Waiting in line forever.

When I walk to work, I often walk through Faneuil Hall… this morning though… there was a line and a half that was outside of Newbury Comics. Now… many of the stores in Quincy market aren’t open that early, so I was confused.
I didn’t really want to stop and ask anyone, so I flipped out the trusty iPhone and looked up what was going on at Newbury in Faneuil.
The only thing I saw was for a band called “The lonely planet” doing a signing at 7pm tonight. Now, upon further searching… I found out that Andy Samberg is in that band… so I was like… oh, ok… but then I looked at my watch, realized it was 9am… and was like… O.o

Who waits in line nearly 12 hours… for a signing like that?
I can see it if it’s someone completely A-list… but… then I realized that I’ve done kind of similar things in my life… so I let it go.
But still… nearly 12 hours to wait in line… they’re lucky it’s a beautiful day!

Love for sale…

A while back I joined “match.com” randomly. I never paid… but I was able to look through the profiles. I, to this day, still get emails from them, and have tried on multiple accounts to stop the emails from coming through, but alas… they do…

I never open them… but as I was deleting the one I got today it made me chuckle, because the subject line was… “love on sale 25% off (or some percentage)… this week only!”

I’m not sure that’s a good selling point. I don’t want love that’s reduced by a quarter. I’ll take 100% please.

You don’t have to lick it.

While waiting for my friend to get out of the bank, I watched a girl lick a self-sealable envelope. She realized that it had sticky stuff, almost immediately, because she pulled it away from her mouth, and then looked at it. Now if she were to simply stop there, and allow it to seal without the licking… I wouldn’t have much to post… but the girl shrugged, and put it back to her mouth, and continued to lick the rest of it.

And then…
she was annoyed that it didn’t stay closed…
And had to get another envelope.
And licked that new one… YET AGAIN…
and… girls and boys, I’m sure you can see where this is going… it didn’t close.
So, she walked into the main part of the bank, and I could see her talking to someone, explaining that she needed a working envelope (or something, I’m not sure what she actually said…) but the man then walked back out with her to the ATM part, took out one of the envelopes, and exposed the “self-sealing” part, and smiled and said… “see… you don’t have to lick it… it has a self-sealing close.”

Thankfully my friend walked out right after that… cause I kinda had to laugh, and I turned away just in time.

3-weeks…

Just got some anti-anxiety medication for my flying fear (stupid irrational thing that has only recently set in) as I was signing the little slip that says that I understand the medication… the pharmacist (who seriously had to have been like 12 years old) informed me that it has a side-effect of being drowsy…
I looked at her, smiled, and shrugged… “that’s good,” I said… at exactly the same moment she said. “but don’t worry, it wears off in about 3-weeks.”

WHAT the hell am I taking that by taking one pill is going to make me drowsy for 3 weeks??? Is that even possible???

Soapbox dude.

Saw a guy standing on a soapbox shouting about the end of the world in the middle of downtown crossing today.
I always thought that kind of thing only happened in the movies.

Also… why is it that Downtown crossing always reminds me of being on a movie-set?
Random.

Only

There’s a lane on the road that has both a straight arrow and a turning arrow. In addition it has the word “only”. Well… Figuring those are the only options available… Why add the word “only”?

Seems unnecessary!

sun-staring

I stared at the sun today. Perhaps that’s not the smartest thing you’ve ever read, but I was able to do it. And it confused me. There was a thin layer of cloud over it… and at first I thought I was looking at the moon through the clouds, but then I realized that it was the sun… mostly because as the clouds moved, I noted that it got brighter and brighter behind the clouds. Then… just as the last whisp of cloud moved past it… I saw the most beautiful color blue.

I’ve never been able to stare at the sun…
Never really realized just how round it really is.

Snowtracks….

Walking home from the T-stop this evening, I noticed that there were a lot of footsteps in front of me..
But that’s not what freaked me out this evening… what did was well…

Half-way through Faneuil Hall I saw “wheelie tracks” which leads me to believe that it’s a pram or stroller or some kind of thing…

But…
Why half-way?
Where the heck was the pram before then?

Twitter.

This is not really an observation.
But I just activated my “twitter account”

Come find me.

Tweets by renaissanceash

Wall-Eeeeee

Downstairs in the lobby of my office building there’s a big box on a cart…
It looks like Wall-E… especially because off the back of it someone hung a cooler.

I wonder if the cooler has random pieces of human-technology… or if it really does have someone’s lunch.

Smart Water.

“Smart Water is falsely advertised. I don’t feel any smarter! And I’ve had 3 bottles.”

The above statement was in fact uttered by a real human being… one who has a college education, a high-paying job, and a very good-looking boyfriend. How it is that someone could be that frakking dumb, and have all those perfect credentials… I have no idea.

It was just the first time I really wished I could have given her smart-water… to help her out a bit…
or perhaps…
trip her down a flight of stairs, to help out Darwin.

No Smoking…

There used to be a no-smoking sign on the ashtray outside of my office building. 

It confused me.

That’s like having the “no-smoking” lights on the planes. Why even bother adding them anymore? I’m pretty sure that nobody smokes on planes any longer… so why are we installing these little lights that take up electricity, on planes that OBVIOUSLY you’re not allowed to smoke on?

Energy

I just saw a commercial for a 6 hour energy drink. First it was 5 hour and now a competitor upped it by an hour… Is this really want products have come to? That competitors are just increasing their product slightly… I feel like I’m on the price is right. I mean… If you’re going to have an all day energy drink maybe you ought to make one that lasts all day… Cause I don’t know about you but i’m awake more than 6 hours…

Boombox dude.

There’s a guy who walks around my apartment building… well… around my neighborhood, and he carries a boombox, that plays 80’s songs. He’s been yelled at several times to shut the thing off, but he’s yet to do it. He just ignores them. 

I think he shows resilience, though I have to admit, it drives me bonkers… I wish he’d knock it off.

Chunks of ice, and kissing fools.

Walking out of the aquarium t-stop, I stood on the escalator going upwards. Coming downwards on the escalator next to me were two people, who were lip-locked for the entire ride down. The aquarium t-stop is rather deep, I worried that they had perhaps passed out on one another due to lack of oxygen… or perhaps they had made a pact to kiss the entire way down, to see if they could make it.

I must say, for a split second I was worried that they were dead… 

In the park across from where I live, there were massive chunks of ice, all over the place. At first I thought it was simply remnants of the snow, which seems to all but disappeared from this area. But then, on the last bench, I saw that they were definitely ice-sculptures, bashed to bits… because on the last bench was the sculpture of a person lying asleep… and below that sculpture of a person lying asleep… was an actual person, lying asleep. 

It seems life imitates art.