matt damon

thinking about taking my blog private. let me hear your thoughts. advantages, disadvantages. let me hear from both sides (those with public, those with private, those that have gone private and are thinking of going public, those that are public and know someone who went private because of the public, saving private ryan, stephen spielberg, elmo...you know, both sides). i'm just thinking i don't want to hesitate to post stuff about myself that i might want my friends to know, but not the rest of the dirty internets.

lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats...

so thanks to glenda's blog, and rhoda's yells through the internets, i have realized i haven't posted in 10 months. reflection upon why prompted me to think of me finishing my degree in graphic design, planning for a wedding, and the fact that whenever i feel like posting...i go make a sandwich. i like to eat the sandwiches.

so as me and ro have a new apartment and will be starting a new life together, we want to start it off right with as much mass produced, inexpensive, swiss flair as we can get our hands on. we therefore took a trip to ikea. granted it was fun walking around picking up the necessary flatwear dividers, lederhosen, and the like. but the real excitement (as always) was in the bathroom.

as i went to take care of business (as we all do), i was met with a wonderful sight that brought a tear to me eye. finally, after all these years pleading to the better business bureau for an emergency button next to the toilet, they've finally stepped up to the plate.

now i have never personally had a medical emergency on the toilet, but it is my biggest fear. if i ever did have an emergency in any normal, non-swiss bathroom, there would be no button for me to push for the authorities to come break down the door and save me. thank you switzerland for bringing your neutral medical buttons of bathroom emergencies to our great land of the free. 

as we approach the fourth of july, while you remember the signing of our independence from the oppression of great britain, i also ask you all to remember the country just north of our oppressors who brought us this incredible invention of dependence on the swiss to come through if you have an emergency...in the bathroom.