Thursday, December 18, 2014

One of the people I work with asked me about scrapbooking in the 19th century. First of all, how would I know that? And second of all, I did know. Aaron tells me all kinds of things about the difference between veins and arteries for instance. Veins don't have any muscles and arteries do. I hear: veins age and no amount of working out or not or botox is going to keep them sexy. Arteries could be sexier, but they're usually not, so then they get a face lift using veins turned inside out for the smooth faced side and then your heart doesn't look as shitty (?). He apologizes for how he tells me all kinds of useless stuff like that. I think, Dude I know the etymology of the word 'miscellany' through the 18th century until print media hit photography and Civil War news got pasted next to recipes leading toward the eventual recipe card system that predates Weight Watchers...point being: what the fuck could be less useful than my knowledge set, generally speaking? And here's the kicker, I also dabbled in Civil War era scrapbooking for a minute back when I knew that shit AND sucked at it (double useless), such that I could reach into a drawer and pull this out and wonder 'an instance of what Kerri calls what what?', having not finished that thought because the baby was crying apparently.