Musings: YouTube, Haircuts

I am eating a left-over deep dish pizza with a fork and ketchup because I am vile. I also happen to have a keyboard lying around so why not; here are some thoughts to ponder upon:

YouTube:

I don't mind surfing hours and hours on the internet to find some interesting and funny videos and I also don't mind all the minutes that I waste watching something completely useless, but god forbid 15 seconds of my time are wasted watching those pesky YouTube ads at the beginning. I will keep hitting that part of the screen repeatedly where the Skip Ad button appears so I don't miss a single nanosecond of my precious time. Irony?

Haircuts:

Every time I get a haircut, the next day at least one colleague says to me, "Hey, nice haircut", and I immediately respond with, "Thank You!", all proud of myself. First, I don't know why I say thank you... it really doesn't make sense to me that I acknowledge the compliment as if I had something to do with it. I did absolutely nothing except take the decision to go get a haircut. Think of the poor souls at Supercuts who actually do all the work that no colleague of mine will ever notice.

Second, I think my colleagues are just being nice to me when they compliment me because whenever I get a haircut my head just looks like an over-ripe pineapple. My hair is generally thick and wavy but it misbehaves all the time, so I pacify it everyday with a blue gooey gel. After a couple of months, it graduates from being misbehaving to being completely intolerable, so I decide to punish it by cutting it so short that it sticks up all over the place. I can't posit as to why this would be remotely appealing to anyone.

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Parting thought as I finish my pizza over here: There's no such thing as a New York pizza, in Chicago we just call it a flat bread appetizer.