Spinster

1. I am finally fucking done with school. It feels fantastic. I’m sure that the I-don’t-have-a-job panic will set in soon, but for now, I’m just enjoying having free time again. I mean, I haven’t even been in the darkroom in weeks!

2. I hate wine snobs. Admittedly, I’m a total book snob and a bit of a beer snob (Portland, OR, educated), but wine snobs are the worst. Why shouldn’t an $8 bottle of wine be decent? I didn’t ask if it was the best, dude*, I just asked if you’d heard anything about it and whether it was ok. No need to be all, “Uh, it’s $8.45. What do you expect” about it. I’m drinking it right now and it tastes fine to me! Clearly, I will never be a sommelier, but as long as I’m happy, what difference does it make? There’s no need to try to make me feel like a cheap-ass, cause it’s not going to work and only makes you look like a douchebag.

3. I have this song stuck in my head. It’s The Kids are Alright by The Who. (I considered writing that like this: ‘I have a The Who song stuck in my head: The Kids are Alright,’ but then I couldn’t decide if it was ‘a The Who’ or ‘a Who’ or what, so I changed it up a bit. I’m flexible like that.) It’s the kind of song that, when it plays when my iPod’s on shuffle, I tend to skip it. It sounds kind of Beatles- or Beach Boys-esque, and while there’s nothing wrong with that — they’re two of my favorite bands — I also kind of feel like there’s a time and a place for that music. Lately, I haven’t been interested in listening to ’60s music. But this goddamn song is so catchy and now it’s just going around and around in my head. Stop. Please.

* The guy at the LCBO.