Earlier today

Earlier today I was:

• Eating my lunch
  
  • Which was largely sourced from
    
    • Whole Foods
      
      • Turkey sandwich
        
        • Smoked turkey
        • Genoa Salami
        • Challah bread
      • Veggie Chips
      • Grapes that were
        
        • Overpriced
        • Delicious
    • Augmented by a Diet Coke
      
      • Which I stole from a secret cache
      • Which isn't so secret
  • In the student union, which is
    
    • Largely devoid of students for the last day of the year
    • Being remodeled to look like an airport
      
      • I half-like this because the place was
        
        • A maze of unusable space
        • A trillion concrete staircases everywhere
        • Antiquated conference rooms
        • Half-baked FLW ambitions
      • I half-dislike it because I enjoyed the dramatic brio of all of the above
      • At least they still have
        
        • The Bauhaus chairs
          
        • These cozy contour chairs (pictured above) I have occasionally been sitting in for about twenty years now
      • I like the mess they made of the lighting fixtures in the main basement hall
        
        • It looks like an art installation
        • I hope they keep it this way
        • They won’t
• Reading
  
  • Wells Towers story “Raw Water”
    
    • From the forthcoming McSweeney’s issue
    • Via “Small Chair,” the McSweeney’s subscription iPhone App
      
      • I think I could get to like the digital magazine
      • Though I had a hard time trying to figure out how to “turn the pages” of the story
      • Until I stopped trying o figure it out and just “did it”
      • Which is the beauty/horror of iPhone app design
  • God, Wells Tower
    
    • Is a hell of a short story writer
    • Has the coolest name ever
  • It’s about a two people coming from Boston to rent a house on the shore of an artificial sea created in the Nevada desert.
• Listening to
  
  • Owen Pallett’s Heartland
    
    • Achingly lovely
    • At a low enough volume to
      
      • Not distract from my reading
      • And yet try to drown out
        
  • The scurry of people in the open part of the union
    
    • Milling about
    • Getting their lunch.

And am aware that any or all of the above might be construed as the hallmarks of an insufferable person.