Well, omnis, congratulations to your friends! If he's got such a sense of humor, and hers matches, that bodes well for them, I think. And yay! for pretty flowers.

I'd like to thank whoever it was that posted the link to Poetry 180 [link] . It's helping me regain something I lost.

I remember when poetry, music, art, philosophy were more important than money. I miss that time. But alas, someone had to pay my rent. And the finer things in life turned to dust and ashes in my mouth. It shouldn't be like that. We should be able to hold on to those things. We need to be able to survive without losing that.

t /4am thinky thoughts

Hat trick.

Daniel's snoring is sounding like what I imagine those harmonic seizmic waves that presage volcanic eruption are like.

Not making any comments about what might erupt in the bedroom.

V. pretty tattoo design! Looking forward to seeing the actual tattoo! Also - holy cow, you have the Best Job EVAH!!!!

t envious

(no, that tag does NOT close)

"to explain what aliens want, and why they're kidnapping men and anally probing them."

Don't women get kidnapped and probed too? Or are they just used for alien/human crossbreeding experiments?

See, I was just sitting there biting my tongue. Because I'd already made a number of "OMGWTF???" style comments* during the course of the day, so responding to this blathering by saying "...but, leaving aside the whole issue of whether aliens ARE actually visiting the earth, and if so why this random Thai gentleman is the world expert on them, to the best of my knowledge it ISN'T just men who claim to have been taken away by aliens and, er, probed. It's also women. You're just hung up on the buttsecks notion, dude. Also, this Thai bloke is flown over to the US by NASA to speak with aliens? Regularly? What are you SMOKING?"....well, I felt that this would be a little combative. So I just bit my tongue and nodded and smiled.

*eg: AustralianReikiMasterBloke: "...and was it teleportation that put the pyramids there?"

MyFriends: respectful silence

Me: Er, yes. On Stargate. In the real world, though, it was the farmers who travelled up to Giza during the time of inundation to work on the great building project, for which they were paid - it wasn't slave labour. There's archaelogical evidence indicating where they were housed, and they built great ramps of earth around the pyramid as it was being built in order to move the stones up to the next levels.

AustralianReikiMasterBloke: And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

MyFriends: respectful silence

Me: ...because we have social skills?

AustralianReikiMasterBloke: And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

Me: ...because we have social skills?

Because hundreds of thousands of years ago we learned that a soft word turns away being beaten to death with a club?

And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

Because humans have evolved as social animals who support each other in order to provide a support system that allows ALL of our children to survive, increasing our evolutionary viability as a species?

"...and was it teleportation that put the pyramids there?"

blink

I'm trying to get myself motivated to get dressed and go grade papers. (I was supposed to be tutoring today, too, but that got canceled because of the World Bank protests.) I really just want to go back to bed. But I've got a stack of papers that really need to be done today.

Ellie is with my mom on her way to New Mexico right now for an entire week. I miss her a bit. It's so weird being home alone.

Do you just collect these weirdos, Fay?

So, yesterday, I finished the entire run of the UK Office, by watching the Christmas special, and that was hands down the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

Show broke me. Hard.

It's wonderful, isn't it? Their relationship is real and hard-won and based on respect and acceptance and understanding and all kinds of things which are SO important in love but so hard to make "romantic" onscreen. And damned if they don't manage it beautifully. Great music in that ep, too.