Olive Skin

Rob and I were talking about it the other day, and we decided that nobody actually has "olive" skin. I mean, take Jennifer Lopez for example. Most people would say that she has "olive" skin, but it does not look olive colored to me. It looks more like light brown/skin colored.


To illustrate this point, take a look at this picture of Jennifer Lopez, and then look at these olive. Same color? No, not really.






This is her with olive skin. I think the only people who could claim olive skin are Cain and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Restroom Music

I think public restrooms should provide music.

I mean, sometimes you go in there, there are only two stalls and one is used, so you have no choice but to pick the other one. So there you are, sitting there, maybe reading the paper, working on a crossword, but, without going into any detail, there are sounds that would be nice to have drowned out.

Maybe it would be different if you knew the other person, but for a stranger in the neighboring stall, the only thing you really know about them is their gender, and what kind of shoes they wear, and maybe their waist size if you have really good vision, depending on the stall set-up.

All I'm saying is a little background music could easy the awkwardness of the presently silent public restrooms.

Hat Day

Marie Munson, an elementary school teacher, recently reminded me of "days" that I had in elementary school.

There was "hat day," "pocket day," "backwards day," etc. I hope that wherever I end up working has some of those days.

That would be sweet.

Diversity Day

There are some actors who are very diverse, and some who are not. For example, Jon Voight is an extremely diverse actor. Maybe even too diverse. Seriously, for ANY movie you go to, regardless of genre, there is a possibility he is going to pop up somewhere, and you never know if he is going to be a good guy or a bad guy. Here are some movies he has been in:
National Treasurer - a kooky dad
Transformers - the secretary of defense
Holes - Mr. Sir
Tomb Raider - Lara Croft's dad (which is funny cause he really is Angelina's dad)
Zoolander - his dad
Anaconda - the bad guy
Mission Impossible - the bad guy
Catch-22 - a lieutenant

Then you have Nicolas Cage who plays the "you're supposed to like this guy by the end of the movie" good guy. For example:
National Treasurer
Gone in Sixty Seconds
The Rock (TV edit)
Con Air (TV edit)
The Family Man
I dunno, I guess he has some diversity, but I feel like he acts the same character in all his movies even if they are supposed to be different.

Literally

Vizzini: "He didn't fall? Inconceivable!"
Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means."

Yes, well I suggest another word that is commonly misused: literally.

How many times have you heard someone say something like, "I saw my score and I was literally bouncing of the walls!" Or how about, "That was a rough interview. He literally chewed her out!"

Ironically, in these situations "literally" has come to mean "figuratively." But if I hear another person use that word wrong I will hit them so hard they will literally be launched all the way to China.

No, I'm just kidding, it doesn't even bother me really. It's just funny to think about.

Kind of like how when someone says "Say when" we say "when" and we're not even trying to be funny. I bet whoever made that up thought it was really funny, but everyone stole his joke, so much so that it's not even a joke anymore.