Randomness

Originally posted Oct. 25, 2005

I went to McDonald's for lunch today, and I'm thinkin'...you know how everyone likes the crispy fries? I like the soggy ones. Is that weird?

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Was anyone else disturbed when Micky D's came out with its ad campaign for the "new and improved" Chicken McNuggets? "Now made with white meat"? What were they made out of before? *shudder* That explains that piece of beak or vein you used to find in at least one nugget every time. Barf.

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Apparently everyone has caught on to my dislike of nuts on sundaes, because now McDonald's packages the nuts separately. Way to go, America! At least we've done one thing right!!

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I saw a license plate today that said "HEATHEN." Why the f*** would you want that on your license plate? I'm thinking of changing my plate to "INFIDEL." No?

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Um, everything at work is falling apart. Half the people in the room have voicemails, but the message light doesn't come on to tell you there are messages (I'm in this category). The other half of the room has the message light on all the time, but no messages. WTF? Then my computer took a huge dump today, gave me a kernel error and then proceeded to make me reboot 10 times in a row before letting me back onto the system...then it wouldn't attach to one of the servers in the chain and I couldn't access their material. In addition, we've got an electrical box making a loud humming noise, an intermittent high-pitched sound coming from who knows where, and our keys won't work in one of the locks. Not to mention that someone hit the "Send Calls" button on my phone over the weekend, so all my calls were immediately rolling over to VM for a good part of the day yesterday before I realized what was going on. And of course, rolling over to VM means people were leaving messages...but how am I supposed to know that with no message light?

Heck, at this point, a power outage would be an improvement.

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Today we had a big story about the misusage of words in the English language. Too funny, because I was just thinking about this subject over the weekend...how "nuclear" has become "NUKE-u-lar," and "realtor" has become "REAL-a-tor." The article said the Oxford Dictionary has included the word "boo," meaning boyfriend or girlfriend. Are you serious? Boo is in the Oxford dictionary? That's sad.

However, how cool would it be for a word nerd like me to be a lexicographer? I'd love it.

That's also sad.