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Monday, October 15, 2007

 

The time has come for another post. Not because of necessity, but because of a strong and uncontrollable urge to waste time when there are things that need to be done and books that need to be studied. I chose this method of wasting time because 1) this seemed more productive than playing stupid little games on the internet and 2) because I have already spent quite some time on stupid little games on the internet and 3) this computer is slightly to slow right now to play stupid little games on the internet. I could be reading, I could be doing homework, or I could be out on the street doing drugs and getting into trouble. And we certainly wouldn’t want me doing drugs. So, in that sense, be happy that I am just sitting by the computer without drugs; not even caffeine. Of course, there is catnip on the premises. But I heard that doesn’t really work anyways.

I hearing the whirring of the ceiling fan. It just keeps on whirring. Either it’s whirring or it’s not; it has no variety, it just whirs when it’s hot or stuffy, and it doesn’t when it’s not. It’s like, it has no life, no friends, no anything. It just whirs on and on. And it gathers dust when its still. And it befriends that dust. And then some cruel people ruin the poor fan’s happiness by snatching away that dust, and leaving the fan alone and friendless, wishing it could just whir so fast that it would break from the ceiling onto the head of the person that takes away its beloved dust. But it can’t. It is doomed to be a slave forever, doomed to stay in one spot forever. It will never see the Alps, it will never see the Grand Canyon, it can never better itself by learning a different language, by learning how to paint or even how just read. The ceiling fan is left to a life of shallow trapped slavery.

On a happier note, I was eating Reeses peanut butter ice cream.

I also have around 8 2\3 more days to be a teen.

I considered briefly putting some samples of my latest lyrics in this post, but I have decided against it. My lyrics don’t usually play well in the absence of music. Therefor, I shall just leave this post without any lyrics. Also, when I believe that when I start pasting lyric pieces into my post, it’s almost an admission that I feel my touch for the long senseless post is slipping away. Like I’m stretching it to much.

So, how many other people are up at 1:27 this fine October morning? October is perhaps the greatest month of the year. It seems like the time that geniuses are born. No, I can’t think of any other ones besides me, but is seems logical.

Speaking of logic, let’s make an unlogical jump and talk about grocery stores. I seem to have a strange fascination for them. Now, one would think that this proves that I love my job. Well, I don’t, though I do like the people I work with. But that’s all besides the point, because I think I found the cause for the comfort and joy I find in grocery stores. Of course, an example would be good, because I came into this figuring that you knew that grocery stores were a haven for me. And I shouldn’t have said ‘You,’ because they tell me that in academic writing you should say ‘You,’ and I think we can all agree that this is a very academic piece of literature. A manifesto of sorts. Of course, it isn’t a manifesto is the slightest sense. At least not how I can see it. But where was I? Ah yes, grocery stores. Ahem. I was at that six-week film course I went to, and it had been a stressful day, and I was walking and all, and lo and behold I stumble upon a grocery store. I don’t know what it was doing there being that it was so little that I could stumble upon it. But I digress with an unfunny pun. Anyways, I came upon this grocery store in a stressed out state, and I went inside the grocery store to find solace. And lo and behold, solace was there with a warm blanket and a cup of hot cocoa. I walked inside and walked around and walked about and walked randomly and stuff. I checked out prices. I explored aisles. And I didn’t buy a thing. But there I was in a grocery store, clicking my tongue at the prices and feeling altogether better with myself. The grocery store had done it. But how? Why? Can it be explained? Yes, friends, it can. Instead of it having to do anything with the grocery store I work at now (besides the whole checking prices thing) I think it has to do with my enjoying going shopping with my family when I was oh so little. Yes. What a sweet little story, is it not? A young man finding solace at a place that reminded him of his care-free childhood. Or was it something more sinister? Perhaps! Secretly, I was fantasizing about putting slugs in with the produce and worms in with the candy, and releasing a hyper dog in the glass section! Oh friends, what an evil time was going on in my head! Havoc reigned! I could almost hear the glass splinter, and the ladies screaming! I could almost feel the milk beneath my feet as it flowed freely through the aisles! I could see the slugs grow big and begin eating all the people who treat cashiers badly! Yes my friends, if the images in my head had come to pass, I would not be telling you about it, for I would have been swept away in the milk and vinegar torrent or consumed by oversized slugs! But you would have heard about it on the news.

Well, anyways, enough of that.

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I see somethings haven't changed. That's reassuring.
Posted 10/15/2007 8:01 AM by i_was_there_and_back_again Xanga True Member Xanga Premium Member - reply

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It's amazing how I consistently I could find the energy to clean my desk when I had a paper due, but I could never find the energy if I didn't (have a paper due.)
Posted 10/15/2007 7:01 PM by ninochka - reply

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I, myself, love to visit grocery stores when I visiting another place.  I find that it provides a fascinating insight into the daily life, and culture of other places.  For example, Blagodat & I recently spent a week in Toronto Canada.  On our last day, we spent two hours in the Fiorentino's grocery store, oohing & aahing over all the products they had that weren't available in the local SKH.  We spent $220 (Canadian, which is at parity with the $US) just buying things that were available there, that we couldn't get here.  

Now to be fair, several of those things were cookies, and some of those were chocolate chip, which we could technically get here, but not that brand.  We also got some German coffee, and some ethnic foods mixtures (Indonesian & Indian), and some KitKat, which you can also technically get here, but in the US, KitKat is made by Hershey, and in Canada, it's made by Nestle.  So we wanted to compare the differences.

btw, did you know that the recipe for Heinz catsup is different in Canada, than in the U.S.?  In Canada, it's sweeter (the US version is more vinegary), and it has different spices.  We bought a bottle of Canadian Heinz catsup, just so our friends could taste the difference.

Posted 10/15/2007 7:07 PM by ninochka - reply

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i go to grocery stores and do the same things. and I'm extra nice to the employees, because I know how customers are jerks.

in regards to the whole of your post, wow. just, wow.
Posted 10/16/2007 6:36 PM by Sunathetuna - reply

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wow, you post and you get a flood of comments, I post and I slowwlyy get a few. haha

Hmm, I think I'm gonna have to keep you far away from my parents when I get my lisence, I don't need you putting crazy ideas into their head about tieing me up. =O

You better keep talking to me or I'll be forced to make up things about you and that wouldn't be pleasant...mwahaha...I'm getting some ideas already. *evil smile*

~Deana~

Ok, I'm off to comment your facebook. ahh, all these comments! =P

Posted 10/20/2007 2:17 PM by kool_grrl - reply

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whoa, that was weird, I forgot I changed my profile pic. I was gonna say..."who's that person who commented you...I love her profile pic."  =D
Posted 10/20/2007 2:19 PM by kool_grrl - reply

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Hello Music Lover
I am an amateur music composer. My have decided to conceive my first musical. Although it is now incomplete, I feel like sharing it among all musical enthusiast and inviting you to visit my musical's website. You can listen to most music from the musical there. But very awfully, there are no lyrics for the songs, and this vexes me much. If possibly, I cordially hope that I can have you precious time spared to give me some comments.
p.s. I am searching for lyrist(s) for the musical. If you are interested in writing lyrics for the musical, please let me know. I need everyone's support!
http://www.geocities.com/antegladiator/lluvia.html
Cheers
Posted 10/27/2007 7:27 AM by lluvia_antegladiator - reply


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