Has It Always Been This Way? Is It Possible All This Magic Went Unnoticed...

Regina Spektor - Reading Time With Pickle

I realized I hadn't had a Regina (aka my bride-to-be) song in a very long time, so here we go. Regina is one where if you like her, I can be very helpful. I've strived to own every song that has ever been recorded which features her voice, whether on an album or a bootlegged live song. I feel as if I've succeeded. So I've got a lot to offer.


So here I am at the library, taking a break from studying. Because I hate it. Plus, I own it. What's that pronator teres? I can't hear you. You originate at the medial epicondyle of the humerus and the coronoid process? And you insert on the middle of the lateral surface of the radius? You're innervated by the median nerve? And you pronate the forearm? Yeah, that's what I thought, bitch.


But I'm studying at the library on North Campus, because it's simply a far superior library. I'm fairly certain it makes me smarter, just being in the building. Maybe not, but I like to think so. But it's the bus ride over that I'd like to discuss.

So I get on and sit down, and I'm chillaxing as the bus starts to pull away. I look across the aisle, and I notice that the boy sitting across from me has sparkles all over his face, like what you would expect if one were wearing sparkly eye shadow, and the sparkles kind of fell down one's face throughout the day.

Now generally I notice this on girls, so on this boy it was a fun little surprise. So I say to him, "I like that your face is super sparkly."

"What?" You see, I had assumed that he was aware of his sparkles.

"Um...your...your face...it's sparkly. Shimmery really."

"What are you talking about?"

"YOUR FACE HAS SPARKLES ON IT!"

"Well I don't know how they could have gotten there...are you sure?"

It was at this point that I decided I would never convince him. "Wait, no, nevermind. It was just the way the light was on your face."

oddly upset "Yeah, that's what I figured."


Now I promise you, this boy had sparkles on his face. A badunk-load of sparkles, ALL UP ON HIS FACE. Those didn't just get there via rogue sparkle flying through the air that happened to miraculously adhere itself on his face. They got there because they were forced to go there.

I don't know if this occured because he himself put on sparkly eye shadow though. It seems that if he's comfortable enough to put on sparkly eye shadow, he'd be comfortable enough to be open about it. So I'm assuming that he was making out with a girl who had eye shadow on, and some of it rubbed off on him.

But anyhoo, I'm hoping he was off to some sort of manly activity (drinking with his frat buddies, rugby practice, bear hunting, etc.), because his face was sparkletastic, and that would make me giggle.