weird things that happened... or something
Long-ish post filled with thoughts (and parenthesis.)
This is going to be a post full of weird coincidences or things that happened recently that are either amusing or confusing. Either way, they rhyme. Not really. Just those two words do. I got caught up in my own thoughts. Anyway...
I was just on youtube looking up Ben/Leslie fan videos (because I want to see if anyone's made a video to "Look after You" by The Fray (I really want to see one)) and the first video that popped up when I sorted it by Date Uploaded was not a Ben/Leslie fanvid. It was a video of some random guy playing the guitar and singing "Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson. The reason it showed up was because his description was "Great song that Leslie and Ben turned me on to... and we're playing it at their wedding on Saturday." How perfect is it that two real life people named Leslie and Ben are getting married and having a breakfast-themed song played at their wedding? I can't even...
And the first actual Ben/Leslie fan vid is this heart-breaking piece of wonderfulness:
Don't mind me. I'm just sobbing right now. God... these two... everything is everything. Like Lauryn Hill sang about.
(Oh, and this isn't in keeping with the amusing/confusing vibe of the post. It's just an added bonus because I'm spazzy and sappy and emotional. Moving along...)
My work bff Kathy and I were eating lunch yesterday and one of the "crazy old ladies" (who are not really old and only some of whom are actually crazy (did I use who/whom correctly there? I need Creed to explain it to me)) saw that Kathy was drinking milk with her muffin and said "I didn't know anyone still drank milk..." If you haven't guessed, this was one of the actually crazy old ladies. She's a whack job. Today she said "We're the only species who drinks the milk of another species. Like, you wouldn't see a giraffe going up to a cow and drinking its milk," to which Kathy responded, "Yeah, but you also wouldn't see a giraffe going up to a cow and making it into a burger, either." Anyway, Kathy and I thought it was funny. So I've been listening to the Asssscat! podcast on my Zune for the past month or so whenever I get a chance at work and today I listened to the podcast with Reese Waters. The suggestion was "farmers" and so he talked about how his grandma grew up on a farm and how he became the black sheep of the family for awhile because his sunday school teacher was a vegan and decided to impress his beliefs on a bunch of 8 year olds. And the teacher would say "We're the only species who drinks the milk of another species and that's disgusting." I mean, that's such a random observation, and I happened to listen to a podcast that mentions it the exact same day I just had a conversation about it. So odd. I immediately called Kathy and was like, "You need to hear this. It's crazy."
Our department has been working overtime on Saturdays for the past few weeks because it's the end of the quarter. My boss is named Ben, however he is the exact opposite of Ben Wyatt. My boss is in his late 50s (I think), bald, black, and probably upwards of 300 pounds. And he's awesome (although that falls into the category of similar to Ben Wyatt.) Anyway, they mostly get pizzas for us when we work Saturdays, but sometimes Ben switches it up and gets hoagies and wings. Last week, we were discussing what to order and he literally said, "You know what I had before that was really good? Calzones. Their calzones are really good." I stared at him for about 10 seconds and then burst into laughter. It was too perfect. I wanted so badly to say, "Calzones are like pizzas but harder to eat. They're stupid and so was that suggestion" and leave it at that, but he's my boss so I just laughed and then explained why it was funny. He thought it was funny, too.
Okay, so this last thing is probably just going to end up being random babbling because I'm trying to explain this to myself and it's weird. Adam Scott has put me in some weird conundrum (I like that word.) I'm a gay lady. I have always been attracted to women, or you know, really admired them (because you don't become attracted to people until you're older, regardless of what gender it turns out to be geared toward.) The few boys I had crushes on in elementary and jr. high school weren't really as much of a thing for me as with other girls my age. It was just something that seemed normal, and the boys were nice enough. One of them that I crushed on in 6th grade (who oddly enough works with me now) looked like Justin Timberlake in the height of his N'Sync days, and I still think Justin is an attractive man, so that one is kind of understandable. [I started writing some more sentences here about how I never had legitimate crushes on guys, and then I actually thought about it and realized that that's not true. Here I am attributing this to Adam Scott, but I just remembered that about 3 years ago, I had a legitimate crush on this guy at work who looked like a much younger Taye Diggs.] Anyway, there's this other guy at work now and he doesn't really look like Adam Scott except there is some quality to his face that is very similar. I think it may be his nose? I'm trying really hard not to stare because it's odd. His hair is completely different. I really kind of hate his hair. But he has the essence of Adam Scott. The way he phrases certain things, just something reminds me of Adam. And it's throwing me off. He is my "next-desk" neighbor and has been for probably a year now, I've worked closely with him for well over a year, and I've never thought of him in any way remotely approaching a crush. But now I recognize similarities to Adam Scott and I'm having to suppress a dorky smile when he says things or does things and just... what is wrong with me? And it turns out I'm not asking that because he's a guy, because when I really think about it, that's not the part that's most confusing/troubling to me. And let me explain that further...
