Self Indulgence

The plan for this weekend was to publish a post about feminism, the first of a series I've been planning since I first started this blog. However, yesterday I went to a house party and had a few too many drinks (fine, I'm lying, I didn't have that many drinks, I'm just a lightweight) so today I'm feeling a bit under the weather. So instead of going into the tangled territory of feminism, I am going to list some of the wonderful (or terrible) aldehyde induced thoughts that have run through my mind today.

1. Hot pink is a horrible colour. This realization came to me suddenly, painfully, as I was playing Tiny Wings. One of the islands was hot pink, the screen of my iPhone was hot pink. It was painful to look at. It got me thinking about why girls like pink and boys like colours like green or blue (see, I can't write a feminist post today). Apparently, men are drawn to bright colours like pink and red. So why do girls like pink? I assume it's because we have evolved to wear colours that are attractive to men. The same reasoning can be made in the reverse. But then, wouldn't that make it so that girls would end up liking pink and therefore guys would wear pink to attract girls (and vice-versa) and so we would switch colour schemes? And again, and again, and again. This led me to a never-ending loop. Until I reached the next island, which wasn't pink anymore, but a much nicer combination of orange and blue.

2. Would I drown if I swam drunk? It certainly feels like I might drown when I swim with a hangover.

3. I'm in the pool changing rooms, listening to a conversation between two mothers and their daughters. They're talking about a TV show that is going to be huge in a couple of years' time. I wonder if these people are the family of TV producers who get to preview the shows in a lot of advance. Then I start listening to the conversation more closely, but I can only get snippets of it. The snippets I hear could induce someone to think they were talking about sex rather than a TV show. How it's good in the afternoon, how one of the mums prefers it on the sofa, while the other only likes it in bed. Suddenly, one of the women tells her daughter she needs to check if her dad's in London. The other girl smiles brightly at this, which makes me think the two women are mormon wives of the same husband.

4. Two little girls are talking in the changing rooms. I don't know exactly what they're talking about, but one of them is saying: "But they didn't ask the normal people, they only asked the wise people". And then they went on to have an almost philosophical argument about why and how the normal people could know things that wise people wouldn't know (the definite articles are the girls', not mine). I start thinking about it, it gets into my head, I spend a full ten minutes thinking about it. Then I decide that children below the age of nine are the wise people this girls were referring to.

5. My hands are weird. They have fingers. Why did hands evolve like that? They look weird. They look like aliens' extremities. Except most of the aliens I've seen depicted in movies and shows don't have hands like human hands. Human hands are so weird.

6. Why am I watching this movie? It's a boring movie. But Brad Pitt's hot. But the movie is boring. It doesn't make sense to me. Why would people listen to a guy who is obviously out of his fucking mind? Why am I watching this movie again? Oooooh that's pretty! And it has good music to go with it...