All I really need to know

You know, you can say, “I’m telling the truth,” but you can’t say, “I’m telling the falsehood,” or, “I’m telling the lie,” or even, “I’m telling the untruth.” Anyone want to sign a petition?

While some complain that Facebook is disintegrating real-life interactions and whatnot, I’m finding it very useful in determining whether or not a girl is dating someone before I ask her out.

Did you know that a sprinkler’s jet stream hitting a lamppost sounds awfully like a telephone ring?

When I sneeze, I sneeze sneeze sneeze sneeze sneeze sneeze.

When walking on campus, I’ve noticed that I often forget to turn my head when I look to the sides. It wasn’t a problem until I saw someone else doing the same thing — it’s creepy!

It is so fun to roll up dryer lint into a ball.

I really don’t like lipstick. I don’t mean eating it (though I’m sure I don’t like it that way), or on me (and I am sure I don’t like it there), but on girls. Judging from the ubiquity of it, I sense that I am very much in the minority here. (This is not always a bad thing. For example, I can sue someone — anyone — and make bank, or I could snag some multicultural scholarship. Why would anyone ever want to be in a majority?)

When secondhand rain drips down from the trees above, let’s hope it’s not as unhealthy as secondhand smoke.

I need to be more complimentary.

I don’t like lipstick either.

Ben, I really enjoyed the Robert Fulghum link. I hope that others will take the time to read it. Thanks!

On a side note, do you ever wear Chapstick? Chapstick is a man’s lipstick… It’s just that brown or black and blue don’t look good on guys’ faces so the manufactures made it flavored instead.

Color/flavor - marketing gimmicks that’s all:)

How do you feel about lip gloss?

I really enjoyed reading that post by Robert Fulghum, too. Thanks :)

Mali: Glad to hear it. :)

J: Yes, I wear chapstick, because the skin on my lips often starts drying up and flaking off if I don’t. I’d much rather have flavor than color, though, thank you very much. :)

Emily: Well, what I like best (and this is just my personal preference, remember) is normal, natural lips. I think that’s the most beautiful of the lot. Lip gloss doesn’t bother me if it’s not overly glossy. (Do lip glosses come in different colors? If so, then this next bit applies to them as well.) I suppose I don’t mind lipstick if it’s very close to skin tone in color. It’s just the redness of some lipsticks that bothers me, I think. (And there are some unnatural colors that just look gross.) So, in order of preference (and woo, look at me acting as if my preferences actually matter! Ha!), I’d say no lipstick/gloss, then natural-looking gloss, then natural-looking lipstick, and everything else down in Hades. :P And no, I don’t really think I have any right to dictate what women ought to wear, and if all of you girls out there want to go on wearing red lipstick, more power to you. All I’m saying is that I find it repulsive. :)

Holly: You’re welcome. :) I’d recommend reading Fulghum’s books — he’s good at getting in touch with what matters in life. And he’s often rather funny, too. (He used to be a minister, by the way.)

Repulsive? Really?

Lipstick’s like wearing a bow tie. It looks good with the right outfit as part of the total package, but it’s not attractive and/or looks silly if you wear it every day.

Kissing someone wearing lipstick is gross, but then I know that’s not a factor in your opinion, Ben. :P

LOL: I just put in the chapstick comment to get more action on this blog post. This was my guile:

Ben, I really enjoyed the Robert Fulghum link. I hope that others will take the time to read it. Thanks!

Rikker: I guess my tastes are just far, far away from that bow tie mentality. I’m trying to think of when I’ve found lipstick attractive, and nothing’s coming up. And I especially dislike the darker lipstick that looks like someone dug the wearer up out of the graveyard. (And you’re right, osculation doesn’t even come into the question. :P)

J: No worries. :)