of butterflies and whimsy

so, i've recently moved. one of the greatest things about the move is that i am now within walking distance to work - no more reliance on that not so reliable rocket that is the ttc subway (hooray!)

as a result, i've been arriving home much earlier - somewhere around 5:30, which means that i'm in time for the second half of the gilmore girls reruns that the women's channel plays at 5 every day. it's been wonderful! they're in the jess days - my favourite times! i forgot how much i loved jess. this was the good ol' days before he started getting super popular and they decided that they had to write him off the show so he could attempt his own spin-off (which didn't fare too well) ... although, him being written off the show was inevitable since with him around loralei and luke could never have gotten together.

so the best jess line, the moment i fell in love with him ... is when he returns a book to rory and she looks through it and sees all the notes he's written in the margins ... so she then says "i thought you said you didn't read much" .. he looks at her, and as he walks away he says "but what is much"

*swoons*

it's really sad that i'm this emotionally charged over a television character, i know. but he's just so .... *sigh*

so now i'm on the quest to find my jess. i think i need to have one of them in my life ... just for the experience of it. although, i'm not on a quest - b/c when you go on a quest for something like that, you rarely find it. but maybe i already have.

in other news - http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20041027-017/page.asp

that house was like 2 blocks from my old apartment (that i moved out of last sunday). nothing shady is supposed to happen on balliol street! it's like a stars hollow street!

ok, that's it - no more gilmore girls talk ... for now ...

nibbling

ode to toilet paper.

your neatly quilted flowers,
all rolled up neat and white.
always there when you need it,
morning, noon or night.

but tp, i must ask you -
where do you disappear?
i know you get used up, it's true
i don't expect you to last a year.

yet, this morning i renewed you.
a soft, full fluffy roll.
and this evening you were empty,
were the sheets stolen by a mole?

or better yet a rat,
but why would she stow you away?
tp is for one thing ... unless ...
is she eating you? she must think you're hay!

*the end*

p.s. i apologize for the awful poetry. but ... i had to make something out of a joke. a whole roll of toilet paper was used up today ... melissa was rather confused ... and then she came up with the solution - no one, i.e. melissa3, uses that much toilet paper in one day - unless of course, they're eating it. mmm ... bleached, fibers-y goodness!

confessions

do you ever feel like you're not quite getting all you can out of life? that there's something that seems so achievable ... but when you reach for it, it's like the millionaire (see c. montgomery burns) that's tied a dollar to a string and keeps pulling it just inches from your fingertips.

anyways, i don't think i should really continue on that train of thought. i really should have learned by now that blog entries after an evening at the bar are rarely a good thing - either i can't type, or i pursue a train of thought that i wouldn't normally. and b/c it's something i wouldn't want to share normally, i try to be as vague as possible, which just confuses people.

i know with communication you are supposed to be concise, clear - to the point. but there are some things that i just can't do that with (heck, when am i ever concise and to the point in my ramblings ... that's why they are just that, i.e. ramblings - i like to meander through my thoughts. gotta love applying that whole stream of consciousness thing). anyway ... my vagueries sometimes even confuse me, but i know that there are certain subjects that i would never wish to touch upon. even this is a subject i don't wanna go too deep into .. but i'm enjoying the feeling of tapping the keyboard right now and since no one seems to be replying to my msn messages, writing a diary entry will have to suffice.

so back to the vagueries ... they're my wall ... my protective wall. if i ever admit to you that you've figured them out, or tell you what they're referring to ... you know you're special. and really, there aren't that many special ones out there.

oh yeah, and i don't mean special as in riding the little bus to school, just to clarify.

advertising and education

so there's a current advertising campaign that really ... makes me squirm ... i would almost go as far to say that it actually disgusts me. maybe not disgusts, but upsets at least

now, you might think that this is due to the graphic nature of the campaign, the taboo subject matter, the political incorrectness of it all ... and i suppose in a way that's true - but it's not as overt as one might imagine.

so what could this campaign be?

it's an ad campaign extolling the virtues of the catholic school board. and saying what a wonderful loving and caring environment it is. i don't doubt this. but, the insinuation is that the other public system is the exact opposite. ok, so i understand that. you highlight your virtues relative to the competition when you're advertising.

but ... why is there competition b/w the school boards that are both funded by taxpayers? why is a board that is funded by the taxpayers using those funds in order to buy advertising space? especially when the other public school board seems to be so short of funds (although, those who rely on funds provided by the government must always play the oliver, must always ask for more)

maybe i'm just overreacting though ... and perhaps i just can't properly express my feelings about this

in other remarks, i hope that denmark doesn't decide that now is the time to strike and claim the disputed land and thus trigger a war. our [canada's] sub is currently on the fritz. and while we work on getting that back up and running, we're open to attack! but still, who would win that battle? unarmed canada or armed denmark?