It’s Like I Pressed “Shuffle” on My Brain
Random observations before lunch on yet another holiday-coded day that should’ve been a sick day.
- Prop noise on certain small planes sounds uncannily like throat/overtone singing.
- David Foster Wallace’s essay on the use of irony in the plight of under-40 post-postmodern fiction writers in the early ’90s has had an impact on the way I interact both with my friends and my television. I’ll have to read it again to be able to articulate what I mean, but for now I’ll just mention that I’ve started to notice exactly how many pop culture references get bandied about in my everyday conversation in place of actual sentences of my own creation, and it makes me a little uncomfortable.
- Airport bars aren’t as depressing on Christmas as one might think.
Edited to add:
- Leafycaust 2006 has (probably unintentionally) yielded a wealth of useful discussion and information for small business owners, office drones, IT guys, and people in other service-oriented positions. The most useful nugget I’ve gleaned, which changed my work habits almost immediately (and which may be common sense for most people), is to communicate with customers/co-workers/bosses with “I have done x” instead of “I will do x as soon as possible.”