the amazing contents of that last commercial break (in order)

1. A multivitamin ad
2. A men’s razor ad
3. A women’s razor ad
4. A men’s shaving cream ad
5. Another multivitamin ad
6. A repeat of the women’s razor ad
7. A repeat of the men’s shaving cream ad
8. The Geico gecko
9. Some online social networking site

We can glean from this that (1) Americans shave a lot, and (2) Americans have short attention spans.

Yay grill! The list so far:

1. Italian sausages
2. Shish kabobs and veggies
3. BURGERS NUM NUM NUM NUM
4. Salmon

noises that got me up this morning

• someone dropping something in the apartment above me
• wind chimes (twice)
• a horse whinnying right outside my window (surprise!)
• somebody slapping something over and over, like beating a rug
• “ooh, hey, come look at the horses!”
• a guy cooing to his baby

reasons why I bike to campus

1. I own a bike
2. It’s good for me
3. Somebody has to make sure first gear works
4. I get home 20x faster