There is this lady at work. I've seen her face for years, known her personality for years, and I didn't develop a gigantic, ridiculous, overwhelming crush on her until last year after watching 3 episodes of Rizzoli & Isles and realizing that "holy shit! She looks and acts just like Angie Harmon!!!" Cue instant-crush. (I would post her picture on here to show you the similarities (because they are startling), but I feel that crosses a line and it's also weird that I have pictures of her to begin with (I came by them in a totally non-stalkerish way, though, so don't think I'm that crazy. They were group photos on a community camera at work.))
What I find most confusing is that I only seem to become attracted to people when they resemble famous people that I am attracted to. Otherwise, I'm completely bored by both genders. I sometimes wonder if I'm just asexual, but I don't think that's right. Because I am legitimately attracted to these famous people and their less famous doppelgangers. I just don't know. It's odd. And I don't know if I'll ever figure it out. Here's hoping, though.
But on that note, I recently updated my OkCupid profile because I've been rewatching UCB and I thought it would be funny to include the whole quote from the dating profile of Reset Smith the cyborg, and then put after it "if you know where that comes from, message me. We need to date." And I did the thing that links certain interests on your profile, so it said: "I enjoy jetpack racing, human boxing, and early [[Titté Brothers.]]" After it updated, I clicked on the link for Titté Brothers and one other person had linked that as an interest. He was a 29 year old man and he's really attractive, too. This was in his "About Me" section: "I'm the kind of guy who'd rather be reading a good book than watching a Sox game. I get strangely turned on when a woman corrects my grammar. I've been told by friends that I'm like an old man who is trapped inside the body of a 25 year old guy with the mind of a lesbian. I'm still not sure exactly what that means." What it means, sir, is that you are awesome. I mean, among his interests are Titté Brothers, Ani Difranco, gay rights, some other random things that interested me but it's showing he's online now and I don't want him to message me so I'm not going back to look. Also, he lives in Somerville, MA, which is 20 minutes away from where Amy Poehler grew up, and 12 minutes away from where Rizzoli & Isles takes place. Because apparently everything ties back in with the entertainment industry. You know how Ben Wyatt is labeled as "human disaster"? I think I should be labeled as "unsuccessful star-fucker."
This is also listed on my OkCupid profile under "The Most Private Thing I'm Willing to Admit":
While I don't see myself ever being with a man, if the opportunity ever presented itself (which it won't), I would definitely go bisexual for Adam Scott, Will Arnett, Lee Thompson Young, or Taye Diggs. (Does anyone else find it odd when people say they'd "go gay" or "go straight" for certain people? Like straight girls who say they'd go gay for Tina Fey. Even if I were to meet and fall in love with Will Arnett (were he not already married), that wouldn't negate the fact that I am inherently and primarily attracted to women (specifically his wife.))
I just think I think too much. Like Idina Menzel sang about. Were you a countess or a vagabond or James Bond or yeah, but bisexual.
I need to go to sleep. My sleep has been so disjointed lately. I have a class at 9am M-R and I have a hell of a time falling asleep at a normal hour, so I usually manage to get anywhere between 1.5 - 3 hours of sleep before having to wake up, and then like a 2 hour nap when I get home before I have to get back up and go to work. It's starting to take its toll on me. I've been having strange nightmares recently when I actually do fall asleep. But I'm going to save that for another post because this one already has too many tags and the dream thing is something I want to talk about at length and I really should be going to sleep instead of continuing this run-on sentence... Shut up, brain!
