• 7:09 AM
  Sure is orangey in here

Woke up really early today, and got to work Monday-morning style! Ha ha, except that on a typical Monday, productivity is off the bottom of the chart. This Monday morning was different - I cleaned the kitchen for some strange reason, then washed most of my clothes. Before lunch, I had the floors mopped and the rangetop cleaned. What am I, some kind of morning person now? No, no no. Morning for me can still be 8 PM. It was more like, I took a nap from 2 AM until 5 AM, and then got my evening tasks done. Why is cleaning the kitchen interesting? I'll get to that in a second.

Cleaning products have very loud labels. Most laundry detergents even have very loud names, or at least, names designed to be stated very loudly and pointedly, like curses. BIZ! FAB! ALL! Hey, I think there's one thats actually called "shout". Oh, and they used that tears for fears song in their commercial, didn't they? It has the product name and everything. Perfect, really. ALL should ask Faith No More if they can use "Epic".

Observer!

Not too long after lunch I went to sleep and had no further thoughts.

Woke up and it was raining.

Watched Sixteen Candles w/H, since it was in from Netflix. The 80's slang is so wacky. Also, the nonchalant attitude towards drug use, racism, homophobia, hazing.. things which got a bad..er.. badder name in the subsequent years. Now if you see someone abusing muscle relaxants in a movie, they're edgy or rebellious, not just some zany yuppie. "Everyone's emo!" says Helen. Well, yeah, the nerd caste. That decade is where Emo got its imaginary nemesis, the Jocks from. (all information on Emo and Emo-ism provided by Sassy magazine)

Also noted: too much synthesizer use in the 80s. It's as if after the technology was developed, it had to be overused so music culture could figure out what the acceptable parameters of it were. One point that sticks out for me is: don't pitchbend chords with synth stabs. soooo goony sounding.

Final note: I lied. There is nothing interesting about cleaning up the kitchen.