Good... And Good for You

last week, there was a guy on the radio whom i named "inferior stefon." he was like this! ...except not. he's some sort of local, "night life" columnist and i was super excited to hear him promote the downtown happenings for the weekend, but it wound up being the biggest letdown of my life. (hyperbole? you decide) and sure, part of the problem is his source material, because how many "human roombas" and "football jellyfish" can you find in salt lake city? and sure, part of the problem is that stefon is not a real person. but come on, son! part of the problem is you. you need to step up your game. naturally, this got me thinking whom i would be if i just tried a little harder. and the first thing that came to mind was andy rooney. that's not weird, right?

I've been taking advantage of my three whole weeks of "no class!" weeknights (not to be confused with "low class!" weeknights (because that's EVERY weeknight! (... i don't know))) and going to my favorite weightlifting class at the gym. I'm super buff now. I can totally lift moderate levels of weight for my gender/age/body type classification  like you wouldn't believe! ANYways. my gym started a new class called "Body Combat" and, if you know me and my love of sitting on the couch and watching taebo, you know that this is my type of class. I found out that it starts right after my weightlifting class, so I decided to give it a whirl. And I loved it. And I will tell you why. The reasons why being threefold: 1.  It's a good workout.  Apparently beating the air wildly with my tiny, petulant fists is a solid workout. 2.  Everybody in the class takes it very seriously.  Everyone in class acts lik...

i read this article the other day on the " dunning-kruger effect ." essentially, it's the idea that when people are unskilled in a certain area, they lack the very skills required to see that they're unskilled. or, as my dear friend bill mcneal once said, "it is the wise man who knows there is much he does not know." (matthew, nodding, "... i know.") i would say that the dunning-kruger effect (sometimes, in my mind, i call it the "dunder-mifflin effect") has been kicking my trash the last 4 to 5 (to 9 (to 381)) months. and i will tell you why. i decided to take classes at the local community college to become a paralegal. the process of deciding to do it was super random. so random, in fact, that i don't actually remember the impetus for doing it. however, around august, i made up my mind that this was something I wanted to do. i knew i wanted to do it, but- full disclosure (that in no way makes me look sym...