February 1, 2005

• Topic: just keeping it sane

  
  

  I just made 1 lb. of manwhich and linguine.  I feel like I’m making mom proud everytime I cook, and I know my roommate whose aerobed I’m crashing on, will appreciate it when he gets home from work today.

  
  

  I actually bought a family pack of meat, about 3.5lbs worth.  I left a note for my roommate, if he wants, he can make a meatloaf w/ the rest, otherwise, we should freeze the meat.  I probably could have made the meatloaf now, but I kind of like the idea of leaving a note, as well as the idea of leaving my roommate the option of cooking the meatloaf himself.  I know he’s be excited if he came home to both manwhich, linguine, and a meatloaf, but I think leaving an offer for him to cook it himself via a note will give him a good laugh.

  
  

  The important thing is to have a house stocked w/ ready to eat food.  My roommate and I have discovered that it makes no difference if we spend $30, or $100 on food…within two days it seems like there’s nothing to eat.  The key is to think in terms of meals.  Otherwise, I can’t explain where all the food goes.

  
  

  I love reading Paul Krugman’s articles.  It’s like, the man knows exactly what he believes, and he has the world waiting to see how he thinks.

  
  

  Here’s a line from his article today:

  
  

  “Let me inflict some of those numbers on you. Sorry, but this is important.”

  
  

  I love that writing style.  I had a friend comment to me that my writing had gotten better since college, when in actuality, my writing hadn’t changed much, I’d just learned more things.  I think there are certain writing techniques that take time and skill to become good at, but that’s just one type of writing. 

  
  

  The type of writing I love to write and read is writing that hits an emotional or personal trigger.  Even if you’re explaining the trickery behind the social security privatization movement, you still need to make it personal, throw in a, “sorry,” here or there.

  
  

  I wonder how big the social security debate really is…or if it’s just big because of my recent interest in politics?  I wonder what percentage of my peers are following this issue.  Probably a small amount.

  
  

  So much of politics goes on w/out people having a clue.  For example…maybe 1% of American know that Arsenal is playing (and sadly losing right now) to Manchester United.  99% of America probably knows that the Eagles are playing the Patriots in the Super Bowl.  I’m guessing 20% of my peers are aware that such a thing as a social security debate is going on.

  
  

   

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