I don’t know what made me decide that I had a natural affinity for the drums. Especially since I’ve never actually played them. I guess I thought I would be good at it because it combines my affinity for hitting stuff with my affinity for looking cool. A few years ago a friend gave me a set of drum sticks & then we proceeded to hit pots & pans, which Lane also did. I don’t know why I thought if I sucked at hitting pots & pans, I would rock at playing the drums.

I was at my friends new house & she led me into a room with a set of garage sale drums. It was the first time I ever sat behind a drum set. So naturally the first thing I did was take pictures of me looking cool. Then, finally it was time to play. I, like Lane Kim, knew this was my calling. Then I actually tried to play & realized it wasn’t. At least I looked cool.

I was initially disturbed by the first pancake scene in the episode “Will you be my Lorelai Gilmore?” Rory shared this advice:

Rory: Yes but Mr. Nash, you are forgetting about the first pancake phenomenon.
Lorelai: Eh?
Rory: Yes the first pancake you know? You always throw it out…
Lorelai: Why do you throw out the first pancake?
Rory: Cuz the griddles too hot it gets burned.
Lorelai: Oh my God. Next year no excuses. We are make you that audition tape for Top Chef.

I always hated that Rory learned how to cook, it was just so against her character. The other morning I was making pancakes because if Rory can learn how to cook, so can I. The first pancake didn’t turn out well. It looked like scrambled eggs but with a pancake. I thought, cooking sucks, I want to eat a donut. Then I decided to try one more pancake & the second one came out perfect. I guess the first pancake phenomenon is alive & well.

I recently got a roomba. Yes, it takes about five times longer to vacuum than a normal vacuum. Yes, it always seems to leave lint on the floor. Yes, it has to be cleaned out & takes about as long to do that as it would to use a regular vacuum. I can’t help loving it. It’s a robot & it vacuums. I originally thought that the roomba would save me all sorts of time. Instead, I just end up watching it & think “It’s a robot. Neato.” I always laugh when it bumps into stuff. Yes my thoughts are very profound.

At least the Gilmore Girls shared my hobby. Remember the episode where Lorelai was at home & Rory was at college & they both were on the phone just watching their pink roombas? I was looking through videos to put with this post & apparently everyone who owns a roomba films it & puts it on youtube. It is not my fault that watching robots do housework is awesome. It is times like these where I wish that my life had a scoreboard next to it so I could see how much time was devoted to various activities like roomba watching. I probably don’t want to know.

I’m starting a new job soon. I know the first day is going to be awkward. First days always are. I can’t help but think about the “How many kropogs to cape cod?” episode. This is due only in part to the fact that I still don’t know what a kropog is. This is also due to the fact that this is the episode where Rory starts her internship at the newspaper with Logan’s dad.

I always laugh when Rory takes a picture of herself with her camera phone because I’ve done the same thing several times. First days are big deals. In college, before the camera phone, this was achieved by taking a picture of myself in the mirror. So I have about five really fantastic shots that show nothing but the flash. Anyways, I know that the first day will be bad because it’s a first day. I at least take comfort in the fact that Rory also was confused as to if she was supposed to enter a room when a door was closed in her face & she had this conversation:

I didn’t even know if I was supposed to go to lunch when everybody went to lunch, so I just stood in the break room for, like, forty-five minutes! And then I ate an Altoid.

Note to self: buy altoids. What was your worst first day at work or school?