Sunday, November 11th, 2007

give THX (isn't this in movie theatres?)

it's wonderful that thanksgiving is in two weeks! it betokens the beginning of the holiday season, which is my absolute favorite time of the year - whenever january first ends, i always think "i have to wait another eleven months now??"

yes, connie, you do.

(that's the conversation the voice and i usually have, by the way. if you remind me january second, maybe i can blog about it, and let you all know if the voice and i spoke of anything else. but no, this is generally its course)

i know i get a good amount of non-american visitors, so i've often wondered what thanksgiving means to you? i mean, when halloween rolls around, "foreigners" usually ask me to explain it to them, and i really can't. i'm sorry. i'm not a fan of halloween myself - and this is an overdue explanation - but yes, we basically dress up in anything imaginable, go around knocking on doors, and receive candy in exchange for ringing doorbells. and if you don't have candy to give, then you're a certified loser. that's america, okay?

so, thanksgiving falls on the fourth thursday of every november, and it marks the day that the pilgrims and native americans came together or whatever. i often remember it as the day the british/americans screwed over the native americans because we promised them peacefulness and whatnot, and then we just ended up giving them diseases and having sex with their women. other than that, i love thanksgiving because i can eat a lot and not be judged...

oh, and it's family time or something.

two weeks!

connie grabbed a duck on 111107 @ 03:09 PM EST

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

up yours ...fool

i'm always upset when i don't really have something to blog about because that means my life is boring.

boo.

so, i guess i'll make this a post to remind most north americans, europeans, and half of australia that today we "gained" an hour - yay! i'm usually unaware of DST days, even though it's always been the last sunday of october for a very long time now. it's hard to remember, okay? the only reason i did know this year was because the whole energy policy act was in the news lately, and now daylight-saving time is the first sunday of november.

um, so this pretty much confirms my boring existence.

a twenty-eight year old olympic runner died at mile five for the marathon trials at new york yesterday. next time i'm running and feel like i'm about to die, remind me that i should stop. people used to tell me to quit being a pansy and keep going, to which i can now tell them: YEAH, UP YOURS.

which i know is irrelevant, but i like telling people "up yours."

connie grabbed a duck on 110407 @ 06:24 PM EST

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