Behind the Curve
Monday, January 24, 2005
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Yes, they were delicious
So my new roommate started a Netflix account, and it totally RULES. Last night we watched Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (highly recommended by Taylor P.) and Super Size Me, both (I think) enjoyable movies.
All day today, I had a craving for hamburgers.
My cubemate Kam reports having similar cravings while reading Fast Food Nation.
I think our hypothalami just failed to register the point.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Good things...
1) I'm suddenly able to use my Mac instead of borrowing others' PCs to reserve items from the library.
2) I got 2 excellent recipes from "Calorie Commando" on Food TV. (I tried them - was up until 4:30 am on Saturday making chicken and meatballs. I guess this is what happens when you start cooking at 9pm the night before, but I was truly busy, and the results were totally tasty.)
3) The stability ball is good for working on back muscles, and lord knows my back has always been under-strengthened and sore.
And the rest is...
So, Jen moved out and I haven't the time nor the inclination to be sentimental about it. She's taken her tape of knitting shows.
The new girl is very worldly and wears more eye shadow than I do! Seems very smart and charming and extremely driven.
I think we will need to get a new TV, because she's a film person, and I fear someone will be electricuted if we keep poking the guts of the machine with sticks.
Friday, January 14, 2005
It would work on anyone
Today at work, my supervisor recounted a dream he had in which he stopped a vampire from biting him by splashing toilet water on his neck.
Upon waking, his immediate reflection was this: "I'm an asshole!"
What are they trying to say?
For Christmas, my mother gave me an exercise stability ball and fitness DVDs. Li gave me a high tech jump rope (it develops its own AI agenda and then tries to take over the world) and fitness DVDs.
Am I missing something???
Those awkward moments
The elevators in my office building suddenly have little screen displays that show news bites and advertisements. No longer will passengers have to conspicuously avoid each other's gaze during the socially uncomfortable ride up to work!
Saturday, January 01, 2005
You know
Sometimes it really does bother me, that people dismiss atheism by saying that all life philosphophies "are OK, as long as you believe in something." Or, if something particularly bad has happened, they ask, "Do you pray?"
Well, no, because it's against my religion.
It's not easy, believing in nothing.
I admit, in many ways, atheism is no less cockeyed than most religions, but you don't have to fucking insult me. Jesus.
So
Quin is going back to Iraq. And they are that desperate. And no amount of death I can invent in my head will be enough to stop this.
I know
that forgiveness has no meaning against such context.
I still have the key. I kept it in plain sight, but I forgot what it was and that it was there. Think about that. If you had asked me six months before, I wouldn't have thought it was possible.
