The Death of Enthusiasm

One thing that pleases me subtlety; some might say subliminally:

My room is a bit cramped, so I keep my banjo near my closet leaning on my bookshelf. This means that when I grab a shirt or jacket off a hanger, it often brushes across the strings of the banjo. That means that it produces a pleasing G chord since the standard tuning for a banjo is an open G. I like this only enough that I just realized that I like it. Ask me next week and I may not like it anymore.

One thing that bothers me quite bit:

People walking slowly in front of me on campus. My walking speed when I am just trying to get from point A to point B would be considered fast, I guess, but I still end up walking behind the slowest schmoes on the planet. Usually they walk two abreast on the sidewalk, making passing them nearly impossible. If you do try to go around them they shoot you a dirty look like you just insulted them. This bothers me. Why should I be made to feel like I am the inconsiderate one, when they are the ones walking so slowly?



One observation:

The order in which someone phrases their nouns and adjectives can create potentially hilarious situations. For example, at work a few days ago, a woman came over to where I work and asked the lady who's desk is next to mine if she was ready to go to lunch. The woman I sit next to said, "No, I think I'll just stay here and eat my pocket pizza."

This caused me to think of a normal pizza, yet so small that it could fit in someone's pocket, and not as I am sure she meant, a "pizza pocket" which is something different. If the pizza could fit in your pocket it could be no larger that a compact disc, and I believe that is what the pizza industry calls "personal pizzas."

Although, if you were to take the term "pizza pocket" literally it would be a pocket made entirely of pizza that you could theoretically keep other objects inside of. In a looser sense, I guess that a "pizza pocket" is a type of pocket, but why not call it a "calzone" since it is a word that describes exactly what it is? That seems to me like calling scissors "conjoined cutting blades" when you could just say "scissors."

For the sake of argument, let's just say you were going to keep something inside your pocket made of pizza...seems a bit messy to me, unless it was a "pocket pizza" that you keep inside of your "pizza pocket."

I guess in hindsight that the situation wasn't so hilarious, except inside my own head.

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