I've been back in SA for a few days now. Not much going on and don't go back to work until Monday. I did go to the gym this morning however. When I got back a bunch of people were in my living room. It wasn't like a party or anything, but they had moved a bunch of stuff into the living room. There is no floor anymore, only bags. Hmmmm. Later in the day, I was leaving to get something to eat. On the couch a kid is sleeping. One of my roommates? No, one of the guys moving into my living room. It's like having squatters in your living room. Little awkward but they have nowhere else to go I guess. I move the fifth, can't complain too much.
7/31/09
Two days ago I spent over 40 minutes in a little rectangular box with three other people. We bonded, talked, and generally sat and waited for someone to come fix the elevator. One of the girls started to freak out when the box stopped somewhere between the first and second floor. I just thought, "everyone should get stuck in an elevator at least once in their life." Wasn't a traumatic experience really. We got a little worried however when we used the speaker in the elevator to call the front desk and their response was, "ummm ok we'll get someone on that. click." Twenty minutes later we had heard nothing from them so we called back. "Oh yeah well we are going to have to call maintenance to come in and look at the elevator." What? You didn't call someone the first time we told you we were stuck in mid air? Guess the four people stuck in the elevator wasn't a top priority for them.
7/21/09
"You have a new app! You have a new post on your wall! But wait there's one more thing you need to delete again and again and again!" I've had it with Facebook. It drives me crazy, and I don't even get on it that often. It wouldn't be that big of a deal if I could just have the account and just ignore the website completely except for once every other month. Then some person comes up to me and is all "Hey I added you on Facebook why haven't you approved me?" They get all hurt like our friendship doesn't mean a thing if I don't go on the interweb and validate it.
Right now I have about 290 friends. Hate to admit it but I really don't have near that amount of friends. I don't even think I know the names of that many people. I really want to just delete the entire account, but then I'll get that "wtf is wrong with you" look when someone finds out that I don't have a pointless waste of time profile on a parasitic website.
Right now I have about 290 friends. Hate to admit it but I really don't have near that amount of friends. I don't even think I know the names of that many people. I really want to just delete the entire account, but then I'll get that "wtf is wrong with you" look when someone finds out that I don't have a pointless waste of time profile on a parasitic website.
7/14/09
The Starbucks guy just made me feel like an ass for no reason. I had a
bunch of ones on me so I decided to pay with cash. Four dollars to pay
a 3.84 bill. I hand him the money and he just stares at me after
taking it. "Did you want the reciept?" "No, just the change." "oh, one
sec. Here's your 16 cents." Then he gives me this look of total
contempt. Not a big chunk of cash and honestly I really didn't care to
have the three coins clinking in my pocket all day. But he didn't even
ask! "Would you like your change?" I would of said no and then taken
my coffee and that would of been the end of our transaction. But
noooooooo.
bunch of ones on me so I decided to pay with cash. Four dollars to pay
a 3.84 bill. I hand him the money and he just stares at me after
taking it. "Did you want the reciept?" "No, just the change." "oh, one
sec. Here's your 16 cents." Then he gives me this look of total
contempt. Not a big chunk of cash and honestly I really didn't care to
have the three coins clinking in my pocket all day. But he didn't even
ask! "Would you like your change?" I would of said no and then taken
my coffee and that would of been the end of our transaction. But
noooooooo.
7/10/09
Ok, Pride month is almost officially over. In my circle it's not really that big of a deal. Half my friends are breeder, that's what we call you guys, and the other half couldn't care less about the whole ordeal. So with that said, the closest I got to any kind of Pride event thingy was driving down a street in Houston, in Montrose (the gay district), and seeing people linning up for a parade. And in that moment, playing the "B or G" game, I realized I really don't like our flag. A rainbow? Really? There's so many other options, why a rainbow? I know the history behind it, I've done my homework, and passed the membership test. Can't we come up with something that has a little more umph behind it? How about a lambda? Greek Spartans used it for "unity" and Romans saw it as saying "the light of knowledge shining into the darkness of ignorance." See, so much better than the sissy rainbow.
Soooooo hope everyone had a fun, happy, safe month. Stonewall was forty years ago today, fyi. Come a long way in that time. Tomorrow the White House is supposed to open its doors to a few leaders in the community. Maybe they'll get an explanation for the horrific defense of the DOMA released a few weeks ago that compared gay marriage to incest and pedophilia. Maybe? "Fierce advocate"...Anyone?
Soooooo hope everyone had a fun, happy, safe month. Stonewall was forty years ago today, fyi. Come a long way in that time. Tomorrow the White House is supposed to open its doors to a few leaders in the community. Maybe they'll get an explanation for the horrific defense of the DOMA released a few weeks ago that compared gay marriage to incest and pedophilia. Maybe? "Fierce advocate"...Anyone?
6/28/09
Michael Jackson died today. No matter if you liked him or not, his
music changed the world's culture.
music changed the world's culture.
6/25/09
Part of Social Physiology says that we all have very real, biological emotional responses. Our heart rates speed up or slow down, we sweat, our eyes dilate, hormonal changes occur in the brain. These are all very physical and biological, not really what sociology deals with I know, stay with me. While we all have the same emotions, its been proven; seven are universal, what we call them or recognize these biological changes as varies. We label what we experience as love, hate, fear, sickness.
Imagine two bridges. One is over a very shallow creek, maybe a foot bellow the bridge. The other is over a deep canyon. Now place two identical twins at one side of each. Ask some guys, or girls, or whatever, to cross the bridge and go toward the girl, or guy, or whatever on the opposite side. Those who go over the "dangerous" fall will be more likely to find the person on the other side attractive. Now part of this is they had to take a harder journey to get there, but most of it is the label they are giving to their emotions. They're heart rate increases, blood starts flowing, and chemicals start causing very real biological changes. Is this fear or a kind of physical attraction? In our society, both of these labels for emotions have the same physical meanings.
So what? What good is this to you? Well boys and girls, think about the study, and it is a real study, next time you go on a first date. You got a crush on a girl, boy, whatever, and you take them to the movies for your first date. Do you take them to a chick flick, the standard romantic first date movie, or something with a little more boom? If you can get their heart beating with some good chase scenes and explosions you are more likely to get a good night kiss. They might label the physical emotions as something you created and give you the credit. Manipulative? Nah, science is your friend, take advantage of it.
Imagine two bridges. One is over a very shallow creek, maybe a foot bellow the bridge. The other is over a deep canyon. Now place two identical twins at one side of each. Ask some guys, or girls, or whatever, to cross the bridge and go toward the girl, or guy, or whatever on the opposite side. Those who go over the "dangerous" fall will be more likely to find the person on the other side attractive. Now part of this is they had to take a harder journey to get there, but most of it is the label they are giving to their emotions. They're heart rate increases, blood starts flowing, and chemicals start causing very real biological changes. Is this fear or a kind of physical attraction? In our society, both of these labels for emotions have the same physical meanings.
So what? What good is this to you? Well boys and girls, think about the study, and it is a real study, next time you go on a first date. You got a crush on a girl, boy, whatever, and you take them to the movies for your first date. Do you take them to a chick flick, the standard romantic first date movie, or something with a little more boom? If you can get their heart beating with some good chase scenes and explosions you are more likely to get a good night kiss. They might label the physical emotions as something you created and give you the credit. Manipulative? Nah, science is your friend, take advantage of it.
6/20/09
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