DAYS TIL VICTORIA GETS HERE: 34
i keep promising myself that i do one of these and in my anger and frustration yesterday, i completely forgot, so here my friday five:
1. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to do, but never have?
tour the near and far east
2. When someone asks your opinion about a new haircut/outfit/etc, are you always honest?
almost brutally so
3. Have you ever found out something about a friend and then wished you hadn’t? What happened?
yes, i’m still waiting for it to bit me in the ass
4. If you could live in any fictional world (from a book/movie/game/etc.) which would it be and why?
william gibson’s cyberpunk series, because i’m such a geek.
5. What’s one talent/skill you don’t have but always wanted?
to be a bassist
i had a lovely nights sleep filled with all sorts of lovely dreams. i’m ready to face the day. i’m supposed to scout more locations today as well as continue on the tattoo, we’ll see how that goes. it’s also an F1 weekend. need to find somewhere to watch, because it’s in canada, the qualifying/race time is a reasonable hour.
i just took the fox iq test (that even looks ironic), i got 45 questions right and scored 112. whatever. there is no correlation, no way to asses the score.
time for breakfast, i’m ravenous. until later, i bid you adieu.
happy friday 13th, i hadn’t realised til tonight. and the full moon is waxing (or is that waning) i can never remember.
blessings and greetings to all the wicca celebrating out there.
i’ve been sitting around waiting on my 3000th visitor, not really, i’ve been reading and taking quizzes. vic is at the mom’s tonight, then off to nashville tomorrow.
and now that vic’s ticket from nashville to miami and miami to pos are both booked and confirmed. let the countdown begin:
DAYS TIL VICTORIA GETS HERE: 35
YAY!
here are the results of the personalilty disorder test:
| Disorder | Rating |
| Paranoid: | Moderate |
| Schizoid: | Low |
| Schizotypal: | Low |
| Antisocial: | Moderate |
| Borderline: | Low |
| Histrionic: | Low |
| Narcissistic: | Moderate |
| Avoidant: | Low |
| Dependent: | Low |
| Obsessive-Compulsive: | Moderate |
— Personality Disorder Test – Take It! — |
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and the dantes’s inferno test:
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Very High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Moderate |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | High |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Moderate |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Very High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | High |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Moderate |
Take the Dante’s Inferno Hell Test
well the rain is pouring, i’m going to go frolic for a while then go to bed.
btw, pinetreegirl was my 3000th visitor. congratulations. may your back allow you all the entertainments you desire this weekend. mwah.
after a day like today we need good news and humour:
got this off of masterofmice’s blog:
Assmosis – The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.
Blamestorming – Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Seagull Manager – A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and then leaves.
Salmon day – The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Chainsaw consultant – An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.
CLM – Career Limiting Move – Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
Adminisphere – The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Dilberted – To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. “I’ve been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Flight Risk – Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.
404 – Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located. “Don’t bother asking him . . . he’s 404, man.”
Generica – Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. Used as in “We were so lost in generica that I forgot what city we were in.”
Ohnosecond – That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake.
Percussive Maintenance – The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Umfriend – A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in “This is Dyan, my … um … friend.”
the evil overlord list (basic rules for world domination) and if you’re not bright enough to realise you have to scroll down, you’re not cut out to be an evil genius.
the 25 dumbest moments in gaming
and finally the always entertaining week in sex
it’s only one…
You are Dieter!
Which SNL Character Are You?
ok, most of the fires i’m going to put out have been sufficiently peed on. i haven’t stabbed anyone in the eye with a pen or throttled them with my mouse. albiet, everyone realises that they need to give me a wide berth.
all that is left now, is to come up with some magic for this last project i can call it a day. thanks for the good wishes all. my mood hasn’t improved spectacularly, but at least there hasn’t been any bloodshed.
it’s been that kind of morning. is there a shape to describe when your new hire, a day after you leave him to face the masses alone calls you and tells you he won’t be in today and likely not ever?
if you can describe that shape to me i’d really appreciate it.
what this means is that in the course of the remain hours of today, i need to come up with a concept for an event, start and finish two new campaigns, complete work that needs to go out to the newspapers, all on a day where i’d rather be curled up in a foetal position in bed oh yeah, i also have to do the preproduction and shooting schedule for next week. woo fucking hoo.
strangely i’m not pissed at him, cause i understand the kinds of fuckwits we’re working with. i just need to find a way to get everything back in some manageable order, before i kill someone.
the rain washes away a multitude of things, some of my lethargy with it apparently. the shower didn’t help, but i took a stroll in the rain this morning on the way to work and i feel a little better. maybe it wasn’t raining hard enough.
i’m at work, trying to figure what went on yesterday in my absence. today is going to one of of those churning days, no design, no flair, just get the job done. i don’t have it in me. i heard my boss was on a rampage yesterday, i’m almost looking forward to some sort of confrontation, i need something. i don’t think i can get a tattoo every time i feel numb.
i’m going to get started on some drudge work, let’s see how that goes.
