Stalking People I've Never Met on Facebook

So I haven't written any posts for a while. Mostly because I was without any ideas I felt were worth mentioning. But anyway, for whatever reason I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook lately...I mean what else do you do when you're bored? (Don't tell any of my professors). But seriously, I found myself wondering about people I'd seen around the college campus and decided to search for them on Facebook...they just so happened to all be female...normal right? (Yeah even I don't believe the last sentence I wrote; I'm not very convincing).

So here I am wondering to myself: "I've seen that attractive girl on campus, but I don't know her name." Mind you; I've never met her, spoken with her, met any of her friends, don't know her first name, her last name, her grade, her interests, and quite possibly have never made eye contact with her. We have no deep relationship...nothing close. So what do I do? I search through my friends pictures (the people I've actually met) on Facebook based on what I know about this particular girl from seeing her around. Maybe she was wearing a sweatshirt that said some group or club she was involved in or maybe she wears purple all the time and I'll just search for a group called something like "The Purple People Eaters"; ok that's pretty lame, but you know what I mean.

Anyway, so I'm searching through pictures based on my friends that would be likely to know her. (In answer to your question yes this makes me feel like a creeper,but it's just being myself...right?) And finally I become excited and jackpot there's a picture in front of me and now I know her name. And we've still never met and I realize how utterly ridiculous this is. How the heck does this help me at all? Even a little bit? I've still never met her, but now I have the added pressure of pretending (if we ever do actually meet) that I don't know her name. So I've only made it harder on myself. I'm thinking maybe I should have been normal and just initiated conversation...and yet I've repeated this process multiple times. And now I feel lame because YOU know my secret.

"Borrowing" of Rock Music and Mexican Food

Sometimes I think I might be Jewish. And the fact is that I'm white. I'm almost completely Anglo(aka "very" white), I have no real culture to speak of, I can't dance to save my life, and I've had Scottish shortbread cookies before. But somehow I think I might still be Jewish, even though I am clearly NOT.

The idea first occurred to me first year of college. Somehow people kept wanting me to join their Jewish clubs for JEWISH people. Which I am obviously not. But then I began to think. What if I was? I have darker skin and curly hair, what else do you need? Jewish people are historically very resilient people and I liked the idea. A culture? Something other than a mutt? I could live with that.

But alas, its not true. My parents are even whiter than me and that's kind of a difficult thing to do. They live in one of the most conservative areas of California, which had white written all over it. I think maybe I'll just conform to mediocrity and go back to stealing ideas from other cultures and calling them my own. Just saying...