Wednesday, July 31, 2002
May contain citric acid to adjust Ph. |8:40 AM|
I noticed that the woman I linked to yesterday showed up on this site. I was looking through referral logs for goofy google hits and saw footprints from another site tracker. Guess she noticed the weird site from which she was getting traffic.
I decided while I was in the shower that if you try to greet every situation without expectations, your ability to observe and learn from said experience will be greatly improved in a majority of cases. This applies to a lot of things, from movies to a new person you just met at a party. I've stopped reading the backs of books I'm going to read, and I've decided I'm not going to read past the star rating/thumb rating/whatever scale in movie reviews. I might read the review later to see what someone else thought, but I don't want to know much beyond "Is this movie crap?". A movie review for me at this point could be scaled down to quality of movie, and target audience. "Crappy movie. Target audience 15-26 year old males who enjoy watching things explode" or "Great movie, target audience 30-45 year old housewives who have long arms".
Okay, maybe the genre of the film would help.
This is more geared towards entertainment and education, but it can apply to other situations, like tasting a new food, or bungee jumping. All I really knew about nipple piercing is that it would hurt a great deal. I didn't know much of the other information involved. That includes the interesting stuff, as well as the "oh man, I leaned over to put my gate key in the slot at my apartment complex and my seatbelt scraped across my chest. I HOWLED!"
In case you're wondering, what triggered this was the recent reading of these Palahniuk novels. Nothing author specific, (except for his work being really, really unusual) just that I didn't know the basic plotline of the books at all, and I think I got signifigantly more suprise and "wonder" out of them. Last night, while reading "Invisible Monsters" I actually emitted an involantary "whoa" when I read a particular passage.
Well, back to work.
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