Tea and chicken
Someone pointed out to me a few days ago that there is yet hope for the world concerning the spread of sweet tea. The Southeast United States isn’t the only place in the world that has figured out that sugar and iced tea are two great tastes that taste great together (not entirely true, since unsweetened iced tea doesn’t taste very good at all, but anyhow…); Asia has also figured this out. Being Asia, they make it weirdly, adding unnatural ingredients like milk and those weird tapioca balls that hit you in the back of the throat, but they’re at least on the right track. Sort of. I figure if bubble tea has enough tasty weirdness to attract those trendy hipsters that I hate and who can all burn in hell, then maybe normal sweet tea could catch on with the normal people outside of the South. Some sort of evangelical sweet tea group is needed. The First Church of Chick-fil-a could send missionaries to the savage foreign lands, like Ohio, to pass out Bibles and glasses of sweet tea. This could totally work.
Speaking of chicken, I need to get a deep frier. I’m never going to get motivated enough to exercise more, so I might as well shorten the amount of time I spend living an unhealthy life by just clogging my arteries and getting it over with. I also need to get a washing machine, since Azuma, whom I was recommended for washing machine rental, has not yet come through. The stopping point now is that they can’t make out the copy of my driver’s license that I faxed to them. Of course you can’t make it out! It’s a fax! Why is it that in 2004, in a society that celebrates the absurd, breakneck rate of technological advancement, I’m still forced to send a low-quality, black and white picture of a physical piece of identification over a modem? This is absurd. What happened to the dream of the paperless society? This process, even if it had been entirely successful, would have taken at least two sheets of paper to send a copy of a little plastic card. I am not going to go through the process again to fax things to their satisfaction. The fax machine has not benefited society; it has encouraged laziness, mediocrity, and further pollution of an already overloaded telephone system. I am not going to use it now, and, if I can avoid it, I will not use it ever again.