“Next Generations“: Rumor has it the “next generation” of iPhone and rock band are coming out. Don’t get me wrong, I think the iPhone is super sexy and rock band is as fun as the iPhone is sexy - but what pisses me off is that there isn’t really anything wrong with the old ones… If it’s not broke, why fix it?

I’m all about technological advancements… b ut ones that are beneficial to our lives… like solar energy and cool cars that take like nothing to run them but children’s laughter (wouldn’t THAT be a breakthrough!). Hopefully people are at least recycling the old ones or trading it locally. …The iPhone is bad enough as it is, being a bit of an energy sucker. (Who am I kidding? I have a blackberry…)

I hate captialism. If we weren’t all slaves to the dollar we wouldn’t have to use up our minds and our physical resources just to make more money and keep the technophiles of the world occupied with new and cool things. I’ll be the first to admit that I fall victim to all the clever inventions… but that doesn’t make it alright. It just makes me stupid.

“Support Our Troop“: My company is doing a new initiative… They’re doing a “support the troops” dealy where we are supposed to send post cards to troops in the navy or where ever to show that we heart them.

The only issue? I don’t support our troops and I think displaying such biased and icky positions in the workplace is horrible. Not to mention people are rewarded if they send a post card - so those of us who don’t support the troops? We don’t get anything, because we refuse to support something that takes money away from real social services and allows us to get up in things that are none of our fucking business.

I’m not sending a post card. I don’t care if I don’t get a stupid word ribbon or pizza. >_<

“Pussycat Dolls“: that new one, Asia, yeah. the stupid bitch has the same face piercing as me. she’s so annoying!

Some things, people just shouldn’t do:

• date their boss, especially if he’s weird… the quarkiness might be adorable at first, but seriously - it will totally become annoying and then you’re left dating… you’re weird boss.
• plan to elope - it totally defeats the purpose
• hang out with work people who like drama: all they do is gossip and hate you for no apparent reason and then spread horrible things about you around the office. i hate women. i could never be a lesbian.
• let the boy you’re seeing meet your extended family in the first month of dating: the more i think about doing this, the worse of an idea it becomes.
• dismiss other people’s pain and belittle it by saying you’ve had a “harder” life. i hate that.
• kill a spider by jabbing a pencil into the middle of it. it seems like a good idea at first, but then you see it twitch, have a mess on your desk and are out a pencil
• live in a basement, and don’t do your laundry -  so many centipedes!
• tell the lesbian in the office that has a crush on you that she looks “really great today” … super duper trooper bad idea
• get a surface piercing right below your eye. …it hurts, it bleeds, it makes it hard to smile and you can always see it out of the corner of your eye. no matter how awesome it looks, it’s almost not worth the pain and annoyance.

i need something real to write about. my brain is going to sleep.

A couple people have said things to me in the past month that have led me to believe that … I’m like two different people.

1. Joe, Justin, me and Zak (maybe the intern was there too, I don’t remember) and I are sitting around CFI talking about Myer’s Briggs. The last time I took the test just over a year ago I was “ISTJ” …now I’m “INTJ“, which I didn’t really expect… ISTJs are highly organized and super focused on planning. If you know me, you know that disgustingly true. INTJs main “thing” is being super analytical. Which… I guess I am most of the time. Joe was very shocked that I’m an I, and not an E (introverted, not extroverted). That’s scenerio one.

2. John was talking about coming here to Guelph and he said something like “you’re you no matter where you are” in response to me saying that Guelph isn’t really… where I’m me, because it’s not my home… really.

So… these two situations combined into one thought really made me realize that people in Guelph likely see me as a 100% different person than my friends in Toronto see me. In Toronto I’m with people all the time. I go specifically to socialize. The part my Toronto friend’s don’t see? When I get home to Guelph and totally crash into being a hermit for 4 days straight, until I head back to Toronto.

For example… this weekend I was literally, never alone…unless I was peeing. Then I was usually alone. I went to see Wall-E with John, went home to Allen.. Friday went to CFI and hung out with people there, hung out with Mark and Shannon later…when home to Allen again…All day Saturday I was with John, Roy, Yunyun…Joe and Zak at some points…Justin at the ROM… just ALWAYS with people.

