This week Flic was wondering about one of the facts on the Random Facts page...
I wonder, if banging your head against a wall (or anything, for that matter) for an hour uses up 150 calories, then head-banging is a great way to lose weight! If you banged your head against a wall, then you'd lose brain cells as well as weight... so use a pillow instead!
This also means that a 14-hour flight to California or a 5-hour drive to Canberra can be a very worthwhile fitness session...just bang your head on a pillow the whole time. Voila! You will lose weight!
To calculate how many calories you will use up, multiply the number of hours of head-banging by 150.
My plan: Keep a pillow in the car, so that on the way to school and back, and anywhere else I go, I can bang my head in the car. I hope I lose a lot of weight! (I am, believe it or not, underweight already!)
...Side affects from head-banging may include dizziness, boredom, loss of brain cells and IQ points and teeth, and nausea. Oh well, it's worth it.
This week Flic was wondering about whether or not writing 'Dear Diary' means you are crazy...
I wonder, why do people always start with 'Dear Diary' when they're writing a diary?
Well, I came up with the following reasons:
-Writing a diary is like talking to yourself. Which is why people put 'Dear Diary' so it isn't as obvious that they're talking to themselves, because everybody knows that talking to yourself is a sign of madness.
-People might be lonely, so writing 'Dear Diary' might make them feel as if they have a friend.
-People might actually think that the diary understands what they write in it, and so they decide to talk to it and treat it like a friend (so as to not hurt it's feelings).
-Come to think of it, talking to a piece of paper or a computer screen is even crazier than talking to yourself, so putting 'Dear Diary' implies that you really are crazy.
Oh well, I write a diary (on the computer) and I don't put 'Dear Diary'.
I must be crazier, 'cause you know what I write?
...Dear Computer!!!