Friday, August 19, 2011

Hello, my name is Grey Vanilla, what is yours?

Contrary to popular belief, there was an article in the New York Times about some study showing how vanilla tended to be the ie cream chosen by those in creative professions. See, many creative types like to start with a baseline, like vanilla ice cream, before throwing on all the sprinklings and drowning it in syrups, so that each flavor says something about the choices. Well, that, or the study was conducted at the end of the day and creative types don't like making any decisions that alter their "process" so they choose the basics so their brain can put as much forth as possible to the problem they are working out in their* head.

*English, c'mon, as a language you've had hundreds of years and still no gender neutral term?!

Oh, about myself, there isn't a whole lot to say. When I eat ice cream, I love me some natural vanilla bean. Otherwise give me sherbet. If I had any suits, I imagine they'd mostly be dark greys and I'd wear splashy ties and socks with casual-like loafers or brand new tennies. Chucks maybe.

BTW, my name isn't Grey Vanilla, but that's how I feel right now. Energy is tapped, I'm a bit dehydrated, and I could really use a loss of ten degrees F in the next hour so I could have a nice steaming cup of decaffeinated joe without overheating meselfs. Instead I might have to go get an Italian soda. Lime, please. You, what do you like to drink at the end of a 72-hour productivity marathon when you want to feel cool and calm but are not necessarily one or the other quite yet?