Now I’m back in Guelph. I’m at work … and there is literally *nothing* to do. So everyone else on the shift is sitting in one pod (pod = one big cubical with like 4 desks in it) playing cards, talking, laughing, sharing foods, playing games… etc. While I am sitting in a pod …totally alone… surfing the net and listening to my music really loud so I can’t even hear them talk. Tomorrow when there is actual work to do… I’ll sit in a pod alone, even though the rest of the centre will be full…and I’ll just work tickets all night, trying not to talk to people. And forget trying to talk to me during the day. I don’t put pants on or leave my basement. (Not like I’m dressed any better now… Sweat pants and a tank top and flip flops. Yep. That’s my work wear. Because I’m a bum and I don’t care. I’m surprised they haven’t fired me.)

So… people in Guelph think I’m an apathetic and interverted bitch where as my Toronto lovelies see me as much more social and interested in other people and things going on. I’m hoping that the move to Toronto will resault in a balance… (Also the intern will be more readily available at my fingertips which is good for me - and good for my friends/family who keep getting ditched so I can go see him in Toronto… :S eek, haha. It’s his fault!)

On an entirely different point - I’m really sick. I eat, and then 10 minutes later it comes right back up. Weird, right? I know. I hate being sick.

I don’t go to the theater very often, but in the past 2 weeks, i’ve gone twice. (also - before i get into this… im on a broken laptop, the regular shift key that i used doesn’t work, so im not going to put anything in caps. also, the last letter of the alphabet doesn’t work, so i couldn’t spell capitali_e just now…sigh… i love my best friend, but he’s sort of a space case sometimes.)

Last weekend i saw the ever famous Expelled. i’m sure everyone’s read 1.4 million reviews of it online already. so i’ll just say this. …it was the worst thing i’ve ever seen in my entire life. i’m sorry, but sitting there watching hours of stein compare evolutionary biology to hitler and the holocaust?? yeah, definitely not something i’d ever want to do again or recommend to anyone else to do. it was so horrible. i thought that there would at least be a few good points in it or something… but no, it was just bad. i hadn’t read any online reviews of it, so i didn’t know what i was in for… sigh.

On the other hand…Wall-E??? cutest movie EVER… i totally loved it. it was great to see something environmentally AND sciencey being done for kids. not only that but there were 2 other previews for science-ish kid films. one about monkey’s in space and another about a science fair that an igor tries to win. science is awesome, and there should be more science films for kids made. so this is good. yes, wall-e was great, and the perfect date movie, btw… if you haven’t heard about the plot line - the robots fall in love. and its the cutest thing since kittens.

a lot of other stuff happens too, but that was the part i was focused on. yeah, i couldn’t get enough of it. wall-e good. expelled bad.

im back in toronto this weekend, sans hemant. we’re having a whole crew of people go to the rom tomorrow, so that should be a lot of fun. science science and dinosaurs. awesome. im sorry about my lack of content, but… i’ve been busy trying to figure out plans for september. as it looks now i’ll be moving to toronto at the end of august to go to york university. … where i plan to live… i dont know yet. where i plan to work… i dont know what either. what classes i plan to take at school…. haven’t quite got that under control. but hey, it’s only the first week of july, i still have some time here. and yes. im aware that this is like my 80th university. shut up.

I have a million and a half pictures, I’m just not home yet - so I’ll do a photo post later. Usually after a speaker comes here I like to rip into them a bit to say what I didn’t like about their talk. Hemant Mehta [I Sold My Soul On eBay] did his talk here in Toronto on Friday so I guess its his turn, oui? So, what didn’t I like?

• there weren’t enough people there to hear what he had to say…Justin counted around 60 people in attendance, I don’t think this was nearly enough - although I should add that 1) its the summer, so no one is on campus, 2) its the long weekend so many people are at their cottage and 3) its pride weekend… no one can compete with pride. Suffice to say the next time we get him here it will be during the school year.
• he didn’t give me credit for stealing at least 89% of my view points out of my brain on atheism and theism
• he didn’t do the talk topless
• the “what about the physical lord our god, Jesus Christ?” lady
• there weren’t more questions
• … that’s about it

If you haven’t gotten it yet - I really liked his talk. I had absolutely no disagreement with him, I loved his delivery, there was a great crowd, it was super funny and he’s an awesome guy. The director of the multi-faith centre wants to bring him back in the school year, and the York group wants to steal him at the same time to do a talk in the North end too. Its already been deemed by many as one of the best talks we’ve have… because he was just really interesting, and his delivery was super entertaining.

Anyway, more on this weekend later/when I get home! It was a fabulous weekend.