Brain always gets outvoted by heart and dick.

Weight Loss, Wait - Loss?

So. This is my summer fitness program. Roughly.
Wake up.
Run - about 400 calories.
Eat about 400 calories. Sometimes more like 300. A bowl of oatmeal and some fruit.
Then eat dinner and dessert with my family. My estimate is that dinner is a lot of calories - maybe 1000, 1200 maybe. Maybe more, I don't know really.
Then pushups, situps, etc before bed.

And, according to internet, maintenance is around 2300.

So now the question is 'Why? Why do you need to lose weight? You're skinny already." Yeah, well I'm also squishy. What good is being squishy? I'm doing pushups and situps and little things to stop myself from totally wasting away. And I know I'm never going to be a big, muscular, built guy - that's why I have to do this. I'll never be that perfect mesomorph body. But I can be skinny and cut and not squishy.

This sounds so fucked up. It is.

A friend of mine once said that because I like skinny girls, I am the problem with men. She's a little chubby and it probably stems from that. But here's the thing - she likes muscular guys. She's the same as me; she's as bad as I am. If I am what is wrong with men, then she is what is wrong with women. There are a couple differences between us.

At that juncture, she had a boyfriend. So it shouldn't matter to her what kind of girls I like. It has no relevance to her. Also, I decided that I am going to get in shape. I am lighting a candle while she is spiting the darkness -  she wants men to change to accommodate her, while (although, I'd like it if women would just like me for being skinny and squishy because it is more convenient) I am going to get in shape. Perhaps the difference is that she is getting what she wants anyway, so she doesn't need to change anything.

For full discosure's sake, some time after we had the exchange where I am what is wrong with men, myself, her boyfriend and her family (and her grad dress) convinced her to try to get into better shape. But at the time of the exchange, she had no such plans. Also I don't know if she's kept it, as she's graduated now.

Up The Mainstream Without A Paddle

Today I am talking about hipsters. I don't know if I am one, some days I think so, other days when there are actual hipsters around I don't think so.

I have this problem where there is mainstream culture, and then there is hipster/indie culture, and then outside of that there is me. What I am saying is that I am too underground to be a hipster. I am at a greater depth than hipster because there are a lot of hipsters but only one me. What I mean is that I don't know too much mainstream music, I do know a little of the core hipster stuff, but then what about everything else? Most of me falls into everything else. Hipsters won't know my bands and I won't know theirs.

Then you run into the problem of a culture that prides itself on uniqueness and how it is becoming more mainstream and how there is hipster music that is mainstream relative to hipsters but is obscure to mainstream. So is it still hipster to listen to something that is mainstream hipster? And now, I don't mean like listening to Lady Gaga ironically or anything, I mean like Neutral Milk Hotel or Mumford & Sons or The Strokes. It's mainstream to hipster culture, but unknown outside of it. Does this music still bear cred even though every hipster knows it? I would argue that no, if every hipster knows it, it has become too mainstream to be any big deal. I know bands like Phantom Power and Part Timer that most hipsters wouldn't know, so it should be more hipster to know those.

If you base a culture on individualism, you'll find that everyone is individual in the same way.

Layer? And I 'Ardly Even Knew 'Er!

So there's this girl.
Simple.

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend.
Less simple.

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend and he and I are bros.
Troubling.

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend and he and I are bros and also there is this other girl.
Should be simple again.

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend and he and I are bros and also there is this other girl and she has a boyfriend too.
Well shit.

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend and he and I are bros and also there is this other girl and she has a boyfriend too and also there is this other other girl.
Oh okay, phew.

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend and he and I are bros and also there is this other girl and she has a boyfriend too and also there is this other other girl and she's my best friend.
Uh. Yeah. This is either much better of much worse. I'm going with better

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend and he and I are bros and also there is this other girl and she has a boyfriend too and also there is this other other girl and she's my best friend and she's single.

Easiest choice ever, right?

So there's this girl and she has a boyfriend and he and I are bros and also there is this other girl and she has a boyfriend too and also there is this other other girl and she's my best friend and she's single but she's celibate.

Fuck.