Deep in the Heart of Texas

What I've learned about Texas in my short time here:

1. Texas drivers are infuriatingly awful. My number one pet peeve is that they all seem like they went to the same driving school and the instructor didn't know how to make a turn without coming to a full stop.

2. Texas has terrible pizza. Seriously, it isn't even passable. A Texan trying to make a pizza is like a Chinese person trying to pronounce the letter L.

3. Texas makes up for it by having outrageously good Hamburgers.

4. Texas is full of Stunningly beautiful tall blonde women (even if they aren't really blonde, they still count)

5. Texas' dating scene is ridiculously bourgeois.

6. Texas people have no idea how to handle snow, as can be seen through 2 people trying to clean their cars off with a spatula and a blanket, respectively.

7. Texas is really sprawled out. You can meet someone you work with and find out that they live an hour and a half drive away from you.

8. Dallas Cowboys fans hate Tony Romo as much if not more so than non-Cowboys fans.

9. 75 degree weather is apparently too cold for going to the pool.

10. Drinking and Driving is not driving while drunk. Driving while drunk isn't tolerated, but drinking a beer while driving is simply "road soda"

11. Drinking and Working are the two mainstays of life. If a Texan isn't doing one, he/she is doing both.

12. Lightning Storms are spectacular.

A Dream Within a Dream

Why do dreams have such a drastic effect on our waking life? One little dream skews your whole day. A good dream can make your whole day so much brighter, even if it happens to be the worst day you've had in a month. A bad dream casts a pall over a good day and makes it seem dreadful.

Dreams don't even really mean anything. The most random of thoughts congeal into chaotic ramblings your brain doesn't even have control over.

You dream about a friend of yours that screws you over and the next day you have an irrational distrust of them.

You dream about a girl you know and for the next week, you think you have a crush on her.

You dream about a girl you do have a crush on and you hate her for a week because you dreamt about her dating someone you dislike.

You dream about someone you haven't thought about for a decade and you can't get them out of your head for the next month.

You dream about your job, you dream about your home, you dream about the gym, you dream about that girl, you dream about a girl, you dream about some girl, you dream about snow, you dream about sun, you dream about trees, you dream about bees, you dream about wheels, you dream about seals, you dream about water, you dream about rain, you dream about dreams, you dream about yourself.

They don't mean anything.
But somehow they mean everything.