Rants and Rambles (The Nonfiction Edition)

I don't make a lot of sandwiches. I tend to take the laziest route possible when making my lunch for school, and it's a lot easier to take some leftovers to school than go through the laborious process of making an entire sandwich. But sometimes I get in the mood to make a sandwich, which nearly always ends up being a much harder task to accomplish than you'd think. You see, my parents don't eat a lot of carbs, so we don't often have the sandwich base of sliced bread at home. Instead, I have to repurpose some other kind of bread to make my sandwich, which doesn't create a sandwich nearly satisfactory enough. Nothing works nearly as well as sliced bread to make a sandwich. You can slice your own loaf of bread to create slices, but unless you have magically perfect eyeballing skills, your slices will be noticeably uneven. Or, if you suck at slicing things like I do, you'll underestimate how thick a slice of bread needs to be and end up cutting it so thin you...

Central Illinois is objectively a pretty boring place. There's not a lot to do. Towns are separated by miles of corn and soybeans, and the only cities are Chicago and Peoria. Even the landscape is dull -- it's flat. The largest hills around here are manmade. But it's all I've ever known, so I suppose I do like it to an extent. Although, no one from outside of Illinois seems to understand why I like Illinois. I suppose it does sound like a flat wasteland, but Illinois still has its positive aspects. 1. You'll never get lost. The one pro of the extreme flatness of Illinois is that there's no reason to create winding streets. Champaign was (mostly) constructed with a massive mile by mile grid system of main streets with extra smaller streets within each box of the grid. When you travel outside of Champaign into Central Illinois farmland, the grid system is even more pronounced since all that's left are the mile by mile squares without any smaller streets w...