I discovered a pretty good cure yesterday for feeling pathetic and it is this:

Put on your biggest sweatshirt. It should be chalky grey, ugly and formless, yet warm.

Go into the kitchen and get a sweet snack. I like ice cream in a cone, with nuts on top. A cone like this is especially significant to the occasion because the top is difficult to consume while the bottom is easy.

Listen to any version of “The Weight” you prefer (I like the one by Smith the most; you might enjoy the original) while eating your snack and doing nothing else. Repeat song as necessary.

By the time you are finished with the point of the cone, you should be feeling better. If not, just go ahead and eat another ice cream.

While I’ve managed to avoid most of the applications on Facebook, there’s one called Friend FAQ I couldn’t help but add. It sends a little notification to your menu whenever one of your friends answers a harmless Yes or No question about you, such as, “Is so-and-so reliable?” Sounds boring, but wouldn’t you like to know?

Anyway, you don’t even have to be using the application to receive a notification at first. If somebody answers a question about you, Friend FAQ acts as the siren in the night that urges you to join and see.

I’ve had six questions answered about me that I know of (if you want to hide the painful truth you can choose not to notify a person), and here they are:

Do you think that Jackie still sleeps with a teddy bear?
No

Do you think that Jackie is cute?
Yes

Is Jackie’s profile picture cute?
Yes

Do you think that Jackie has ever cheated on a test?
No

Do you think that Jackie parties too much?
No

Do you think that Jackie is greedy?
No

You need to “spend coins” in order to see which of your friends answered what, but I’m not about to collect any more fake money than I absolutely have to. (See, um: FarmVille.) So, I guess I’ll never know. But I can tell you that one of these answers is false!

It’s not the teddy bear one, though I do tend to cuddle up with my fists under my chin like a giant baby. It’s not that I’m greedy either, or that I party anymore on days other than holidays. The correct answer to the question in question is that I have indeed cheated on a test. I feel kind of bad about giving the wrong impression about myself (oh, and I feel bad about the cheating, too), but I guess that’s the point of cheating. My mom will probably flip.

I don’t need to write about this since I’ve posted about it everywhere else already, but I created a new weblog header yesterday so I might as well update with something today.

Anyway, I started a new project this year called Tree Association. It’s my own special version of those free association word games people and psychiatrists play, where you begin with one word (in my case, tree, because it rhymes with free—see how easy?) and make connections to new words. I plan to update every week with a new drawing, and if you have your own Tumblr you can follow my blog with the click of a button! (Otherwise, I don’t know, I guess you can try the RSS feed. Personally I still use bookmarks and visit one website at a time.)

I’ve come up with a pretty long list already so the associations aren’t necessarily fresh when I draw them, but while I was compiling the list I made sure to take no pauses. (After all, I think it’s better to relate a bunch of words all at once than it would be to actually do one per week.) So far tree has led to coral, coral has led to salt water, and salt water has led to tears which rhymes with gears. Isn’t my brain just fascinating?