i just ate some spicy tuna rolls. i keep burping and it tastes like i was drinking beer. i don't understand.

i know that the people that read this already know, but i've been listening to ratatat and it's really good. it's from the same guys who are in e*vax. that is definitely worth checking out as well.

i can't wait until finals are over.

Bored at work today, I was reading McSweeney's Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush.

While nothing the president says can really astonish me much, there were two particular quotes that just made me angry.

Day 32: In 1999 Bush said that he didn't like to read long books, especially when they were about policy.

For his first two years in office, the president's staff spent only 30 to 45 minutes a week discussing policy with him. Clinton spent the same amount of time per day on the subject.

In 2003 Bush told Fox News that he rarely reads newspapers beyond their headlines.

Um, why would you want to be president if you had a particular distaste for policy? I mean really. I'm not a presidential scholar and I've never read over a job description for the Office of the President, United States, but I'm pretty sure that "inclination to interpret and write sound policy" would be on the list. I mean because when your President and you do your job by creating policy, right?

So, why does Bush want to be president? He takes more vacations that any other president in history, he doesn't like policy, or foreign countries, or working late. I really think he would be better suited riding a lawn mower on the side of a highway working for some D.O.T. I really think he would like that better too.

DAY 36: "I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." — President George Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

While this statement seems fairly obvious after Dubya said that he couldn't think of ANYTHING his administration has done wrong during the "War on Terror," but what really bothers me about this is that people will give this man a vote knowing that he isn't very "analytical." Do you really want a president that can't think his way out of a wet paper bag? One that actually boasts that he can't think his way out of a wet paper bag?

I really don't understand.

While I was waiting for the train today at the Central Sq. T-stop I spied a gentleman across the platform wearing a "Cedar Point Athletics" t-shirt. For those of you who don't know, Cedar Point is an amusement park in Sandusky, OH. Like me, you may be asking, what does an amusement park have to do with athletics? Well, my friends, I'd love to offer you an answer, but I'm stumped as well. All I can come up with is more questions. Like, who is the bigger asshole, the guy who decided that a CPA shirt would be a good idea, or the guy who agreed and bought the shirt?

It reminds me of this stupid school fund raising event we had at the venerable Butler Intermediate High school. If we could get something like half a billion people to get a subscription to Newsweek we could win a t-shirt. Not just any t-shirt mind you, but a "Butler Polo Club" t-shirt. Ha ha ha. Butler is a town of about 20,000 people an hour north of pittsburgh. There is high unemployment because all the steel plants closed. The closest thing to a polo club at butler would be the coin-operated rocking horses outside of k-mart. i didn't sell any magazine subscriptions that year. or ever , really.

you should all go out and buy snow patrol. they're really good.