With the undeniable disaster that was Choose-What-Matthew-Will-Write-About Fridays, Prinsiana City has now changed it's Friday agenda to instead include Omnibus Fridays, where Matthew writes about all those random things that he wasn't able to fit into a post earlier during the week. It shall be a cerebral decontamination.

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At work on Wednesday, someone unintentionally mispronounced "satisfaction" as sah-TIF-fuh-KAY-shon. That was funny.

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I now have an organizer. I need one, because I am not a very organized person. This is a good thing, I think.

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I don't think I've seen or talked to anyone from the class of 1995 in Ames High School since Ed and Beth-Annie's wedding two years ago. Huh. I wonder what's up with Andrew, Farhang, Lisa, Liza, Elizabeth, Suzy, Jen, Chris, or you know, heck, Barrett, Ola, Katie, and Buffy.

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Or have I? Have I seen Sarah since then, or not? I can't think of when I would have, but I think I have, you know?

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Also, on a similar subject, did any of you know that I was kinda friends¹ with a guy in elementary school who is now in prison for murder? Yep. We didn't have anything in common except being more-or-less outcasts -- me because I was the smartest kid in my grade at North by at least two bushels, him because he was, uh, kinda weird -- so in either fourth or fifth grade we got along relatively well; not well enough to, say, have invited him over to my house for a sleepover, or to invite him to my house at all, but pretty well, yeah.

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You know what word² I can’t pronounce? Anachronistic. I want to say it like AH-na-kro-NIS-tic, when it’s actually ah-NAK-ro-NIS-tic. I hate that.

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Kim and I are doing something cool for Labor Day weekend. I’ll tell you what on Monday.

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“Talk it out! Oh, oh, oh oh oh! Oh oh, oh oh! Oh, oh, oh oh oh!”

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Most thought-provoking line in Tridanielson: Alpha, which I got a couple weeks ago: “Nourishment will come from the Many-Breasted One.”

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Most thought-provoking line from Steve Taylor’s career: “I’m off about 100 degrees.” Seriously. I’ve spent way too many minutes thinking about that line within the context of the song, because he’s not saying that he’s off 180 degrees; he’s saying that he’s mostly wrong but yet that there’s truth in the stated heretical position.

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Most thought-provoking line from The Choir’s career: “I’d rather be forgiven than enlightened.”

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Most thought-provoking line from dcTalk’s career: “I saw a man with tat on his big fat belly; it wiggled around like marmalade jelly.” (No, not really, but I don’t know what it would be.)

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One of the, like, 153 most thought-provoking lines from Mark Heard’s career: “We got tapes of the truth in drag.”

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“This is, this is Greer.” I don’t know why I just thought of that. Man, I need to get out some dcTalk.

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Uh, bye.

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1 Except in obvious cases, I hate drawing the friend/acquaintance line, let me tell you. I don't know why, but I find it oft times difficult to differentiate between a weak friend and a close acquaintance³. Like, okay, for example, I'm pretty confident that everyone on the left side of my AHS thing above was my friend at one point or another in high school, and there are a few other people that would fall into that category, too. But then there's probably more than twice that number of people who, I don't know, who probably considered me a friend, and I didn't have any problem with them, per se, but I don't know, it's just so hard for me to judge⁴. I can't figure if (a) I draw a tough line or (b) I just don't get as close to others as, uh, others do. Probably some of both, I suppose. I am a freak that way.

2 Yeah right, Matthew, like there’s just that one.

3 By the way, you -- yes, you who are reading this now -- you are not my friend and never will be. You are merely an acquaintance. Sorry.

4 For example, and this could be interesting, even though I had a crush⁵ on Kimberly months before we started going out, I wouldn't have really considered us friends, per se, until maybe the week before explicit romantic overtones were made. On the other hand, I would suspect that Kim would have considered us friends before that, because it wasn't as though we weren't acquaintances for a good long time before and close acquaintances more-or-less since the beginning of that school year. But I don't know. Hmm. What was it, Kim?

5 I should mention for the completion of the record that after my 10th grade crush, there was no real crush in my life until Kim; the 10th grade crush went until the middle of 11th grade, and then I started dating Elizabeth, and then Suzy and Shelly after that, and in the interim there was never anyone else that I really had a serious thing for. (To clarify, I didn't really have a serious thing for any of the above three prior to going out with them; Kim is the only girl I've had a crush on that I've ever dated.)⁶

6 There is something sick when the footnotes are as long as the post.