Friday's Festival of Randomness

I have determined, through precise scientific study, that Mika songs can be played a maximum of 10 times over a 24 hour period before losing their hypernetic, brain-buzzing effect. Except maybe "Lollipop."

I'm sorry, dear student. No fancy plastic sleeve on earth is going to compensate for that paper you just turned in.

The Hungarians, indeed, are the only language family (the quirky linguistically-islanded Finno-Ugrics) to have two words for the color red. Piros for most things; Voros for blood, the flag and wine.

And, lastly (warning, extreme snarkiness ahead):(Atsiprasau uz mano labai blogai gramatiska, bet, man reikia kalbeti. Prasom, klausyk.)

Dear Lithuanian Pool Guests/Brangus Lietuvos Basainos Kviesti

I would like to take this opportunity, upon the 17th anniversary of your independence, to introduce you to an amazing practice known as
The Circle Swim
wherein, a small swimming pool lane may be utilized by up to 6 persons, if appropriately spaced. This requires, however, acknowledgment and awareness of the actual, physical presence of another person in the lane. It also requires attentiveness to the varying speeds and intentions of those with whom you share said lane. So, for example, if you are a strapping, hairy gentleman who desires to impress the females of the pool, (particularly if they are young western women whose European fore-mothers stopped taking memos on feminine delicacy and deference somewhere around 1883) you should make sure you can successfully out-swim them lap after lap. Or get out of the way. Or if, for example, your body mass and circumference are, say, the size of a young elephant, you may want to go ahead and choose the leitai linea with the other aerobicizing babushkai.

I mean no disrespect, brangus Lietuvai - I love your fried bread, your potatoes as haute cuisine, your soft white beaches, your pine-lined bike trails, your folktale wood-carving tradition. But, over time, this "circle swim" practice might even come in handy in opportunities such as, boarding and exiting buses, walking on the sidewalk, or circulating through the grocery store. It could, in short, be revolutionary.

Myli,

Your American Cousin