Every since I was young / 2 years ago I have despised the whole concept of the new year, new term or new start. At the beginning of every school year I would be enthusiastic about surviving another year, being given another chance to prove myself, make brave plans for the new semester and give up smoking. But I was just putting myself (once again!) in a trap that I had set the previous year and by the end of the semester I would be back at square one, below average, and a coward with cigarette buds in my coffee.
After doing that a few times I came to the conclusion that the whole idea of the new year is just a mirage to make you forget what your had learned doing the previous year. An evil cousin whom would visit for christmas and eat all your fruit cake and steal your presents get you in trouble and then send you a "I am really sorry" note from far away.
Nowadays nothing starts over, I look at everything as a long process of steps created to torture you until you give up or die trying (level 8-3 mario bros). I keep my computer hibernated (that is when you set up computer to keep all you windows open when you turn it off) for months on end. Because I would surely forget the wisdom gained the day before. I don't like resolutions either, resolutions are for sissies.
I guess all the company christmas parties are over by now. But if not, I am available until the end of the year - nothing brings people together better than load music, liquor and chicken wings. It is not possible to have too much free food, fun and frolicking.
The comes a point in your life when your addicted to something like monkeys. Everybody is destined to be addicted to something, it's human nature. Some people have the uncanny ability to go from addiction to addiction without even realizing it, making them hard to please and crazy. Often times it is even possible to be addicted to nothing.
In our modern lifestyle everything is bad for you, your neighbor, your chickens, come with side effects, finding a good addiction is almost impossible, plus it would usually get you into trouble and be banded once everybody else finds out about it.
It is the end of another year. When all is said and done we can pull a clean sheet from our pockets and write down all we have achieved, all that we have seen just to make sure we have left nothing behind. Anyway merry christmas yall and hope next year will be as good as this one, peace out.
Last friday evening I stood at the bus terminus waiting for a bus home amidst a gaggle of people. Usually it would be late at night about 8 pm and not as crowded but today it was 7 pm and I was in the mood to go home. It was obvious that I would not get into any of the buses until the hooligans have left. I need to cut my hair. So I struck up a conversation with the girl standing closest to me.
Girl number one was short, young, eloquent. She was a third year English & Literature Major planning to become a teacher of high school students. She was not very talkative and she was holding a "family planning poster" from a presentation she had earlier. She lives on campus at the university and is travels home on most weekends, to prevent herself from going crazy. She did not like math and could not help me with my calculus problem. She got unto the 10th bus through the drivers side. She was cool. Buses arrived one at a time, roughly every 10 minutes and usually get swamped even before it stops by middle class people between the ages 20 and 35. So I just stood there with the hooligans that were left.
Girl number 2, appeared to be older (about 29), unmarried with a fake diamond ring on her right hand. At first it appeared that she worked in a bank but she soon told me she did not (I kept mentioning this just to piss her off). She and I were exactly the same age minus 2 days and 13 seconds give or take a day. Partially single (whatever that means) and does not work in a bank. We got on the 16th bus together after much waiting. She looked like a person who works in a bank. She was very forth-coming and likes going to the cinema, oldies music (re: Ben E. King ), going to the beach and restaurants such as BullsEye in New Kingston, 7 Avenue. She was very talkative, and waved her hands around like a flight attendant or somebody who works in a bank. Her job was in a bookshop, learned to dance by watching television and proceeded to give me advice about how not to be boring. Apparently I have not been reading enough books. The day, for her, was good day of dancing and singing christmas corals in the bookshop because it was not a busy day. She was cool. I got off at 8:45pm before she did.
I have to write another speech for the business communication class aka public speaking. This time it has to be a 1000 word speech on "current affairs". Instantly the first thing that came to mind was that my yahoo inbox now has 250 mb of storage for some odd reason. Then I defragged and thought to myself this must be a trick, I have seen this before, what "current affairs" haven't they stopped killing people in iraq or has CNN simply stopped reporting the "good stuff" - BBC rules. Obviously nothing was happening currently, but as usual I was wrong, way wronger than wrong could be. Then a wrench was thrown in to the proverbial stew, "nothing related to technology or science fiction". A most definate attempt to lure the class out of it's comfort zone and kicked into the real world, where we will most definitely be stoned to death. Issues of dance hall music, the gay rights movement, AIDS, the current record murder rate in jamaica, spanish town, operation Kingfish, prostitution and legalised marriage, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and drug trafficking. I need cover fire people! 750 words to go.
In Other News
New photo project added called Pimp Juice under the new special ops photos. Don't ask me why but if anybody is drinking anything at the moment take a picture of it and send it in before you pass out. Remember don't drink and surf, drive, smoke, take medication or operate heavy machinery.
michael_halvorsen commented: i would write about aids because "everybody has aids, aid-aids-aids."
on another note, this weekend i'll take some pictures of my pimp juice. my friend will be home on christmas break and we're going to throw a few parties. last party we bough 8 cases of bud light. pretty crazy for a little house party. ... read 8 more
I have grown accustomed to the constant bombardment of second-hand radiation that has encompassed me on a daily basis. Everybody has a cell phone - even kindergarden monkeys. They should be a law against having more that five (5) wireless devices, PDAs, cell phones or WIFI pens. Anything that suddenly has the need to be "connected". On the other hand I love being able to get free cable and sports stats beamed directly into my brain on and off demand forever! Sometimes if I concentrate really hard I can save my favorite episodes of sex and the city directly to memory. The most interesting aspect, however, is listening in on random people talking to each other, conspiring to steal office supplies, amateur phone sex and phone calls to customer service. Free internet access while you sleep allows you to watch live news and nba fights in your dreams without interuptions or the annoying aspect of actually using your eyes. No longer do I a have to waste energy to answer my cell phone when I can just close my eye and think "hello". Having my phone calls, email and internet radio beamed directly into my brain is the best invention since gold fish that glow in the dark.
