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I'm so bad at updating

I get caught up in life and forget about this. I apologize.


I came back here tonight to grab some text for the Gender Guesser, an online tool that analyzes your word choice to guess your gender. (Sidenote: it guessed me as "male" for informal and "weakly female" for formal.) The post I picked was Passing Time # 46, my most recent entry over 300 words. I'd had the idea to use a list of 50 ways to pass the time as source of inspiration. Unfortunately, I haven't looked at the list since that original post.

I guess I can make that promise again. It'll probably be forgotten. Things have been changing too much for me to promise any kind of posting regularity. I've left Carnegie Mellon, moved back home, and registered for some general education classes. The next step isn't totally clear yet.

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Passing Time #46

I came upon this list the other day. I find that I get stuck in a rut more often than I'd like, and I'm going to use this list to inject some fun into my daily routine.

Brian and I started the list with #46, taking the day to drive around. Ryan's birthday was this past Saturday, so Friday night we went to Giant Eagle to buy cake stuff. We're headed home around midnight when Brian turns to me and asks if I want to go home or just drive around. I tell him to tell me where to turn. We ended up in this adorable post-war suburban neighborhood, all single-family homes and cars parked on the curb. Brian just kept directing me uphill, until we found an amazing overlook of the city. Right as we were going over the peak, Brian noticed a set of stairs leading off the road. We parked and walked down. They led to another road about forty feet lower. We kept driving, made one turn, and we were by the zoo. Brian started yelling, "I know exactly where we are. How did we get here?" I just smiled.

We started again in a new direction. Brian took me to this outlook over the highway. I guess there used to be a house there because there is clearly a brick foundation. Now it's all trees. It was cold and icy and our flashlight was weak, so we stopped about 3/4 of the way down. Neither of us wanted to be stuck out on that cliff. We drove for a long time after that, one turn and Brian knew exactly where we were. That's the fun of driving adventures. Discovering new parts of the city, Spacial relationships.

We went to McDonald's for bathroom break and snacks. Waited inside for ten minutes without any service before waiting in the drive-thru for twenty minutes. At one point Brian realized that the location was open 24/7 and how dangerous that was. He just turned to me and said, "I don't think I could work here." I laughed the rest of the night.

We got home at 4 and slept soundly. No pictures but I'm sure we'll do it again. Maybe with a fuller car, or a longer distance.

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