Great things lately:

The Office - It still stands as the second funniest show on TV behind Arrested Development, but currently ranks as the number one comedy that’s got me emotionally invested. It’s impossible to watch that show and not go nuts over the subtlety and intelligence of the humor. Ingenious actors. Even better writers.

Matisyahu - King Without a Crown - I can’t get this song out of my head. For some reason “Yay God” songs turn me off, but I can honestly say that I like and can feel this one. It doesn’t drop the ball on depth or coolness. I think my issue with pseudo religious/Christian bands (Lifehouse, P.O.D., Creed) is that they just come across to me as being way too trite. Yes, I get the message. “Yay God.” But isn’t there more substance behind the hackneyed message? (I very well could be wrong here cause I’m largely ignorant to any type of pop religious music, but in my experiences it holds true)

Irritating things lately:

Text messages - For some reason my phone just refuses to send text messages sometimes. I’ll get up from my desk and I’ll suddenly have six messages come through as soon as I turn the corner out of my cube. Its almost as if my phone just decides to take a power nap instead of sending and receiving messages. Its either that or I work beside a Bajoran wormhole that intermittently opens up and swallows my cellular reception. Dunno, but it’s annoying.

Another thing that bugs me is that curse words aren’t included in the standard T9 phone dictionary. Granted, once I type it out its added to my predictive text dictionary, but its still a pain. Especially if it’s a word like shit. The “S” is ok, but the “H” and “I” are on the same button so you gotta type it, wait, then hit the button again for the second letter. I’m usually texting these profanities at the bar and I can assure you that I invariably hit that second button before the first one sinks in and then I’m all flustered because I’m probably trying to send a quick text message between rounds of megatouch.* (whoa that was a run-on sentence) I’m short on time here people! Lets focus on making text messaging less arduous. If facilitating booty texting isn’t incentive enough, I don’t know what is.

* and speaking of megatouch, that’s a whole ‘nuther realm of double-tap madness. Usually when you hear an “arrgh” coming from the machine it means that someone has just been stung buy the old double-tap screw up. You can actually see the accidentally skipped card pass by in slow motion but you have no control over its fate. Tap tap it’s gone.