:: quick facts for tuesday, november 18th

is it normal to be tired all the time? is this something that everyone is experiencing? because i'm always tired. i slept until noon today, and i was tired two hours later. i cannot explain this, so the best i can do is rationalize it. it seems like so much of life now is run on empty. i'm always tired. my gas tank is almost always barren.  my bank account is always low, and moths inhabit my wallet. if i didn't have friends, i'd be pretty depressed. 

don't worry, i'm not depressed. although i am keenly aware of my emptiness, i'm also aware of how full my life is too. to list all the good things might sound pompous. then again, i suppose listing the bad might sound emo.

with that in mind, let's get to the quick facts.

current time :: 11:47pm

current location :: the apartment couch

currently watching :: whose line is it anyway.

recently listened to :: sean lennon's album friendly fire

current price for a gallon of gas in starkville :: $1.86

current price for an amazing 16oz. up of hot chocolate from strange brew :: $4.02

current balance in my checking account :: somewhere south of $10.

currently thinking :: "why the heck does everyone think kentucky's basketball team is going to the ncaa tourney this year? they have been awful thus far. and alabama is picked to win the sec west? they lost to lowly mercer. why aren't my bulldogs getting any love?"

today in history ::

• william tell allegedly shoots an apple off of his son's head in 1307. what they don't tell you is that his son, who was obviously mortified by this event, later shot william tell's head off of his shoulders...
• sigma alpha rho, a jewish high school fraternity, is founded in philadelphia, pennsylvania in 1917. unlike the fraternities we discussed yesterday, this fraternity was devoted to singing the torah in hebrew and an embarrassing, pubescent pitch.
• george bernard shaw refuses to accept the money accompanying his nobel prize, saying "i can forgive alfred nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the nobel prize". that's funny, when he won the oscar, all he said was "you like me! you really like me!"
• disney releases steamboat willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, featuring the character that would later become mickey mouse. aren't we all glad they changed his name to mickey... "hey willie you're so fine..." (i think i might have just made myself throw up a bit in my mouth)
• the mad bomber of new york city places his first bomb at a manhattan office building used by consolidated edison in 1940. even though he was not born yet, it is believed that barack obama palled around with this guy (or would have if he were given the chance!)...
•  jim jones leads his cult, peoples temple, in a mass murder-suicide in 1978.

born today in history ::

• alan shepard (astronaut)
• ted stevens (former alaska senator, convicted felon)
• alan moore (comic book writer, graphic novelist)
• kevin nealon (comedian)
• owen wilson (actor)
• dustin kensrue (musician)
• jeffrey jordan (college basketball player, son of a legendary basketball player)

video of the day ::

 

more to come...