wear tiny clothes, make bad choices

one of the more appalling things i've seen lately: pac sun's new slogan "dress irresponsibly." are you KIDDING? from a store marketed at impressionable/self-conscious/curious/hormonal teenagers, that makes its money selling little more than skin-tight jeans, SHORT shorts, tiny bikinis, and little tank/halter/tube tops? irresponsibly is the adjective you're gonna go with? does this not strike anyone else as wildly inappropriate? i mean, come on.

on another note, eggs have really been frustrating me lately. and do not misunderstand: i love eggs. eggs, like potatoes, are tasty in absolutely every form. eggs are just a quality ingredient in everything they grace. there has never ever, in my life, been a time when i didn't like a dish more for having eggs in it.

but equal to my love of eggs is my need to get every last drop/grain/bit of food out of their containers and to their final tabletop destination¹. i will spend minutes trying to coax out the last 3 drops of grapefruit juice from the empty carton, clumsily scraping the corners of peanut butter jars, and flicking hot chocolate powder packets like a crazy person.

and i swear i love eggs, but they drive me absolutely insane sometimes when the last [for lack of a better word] blob of egg white refuses to leave the shell. it really cramps my style. i mean, i will spend way more than the appropriate amount of time trying to free the entire egg from its shell. and i know it's not like getting play-doh out of a smooth, pastic container-- that it's just... biological, where things like albumen, air cells, and chalazae are involved. but just because it's natural (and therefore supposedly beautiful), doesn't mean i have to like it. i don't like spider egg sacs, +100°F weather, or biting my tongue, and nobody has a problem with that. i love you, eggs, but sometimes it feels like you're bustin' my balls.

¹fact: one of the turning points in my inspirational, life-changing journey from thinking celebrity chef/food network star ina garten was lame to knowing she's awesome was when i noticed that unlike almost all the other tv chefs, she always scrapes all the batter from bottom of the mixing bowl, picks up all the stray chopped herbs from the cutting board, and is just overall very efficient using what she has. i very much appreciate this.