco did and major in whatever you want..  - also debt is terrifying and I am not famous and Yale is not letting me in. EVER.
• I am terrible at doing things every day at the same time the same way.  Hence the inconsistent grammar and my inability to proof things without extreme focus.
• I ardently believe (most) men are better drivers than (most) women - I am one of these women
• I have a severe disability when it comes to directions...however I still believe I would survive in the Walking Dead and potentially in the Hunger Games.
• I constantly wonder what it would be like to actually answer the question: "What am I capable of?" not just "What can I get by with?"
• When I get bored I always want to get a pixie haircut and then I remember that I am not Julianne Hough and I would look like a girl who does not like boys. 
• I have no real understanding of the things I use every day (cars, cell phones, the internet, i cloud, electricity, clean water, trash management...)  makes me think of Stephen Kings Gunslinger series and also if I ever went back in time I would be of no real use to anyone but they could probably teach me how to farm, hunt, and make clothes. #ihavenorealskills

 

(if only I had someone to format and edit this for me)

 

 

*This is from this Atlantic article about the rise of the Red Delicious apple in the U.S. and how through it being engineered for beauty it became qually as tasteless.