"I can't teach...I'm a professor!"

The title to the last entry, "I've got my pants off so it's hard to hear!", is again from Whose Line is it Anyway? which is still one of my favorite shows. This line was from Colin Mochary who was doing a skit with a member of the audience. The audience member had a list of lines to read on queue, on of which was "why don't you have any pants on?". And I think Colin misunderstood something or something and came up with that line about not hear well without pants. I think that's a funny line. And a very good show.

You ever have one of those days where you obsessively think about something specific for an entire day and think "hey I'll write in this in that blog thing I got" but then when you sit down to write in the blog you can't think of the thing you were obsessing over? What do ya mean no and that's weird? Pffff. Well that happens to me like everyday. Ok other weird things happen. Like trying to come up with the title for this entry. I had two quotes in mind. First I wrote in the first then I erased it and wrote in the second. Then I wanted to go back to the first but couldn't remember what it was. All the while it was obsessively "looping" in my head that whole time. Now how can I be obsessively trying to remember a quote for a blog entry while at the same time obsessively repeating it in my head over and over?

Maybe it's like making the hiccups go away. You just stop thinking about it and there it is right in front of you. Or in the case of the hiccups it's always seemed to me they go away the instance you can manage to no notice you have them. Like some sort of "blind spot".

I do remember one thing I wanted to write though. Sometimes when I start to feel a little depressed by mind will automatically load up random images of events from early child hood that involves me being funny to several or more people at once.

Now lets just pause a moment here before getting on to the mostly-entertaining anecdotal stories. Did you see what I did in that last sentence? I related myself directly to a computer. I didn't personify an inanimate object to a human, I objectified myself directly to the inanimate object. Why don't I think that's healthy? Ok maybe you didn't even notice as it seems fairly common use-wise these days. Back to the entertaining anecdotes...

One that some how randomly popped into my mind one way was from the second grade or so. I don't remember all the details exactly. I know as a small child I was rather quiet and shy but also did these abnormally loud sounding sneezes. Maybe I was quiet but still wanted attention. Which you'd think would be a contradiction but there it is. So one day, for whatever reason, the class as a whole (about 30 to 35 students) was being scolded for some reason. I have no idea why. I think this because I just remember the entire class was extremely quiet to point of you could hear a pin drop and couldn't even hear any breathing. At this point, I remember, I let out this extremely loud gigantic sneeze. Obviously someone had just got through saying how the class needed to be quiet and shut up already (not too much to ask of 35 eight-year olds) because the entire class just burst into hysterical laughter. I remember in particular my best friend at the time just doing this slow turn around to look at me as he's hysterically laughing. That's all I remember. Too bad I can't remember any more than this.

Another anecdotal story? Well you get one anyway. This time I remember a lot more and I was about 13 in the 8th grade. The family was flying off to Hawaii for a week. I was supposed to mention this to all my teachers before we left to get any possible substitute assignments to do over the week. I also gave the student's office a few notes from my mom explaining it whatever mom's detail that I would be gone for a week and this is excused etc. But I forgot one class, which was this "peer tutoring" class. Actually it was me and some other 8th graders helping out some mentally handicapped kids to do whatever. But I didn't tell that teacher. And she never found out from the office for some reason. So the first day I got back from Hawaii and go to this class the teacher says "so where were you last week? were you sick?" and she takes a sip of some coffee (at the time coffee at 2:30 in the afternoon seemed odd to me for some reason but good thing, heh) and I say, not knowing any better, "no, I was in Hawaii". She does one of those famous spit-takes/spitting out her mouth full of coffee and yells

"HAWAII!?!"

I guess she didn't get the memo from the office. For not letting her know I could only get a B in that class, which I think is what I got but I'm not sure.

Ok one last story. This time it was just a few months ago in an English class. I was sitting in this group of students trying to discuss a reading assignment. Ok so I didn't actually do the reading assignment. This is relevant actually as I was deflecting the questions from the group about the assignment semi-successfully. This one group member who liked that whole sound-of-his-own-voice thing kept going on and on and on. Eventually for reason I can't quite remember the topic, actually his topic, turned to socialism and people's views on it. He was saying how ya socialism is good in some way but he didn't want to get off on a tangent and on and on about the socialism, blah-blah-blah. So then he turns to me and says "now what do you have to say" or "now what's your opinion" to which I reply "what about socialism?" as a subtle smirk creeps across my face. This results in the several girls and other members laughing with me as I laughed at my own joke. Of course the guy the infatuation-of-the-voice didn't laugh, he was back to "no we don't want to get off on a tangent about hour opinions of socialism". I was funny and witty in class so pffffff.

Ok this was fun. Anecdotal memories from me that brings a subtle smirk to my face despite. Despite what? I dunno.

Well this was a close call today. It seems the web space provider decided to do some server maintenance which brought down my server. Not knowing this I figured I must have just lost my entire blog, which wasn't a very appealing prospect. But it was only maintenance so I didn't lose everything. Which I for one am glad for. This just reminded me I of what I should have been doing to begin with this blog: backing up every entry for later reference. I knew I should have been doing this all a long anyway.

On the subject of this blog I have been told about this program called Movable Type. I thought it was only a competitor to blogger that simply provided a friendly interface to making entries for a blog and uploading the information to an FTP site. But actually, so far as I can tell, it's a server-side program you must install. That provides a friendly interface to making entries for a blog and uploading the information to an FTP site. So I can't use it. For you see I am not paying for this site, it is owned by a member of my online game clan. The clan, if it's not already obvious, is called The Continuum. A member was nice enough to hook me up with this sub domain. I have no access to install anything. At least I don't think I do. But it doesn't matter. I want to buy my own domain and get my own hosting so I can try making money at it. Even though the odds of that aren't very good. Point is I can't use Movable Type.

I hope someone found this entry entertaining. It was a little more writing it. I'm sure all the readers appreciate knowing such a thing. That this entry was a little more fun to write.

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