This is going to be a post full of weird coincidences or things that happened recently that are either amusing or confusing. Either way, they rhyme. Not really. Just those two words do. I got caught up in my own thoughts. Anyway...
I was just on youtube looking up Ben/Leslie fan videos (because I want to see if anyone's made a video to "Look after You" by The Fray (I really want to see one)) and the first video that popped up when I sorted it by Date Uploaded was not a Ben/Leslie fanvid. It was a video of some random guy playing the guitar and singing "Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson. The reason it showed up was because his description was "Great song that Leslie and Ben turned me on to... and we're playing it at their wedding on Saturday." How perfect is it that two real life people named Leslie and Ben are getting married and having a breakfast-themed song played at their wedding? I can't even...
And the first actual Ben/Leslie fan vid is this heart-breaking piece of wonderfulness:
Click to viewDon't mind me. I'm just sobbing right now. God... these two... everything is everything. Like Lauryn Hill sang about.
(Oh, and this isn't in keeping with the amusing/confusing vibe of the post. It's just an added bonus because I'm spazzy and sappy and emotional. Moving along...)
My work bff Kathy and I were eating lunch yesterday and one of the "crazy old ladies" (who are not really old and only some of whom are actually crazy (did I use who/whom correctly there? I need Creed to explain it to me)) saw that Kathy was drinking milk with her muffin and said "I didn't know anyone still drank milk..." If you haven't guessed, this was one of the actually crazy old ladies. She's a whack job. Today she said "We're the only species who drinks the milk of another species. Like, you wouldn't see a giraffe going up to a cow and drinking its milk," to which Kathy responded, "Yeah, but you also wouldn't see a giraffe going up to a cow and making it into a burger, either." Anyway, Kathy and I thought it was funny. So I've been listening to the Asssscat! podcast on my Zune for the past month or so whenever I get a chance at work and today I listened to the podcast with Reese Waters. The suggestion was "farmers" and so he talked about how his grandma grew up on a farm and how he became the black sheep of the family for awhile because his sunday school teacher was a vegan and decided to impress his beliefs on a bunch of 8 year olds. And the teacher would say "We're the only species who drinks the milk of another species and that's disgusting." I mean, that's such a random observation, and I happened to listen to a podcast that mentions it the exact same day I just had a conversation about it. So odd. I immediately called Kathy and was like, "You need to hear this. It's crazy."
Our department has been working overtime on Saturdays for the past few weeks because it's the end of the quarter. My boss is named Ben, however he is the exact opposite of Ben Wyatt. My boss is in his late 50s (I think), bald, black, and probably upwards of 300 pounds. And he's awesome (although that falls into the category of similar to Ben Wyatt.) Anyway, they mostly get pizzas for us when we work Saturdays, but sometimes Ben switches it up and gets hoagies and wings. Last week, we were discussing what to order and he literally said, "You know what I had before that was really good? Calzones. Their calzones are really good." I stared at him for about 10 seconds and then burst into laughter. It was too perfect. I wanted so badly to say, "Calzones are like pizzas but harder to eat. They're stupid and so was that suggestion" and leave it at that, but he's my boss so I just laughed and then explained why it was funny. He thought it was funny, too.
Okay, so this last thing is probably just going to end up being random babbling because I'm trying to explain this to myself and it's weird. Adam Scott has put me in some weird conundrum (I like that word.) I'm a gay lady. I have always been attracted to women, or you know, really admired them (because you don't become attracted to people until you're older, regardless of what gender it turns out to be geared toward.) The few boys I had crushes on in elementary and jr. high school weren't really as much of a thing for me as with other girls my age. It was just something that seemed normal, and the boys were nice enough. One of them that I crushed on in 6th grade (who oddly enough works with me now) looked like Justin Timberlake in the height of his N'Sync days, and I still think Justin is an attractive man, so that one is kind of understandable. [I started writing some more sentences here about how I never had legitimate crushes on guys, and then I actually thought about it and realized that that's not true. Here I am attributing this to Adam Scott, but I just remembered that about 3 years ago, I had a legitimate crush on this guy at work who looked like a much younger Taye Diggs.] Anyway, there's this other guy at work now and he doesn't really look like Adam Scott except there is some quality to his face that is very similar. I think it may be his nose? I'm trying really hard not to stare because it's odd. His hair is completely different. I really kind of hate his hair. But he has the essence of Adam Scott. The way he phrases certain things, just something reminds me of Adam. And it's throwing me off. He is my "next-desk" neighbor and has been for probably a year now, I've worked closely with him for well over a year, and I've never thought of him in any way remotely approaching a crush. But now I recognize similarities to Adam Scott and I'm having to suppress a dorky smile when he says things or does things and just... what is wrong with me? And it turns out I'm not asking that because he's a guy, because when I really think about it, that's not the part that's most confusing/troubling to me. And let me explain that further...
