You're Not You

I realized something today that I feel like I need to warn people about. I was playing around on photobooth and I hit the "Flip Photo" button. The effects of this button are mind-blowing. I did it and it immediately turned my good picture into a terrible one. I had just switched it back to the way it was when it hit me. The way the picture looks originally is the same way I see myself every day when I look into the mirror. It's a flipped image. That is not what everyone else sees, unless there is someone who happens to brush their teeth at the same time as you every morning and again before bed. I always knew that about mirrors, but I had never realized how different I looked in real life. I regretfully continued to flip all the photos of me in the past year. It was shocking. I am not who I thought I was. But then I reasoned with myself. I mean, all of our unbalanced features are probably so noticeable to us because our eyes have adjusted to our own faces that we see in the mirror. This makes it so that when we see the way we really are, the asymmetry is basically double what someone who has never seen us sees. I hope you are still following, because this is some serious stuff. Now, the people who have seen us and know us well have probably also adjusted to the asymmetry of our faces, so what they see of us is okay. What a relief, right? Wrong. Think about all of the photobooth pictures you show people or post on facebook. They might look great to you, but because your friends don't usually see you in the mirror, this means that the x2 asymmetry that we experience when we hit that awful button is now being seen from the eyes of the people who we know. No one can tell exactly how another's mind interprets images from the eye, but the math suggests this theory to be quite true.

Think twice before you show off your favorite picture of you, you narcissist.

Life changing..

PS. If you have the film stock effect on your photobooth and you choose to use it, go ahead and publish it to the world, you look great.

For a Minute I Lost Myself

Hi.

Lovely weather we have been having

Today I ate a black bean and pepper jack cheese quesadilla.

I don't like black beans

I liked the quesadilla.

Funny how those things work out.

I never work out.

Its not that I'm against it, I really have no feelings about it at all.

I say this stupid little thing like,

"Real men get buff without going to the gym."

But it doesn't mean anything.

It's just what I say.

I don't know why, it's not even funny.

I cut one of my nails too short today.

It was my right thumb.

The thumb I use to hit the space bar.

It's uncomfortable.

Each time I hit the return key,

That's one less time I have to hit the space bar.

This blog sucks.

Raise your hand if you are reading.

That sounds depressing, but it's not how it was intended.

I'm happy in general.

I like that only a few people read this.

Keeps it intimate.

Hello you.

I know exactly who you are.

I imagine all 5 of us sitting in a circle.

And I am talking in a very quiet, calming voice.

We are in the very same classroom in which I attended kindergarten.

But there are no desks, only a large round rug.

We sit Native American style.

I address Benjamin.

"Hey man I'm excited for summer."

and

"Dude! I'm pretty positive I'm going to THE Lost Finale Party in LA. I have a ticket. I'm going to see if maybe I can get you one. The cast is going to be there and everything, it's quite a big deal."

Then back to everyone.

I am going to try to make an effort to consider updating this thing more often.

But no promises.

Did you ever read the book

But No Elephants!

?

Where do you put the question mark?

But No Elephants!? no

But No Elephants!...? no

Anyways, a good book from my childhood.

I am exhausted.

Goodnight everyone.

"Hey, what's up?"....."Good, you?"

Hello everybody, world. I did not write over break, but I think it's time I started back up again. At least until I get bored. Anyways, today was weird. It started off weird and pretty much stayed that way all day. When I woke up, I went into the bathroom to take a shower, but the little shower was being used, and it's almost never being used at 9:45 in the morning, Monday through Friday. Normally, I would have waited until it opened up, but I just didn't have enough time today, so I was forced to take a shower in the ridiculously huge handicap stall. I thought it wouldn't be too bad, but I forgot how terrible it is in there. You feel so open and awkward. It definitely does not have the comfort and security that the small stall offers. Plus, every part of your body that is not under the direct stream of water is significantly colder in the big stall. The little one kind of acts like a steam room and gets all warm and comfy even when you step out of the flow of water. It felt like the water pressure was less strong too, but that is going to require some further investigation some other time. So since then, I've just been in this weird funk all day. I'm walking through campus all aware of myself and every movement I make. Am I the only one that that happens to? Like, you look at the way you are walking and then since you are thinking about that you feel like you start walking all awkward. Then you feel like you are doing weird things with your head, like looking sideways or something. I don't know, it's ridiculous, and for some reason I was there today. On top of that, I had an above average number of awkward encounters with people. You know, the kind where you see someone you kind of know walking the opposite direction of you and you don't know what to do so you say something like, "Hey how's it goin?" Then that starts a little small talk conversation but for some reason you walk right by each other while you are still talking and by the end you are yelling at them from far away, "Have a good day!" It's the worst. Or you say hi to someone walking towards you and they say hi back and you hold eye contact with them and smile for too long a time because neither person is sure if the conversation is over or not. Then you feel like a jerk for not saying anything else. Terrible. And I noticed that my skin smells like chlorine, which is strange. The worst thing of all about today is that I had two extremely obnoxious songs stuck in my head; All Star by Smash Mouth and Hey There Delilah by that one band. Anyway, it's only 9:30 so there is still time left for my day to maybe end on a better note? Hopefully. Goodbye everybody, world.