Insomniacs Of The World, Good Night
Randomness:
- I feel so inadequate.
- A short history of VD propaganda.
- Your daily dose of WTF from (I think) Japan. [edit: nope, China apparently. Click again, it's been translated. ] Don't ask me, my facial expression looks pretty much the same as yours. Sometimes I wonder if they purposely make shit like this to yank the collective chain of the gaijin, and are secretly not weird at all.
- I just found this latest bit of weirdness in the kitchen when I came home from work:
Yes, that is a transparent plastic monkey filled with oil and water, with dolphins floating in it. Dolphins in a monkey. That's even more random than Snakes On a Plane. Who the fuck gets paid to think up this shit?
* * * * *
Now that I'm making more money, dad's raised my rent. Bloody Marxist. Also, my hair is getting long enough that it's becoming a nuisance but still isn't long enough to tie back out of my face.
* * * * *
I used to like the Tragically Hip when I first got into music, then sorta stopped listening to them for a few years. That was a mistake. I've been catching up on the albums they've released since Phantom Power and Gord Downie's solo stuff, and I'd forgotten what a solid rock band these guys are. Downie's pretty great just by himself -- he's got this electrifying vibrato and casually tosses off clever lines like: "Catharsis? / My arse is / capable of more flush."
* * * * *
I begin to regret ever getting myself into this, but god dammit I will not be stopped:
61. I have a deep-seated aversion to going into debt, pecuniary or otherwise.
62. I often pretend to be in a better mood than I actually am. One of the few good things about working in retail has been that it puts me in the position of having to do this regularly, so after a while I even manage to convince myself, making it a self-fulfilling lie.
63. If I could function properly without it, I'd almost never sleep voluntarily. It's such a waste of time.
64. I can never make up my mind whether this is romantic or creepy or both, but one litmus test for whether I've developed a crush on someone is if I feel like I could be content to just watch them all day as they went about even the most trivial activities.
65. When I realize I've done something wrong, I'm usually fairly quick to apologize. But I don't budge when people demand that I apologize for something just because it displeased them. If I do/say X because I think it's right and you give me no reason to belive that X is wrong other than that it offended you, I am not obligated to apologize. It might even be the case that you ought to apologize for being offended, though usually I won't press my luck by saying so. My obstinacy on this point has made life difficult for me more than once.
66. I'm very ticklish. (Yet my sister is hardly ticklish at all. Strange. Maybe it's a recessive...)
67. Showers are meant to be taken just this side of scalding. The only exception is on extremely hot days, when very cold showers are excellent.
68. When I see anyone with a Che Guevera T-shirt, I get the strong urge to hoof them in the nutsack. (It's almost always males.)
69. If money wasn't an issue, I wouldn't even have a home (except maybe as a place to store my massive book collection). I'd just travel wherever I wanted with all my posessions packed into two or three suitcases, staying at hotels or renting apartments and then moving on whenever I got bored.
70. I have never, ever understood the point of piercings.
- I feel so inadequate.
- A short history of VD propaganda.
- Your daily dose of WTF from (I think) Japan. [edit: nope, China apparently. Click again, it's been translated. ] Don't ask me, my facial expression looks pretty much the same as yours. Sometimes I wonder if they purposely make shit like this to yank the collective chain of the gaijin, and are secretly not weird at all.
- I just found this latest bit of weirdness in the kitchen when I came home from work:
Yes, that is a transparent plastic monkey filled with oil and water, with dolphins floating in it. Dolphins in a monkey. That's even more random than Snakes On a Plane. Who the fuck gets paid to think up this shit?
* * * * *
Now that I'm making more money, dad's raised my rent. Bloody Marxist. Also, my hair is getting long enough that it's becoming a nuisance but still isn't long enough to tie back out of my face.
* * * * *
I used to like the Tragically Hip when I first got into music, then sorta stopped listening to them for a few years. That was a mistake. I've been catching up on the albums they've released since Phantom Power and Gord Downie's solo stuff, and I'd forgotten what a solid rock band these guys are. Downie's pretty great just by himself -- he's got this electrifying vibrato and casually tosses off clever lines like: "Catharsis? / My arse is / capable of more flush."
* * * * *
I begin to regret ever getting myself into this, but god dammit I will not be stopped:
61. I have a deep-seated aversion to going into debt, pecuniary or otherwise.
62. I often pretend to be in a better mood than I actually am. One of the few good things about working in retail has been that it puts me in the position of having to do this regularly, so after a while I even manage to convince myself, making it a self-fulfilling lie.
63. If I could function properly without it, I'd almost never sleep voluntarily. It's such a waste of time.
64. I can never make up my mind whether this is romantic or creepy or both, but one litmus test for whether I've developed a crush on someone is if I feel like I could be content to just watch them all day as they went about even the most trivial activities.
65. When I realize I've done something wrong, I'm usually fairly quick to apologize. But I don't budge when people demand that I apologize for something just because it displeased them. If I do/say X because I think it's right and you give me no reason to belive that X is wrong other than that it offended you, I am not obligated to apologize. It might even be the case that you ought to apologize for being offended, though usually I won't press my luck by saying so. My obstinacy on this point has made life difficult for me more than once.
66. I'm very ticklish. (Yet my sister is hardly ticklish at all. Strange. Maybe it's a recessive...)
67. Showers are meant to be taken just this side of scalding. The only exception is on extremely hot days, when very cold showers are excellent.
68. When I see anyone with a Che Guevera T-shirt, I get the strong urge to hoof them in the nutsack. (It's almost always males.)
69. If money wasn't an issue, I wouldn't even have a home (except maybe as a place to store my massive book collection). I'd just travel wherever I wanted with all my posessions packed into two or three suitcases, staying at hotels or renting apartments and then moving on whenever I got bored.
70. I have never, ever understood the point of piercings.