status update

Remember when talking about yourself in third person was weird- a kind of throwback to the King's English? The royal We or some such thing. Thanks now to Spacebook/myface updates, it's normal for the common man. People I barely knew before are becoming clearer to me through these updates, particularly those who post clever wordings that stick in my head all day. It seems as though I am granted a precious glance into their internal world; I'm amused by how inspirational a briefly published sentence can be.

Ashamed to say but I spent a good deal of my workout running through potential updates in my head. It's a fun way to organize your moment-to-moment, but is also a little creepy and self-centered. Here's some that came up:

1) Margaret wishes her left knee would quit bitching and get it together.
2) Margaret ran backwards today. That's not a metaphor. Okay, maybe it is.
3) Margaret can't get the words "lacrimal fossae" out of her head.
4) Margaret has a spring in her step and a crick in her neck.
5) Margaret would like to thank the city of Bangkok for sipping on her dreams last night.
6) Margaret has never craved peanut butter so much as in this moment.
7) Margaret will never complete her to-do list.
8) Margaret is getting into Animal Collective.
9) Margaret has the best friends a person could ever ask for and is feeling deeply grateful for the bright side of humanity.
10) Margaret would like to straighten some things out before she goes snowboarding again. Namely, her back.

It feels weird writing them out.

Margaret thinks Facebook is the new and interesting interface for the internal thoughts of humanity.