Thursday, May 29, 2008

read any good books lately?

there is this guy at work, erik, who is taking a communications class this spring semester. for the class he had to take a poll of ten people asking how many books they have read in the last 6 months, not including text books or scriptures.

here are some of the responses:
Danny--3
Bri--0
Lex--0
Melissa--1
Emily--8

me?--around 80

that's right friends, 80.

i don't think that i could name them all without a serious amount of thought. my only consolation is that this was in the last six months and that i rode the bus to and from work.

so, you read any good books lately?

Thursday, May 1, 2008

ingratiating

last saturday, amber informed me that her friend ryan was coming to utah to visit. since i had randomly had two text conversations with ryan when amber and i had bowling class, she decided that i should go with her to salt lake to see him on wednesday (yesterday).

however, my normal work schedule gets me out of work at 6 at night and amber wanted to go up to slc before that. so i came up with a brilliant--yet painful--plan...i was going to go to work at 6 in the morning and leave at 2 so i could still get in all my hours for the day.

*gasp*

i know. matti actually planned to wake up earlier than normal. not just earlier than normal thought, at 5.30 in the morning.

and i did it. i woke up at 5.30 in the morning so that i could be to work at 6. but i still didn't make it there until about 6.30. so at least i hadn't completely lost my mind and started doing things completely out of character. you can tell since i was still late.

it was the longest day of my life.

no joke. the longest day.

i left work around 1.30 so that i could go get some party supplies from the grocery store. so we didn't get to slc until around 3.30 or 4. we went to find food at taco bell, then got desert at sonic, then went bowling, then went to ryan's sister's house where we played guitar hero and got tattoos. by the time i got home it was around 11.30 or 12 at night.

but the point of all this is that apparently when i'm really tired my vocabulary expands.

when i got home my roommates and i were talking about new girlfriends who aren't nice to the boyfriend's family. and i was trying to say that she should try to make a good impression and make the family like her. but i didn't say that. i said that the girlfriend should try to ingratiate herself. that's right, really long word. and it went on for about an hour. really long or at least uncommon words just kept coming out of my mouth even though i don't know how coherent i was in understanding anything, i kept sounding like i knew what i was talking about.

so apparently, if ever i want to sound really intelligent i just need to be awake for 18.5 hours and it might just happen for me.