Look there, it's a post!

I'm running empty on ideas for today's blog, so I think I'm just going to start typing and see what kind of ramblings I can spew out.

"How are you?" is the first thing everyone asks when striking up a conversation with another person.  The look on someone's face when met with anything other than "fine, how are you?" is quite entertaining to me.  It's so funny to realize that the majority of people in this world could not care less about how you really are, but ask the question anyway because society has brainwashed them into thinking this is how all conversations should go.  The average person is probably on autopilot during the first few minutes of any conversation, as the questions and responses are always scripted.  It's no wonder miscommunication is so commonly a cause of stress in relationships and life in general.  We are so trained as to the polite way to hold a conversation, we don't even need to be mentally present.  Perhaps we should all try and muster up some genuine curiosity in the other person's well-being when having a discussion.

It drives me absolutely crazy when someone says "I could care less" when he really means "I couldn't care less".  Just stop and think about the words you are saying for a second.  "I could care less" means that there is indeed more room for less caring!  You are not yet at the absolute point of indifference.  Perhaps this is, in fact, the stance you are attempting to portray, but I doubt it.  I am fairly certain the phrase you seek is, "could NOT care less", meaning the subject in question holds no interest for you.

I would like to make sure everyone is aware of what the presence if an apostrophe (') signifies.  Look at words that have an apostrophe, such as "they're" or "it's".  That crazy little symbol hovering up there means that one or more letters are missing (with the exception of possessiveness, which should be Googled if you don't understand).  The apostrophe's job is to save that hole so that one day those letters will have a nice warm home to return to.  The apostrophe's job is thankless!  All day long it sits there, knowing that one day the letters may return and the apostrophe will be homeless and unemployed.  Show some respect for the poor little apostrophe.  Don't stuff it in places where it doesn't belong.  If you write "It's face is missing because of the acid," you have placed that poor apostrophe in a horrible situation.  It shows up to work on Monday and the letters around it begin shouting and demanding to know what it thinks it is doing there!  No letters are missing, you idiotic apostrophe!  You can't fit here!  Go back to where you came from!  You have just ruined the life of that poor little apostrophe.  If you've been paying attention, you will notice I employed several apostrophes in this paragraph.  Let me tell you, it feels good knowing I'm giving their lives some meaning.  Now let's say you slept through English, and you write, "Their coming over for dinner".  That's WRONG.  You don't mean "their", you mean "they're".  Now that poor apostrophe is shivering outside as he stares in at your warm little ignorant sentence.  Don't you feel bad?  Well you should!  Learn to write the language you speak!