It seems that you get what you wish for.
Last post I was bitchin and moaning about how my life seems to be stuck in a rut. Well, not 24 hours later, my apartment burns down. How do you like that?
I woke up at 2 in the am, to the shrieking of the smoke alarm. My first thought was that my bf had left something in the oven, or something on the stove like he does from time to time but when I opened the door, it was an inferno. Yellow flames licking up the front room, black greasy smoke everywhere, and all I could think about was grabbing my cellphone... Somehow, Justin got through to me and I called the fire department. They came not 5 minutes later and put the fire out. Thankfully no-one was hurt and the fire did not spread beyond our apartment. What a way to get what you wish for eh?
My Dad always said that the black spots on my tongue mean that I have the power to curse people, or put spells on them, but who would have thought that I would put one on myself? Don't these things have a failsafe feature? Or in my case, an idiot-proof feature? I'm scared to think or say anything now...
What A Difference A Year Makes
It's strange to think how much domesticity changes you.
I've lived with Justin for a year now, and boy do I wish we had a dishwasher (human or machine). It's funny how just a few plates and spoons seem to multiply into towering piles of dishes, into something else "to be done" when I get back from teaching or class. How is it that suddenly there is so much more to be cleaned up, floors to be swept, dust to be vacuumed now that there are 2 of us? I don't remember doing all this housework when I lived alone! Is there some unwritten law of cohabitation that automagically multiplies the mess and possessions when 2 people live together? Hmmm, I'd like to see
that equation thank you very much. Hmmph
What's worse is I think I'm becoming a sober, responsible adult. Why? It's been months since I've thought of going out. Can you imagine? I don't even lurk
here anymore to see who's playing when and where...Not till this afternoon when my brats handed in their papers and my quarter ended. Not till then did I think, mmmaybe I should go out. I feel like going out. When was the last time I went out. When did I go dancing last? Well, you know when? Last fucking year!
What's happening to me? I look at the archives and see all my impassioned posts from last year and think what died inside of me that quenched that fire? Was it ever there? Am I just posing or playing out a role for myself? What does that say about who I am?
I think this is all brought on because it's my birthday next week. 24 years old and in many ways my family still treats me like a child. Ah well...
I have such a fear of being boring but I think that's precisely what I have become.
Damn.
My Linux Desktop
Pretty pretty desktop...That's a shot of KDE 3.3, with my levitating robot wallpaper and running SuperKaramba on a MEPIS 2004.4 Debian system :-)
BRAVO > Project Runway
Mmmmmm...my new fave show! I needed a replacement for Manhunt, which quite frankly could have done with more nudity than just a single episode.
This show has it all; drama, glam, bitchiness and a generous dollop of sheer entertainment! Sure, modelling is fun, but how many times can you see a guy pose before you start to yawn? I'm rooting for Austin, not least for the fact that he plays the harpsichord! *glee* That corn husk dress took some balls to make, and I'm gald he pulled it off, shrinkage or no shrinkage. I'm even happier that Daniel, that prissy, shit for brains, cosmic nut got booted off. "I know what the judges want!" Yeah hun, they want your ass off the show! See ya!
Hehehehe...just in time for the end of quarter. I can't wait. This has been the quarter of hell, and lower and lower circles beckon until the summer. sigh. Least Justin and I get to spend a week in South Beach. :-)
TV 2 - The Julekalender
This has to be the funniest Christmas TV series I have ever seen. Sadly, it is in Danish. That is also it's greatest strength, because some a lot of the jokes do not translate into English very well. Or at all. Another note to TV execs, quit with the stupid remakes! I shudder to think of an NBC sitcom based on BBC's The Office for example...brrr...
The story has a comatose Santa, squabbling elves, a ditzy country farmwife named the Potato Woman, a downed elf-plane, sinister architecture loving vampire type person, a very cute dog and more singing and beer than 20 Oktoberfests. It's great. If you love me you would buy me the box set. And some beer.
Certainly not work-safe, but striking nonethless
A link for World Aids Day. People around the world are dying, the AIDS fund for Africa is woefully underfunded, and 1/3 of what would be allocated is going to abstinence education.
Another stupid idea from a dangerously stupid and uncaring Bush administration. I mean please, how is preaching abstinence in the face of this pandemic in any way the Christian thing to do? HELP THEM NOW!!
