This is actually my post for wednesday...

I think it's probably going to say thursday but it's really still wednesday. I haven't had a real chance to write anything yet, so here it is. I have a list of things that I wanted to remember.

Firstly, this is kind of on the same vein as the stranger that came to my house. Yesterday, I got a phone call. It was the usual, "hello?... hello?... hel-lo?..." call. The kind that really annoys me where no one answers. But this time I heard someone on the other line. It sounded like a woman. The only words I heard this person speak were kind of an exasperated "oh god". Then they hung up. I thought it was funny.

I had a dream last night that I only just remembered today in class. I was in class and the instructor was asking us to compare art and something else. She called on me to make some points. I stated very clearly that I didn't really believe art was real, and there was no such thing as art that I could accurately compare with something else. She told me to just do it anyways. I repeated that there was no such thing as art. Then she gave up on me and asked someone else to ignore me. I felt frustrated that my opinion had been overlooked so quickly.

While walking downtown today I came up with a fun game for 1 or more people. Look at a random stranger and imagine them cast in a movie. They only have one line that they say, and it has to be the funniest line they could possibly deliver. Imagine that line, and imagine them saying it. Then smile to yourself, or if you are so clever, perhaps even laugh softly, being careful not to laugh at the stranger. Some people are easier than others, but all of them can be fun. It's also a good challenge and can even be a competition when you play with your friends. It would be really cool to actually shoot 5 second movies with all the people saying their lines, if you could convince them to perform.

I don't like crossword puzzles. They make me feel like I don't know very much, which I'm sure isn't too far from the truth. But the truth can hurt. I also don't like the way that if everyone does their puzzle correctly they will all be exactly the same. It just seems so mindless, especially when words can be so exciting and creative. That's why I came up with a much more satisfying way to do crossword puzzles today. Basically write in whatever you want into the crossword to create some kind of message reading from left to right. Don't worry about reading it vertically. To make it a challenge, make every word fit the spaces perfectly. It could be a new form of poetry or something. I think my favorite part about this is that you could leave it in a public place where someone is likely to pick it up, and they might have a look at it, and then they would realize that it was all wrong, and then they would realize that it didn't matter because it was saying something else entirely, and then it might change their day. That would be exciting. I'd love to find a crossword poem lying around somewhere. I think I first got the idea when I only filled in one really stupid answer, correct nonetheless, in a crossword I found on a table at school and imagined someone else finding it and wondering if out of all the words that was the only one I could figure out. I thought it would be an amusing discovery. And then I thought of crossword poetry, and I think that's much more interesting.