Does this ever happen to you - like, I’ll sit in front of my computer to do some important work, and then I’ll just think “man. I wonder if Home Alone 2 made more money than Home Alone 1. I gotta look into this, now. Sorry important work, something more pressing has come up.” It’s annoying, ‘cause what always happens is I’ll be researching one thing and I’ll see something else I want to look into. Like, for example, the Home Alone situation, I’ll see ‘oh wow, Joe Pesci’s in that movie. I don’t know much about Joe Pesci. Maybe I should learn everything about Joe Pesci!’ And I’ll spend hours doing this Joe Pesci research, and I know so much about Joe Pesci now, but it’s useless! It’s never going to help me! I’ve never heard of a story of like, a guy getting stopped in an alley by a dude with a knife like, “you’re gonna die tonight … unless you can tell me the name of the album Joe Pesci put out when he was a little kid.” “Little Joe Sure Can Sing.” “Damnit you’re free to go! I gotta stop integrating Joe Pesci trivia into my murders.”

I really wish I was joking when I say I do this all the time. “Hey Bex, what are you doing?” “Oh, just been Wikipediaing for the past couple hours”

(via meghack)