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you know what i find annoying? that there's very little to say about good experiences, but oodles of things to say about bad experiences.

let me give you a (somewhat silly) example (but still very accurate):
b was telling me about beyonce's performance at the superbowl. he said she totally nailed it, and as a result comedy shows had nothing to make fun of. had she totally blown it or made a fool of herself they would've eaten her alive. but a good performance merits little more than "that was great", end of discussion.

i think this might be connected to our culture of complaining. when people don't have anything else to say, they criticize or exaggerate short-comings to keep a conversation going. i don't know if this is partly connected to what the listeners are waiting to hear. i remember going to birthfest with rach years ago and the women were saying that they're embarrassed to tell people when their birth went well, because people expect this long horrendous story. and to simply say it was a great experience and everything went well, is a short summary to share. people don't know what to do with positive news.

anyway, i got back on friday evening. thankfully my travels were barely impacted by the weather. i think most of the connecting flights after i arrived were cancelled. the train was pretty packed since many who were supposed fly to toronto from montreal took the train instead. i'm really glad that we were able to land and that via didn't cancelled its service because i just really wanted to be home. i was super tired and kept sighing/exhaling loudly.

well i should go. i need to hop in the shower.

i ride the train and i ride it after dark.