Memento mori

This Carpe diem business is really tricky, because sure "seizing the day" sounds like a good idea but somehow before you know it your hanging out a hipster dive bar listening to screamo with two queens entirely too sober to just give in to the randomness of the evening wondering what weird decision in the night got you in this situation.

Yea. What started out as an early evening out turned into me driving someone home to the third ward at 2 in the morning. Not cool. At all. In the slightest. Because seizing the day shouldn't mean not getting your 8 hours of sleep because your driving a drunk home while trying to figure out the fastest possible way out of the ghetto and away from the prostitutes.

So yea. Good times. Or something like it.

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* If you have some time I highly recommend reading this, its about the study of happiness and its long but oh so good. Here's my favorite part:

And no matter where they live, human beings are terrible predictors of what will make them happy. If Stumbling on Happiness tells us anything, it's this. "Imagination?" says Gilbert, "is the poor man's wormhole." Our imagination has an odd knack for Photoshopping things in and airbrushing things out, which is why we think that getting back together with our exes is a good idea; it also tends to mistake our present feelings for future ones, which is why, when we decide to marry the right person, we find it unthinkable we'?ll ever be tempted to sleep with anyone else. At the same time, we forget that our imagination has a miraculous ability to rationalize its way out of grim situations- which is why we're more likely to take a positive view of things we did than things we didn'?t (so go ahead and ask that woman to marry you), more comfortable with decisions we can?'t reverse than ones we can, and more apt to make the best of a terrible situation than a merely annoying one.

* Too cute!

* Since Israel is blowing things up I figure it needs some good pr right now, so its in that spirit that I share this video with you.

* Pure random absurd humor in video form.

* "You can't be a bear."