i have an incredible amount of work to do.

like a lot. because i'm going away. but i want to relax for today. and i'll probably won't have enough time this weekend but whatever. i'll get done what i get done. i'm going to go to the Cake Boss show today. i'll have my riding lesson. i'm going to do something with Abby and the Rivards this weekend. and it's going to be good.

today was a good day. but you know i don't want to do any more work. even though i have a list of IDSs i should be doing and i have an english essay to write and an article to read and respond to and two books to read.

but i'm complaining too much. the reason i'm complaining about it is because i have nothing else to talk about but i should be doing it. i had wanted to put together a "best of" texts post just for my reference so in the future i can look back and remember and see and all. but i can only think of two right now. so maybe. or maybe i'll actually do work. i don't know.

humdum. i think i'm going to go talk to abby now. i guess. i don't know. i feel like i should be talking about something that i'm not talking about. i don't even care. i guess. but i do care. so. um. this is awkward. i really wish i could ask you what you want me to talk about. i'll go ask abby and write about whatever she says. i just have to wait for her text me back.

she said i should write about the riddle why is a raven like a writing desk. it is vaguely familiar but i'm not sure if i was ever actually told it. but it's comparing a bird to a desk where you write stuff. thats strange. it probably has some deep meaning. or it has some other meaning. google? i think so. oh so it's from Alice in Wonderland.

so here's the answer. when Carroll wrote it he didn't have an answer in mind, seeing as in later versions of the text he included: "Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: 'Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!' This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all." but originally he wrote never as "nevar" as a pun because "nevar" backwards is raven.

but other answers that could work:
Poe wrote on both. You know he wrote on a desk and he wrote a poem called "the Raven."
They both make notes, which are not usually known as musical notes. Because the Raven's notes aren't very nice sounding. And you know the writing desk notes.
They both stand on sticks.
Neither one is made of cheese.
The both come with inky quills.
There is a B in both and an N in neither
You can baffle millions with both when you try to compare them.

So really the whole point of the riddle was that it didn't have an answer and why waste time trying to solve riddles that don't have answers, like adults do.

So there you Abby. Both are not made of cheese is your answer.