today’s gymnastics course was so boring
the thought of leaving home at 6 tomorrow morning to do it all over again is really not appealing to me right now :/
AnonymousI wouldn’t want us to return to the age of the corset or even of the double standard, because a double standard that lets the promiscuous male off the hook while condemning his female counterpart is both stupid and destructive. If you’re the campus mattress, chances are that you need therapy more than you need condemnation.
But it’s easy for parents to slip into denial. We wouldn’t dream of dropping our daughters off at college and saying: “Study hard and floss every night, honey—and for heaven’s sake, get laid!” But that’s essentially what we’re saying by allowing them to dress the way they do while they’re still living under our own roofs.
Tumblr confession
If you make dinner plans with me, I’ll usually end up inviting a third person along.
I know this is very, very rude.
I’d rather you think I’m rude, than that you have to sit with me for an hour and find out how dull I am and wonder why you bother being friends with me in the first place.
This is the same reason I avoid making dinner plans.
Meanwhile, the Mets are trying other ways to get Finch into a more positive frame of mind about baseball. Inquiries among American lamaseries (there are more than 100 Buddhist societies in the U.S.) have been quietly initiated in the hope of finding monks or priests who are serious baseball fans and who might persuade Finch that the two religions (Buddhism and baseball) are compatible. One plan is to get him into a movie theater to see The Natural, the mystical film about baseball, starring Robert Redford. Another film suggested is the baseball classic It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray Milland as a chemist who, by chance, discovers a compound that avoids wood; when applied to a baseball in the film, it makes Milland as effective a pitcher as Finch is in real life.
Speaking of literary pranks- if you haven’t read George Plimpton’s masterful ruse on the readers of Sports Illustrated, “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch”, today’s as good a day as any.
