It's Like I'm Made Of Magic

     I'm having a pretty bad day today.  I'm tired, and I don't feel so hot.  Here's my version of whining.


Top 5 Things I Hate When People Do:

1. When someone's quoting someone else and they give that person a really bitchy voice.  No one talks like that, and yet here we all are; believing that's how they sounded when they said it.
2.  When anyone over the age of fourteen rides their bike on the sidewalk.  I don't know what the age limit is to ride in the road, but it's super dangerous to ride on the sidewalk.  If you're riding your bike in the road and some cager yells at you to "Get on the sidewalk!", trust that you have just as much a right to be there as they do, and they're probably the same people that get all mad when they walk out of a store front and some cyclist whizzes past them on the sidewalk.  Ride in the road.  WITH the flow of traffic.  Wear a helmet.  Don't talk on a cell phone at the same time.
3.  Seeing people who shouldn't smoke, smoke.  I get that no one should smoke, but I don't really care what most other folks do.  I'm limiting this to pregnant women (mostly), kids, my friends, and my dad (also, mostly).
4. I don't know why it is, but I think it's really mean and weird when people eat lamb.  Like, it's weirder than veal somehow.
5.  Wear Fur.

Top 5 Things I DON'T Miss About Vermont:

1. The lighted S.D. Ireland truck.
2. The tight rope guy.
3. That the city doesn't clear the bikepath in the winter.
4.  Crust punks.
5. Public transit theatrics.  One time, this lady was yelling at some rando guy sitting a few rows back from her about how she knows that he's the one who assaulted her.  Then she starting crying and lay down on the floor of the bus and everyone had to walk over her to de-board.  It's sad that she's crazy, sure.  But, come on.  I've got things to do.

Top 5 Words Or Phrases That Make Me Shudder:

Two of these words I can't even type because I don't want to contribute to anyone possibly thinking them or saying them out loud.  (Although, if you know me, you're already thinking them, and perhaps whispering them to yourself and smiling slightly at how disgusted with you I'd be if I could here you.)  These are not obvious racist or prejudice words.  Those words shouldn't be on a list. They should just not exist at all. These first two words are just stupid frat guy words that creep me right the eff out.

3. Sh*t show
4.
     . . . . Yeah, that's about it.


Top 5 Movies/Television Roles That The Respective Actor Should Have Quit After Playing So That The World May Remember Them At There Absolute Best:

1. Val Kilmer as Chris Knight in Real Genius
2. Christian Slater as Clarence Whoorly in True Romance
3.  Will Ferrell as Frank "The Tank" Ricard in Old School (Maybe Elf, too.)
4. Here comes some contraversy: John Cusack as Lane Meyer in Better Off Dead
5.  Johnny Depp as Officer Tom Hanson in 21 Jump Street

Top 5 Songs / Artists That Make Me Wish I Were Not A Hearing person:

1. Life Is A Highway by whoever that guy is that sings Life Is A Highway
2. Nirvana
3. Lenny Kravitz
4.The Sex Pistols
5. There was this band that played about 5 or 10 years ago in my hometown and I don't remember much about them except that they were called Flowers In The Attic, one of the guys in the band was named Lucas or Luca, and they came perilously close to turning me off of music for the remained of my life.

     I can't do anymore.  I know you guys are probably pretty bummed because there's little that's more interesting than reading some narcisisstic, petulant crap.  But, I have to focus and get some stuff done.  I don't know that I've worked through any real aggression today, but tomorrow's a new day!  Filled with endless possibilities for becoming even more irritated.

     Huzzah!


4:29pm Edit: This helps:

Sara and I were texting during the first presidential debate:

K - you watching?
S- yeah.  if i hear mccain call himself a maverick one more time i'm going to barf in kier's elmo slipper.
K - he's got bush's same smug chuckle.  makes me want to kick a baby.
S - i thought the same thing. it's awful.
K - and . . . is he blinking back a stroke?
S - he is blinking per syllable.
K - that would be an amazing drinking game.
S - no one could last ten minutes.  the iran stuff goes over my head.
K - so does it the iraquis!  zing!
K - is this thing on?
S - i'm getting a headache.

John McCain - "What Senator Obama doesn't seem to understand that if without precondition you sit down across the table from someone who has called Israel a 'stinking corpse', and wants to destroy that country and wipe it off . . . "

K - speaking of stinking corpses.
S - have you seen his teeth?  i've seen mummies that look fresher.

John McCain - "THis is dangerous.  This isn't just naive; it's dangerous."

S - what about the naivte of his VP when he kicks the bucket?
K- sara! she's a pitbull!!!
S - on some blog someone called her caribou barbie.
K - HA!

Jim Leher - "On October 2nd, next Thursday, also at 9:oo pm eastern, the two vice presidential candidates will debate at Washington University . . ."

K- we'll resume on the 2nd.
S - I'm going to cover the couch with a tarp that night to protect it from my brain matter.

Parking space at work.

Tree at North & North Union

From the train.

89 in Vermont.

I'm considering starting a whole exhibit of photographs featuring the things I see stuck in the ocean floor on my way to work.  I'm thinking this is a good jumping off point.