Friday, May 11, 2007
(12:58 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Readiness, Cereal, Claire, Crescat Scientia
I confess that I'm really ready for the 20th Century exam and the semester to be over with. I confess that the month of May, post-semester, should be pretty nice -- just a few small projects to finish up. I confess that I am addicted to finishing things, to caffeine, and to the Internet. I confess that I derive a little more satisfaction than is healthy from the sight an empty dishwasher.I confess that I am naturally drawn to ice cream that incorporates some kind of name-brand candy. Oreo™ ice cream is better than plain old cookies and cream, for instance. But I don't think this is just a hallucination! Have you all tried the actual Breyers Oreo™ ice cream? Even comparing across the same brand of ice cream, the Oreo™ tastes way better. I confess that years of living near a Jewel-Osco where they rotated every week or so which brand of ice cream was 2-for-1 has given me very detailed opinions about ice cream. I also have highly refined expertise in cereal pricing. I confess that Honey Bunches of Oats is simultaneously the cheapest and the worst cereal. When that stuff gets soggy -- i.e., thirty seconds after the milk is poured -- it's like eating a cardboard box that's been left out in the rain.
I confess that I'm very happy for Claire now that she's found a new job and is also going to get to take a week-long vacation before starting.
I confess that in all my years of hanging around U of C, I've never bothered to figure out what "Crescat scientia, vita excolatur" means. I confess that the $1 milkshakes in the coffee shop at Reynolds Club are a gift from God.
