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2002-05-11 04:08:00
Soul-sick and heart-weary.
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Run-Away-from-Danger Man vs PMS Girl - Round ONE. FIGHT!
2002-05-10 23:27:10
Why do I keep drinking milk when I know it's going to upset my tummy and give me the squirts? Because I'm a sucker for milk. Love the stuff. Used to inhale it on a daily basis from young.
Milk is good; so full of vitamins and calciumy goodness for something that comes out of a cow's titties. But come stress, my body turns against me and I become lactose intolerant. Yes, you heard right. I BECOME lactose intolerant.
I came across a group of racists on the tram yesterday. They were making fun of the Indian tram driver everytime he announced the street name. They'd go "What? Sorry? Exhibition Street? Elizabeth Street?" in a really snarky way. Funny thing is, take away the shit-eating grins and I think they actually looked like pretty decent guys whom I could be friends with. They were just doing their whole stupid we're-men-in-a-group-and-therefore-unstoppable-so-we-can-be-as-idiotic-as-we-want mode.
Which kind of reminds me of how the AMV forums are like. Put a group of people together for some common reason and you're bound to get some kind of elitist, in-goup sentiments going. It just so happens that the phorums in AMV.org are populated by a whole lot of anti-DBZ, anti-gay, anti-[fill_in_the_blanks_here] hooligans. They may not be hooligans in real-life, or when they are by themselves, but people can be real idiots when they get together.
Milo, there's no reason to get disillusioned and leave the community. There are some idiots, but there are those who are perfectly sensible, and who share your sentiments regarding the Phorums. I think the Phorums can be a real cess-pit of prejudice and downright idiocy, but I just don't participate in threads I don't see any worth in, and only follow those that are informative or entertaining. I just enjoy the worthy things about AMV.org and skip round the ones that aren't.
I think Phade is quite aware of the slamming going on in the Phorums, and he's actually trying to reduce it... he's asked people to answer qustions even if they're posted in the wrong forum before informing the poster of his mistake. First time I've seen Phade suggest anything like thsi. I applaud him. Yay for Phade.
Maybe one day, the Phorums will become an online Utopia, where all peoples of various AMV persuasions and sexual orientations can co-exist in harmony... but for now, I'm growing a really thick skin. You ought to as well, Milo, or you'll end up giving up a lot of good things because of a few people who don't have the sense to keep the harmony in a community. You're going to end up with nowhere to hang out. There is nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. Because they are everywhere. EVERYWHERE!
Urrggg... I guess I shouldn't have drunk up that vanilla milk just now.
Kyburg, I haven't given my rats names yet... don't want them to sound too cutesy. Am wondering if I should give them names based on their colouring, like the ones you suggested. I came up with a couple of my own too: Vainilla and Canela (vanilla and cinammon in Spanish). My sister insists I should call the brown one Cafe Ole, but I don't like coffee because the stuff upsets my tummy. I don't want to associate the poor creature with diarrhea, you know. So for now they are known as The Rats. To tell them apart they are called The Brown One, and The Beige One.
I'll probably come up with something once my last essay is done.
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Meet my new room-mates.
2002-05-10 12:30:31
They've got tails.
http://www.geocities.com/feistyfeline78/pictures/27_0020.jpg
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Damn my overheated fingernails.
2002-05-09 10:41:29
I was walking down a street on the city campus today when I came across a chalk scribble on the pavement. That in itself is not particularly noteworthy, because societies and clubs here in RMIT (the Royal Melbourne Institue of Technology where I'm getting my degree) regularly use chalk and sidewalks to announce their events or meetings. Stomping over messages like "JOURNO STUDENTS PUB CRAWL TONIGHT 8PM OUTSIDE NINJA TURTLE BUILDING" and "WANT TO KNOW JESUS?? COME TO OUR FREE LUNCH!!" have become part of my Uni experience. Actually, it's pretty effective method, especially when not having to fit your message on an A4 size paper means being able to scrawl 6 foot letters on the pavement.
The newest chalk contribution of the day were the words GOD BEER SEX and SIN in a two by two grid. It struck me as a rather interesting, if blasphemous, juxtaposition of words. Anyway, I walked on because I was late for class. (Not that I would have done anything if I had not been late.)
Later on, on my way home, I saw a Muslim girl (she was wearing the head scarf) bending over with one hand on the floor and a bottle of water in the other. Turns out she had poured water on the word GOD and was rubbing it out with her bare hand. Her friend behind her said rather practically, "Make sure you wash your hands later."
I'm sure there is a moral to the story here but I can't find it... But really, I was impressed with the girl and her hygiene-concerned friend. For some reason, I really liked how the friend told the girl to wash her hands after. I don't know if it was her tone, or what, but the way she said "Make sure you wash your hands later" has been stuck in my mind pretty much the whole day.
Since I'm recounting events that have impacted me in a weird and inexplicable way, I might as well write about the police officers I saw singing covers at the mall today. Well, OK, maybe they weren't police officers, but they were dressed in the uniforms, right down to the caps and the black leather shoes. And they didn't tuck out their shirts or set their caps at a jaunty angle or wear anything else to set them apart from the real deal. It was quite unsettling watching what seemed to be law enforcement officers shaking their rumps and jamming on the stage at the mall. Decidedly weird.
I'm becoming more and more inane. I am sorry if you have read this far. - Say hello to my happy finger-puppet of death 2002-05-07 10:50:08 Watched Resident Evil tonight. Mmm... Michelle Rodriguez... growly, glowering goodness.
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