Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Strange Things.
Two chocolate cream wafers sandwiched betwen two cream crackers, and has nothing to do with your larynx. Discuss.
another premium product brought to you by Monde Nissin Corporation.
Honestly, I used to this sort of thing with Nissin wafers and Skyflakes back in high school.
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It's rather disappointig when you've exercised concientously for a couple of weeks and watched what you ate like a hawk, you bring out a pretty dress you've been saving for a special occassion (and for a certain someone you love), try it on, and find it stil doesn't look at all very flattering.
*sigh*
Oh, well.
Next Lantern Parade, perhaps.
But it was such a pretty cyan dress.
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Tonight, after a grueling, intensively-sweaty 3-mile indoor walking workout, I find the downstairs bathroom door locked.
with no one inside.
And Ate Cha has gone and traveled deep into the heartlands of Nod, so it really was up to me.
It would most certainly be a bad time to discover I had very poor thief skills. It was.
So here I am, typing away after resorting to a face-towel wipedown with about a cupful of water and a half-cup of alcohol. Not exactly as sanitary, I can imagine, but it wasn't like I had an other choice. (I could have opted to go without any sort of bathing, but that would be plain stupid unhygenic.)
something to remember from Neil Gaiman at a time like this: "you must remember that all things want to open."
If that were the case, our bathroom door was being very particularly bashful tonight.
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A little something to chew on from Kurt Vonnegut:
Your guess is as Good as Mine
"Most of you, if not all of you, like me, feel inadequately educated. That is an ordinary feeling for a member of our species. One of the most brilliant human beings of all times, George Bernard Shaw said on his 75th birthday or so that at last he knew enough to become a mediocre office boy. He died in 1950, by the way, when I was 28. He is the one who said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” I turned 83 a couple weeks ago, and I must say I agree.
Shaw, if he were alive today, would envy us the solid information that we have or can get about the nature of the universe, about time and space and matter, about our own bodies and brains, about the resources and vulnerabilities of our planet, about how all sorts of human beings actually talk and feel and live.
This is the information revolution. We have taken it very badly so far. Information seems to be getting in the way all the time. Human beings have had to guess about almost everything for the past million years or so. Our most enthralling and sometimes terrifying guessers are the leading characters in our history books. I will name two of them: Aristotle and Hitler. One good guesser and one bad one."
Read the whole article here.
