Random Un-Politically Motivated Stuff

So. Today I have been a bit less political, as I have been working and driving around Berkeley aimlessly, trying to learn the place (which, by the way, was an insanely stupid thing to do, given the price of gas, but that makes me political again, so let's just forget about it). I just have a few random observations that I want to make here, just to put my soul at ease, and to get rid of that nagging I-need-to-put-this-on-my-blog feeling.

First Observation: My husband is cheesy, crazy, and the man of my dreams. His favorite song now is Hollaback Girl, which is probably the most wretched song I can think of, other than that song about girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch (seriously, have you heard that? It features the line "Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets" FOR NO APPARENT REASON.) It was ok when he downloaded it, got a little stranger when he made it the first song on a cd he made, and reached its penultimate degree of strangeness when he made it his ringtone for when he gets text messages. Yes, this is my husband, the reader of Dostoevsky, the horn rimmed glasses Berkeley grad student. Moving on...

Second Observation: Old people are nicer in California than in Virginia. Of course menstruating Nazis who are both constipated and starving to death are nicer than old people in Virginia. Moving on...

Third Observation: Paying for parking=evil. That's like making me pay to breathe. I have had to pay more for parking in the last week or so than I have previously paid in my entire driving life. And I ask...who thought of making people pay for parking? Doesn't that hurt small businesses in the long run, as I don't want to have to drive to a place and have to pay $4 when I could just order it off the internet and get free shipping or some such? I'm sure it probably doesn't, that the money made from parking keeps cities moving and roads paved and whatever. I'm sure I'm just stupid. Sorry that I even bothered to comment...

Well, must go. I visited the wonderful love den that is Moe's Books today and spent one week's worth of tips on books, so I need to get through the book I'm reading now so I can start reading these new ones. Please send me book recommendations--I am going through a lot of books lately since I'm no longer in school and have discovered the beauty of "spare time."

Have a good un!