Metros I’ve Ridden

Take that, niralth and dre! In addition, I couldn’t find the DC metro here. [ETA: Added!] I also didn’t find the Santa Clara lightrail on here, but that probably doesn’t even count. Those aren’t real trains, I will admit. 😀

Got at b3co.com!

Now I have to admit that I am not sure if I rode the LA metro, but I’m pretty sure I did the bus & metro combo the one time I went off by myself to visit an old friend while down there for E3 one year (the same year I visited Holly and met Eventine and Ace).

Evite & Fundraisers

I don’t really have a problem with people I know personally using Evite to invite me to fundraiser events. However, I have a strongly viceral negative reaction to people giving my email address to other people — or worse, organizations — I don’t know at all who are having fundraisers. It doesn’t matter if it’s an issue I strongly support; it’s simply horrifically rude to basically give away my contact info to a unknown party without my consent.

I think it particularly bothers me with Evites because everytime I get one, I assume it’s a personal invite. To have a random stranger’s fundraiser mixed in with my friends’ invitations is a real pisser, because it feels like they are masquerading as friends and invading my personal space.

Seriously, don’t do it.

Losing Wisdom

Ok, it was just my wisdom tooth — lower left side, to be exact. I’m still a little numb from the novocaine, I took 600mgs of ibuprofen, and I’m icing it as I type, so the pain shouldn’t be too much of as issue.

I hope!

I asked to see my tooth afterwards. It was huge. My new dentist gave me a really interesting talk on bacteria and what different types there are and what causes what in the mouth, as well as exacerbate heart disease and other illnesses in older people. Really quite fascinating. I’ve never had a dentist that explained so much about the actual science of dentistry and dental health. It was great. No sarcasm.

Independently Wealthy

You know how there is that idea that you should think of what you’d like to do if money were not an issue, and that thing is the thing you should try to pursue as your career? I can’t see how this would work for me. Here are the things I’d do for myself if money & time were not an issue:

• Take cooking lessons and spend hours (almost) everyday food shopping and cooking up feasts. Also, go eat all over the world.
• Leisurely travel, staying for months in any given place until I feel like moving on.
• Get more pets instead of just looking over CuteOverload.com and wishing I had more.
• Go on reading & writing binges for weeks where I am completely absent to the world.
• Watch more movies & tv, catch up on the classics.
• Go to performances, whether of dance, music, or other demonstrations of art or skill, like martial arts.
• Take some dance classes.
• Learn random programming languages, run several random websites, write a bunch of fun applications.

My big issue is that there isn’t the One Big Thing I want to be doing; I want to be dabbling in all sorts of life’s little (and big) pleasures. I can’t see how this would translate into a career.