May 22, 2003
Want and want, need and need
Is there a litmus test for expectations?
What's realistic?
May 17, 2003
Round 32
...and Hansen is coming out fighting...poor kid, he coulda been a contender, but look at him, blood on his chin, eyes swollen near shut, still thinkin' he can do it all on his own...
May 15, 2003
Pattern Matching
Are we doomed to repeat our past?
Is it all just little bits of history repeating?
May 12, 2003
Flight risk
OK, so I'm late to the game and it's probably a hoax, but this blog is pretty entertaining anyway. It's either the true story of a rich 20 something girl on the run or more likely, the true story of a very clever writer using blogging to good purpose.
Another for the "should've thought of it first" files....
May 07, 2003
We got a code 36688 over here...
At the neighborhood meeting:
The officers response to the question, "why has vandalism, tagging, petty crime increased in our area?"
"well...I'm not really at liberty to say, but we've had to decrease our patrols lately...we've been tasked for some, you know, homeland security projects..."
Yeah, pretty darn worried that Lamar's donuts is going to be a target for terrorism, aren't you.
Go here and enter 36688.
Fleeting
On the back of my united ticket:
NOTICE
Please retain this stub and your ticket receipt as evidence of your journey.
Retain it for how long, forever? Evidence of my journey? Is there some question that it happened? United fears for my memory? Is there something like that for life I should hold on to?
What will remain as evidence of my journey?
May 06, 2003
I want a perfect soul...
Interesting chat with my perfectionist friends.
"There's just satisfaction in doing it perfect"
says one, and another,
"If I can't do it right, I'd rather not do it"
I'm a frustrated perfectionist. I aspire to do the quality work that these friends do. But, at the end of the day, I prefer done to ideal. And I'm unwilling or unable to go at the pace it would require for that detail. But I'm always frustrated about it. And their work always looks so much better than mine.
"She swears I’m a slave to the details
But if your life is such a big joke, why should I care?"
- Leif Erikson, Interpol
May 05, 2003
Population
It's been 20 months since I've seen my friends in California.
In that time, between 4 couples, there were 5 new kids for me to meet.
Skin
I've been in several situations lately that have caused me to wonder what's happened to the thickness of my skin. I used to enjoy the fight, the back and forth, the cut down to make a point.
Seems I don't care for it much anymore. I've got myself mostly convinced that I can still "take it" and that, in certain situations, I even still enjoy that kind of argument. It's more like a priority shift, perhaps not unlike skiing. I still love to ski, but I don't go both days every weekend anymore.
Decay
I was looking at Vancouver across the Burrard straight past old shipyards. They are in the process of tearing them down to make room for something shiny and new. There was beauty in the old decaying things.
Good, because I'm getting older.
