Work Ethic and Such

Good morning Kirsten,

It’s a lovely Monday morning, and I’m sitting here in my balaclava, sipping up some bold coffee mixed with my finest potato vodka. The weak shit is for pussies. I’m thinking about heading down the citadel to see some quality figure-skating, but I’m not sure if I can face the cold after sitting so comfortably by the fire. Perhaps I’ll just do a series of pushups instead, so that I can buff up my arms and not be embarrassed to showcase my tattoo sleeves. (as you can see, all of my flawed knowledge of Russian culture is based off of Rocky IV and the villain from Iron Man 2, so I’m not really sure how to cater to our Russian viewers that we apparently have. Also a quick wikipedia search reveals that the balaclava was actually invented in the Ukraine. Go figure.)(I should probably know that since my 6th grade country was Ukraine)

Side note, but my dad gets his glasses from these hilarious Russian immigrants in New York named Igor and Natasha. They’re very good at what they do, but they have really thick accents which just makes talking them even more interesting. Like when Igor was fitting my dad’s glasses, Natasha told me about making glasses for soldiers during the war, using as few verbs as possible. “Ve must travael 6 mile by foot in cold to abandoned koke-a-kola faktory vor glass. Frames made out of metal skraps vfrom dead man’s collektion.” (still not entirely sure what she meant by “dead man’s collection.”) And then when Igor called to tell my dad that his glasses were ready, he left the simplistic message, “Is Igor. Ve hhave glasses.” click

So anywhoo it turns out that I’m really bad at posting to this blog. I said my posting day was going to be Thursday, but many a Thursday has passed and yet I remain silent. I think my problem is that I’ll have an idea for a blog, but then I’ll say “nahh, I’ll write it later,” and continue to catch up on Breaking Bad on Netflix. I guess the general universal lesson is to just do things when you first think of it, or at least do it while you still want to. No matter the project, it’s easier to be productive when your mind isn’t on other things. Like if you’re trying to do homework, but you really just want to sleep, it’s easier to focus on the homework after you take a nap. Or if you want to exercise, (Ha, good one Zo. Thanks I try), but you have to read, it will be easier to read after running. But on the other hand this is also a great way to get distracted and procrastinate. Like if you have to write a paper, and you decide to just watch one episode of Breaking Bad. But then the episode ends in a huge cliffhanger, like Walt just watches Jesse’s girlfriend die and doesn’t do a damn thing to stop it, and then boom, cut to end credits. (Spoiler alert). So I’m not sure if this advice is really helpful at all, or that I’m at all qualified to offer advice in any subject.

This has been a kind of pointless blog post, but at least I wrote something. In the future I’m going to try to use fewer parenthetical phrases. I’ll leave you with my jam of the week:




(Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys wrote a lot of the music for the movie Submarine directed by Richard Ayaode, which is an awesome movie and everyone should watch it.)