Random Thoughts

- Why do people gesture while talking on cell phones? Seriously. Do they think that the person on the other end will magically know what they're doing? The only other explanation I can think of is that cell phone use has become such an epidemic that people talk on the phone even when they can see each other. Speaking of cell phones, why is it that on any given walk across campus, about half the people I see are on the phone, but none of them seem to be having important conversations? I bet some of them are just talking to a dial tone so they'll look important.

- In a similiar vein, I want to write a short film about parasitic aliens that take over people's brains by hiding in their cell phones and crawling into their ears while they talk. Eventually, the characters in the film are forced to stop using cell phones, and they discover how much better life is without them.

- If you haven't figured it out yet, I hate cell phones. Yes, I do have one, but I use it more as an alarm clock than a communication device.

- If shared iTunes playlists are any indication, I am apparently one of the only people at Syracuse University who doesn't listen to 2Pac and 50 Cent. Almost every playlist I check out begins with those two. Not one or the other, but both. Human nature being what it is, I'm assuming that not everyone who has them in their playlist actually listens to them. Connect the dots...

- If this post seems only semi-coherent, it's because I was up late writing an analysis of Marbury v. Madison. Of all the poli-sci classes available, I had to take Constitutional Law...