Memes

I shouldn't joke about stuff like this considering how rampantly the Fourth Horseman seems to be racing across the Earth right now, but... fuck it.

How Will Your Friends Die? by arshus_ney
Username
Will Choke On A Peach	gnomeygirl
Will Be Murdered By A Psycho	batchix
Will Be Eaten By Clowns	greekgladiators
Will Die In The Throes Of Passion	ravenfyre
Will Be Abducted By Aliens	80stoongirl
Will Suffocate In A Corset	mellifera
Will Be Smushed In A Trash Compactor	stitchedsutures
Will Be Burned As A Witch	tempest_azure
Will Be Slain By Their Lover	winegodeatsyou
Will Be "Hit" By The Mafia	dreamcharade
Will Discover Immortality	kcdcchef
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Eb major - you are warm and kind, always there for
your friends, who are in turn there for you.
You are content with your confortable life and
what you are currently achieving; if you keep
in this state you will go far.


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I love these memes designed by Europeans, all quaint and charming with their talk of living in "flats" and going to cities "a train ride away." Oh! And the talk of "fixing up a house in another country when you have the time." Must be nice living fifteen minutes from all the other countries around you so you can do that sort of thing. Ever hear of these things called "oceans?" They're a bitch to get across!

Holy Hand Grenades, Batman!

I just read that a stage musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, written by Eric Idle, is being performed in Chicago. It stars none other than Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, and... the man himself... Tim Curry.

Now would be a great time to live in Chicago. In the immortal words of John Cleese, I'm just creaming my jeans for the opprotunity to stand next to such greatness.

"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake..."

A day-and-a-half ago the death toll in Asia from the tsunamis was 28,000. That's the population of my hometwon wiped out nearly twiceover. By this evening it was 56,000. In the eight hours I've been at work, I've watched it leap on the Yahoo newsreports from 58,000 and 60,000.

Margaret Atwood quotes in her novel Oryx and Crake that human beings are incapably of conceiving of other human beings as individuals in groups larger than fifty. I think she may be right. While the disaster was still the size of my hometown with its very finite physical boundaries, or slightly larger, I could visualize those dead. But it escapes me now, it eludes me. I have no frame of reference for this. It is something happening on another planet, in another universe. And tens of thousands are still unaccounted for. And cholera and malaria are poised to lash out claiming tens of thousands more.

Those who believe in a vengeful god will say it is judgement. Those who believe in an omnipresent god of predestination will say it is all part of the plan and not for us to question. Those who believe God is sadistic will merely say "I told you so." I don't subscribe to most Deist beliefs, but I do believe God has better things to do than micromanage tectonic plate shifts on one tiny planet, though it is certainly in His power to do so. I'd like to think that He didn't "do" this, but is there waiting to help us clean up afterward. It's easy to shake aside notions that something like 9/11 was God's doing; that was an issue of human choice. And I believe that God allows us full freedom of choice, even if that choice is to take the life of others. He merely waits to bestow the consequences of choice, good or bad.

But something like this? Who can know, who can say? Who can know the mind of God?

There's a saying a reply I made up in answer to the age old question of why God lets bad things happen to good people. My answer is that maybe He doesn't. Maybe He puts you here to stop them.

When I get home I'm going to start looking for organizations to donate to. I'm broke, but I can't sit here and not live by my words. I have to do something.

"When it hurts to pee, just die already!" - Sam Kinnison

I found what looks like a good relief organizaiton to donate to. Unfortunately, you can only donate online via credit card, so it's off to the post office for me to mail a check.

Last night the cleaning guy's Harley Davidson refused to crank for him, so he asked me to try and give him a push start. All total, I pushed that thing the entire length of our front parking lot. That's about fifty yards. I then spent the next thirty minutes feeling like I had just spent a week in Marine boot camp. Granted, I was pushing about 650 pounds of metal + 150 pounds of man on top of it, but still it was a wake up call about how out of shape I am.

Breakfast was broccoli again - which it was already going to be anyway even if I hadn't found out I am a helpless pile of rubber. And more V-8 juice. Will likely go out to Subway for lunch for another load of vegetables. I CAN do this. I lost five pounds in four weeks a few months ago when I was working my hardest. I immediately gained it all back since I saw how good I had done and began treating myself too much. I just need to at least have some wind, 'cause this is f'ing ridiculous. Wish me luck!

Okay there seems to be some confusion.

I DID NOT say in my post about the tsunamis that I personally thought it was the end of the world. Apparently some people think I did. I do not. I was just talking about the natural questions people ask of God and the universe whenever something horrible happens. As adonijah74 said, when it's the end of the world, we'll know.

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So breakfast was broccoli, lunch was Subway, supper was an apple, and dinner tonight at work will be Subway again. I think I'm becoming good at this! I'm actually not sleepy this evening for the first time in a long time. Must be the lack of sleepy-making carbs and starches.

Is sleepy-making a word? If it's not, it is now.