There is this lady at work. I've seen her face for years, known her personality for years, and I didn't develop a gigantic, ridiculous, overwhelming crush on her until last year after watching 3 episodes of Rizzoli & Isles and realizing that "holy shit! She looks and acts just like Angie Harmon!!!" Cue instant-crush. (I would post her picture on here to show you the similarities (because they are startling), but I feel that crosses a line and it's also weird that I have pictures of her to begin with (I came by them in a totally non-stalkerish way, though, so don't think I'm that crazy. They were group photos on a community camera at work.))
What I find most confusing is that I only seem to become attracted to people when they resemble famous people that I am attracted to. Otherwise, I'm completely bored by both genders. I sometimes wonder if I'm just asexual, but I don't think that's right. Because I am legitimately attracted to these famous people and their less famous doppelgangers. I just don't know. It's odd. And I don't know if I'll ever figure it out. Here's hoping, though.
But on that note, I recently updated my OkCupid profile because I've been rewatching UCB and I thought it would be funny to include the whole quote from the dating profile of Reset Smith the cyborg, and then put after it "if you know where that comes from, message me. We need to date." And I did the thing that links certain interests on your profile, so it said: "I enjoy jetpack racing, human boxing, and early [[Titté Brothers.]]" After it updated, I clicked on the link for Titté Brothers and one other person had linked that as an interest. He was a 29 year old man and he's really attractive, too. This was in his "About Me" section: "I'm the kind of guy who'd rather be reading a good book than watching a Sox game. I get strangely turned on when a woman corrects my grammar. I've been told by friends that I'm like an old man who is trapped inside the body of a 25 year old guy with the mind of a lesbian. I'm still not sure exactly what that means." What it means, sir, is that you are awesome. I mean, among his interests are Titté Brothers, Ani Difranco, gay rights, some other random things that interested me but it's showing he's online now and I don't want him to message me so I'm not going back to look. Also, he lives in Somerville, MA, which is 20 minutes away from where Amy Poehler grew up, and 12 minutes away from where Rizzoli & Isles takes place. Because apparently everything ties back in with the entertainment industry. You know how Ben Wyatt is labeled as "human disaster"? I think I should be labeled as "unsuccessful star-fucker."
This is also listed on my OkCupid profile under "The Most Private Thing I'm Willing to Admit":
While I don't see myself ever being with a man, if the opportunity ever presented itself (which it won't), I would definitely go bisexual for Adam Scott, Will Arnett, Lee Thompson Young, or Taye Diggs. (Does anyone else find it odd when people say they'd "go gay" or "go straight" for certain people? Like straight girls who say they'd go gay for Tina Fey. Even if I were to meet and fall in love with Will Arnett (were he not already married), that wouldn't negate the fact that I am inherently and primarily attracted to women (specifically his wife.))
I just think I think too much. Like Idina Menzel sang about. Were you a countess or a vagabond or James Bond or yeah, but bisexual.
I need to go to sleep. My sleep has been so disjointed lately. I have a class at 9am M-R and I have a hell of a time falling asleep at a normal hour, so I usually manage to get anywhere between 1.5 - 3 hours of sleep before having to wake up, and then like a 2 hour nap when I get home before I have to get back up and go to work. It's starting to take its toll on me. I've been having strange nightmares recently when I actually do fall asleep. But I'm going to save that for another post because this one already has too many tags and the dream thing is something I want to talk about at length and I really should be going to sleep instead of continuing this run-on sentence... Shut up, brain!