3:40pm is the new 5:00pm

So I was hard at work when I received two emails notifying me of a celebrity passing. Within 10 minutes (I timed it), I received 4 face-to-face announcements from different coworkers about the same thing. I rolled my eyes acknowledging I was notified already. But I was annoyed that while I was working, everybody else was not. These are lean times. People are looking for work. The way people went about it bugged me because it was like office gossip and people were scurrying around trying to see who could spread it the fastest. I saw a couple of grins. C’mon, someone died. The facebook feeds? I bet prior to this majority of people weren't even fans. We live in the age of technology and science. With your cell phone you can twitter when you went to the john or post footage of it on youtube. I can’t imagine life without tech but there are some days where it’s too much. Remember when we used the phone to call each other? I have to admit I do like this one additional feature on my phone. I can take pictures and use those as cell phone wallpaper. Good-bye default sail boat. Hello Zachary Quinto.

(Yes, I see the irony in this. It's 2:56pm and I'm blogging while at work. I'm on a work break).

T-Minus 6 months and Counting

What super ability would you want? Ok, we all can't have telekinesis. We all can't go around moving objects with our brains. We'd become fat because we'd never move to get anything. Look what remotes did to us. Why do you think the term is couch potato. It ain't couch green bean. I would be wary to have telekinesis despite how cool it looks on tv. Jean Grey of the X-men didn't make it look cool though. It always looked like she was having a migraine or she'd collapse afterwards. The only times it looked effortless was when she was possessed or bad. Maybe only villains make it appealing. I mean would you really use it for good like saving cats from trees? No! You would probably use it for evil like (insert evil use here).

I was trying to think of one that matched me. Shape shifting's cool. Invisibility would be useful. Walking through walls would allow me not to carry my keys around. Crazy memory. I got that one already. Highly skilled mercenary with a mouth? I do like to talk. I've distracted many a driver with my conversation skillz but i'm not much of a mercenary. Spider...eww no. The other day I was standing by my closest when i tried to fix a hair that was standing up. Only it wasn't a hair, it was a spider's leg and the rest of the spider was still attached and alive. I know, that's hella gross!

Anywhoodle, another super power i find interesting is foretelling the future. There are some things i like to be surprised about. if you could see the future i think it would mess with you. it'd mess with me. i'd be all twitchy from whether or not i was purposely preventing an event or heading to it. i mentioned in an older post March 4 aka Go Forth about how a customer at work gave me a fortune about what would happen in the next three years for me when it came to my love life. At the time I didn't take her seriously. But lately these little signs/nudges keep popping up and it makes me wonder if something is going to happen soon.

The kids in sunday school were asking questions about laurie's engagement. one asked when i would be engaged. i would have to say yes to a somebody. i was short a somebody. she said it'll happen in six months and the kids sorta chime in with her.

At home group one person said when she first started attending she told her husband she felt someone would be engaged soon and it would be me.

I won't lie to you. I do find the prospect of this intriguing. I'm not on the hunt for anybody but it makes me wonder if he's just around the corner. I wonder if it's someone I already know. Do you think his initials are ZQ? ( I know, I really should take this down a notch. Don't want to come off obsessive). What if he's someone brand-spanking new? There are at least 3 weddings to attend in my future. We all know what happened at the last two I went to. Each time I make just a little more progress. Will the next one bring me to the one?

Eh, whatever. Telekinesis it is.

Um....Ok

I was just working on a post yesterday titled "Where is the Love?" and apparently I have my answer now. It's infiltrated the group.

I know we had one earlier this year to get things rolling. you know beginning of the end to being marriage-free but wow how quickly the end is coming.

So last weekend allen n is all telling me he has to be at a friend's engagement and then today i find out online who's engagement it is and my first thought is, " Life, why do you use my words against me?". Well, actually i gasped first but once the oxygen came back to the brain that was my first thought. Wait, no, there was a "I knew it!" in there and a "oh great, how long until he tells me this directly?". But anywhoo....

So late last year I was feeling engagement/wedding fatigue from all the happy news and i said if i hear of another engagement i'd scream. well life you win. since all these took place the beginning of this year i can't scream.

But 3 in one year? in one group if you include nonactive members?

who is next? who is next?!

i need to sit down for a moment.

Why don't you just make it 4 engagements in the group this year Life, you still have half a year left.

i dare you.

Why TV?! Why?!!!!!

I have a few things in life I enjoy. TV is one of them. It talk me how to speak English (lol, word should be taught. i didn't "talk" me well apparently). It taught me about racism. Cars going around in circles can be a sport. Flashing a boob on TV is a career killer. As long as you look hot you can be famous. It distracts me from earthquakes. I don't have to think because it thinks for me.

I've never had cable at home. the logic was we watch enough free network TV so cable would just be too much. But now we are forced to go digital or watch no TV. one of our TVs had already been hooked up because of the false start in the digital switch a few months back. All i had to do was hook up one more TV in the house. About 10 scans, 3 battery switches, and one collapse to the ground later it was able to scan for 10 channels. Out of the 10, 5 were in English. Out of that 3 channels didn't skip or weren't repeats.

surfing lags because there's a 3 second pause. the picture seems clearer but it's hard to tell since it is surrounded all around by a 5 inch blackness. everybody looks smaller. occasionally, everybody turns into blocks. The sound skips. If it's a weak signal? Darkness and silence.

I have decided on the theme song for this new era in television "New Divide" by Linkin Park. This switch to digital has separated me from my favorite shows and networks. Good-bye ABC and NBC. We have to go our separate ways now because your signals are out of reach. How i will miss you both. i miss NBC more than ABC. Stupid ABC got rid of "pushing daisies". No more HEROES or CHUCK. I used flair credits to save Chuck. Good bye ZQ you will only exist now in my heart and as my cell wallpaper. All i have left is FOX. Oh no, FOX news, will that be my new comedy hour? I will not watch the CW's network prime time programming(CBS, you can die too). You killed Veronica and the Gilmore Girls and I swore on their graves I would never go back to you.

I miss analog signals. Why does everything I love leave me? I should start loving world hunger or aids or cancer. Do some good with my curse.

Just when I was going to curl into a ball hope was on the horizon. It's going to be alright because there's always HULU! I love you HULU. Don't leave me. You're all I have left.

Sparkle

so at work more than one person has commented on my skin. today someone asked, "how do you keep your skin so pale?". i narrowed my gaze and said quietly, "don't you know? i'm a vampire." then i jumped over the counter, turned into a bat and flew down montgomery street.

No that didn't really happen but what a story it would be if it did. I just shrugged and said I was born this way. Plus i wear sunscreen even though i spend most of my time indoors.

now that i think about it i do burn rather easily in the sun. i like my red meat bloody. i feel a hundred years old. i wear dark colors. i tend to creep up on people. i see better in the dark than i do in light. i'm really strong..brain-wise. i age pretty well. i would die if a stake was put through my heart.

maybe i am a vampire....or just an emo asian.