sometime during the night, the pit moved and swallowed me. i don’t have the strength to fight it. i feel tired, soul weary. waking up to rain usual helps improve my mood, all it did this morning is make me cry. i really just want to crawl back into my bed and stay there until vic arrives. i just feel so lost and lonely.
how did this happen overnight, i was fine last night, wasn’t i? or having been hiding the obvious from myself. i’m not in a foul mood, i just feel lethargic and helpless. i’m sitting here trying to write this and i don’t know why i’m bothering. everything seems pointless.
it’s taken me the better part of 45 minutes to write this missive you see before you.
what the hell is going on with me? i hate feeling like this, i’m no use to myself, i’m no use to anyone like this.
i’m going to have a shower, maybe that will help. something has to give.
it’s been on my mind…
for vic
and an article that i’ve been looking for ages, recorded here for prosperity – the taste of a woman
NERVE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The womb of a woman is in the numbers of the insatiable things mentioned in the Scriptures. I cannot tell whether there is anything in the world its greediness may be compared unto; neither hell fire nor the earth being so devouring, as the privy parts of a lascivious woman.” -Dr. Nicholas de Venette, quoted in the The Mysteries of Love Revealed, 18th century
i’ve been cruising about various message boards and it saddens me to see just how homophobic and repressed my people are. i have a healthy attitude towards sex and i’m blessed with a partner who has one too, we’re able to communicate our desires with each other with out shame or fear. but as i read various posts, i wonder what makes me so different. i grew up here, i received the same education but i don’t think like my people. it’s so strange, i feel like such an outsider sometimes. a daily newspaper ran the same sex marriage story as a subhead yesterday and the whole country is in an uproar. religious leaders are talking out of their ass. and it’s not even here.
sometime ago i’d written a commentary about abortion, i think the same principles apply, so i’m going to post it here:
Let repression reign
“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.
Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?
You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
— Matthew Chapter 7 verses 1 – 5
Sunday saw the Catholic non-govermental organisation, Emmanuel Community’s anti-abortion march. The march was in direct response to an appeal by ASPIRE (Advocates for Safe Parenthood: Improving Reproductive Equity) for the repeal of the current abortion legislation.
The Emmanuel Community and the Catholic Church believe that the legalisation of abortion is detrimental to the quality of life.
Funny, I would have thought that both poverty and pedophelia would be detrimental to the quality of life as well. Where was the Emmanuel Community march then?
Call me a cynic but I don’t think these people should have the nerve to talk about the quality of life. What we need at the beginning of the third millenia is education and discourse, not the Catholic Church and their mouthpieces spouting the same moral diatribe that continues to promote abuse and poverty.
The male dominated Catholic Church and members of IRO appear to be living in some sort of time and testosterone warped reality where a woman’s role is to be subservient to her man and stay home and bear children. One Anglican bishop went so far as to say “Women shouldn’t be given a choice”.
What is even more saddening is these same IRO leaders have also objected to sex education and the introduction of condoms in high schools claiming the free distribution of condoms would give rise to promiscuity in the society. One of their major arguments against legalising abortion is that it will be used as a form of contraception. The people who use abortion as a form of contraception are already doing so.
Legalised abortion and contraception is not a carte blanche for sexual activity.
My other problem specifically with the Emmanuel Community is who are they to be advising people on sexuality and the reprecussions thereof? They should get their own house in order before they bring their weight and judgment to bear. This same repression of sexuality and any discourse on it is at the root of the rampant sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. How can you preach to entire societies on sexual mores and abstinence when your own exemplars are using their power to sexually abuse children?
My other concern with the Emmanuel Community and their march is how in touch are these people with the day to day realities of living in Trinidad & Tobago? A cross section of the people gathered at the Jean Pierre Complex yesterday afternoon included the more affluent portions of the populace—the sort of people who can afford a quick visit to their ob/gyn or a private medical clinic to perform a legal D&C or D&E, if pregnancy is not in their plans.
Maybe if they weren’t able to hide behind the legality of having money they would be singing a different tune.
What these people need to realise is that young people in this country are having sex and rather than taking some moral high ground and frowning upon them, we need to be providing them with sensible and detailed information, to help them make the right choices themselves.
how did we get here. sigh. i started off with such good intentions and then i got sidetracked. go forth and be tolerant.
i’m back from the wilds of valencia (eastern trinidad) we only saw one quarry today. oddly, in light of what is being done, the quarry was beautiful, proof that mother nature even at her worst is a stunner. it was nice to be out of the office all day, we could have gone back but decided against it. i came home instead and i’ve been catching up on my reading…
seems a sad day for gentlemen
gregory peck whose role as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird won him the Academy Award for Best Actor; and ranking earlier this month as “the greatest hero in 100 years of film history” by the American Film Institute; passed away at age 87.
and veteran journalist david brinkley also died today at the age 82
in more upbeat news…
official string theory website (geeks of the world, UNITE!)
the 50 worst company names, kind of puerile, but it’s been a long day, cut me some slack.
another best list (you make the call) the 50 best magazines
and finally your moment of zen
