Should-a, Would-a, Could-a

What I am doing: Writing this blog post
What I should be doing: Working on my reading lists for my comprehensive exams
What I would be doing: Watching Murder She Wrote
What I could be doing: Taking a nap

I thought this would be a fun post title and that I could do some fun and creative writing with it. But after a bunch of tries, it turns out that's just not the case. I'm stubborn though, so I'm keeping the title and the one "successful" attempt at humor. Apparently, I'm fresh out of witty banter and creativity. Oh well. I guess it had to happen sometime. I can regal you with some banal minutiae from my life in the form of a list. Perhaps that will make up for the lack of quality. That's right. That's my motto, "Quantity not Quality". Also, "You've tried the best, now try the rest."

Some things:

1. I don't know what it is about people on the bus and touching me, but it happened again today. The woman in the seat to the side of me poked me in the arm on accident. Then, apparently in an attempt to apologize, she patted my arm. You know what? Just say you are sorry and don't do it again. End of transaction. We don't have to touch further for you to get across the point that you didn't mean to touch me in the first place. It's cool. I'm good. Thanks.

2. I found out that today in Iowa they don't make you get an emissions test or a safety inspection (take that Pennsylvania), but they do make you pay a yearly fee for registration, etc. that is based on some crazy formula. The list price of your car multiplied by a certain percentage based on the age of the car + the weight of the car * 40 cents and then you carry the naught. It's just a strange thing to me. It makes me wonder who came up with this formula and why? Was a single rate just too easy? Did Iowa (the same place that brought you those fun tests that you had to take for an entire week in grade school) just want to make sure everyone was paying attention when they went to the DMV? Actually, you can't go to the DMV to register your car. That's a whole separate thing that the "Treasurer's Office keeps track of. Speaking of which. Wouldn't it be so awesome if the Treasurer really held something of value. In some sort of chest. And was a pirate. Think about it. It would be a better world if that were true.

3. Some more things that would make it a better world: teeny, tiny, little puppy dogs that could fit in the palm of your hand and never got any bigger than that. Wouldn't that be awesome? It would be so cute and convenient because even if they made a mess, it would be so small anyway, you wouldn't care. Plus they could live comfortably in an apartment because it would be huge to them. Why aren't they genetically-engineering this for me right now? We can clone animals and we can't make a tiny puppy? Ridiculous. The market for this has got to be huge. I should have been a biologist/geneticist. Another thing that would make the world a better place would be baby janitors. Well, pretty much babies doing any job. It would be awesome if humans were more functional when they were born and then you could have a baby that cleans your office and sells you coffee in the morning. I think that would be awesome. I guess basically anything in miniature form is better than regular size (Hi, Jesse).

Hmm...I guess that's about it. I guess you could say, "I've got nothing." But sometimes that's just how the cookie crumbles.