I dont know if I’ve ever mentioned it in my many monday love posts - but those really are my lips and hand writing! I thought it needed a personal touch.

I have a problem when I read Hemant’s blog - I wish I wrote everything that’s on it… so I’m always like “I’ll just open this up in a new tab and write about it later” to the point where I have about 9 Friendly Atheist tabs open for like 3 days. Everything else gets closed because I lose interest in whatever topic happens to be there (unless it’s about dinosaurs) but his remain open. *sigh* But things like this post on a cheeto looking like Jesus - but really looking like a fetus is just absolutely hilarious, and I can’t just read it and go on with my life. I have to remain hung up on it for days.

So why is it that I don’t write about his blog ALL the time? Eventually I tell myself I’m being silly and close all my tabs in Firefox without doing anything about them. Yep. He’s like a drug. I flush it down, but I always get more. He’s like …Sufjan Stevens in blog form… only not religious. And I don’t picture him having an overly glorious singing voice. …

My group is becoming affiliated with the Secular Student Associated almost entirely due to the fact that we think it will be easier to get him into Canada this way mwa ha.

Anyway - the one thing I did want to take away from his blog has absolutely nothing to do about his blog or even him - but my Easter… rather, and the posts that are spawning from it. So watch for the following:

1. 9/11 wasn’t an inside job

2. skepticism doesn’t always mean atheism, and skepticism is nothing to be afraid of

3.  The OUT campaign and why I am going to finally embrace it.

I *will* write them tonight. This is what I call “forcing myself to blog” because I really do want to do it more. The problem is that I’d rather be group blogging. So that I had someone else to be blog happy with. Who wants to take me on??? Any takers?? I’m atheist who likes dinosaurs! What more could you want? Nothing.

If you’re not familiar with Hemant’s blog (i know at least 5 of you aren’t) go take a read now. And mention to him that you know an atheist girl who would marry him, but she’s not indian.

The other night at work was deadly boring. There was very little to do, and so me and a couple of the girls were more or less just standing around. (We were folding clothes.) So… I asked the question “What do you think of long distance relationships?”

Our first young lady spoke up stating that it is just a ridiculous mess that isn’t even worth the time or effort put into it. Lady number two says it’s the best way to start a relationship. And finally lady number three says it’s doable, but hard and not something she would do.

There were a few things that we all agreed on though, even the girl who stated that they’re a gigantic mess which should be avoided at all costs - and the major thing that we agreed on is that they can be awesome. You develop a friendship, and a deep emotional connection before jumping into all the physical. You don’t end up making your conclusions based on the physical or on tiny behaviors.  This way you ensure that it’s not just a chemical reaction to one another. It is a time to work on the 90% of the relationship that isn’t sex, and build a deep lifetime relationship.

But they can’t go on forever. They’re like phone sex - sure it’s a great introduction, but it has to have some sort of meaningful conclusion. This is the hard part of it all - who moves? When do you ask that person to make the move? How do you know it’s the right thing to live together? What if they have a weird habit that you can’t brush off? Can you really get beyond a guy who plays constant pocket poll because he was fantastic at a distance? What is the weirdness limit that you’ll take because you fell in love so far apart?

The first key - is being open with one another, I think. Tell them about your weird habits, quarks and things that other people find undesirable. …Like me - I’m a bitch… and as Alon once said “It’s easier to impress a cactus.” …and I burp like a man sometimes. Tell them what annoys you… again, like me - I can’t stand loud chewers, or being poked. I hate it when people poke me. It’s so unnecessary.  (I don’t mean like, facebook poke - I mean physically poke me, like in the arm.)

I also think its important to treat it exactly like a relationship that isn’t long distance. So no sleeping with other people and making a conscious effort to ensure there are cute things done for one another and time always put aside even just to say hi. And be up front with what you’re looking for. Short term? Long term? To get married? To just … see? LDs are too much work to not be on the same level of want.

In the end it’s all what you put into it. The first time I had a long distance relationship I found myself defending it’s validity to people. This time, I’m not bothering - because it means more to me. I know how much effort him and I put into one another, and how hard to attempt at getting to know one another over the obstacle of distance… and its a beautiful thing that at this point - I wouldn’t change for any local boyfriend.

Anyway, the conclusion was - it’s all about how much effort you put in, and when the “move” happens. Because if you’re never going to make an effort to be together physically - whether it be after 3 months or 3 years - then what is the point? You can’t do it forever. We all agreed on that bit.

Little snooty girl said there was a lack of passion - I told her aaaall about my sister and her utah boyfriend, a clear indication of passion. (Perhaps not the kind of passion you’d want in a relationship - but passion, nonetheless.)

The past week has been really great. Work has been going just as well as I expected, if not better. I do go to bed at around 10 pm every night… but I guess there is nothing horribly wrong with that except that my social life has been completely narrowed down to my work friends. That’s not a problem or anything, but I have other people around I want to hang out with. Today, however, I had the day off… And my dearest love The Lenster called me up to let me know she was coming over…

She also said she was bringing something to drop off…

Now, she just spent the past couple of weeks over in Europe… France, Brussels and Dublin to be exact, so I thought maybe she had brought me a croissant or something. Much to my surprise, she brought me something even more delicious…My dearest friend Cearuil Swords who I lived with in first year. (He was an exchange student…) We spend the afternoon talking, catching up and eating good foods. I have missed him dearly, and am glad he is here for a visit.

