Everydaystranger

1) I’m coming up on my 10 year anniversary of leaving the U.S. for the E.U. This feels weird. On the one hand, I’ve survived in the lone wilderness that my military upbringing would have you believe the waters outside the U.S. offer although no one gets it when I parrot “Sit Ubu, sit. Good dog.” On the other hand, I don’t have to know what Yo Gabba Gabba is. Pyrrhic victory, really.

2) I miss Calvin and Hobbes.

3) After masturbating to watching Doctor Who on Sunday, I’ve decided that the end of the world really is coming when David Tennant leaves the program. I know that Matt Smith, the new Doctor, is much heralded and all that, and maybe I really am old because I look at him and think: Dude. Comb your fucking hair. I also realized today that we came close to possibly having a female Doctor Who. To which end I think: I am a feminist. I work in a man’s field. I am so hideously against a female Doctor Who I cannot elucidate it to any degree of satisfaction. I mean, how do you explain installing a tampon dispenser in the TARDIS? Do 900 year old Doctors even ovulate or am I just being camp now?

4) I watched University Challenge last night because I’m a dork. I love University Challenge. I consider it a good day when I get 5 questions right. This isn’t always easy because sometimes I am convinced they’re not questions at all, but code to spies working on the continent. Last night I was distracted by a sparkly that Parry (who is impossibly cute and glamorous and I wanted to shout at the TV: Just wait! Life will take its toll on you, too, sweetheart! only that would make me bitter and mildly weird for shouting at a TV about) from St. John’s in Oxford was wearing.

Closer:

It’s silver with multi-strands. I may die if I don’t get that or similar necklace. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help identify said necklace so that I may not perish.

5) I cannot find any Jerusalem artichokes and they should be in season now. I know that blood oranges had a crap year and thus will be gone from my shelves for a year. If Jerusalem artichokes have joined them, I’m going to start kicking some ass over the environment. Happy to do my piece for the environment, but my seasonal produce had better show the fuck up and not be delayed because someone else is being an asshole. Yes, I’m looking at you, buddy.

6) It looks like company Why Yes, I’d Really Rather Like to Work For You are not going to come through. This is bad, because yes I’d really rather have liked to work for them. It’s also bad because I told one of my business managers a nominal albeit more professional version of “go fuck yourself” earlier this week after he went on a tirade during a conference call. Wondering how many ways to say sorry without involving FTD.

7) I downloaded Alesha Dixon’s new single “To Love Again”. I have no idea why, I don’t even like her stuff. But I awoke this morning courtesy of a nightmare and that was playing in my head. Cue the drama.

8) I’ve started eating again. Cooking, too. Most of the time I’m even holding it down. Baby steps.

9) Life goes on, you know? Life goes on.

10) I’d be happy to hear a random of yours, if you want to share? (This is not a plea for comments. This is a plea to see if I am the most random person in the world or not, or if others randomize too.)

-S.