like water.

Today was an exceptionally long day, peppered with drama.  I can't believe the amount of created drama there is in adult life.  I always say it's "like being back in high school", but I'm starting to think that the reason there is so much drama in your high school years is to prepare you for real life... How sad.

I'm feeling kind of off today, and not looking forward to another week of work.  But when is anyone looking forward to that, I suppose.  I am looking forward to yoga tomorrow though... it always makes all this dramatic mess that is life seem better... make more sense.  Maybe it just centers me to a place where I can let it all slip off my back...

"I wanna be like water if I can, cuz water doesn't give a damn... water doesn't give a damn." (The Silver Jews)

Well.  I guess that's it for now.  Here's a completely unrelated photo I took at a souq in Kuwait.

honky tonk women

Went to Samantha Ronson last night.  It was a good show, and I am now convinced I'm in love, but Tegan will forever hold my heart.

Aaaaaaanyway.  The show was in a big bar that's usually as country as country gets.  It was pretty funny to see how hard they tried to hide all signs of it's true identity, covering the walls and awards and autographed goods with vodka posters and cheap printouts of robots.  They also hid the mechanical bull behind some flats painted in black light paint graffiti.  It actually would have looked pretty alright, if I wasn't already aware of what they were hiding under all those poor dead trees.

I was also kind of disappointed that L2 didn't show up and cause a scene... because really, we were all hoping for it, even if we didn't admit it.  Sam was pretty chill through the whole show, barely even looking up at us all until close to the end.  I do have to admit though, the couple of winks she did throw our way, more than made up for that... (oh the swooning!)

One last thing.  What is it in a male psyche that translates "lesbian" into "threesome"?  If I were to hit on a girl, and she's like, "I'm straight", I would be like, well, alright then, cut my losses, move on.  But for some reason, the phrase "sorry, I'm not interested, I'm gay", be it true or not, sounds to them like "try harder, and my 'friend' and I will totally blow your mind".  It's unexplainable.

I have had 3 hours of sleep. *yawn*.  I'm having a war with myself... to yoga or not to yoga?  I promised myself I would go 3 times a week, but I'm having a hard time motivating myself to walk there.  I was all over it until I hit the wall at 2:30... and now I'm not even sure I can make it home, let alone through a 70 min class.

Ugh my posture sucks today.

golden dreams

I'm OBSESSED with the Olympics.

There.  I needed to say it.

I never cared about the Olympics in the past, even told anyone who would listen exactly how neutral I felt about them.  But now I can't get enough of them!  I watch them all the time!  It started with a few men's snowboard cross highlights, and quickly escalated into a full day of women's snowboard cross.  Now I'm staying late at work to watch the finals, and scrounging for any live event I can find.  I feel like a junkie!  I'm even watching figure skating... it's getting out of hand.

I was taking with lil'k the other day about patriotism, and she mentioned a quote by Oscar Wilde; "patriotism is a virtue of the vicious".  While I can see how that may be considered true, I have to disagree, as I think there are 2 types of patriotism; good and bad.  Wars and terrorism obviously being examples of bad or misdirected patriotism, but I don't want to get into that negative side.  I think that the Olympics (even if they are commercialized and extravagant and usually ridiculously pricey) are a fantastic example of positive patriotism.  You are cheering for your country and your athletes out of pride, and wanting your country to do well, not out of hatred for others.  It's not about making your nation the ONLY nation... it's about winning at something.  It's 'YAY Canada!', not 'Boo France/Germany/Brazil/Uzbekastan'.  It's about normal, healthy competition... about sportsmanship.  It's about respect for the competing countries and their athletes.  It's not about killing or discrimination... it brings people together, and puts them on equal ground.

...maybe there is some sort of subliminal messaging in these online live feeds or something... but my mind has changed when it comes to the Games.

Oh, and watch for me and my board in 2014... I'll be the one winning the gold.

verbage.

So here I am. Creating my own little psychological release. Blogging was always a term I avoided, especially as a verb... but here I am.

Blogging.

There really is a first time for everything.