Why? Because it’s delicious. And it doesn’t even have to be “real” JELL-O brand flavored gelatin dessert!

My recent infatuation started when I was recently having difficulty wanting not to throw up while trying to eat. Granted, JELL-O is pretty much water, sugar, and calf feet, with practically no nutritional value, but holy crap it’s sooo good!

In fact, I’ve recently been experimenting with flavor combinations! Yeah, yeah, not new ground, I know, but I threw together an orange-cherry mix, and, just tonight, I created Cherry Limeade! Oh, sure, the color looks more like Cherry Raw Sewage, but it tastes so much better than that! (I think.)

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I really didn’t want to have to do this — I really didn’t. But circumstances being what they are, I’m left with no alternative.

Last Friday night, a couple of friends and I were sitting around Taco Bell discussing all manner of whatever it is we discuss when one friend visciously maligned something near and dear to my heart (as well as my other friend’s heart). Without transcribing the conversation, let me summarize my position most clearly:

Alien v. Predator: Requiem was a masterpiece.

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I think most of us have had them. Anyone who hasn’t is probably an android lacking emotion subroutines and pumped full of heroin.

We’re talking about Bad Days. And I’ll be the first to admit that, as far as days go, it wasn’t that bad — on the surface, anyway. Actually, I think I react better to those kinds of bad days than I do to the existential bad days, where an epiphany sneaks up behind you and wraps a garrote made from rusty piano wire around your neck and chokes you until you’re forced to admit:

“I hate my job.”

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