Daily Slow Chat

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1. I am reading an article this morning about survivalists stocking up for possible civil war/zombie invasion etc…various reasons.

   How long do you think you could survive on what you have to eat in the house now, without being able to leave the place you live in? Assuming you still had access to water

2. Hey! One less subject on the road to my diploma. 4 to go, now.

3. [I saw this post on r/lotrmemes](https://www.reddit.com/r/lotrmemes/comments/1rmk2ou/one_does_not_simply_walk_to_school/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) and it’s so funny that it’s such a universal experience. Did your parents and grandparents also tell you stories about how hard it was to get to school back then? Mine definitely did. In great detail. My mom went to school when my grandpa (teacher) was working in a village in the east, so they had to walk to school in heavy snowfall with rubber boots (my grandma did knit them woollen socks). 

   There was an old Russian guy when I lived in Turkey who came to tune my piano. The first thing he did when I brought him tea for his break was to tell me about his road to school in Russia 🤣 very snowy. Very awful. I was like, there we go. Classic.

   But today I asked my husband and he said no, we had roads and cars. Spoiled brats.

4. You’ve probably bumped into the story of a Brazilian (if my memory serves me right) woman who was asked to give her seat on an airplane to a kid. It was the kid’s parent who asked, and took pictures of this woman sitting in the seat she had paid for. The family’s own seats were in a different part of the plane, so them asking something like that and then getting mad because she didn’t comply, is just wild bullshit.

   What I find strange is that while usually it’s the ‘bad guy’ whose image gets circulated online, this time around, it’s the woman who some bully tried to get to give out something that was hers, whose face is posted everytime the story gets re-told. Online commotions work in mysterious ways sometimes.

5. Listening to my huge playlist I put almost every song I come across that I like I heard You Don’t Know My Name by Alicia Keys, for the first time in a few years it feels like. It’s so great. If you’re an uncultured low life and not familiar with it, in it Alicia Keys works at a café and lusts over a hot guy that always comes in for a coffee before work in the morning. 

   Then towards the very end there is a section where the music strips down and instead of any singing there is a phone conversation, of which we only hear Alicia Keys’ side, where she calls the guy and asks him out. At one point she says “hold up, my cell phone’s breaking up” 

   When’s the last time you called your cell phone your cell phone? I remember doing the distinction very often back when landlines were still around, but come to think of it I don’t think I’ve heard anybody use the Finnish word for a cell phone in a real life conversation in probably a decade. 

   I think I’m going to do a deep dive into Bill Evans chord voicings on the piano next. I’ve been pretty inspired to play the piano recently.