1. An update from ded ppl. I won’t be going tomorrow, but last week I made it out of work in time.
   1. It was neat.
   2. I was the center of attention. Usually, I’m a bit of a back seat ded ppler. Very cool. Lots of different ded folks came through, all with different things to say. Interestingly, a living folk was also picked up on. Especially curious because it’s happened before, way back when. It’s hard to believe that someone could come up with a hairless grandmother twice.
   3. I’m more and more intrigued by the ded ppl phenomenon all the time.
2. I like yoga
3. I like craftiness
4. I just noticed a link on Digg for the Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell’s 1984. I bought 1984 in 1998 and have read it three times. In grade 11 I had wanted ” If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever” to be my yearbook quote in grade 12. I ended up settling for a John Lennon quote after a short debate with a vice principle.
5. “Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” Another quote from 1984. I think my employer may have snuck (i am surprised that snuck is not a word… i have lived in Alberta for too long (it isn’t in my spellchecker, but it is on dictionary.com. I feel better.)) snuck that into our company policy.
6. I had a really great weekend. Especially a quick trip out of town to visit a head shop, and then a bookstore.
7. Yesterday I saw a leprechaun leaning against a telephone pole reading a newspaper.
   1. True story.
   2. He was quite tall.
   3. His overalls were a remarkable shade of emerald.
8. Last night I ate really spectacular pizza and then watched The Bachelor: London Calling.
   1. TV at its finest.
   2. I liked the girl who had hiccups.
9. I went from being a somewhat long-time SUSE Linux user to a Red Hat user to a Windows XP user all in one weekend.
   1. Still have a version of Linux running on my teeny laptop.
10. I bought a plane ticket home for a week this spring/summer. I leave on my favourite day of the year.

Lists are fun. This post took me almost a week to write. L-a-m-e.

i’m sitting in a bookstore. on the base of a fireplace. i doubt it’s ever been on. it’s very real and very fake looking all at the same time. i find bookstores grounding. they always make me have to poo. i always want coffee in a bookstore too. there’s something about the combination of paperbacks and paper cups. coffee is also grounding. it’s an unformidable combination of gastric release.

the phone is always ringing here. i guess it’s not a library, but there is something about a place of books that makes people talk in really low voices. i think there’s probably more erotica in a bookstore than in a library… and also, more pressure to make the right selection at $21.00 for a paperback. Douglas Coupland, you are good, but not that good.

Within the first hour of loitering through the bookstore, they played the same Beck song 3 times. Earlier today in a hemp store they were playing Radiohead. Overall, I would say this has been a very good Saturday.

I just filed my taxes. I’ll be getting a whopping $150.00 back. That seems ridiculous to me.  After all that money I gave the government, I barely cost anything, and that’s what I’m getting back? I obviously suck at money.

I’m excited to be planning a trip to Spain. No… to Sicily. I’m going to be going there in the summer of 2010. For a wedding. I’m going to need that long to save up for airfare and meals because with tax returns coming in with such grand totals, I’m sure I could go like… tomorrow, but I’m very happy to be going for the wedding.

I need something to force me to save up for a trip to Italy. Some forced mechanism of putting away… $40 a paycheck for two years. That would add up to $2080. I need a better plan than that. If I put away $40 a paycheck and significantly cut out Starbucks, I could double that value easily… on the other hand, I’d be a far less agreeable person.

Maybe I could work at Starbucks part-time and save the money to go to Italy… home of espresso.