I was so happy to see him, and will be happy to spend more time with him this Thursday. I hope to spend more and more time with my eco-kids whom I have grown further and further from as the years have passed. However, I am in Guelph, and the majority of them have all moved in together in a house that is super close not only to school, but also to my work. So I plan on visiting often, and doing lots of fun things.

Other fantastic news is that Allen is back from California so I’ll be going to Toronto soooon to visit him! I have missed him very much.

I spent today trying to figure out how to work my new phone (its okay, you can be jealous of it…) only to find out that before I can really do anything i need to pick up a micro SD card, so that’s on the plate for tomorrow as I am working 9 - 5:30. Then I am getting new sheets for my new apartment… for which we will be closing the deal on tomorrow. SO excited. Things are coming up Katie Kish.

I do plan on getting onto a more regular schedule for posting since the summer is now over, and my life is going to have some order to it. As of right now I’m going to be working Monday and Tuesdays 9 - 5:30 have Wednesday and Thursdays off and working 9 - 6 Friday, 10 - 7 Saturday and 10 - 5:30 Sunday. That accompanied with 4 classes, 3 of which are distance ed will leave about an hour a day of free time which I’ll probably spend on the computer and thus getting at least one decent post a day in! Woo! My life is about to get hectic, but at least it’s a good hectic. All summer it’s been really super unstable schedule wise, but now everything should work out to be grand.

Love!

If you haven’t checked this site out, you probably should now.

Also, if you’ve never used the love calculator to ease your mind…. or give you a reason to break up - I highly suggest you go take a gander at it too. (I realize it holds no validity, please, no lectures.)

This is my …long ignored… Monday Love session. Not because I don’t love anymore - but because I’ve been busy But now I’m not. To start with, I got tagged by the 8 things meme again, this time by Webs, so I’m going to do 8 things I love… okay? Okay.

1. My bubble tub. Probably the only reason I haven’t moved out of this house yet.

2. Smart atheist boys with social skills and wit. Surprisingly hard to come by.

3. My mom:

4. Movies that end on a sad and realistic note. I can’t stand it when everything just “happens” to work out. That’s not how life works. Not everything works out just perfectly. We don’t run around New York looking for someone that we’ve only met one time and run past them 8 times before “voila!” running into them in the exact same spot that we met the first time! *swoon* *sigh* *gasp* Disgusting! It just doesn’t work that way, and these endings and silly plots are just giving us all an idealistic sense of life, and then we wonder why we’re all depressed. Stupid media.

5. Good beer, with good friends having good conversations. Eg: Thursday night I went out with4 or 5 people and we drank some Keith’s Red and yapped about intelligent things, life and love. Eg: Saturday a friend and I sat out with some strongbow on a patio and talked about philosophy. Around this time I finally realized how much truth there is in the statement: “‘remember when’ is the lowest form of conversations.”

6. Some people. Here… I’ll list 8: i) My brother ii) My sister iii) My aunt [im cheating - using one slot for aunt mel, aunt el, aunt jodi...etc.] iv) Allen v) CFI folks vi) My first year Biodiversity prof vii) My grade 9 geography teacher viii) my cute cousins… because they’re all cute in their own way [even alex, the jerk.]

7. The environment and people who are looking out for it. This picture just warms my heart:

For more small, cute and enviornmentally sustainable houses, check out this post over at inhabitat. Via: Eco Geek.

8. Reading.

As for loving link - you just get uno because I am already sick of staring at this computer screen. I just don’t have the gusto in my anymore to sit on my ass all day reading blogs and news… but anyway…

HUGE dinosaur find. Yeah. You may not love it. BUT I do. SO COOOL. Alberta is good for something.

I forgot about Monday Love - luckily Lindsay posted this absolutely hilarious video of rats laughing that had me holding my sides. Its phenomenally great. Watch it. Seriously.

Another must check out comes from Bead - For the christian right, gay-hating is just the start …Who also has a post up about a haunted municipal house, which is entertaining as heck.

In other news, before I head to bed, a couple geology notes:

Uno - Torontorians were scared shitless by a “ball of fire” raging over head.

It’s not every day you see a meteor streaking across the sky. For some Torontonians, the sight of a green fireball on Sunday night was a surprisingly big event. Some were scared. Some were enchanted. Some braced for impact and some called the cops. However, as Constable Laurie Perks of the York Regional Police curtly puts it, space debris “is not a police matter. It’s an outer-space matter.”

The meteor, of a particularly bright type known as a bolide or fireball, prompted many locals to flights of fancy. “I wasn’t sure if I was seeing stuff,” admits Mike Mazeika, who saw the meteor from a ninth-floor apartment in North York. “It was so big and it lasted so long.” He describes the green- and orange-tinged fireball as being “bigger than a plane,” maybe “the size of a building” and adds that the sight of it literally froze him in his tracks.

“is not a police matter. It’s an outer-space matter.”

…Is that not one of the funniest things you’ve ever read? Seriously.

Dos - go check out this cool map of the San Andreas Fault. Maybe I just like maps too much - but I think it’s really cool.

Update: Jonathan Singer just posted this hilarious link - “Fox News’ Chyron: Anti-War Protestor Tells Fox He Believes He Saw UFO” on facebook. …yes, I’m friends with bloggers on facebook.