Old post from my cyber junk page.

today i made a roll of dimes which is equal to five dollars. my friend was pretty impressed. she pointed that a roll of loonies is $25 dollars, which means i could use a roll to buy shoes from pay less. unfortunatly, i never make it that far with the loonies, since i use them to do laundry.


lesson of the day: sometimes blog worthy posts and ideas dont make it to "Observation" and that's okay.

Gov't bans inefficient lighting

uh, yeah. who came up with this brilliant idea (a-ha pun)?
You know what's inefficient?
Government is inefficient!
I can't believe that of all the things the government should do this is the one thing they did. I agree that every one should use more efficient light bulbs, but calling this an initiative is pretty funny. It's analogous to the following scenario that i hope all students identify with: Say for the past few years, profs have been telling you to bring a dark pencil to the multiple choice exam. You can bring a pen, but if you make a mistake you cant erase. As a result, most bring pencils. Sure there are those that don't but over time, the obvious pit falls have people turn to the pencil. Suddenly, the university comes out and says "hey dudes, pens are banned at m/c exams! look how awesome we are for saving you guys!"

when i looked up initiative in the dictionary, the def relating to government meant that initiative is the right to raise a popular topic. that in itself is okay, because reducing crime is popular, and leg. to stop crime seems pretty good, but i dont think how you light your home (and how you turn off your lights when you leave the room) should be deligated by law. i'm sure a good edu program in media and in school will suffice. what happend to taxing things? they tax ciggarettes? why not light bulbs? they should just make it so expensive to buy incandesant bulbs for any one to want them. arn't we supposed to be all neo-liberal? get rid of enviro laws and manage them with the market?

sure you may say that laws reflect the values of our society, and that this would mean that our society is caring more about energy consumption. well what a baby step, considering their slashing enviro law on every other front...

hmm, i've run out of time for ranting....

until next time

Karen's Goth poem: written as if she had been goth at 16.

Title: Goth Poem

Oh!What deplorable and wretched state that I am in...
The inner confines of my mind are withered and wrinkled
premature of a natural time.
You are the black thumb of the delicate plant
that is my wilted soul: starving for
light and love.
Macabre are the empty chambers of my heart.
Incessant echos of what used to be.
Black paint pours over my soul like the river of Styx.
The paint must have been on sale at Wal-Mart,
lest you expend any time or any money
that would put you out of your busy ways;
even to decorate my character with shame.
O! How indecorous of all ideas!
Dark are the days that I think about
your capabilities to moor contemptible peculiarities
to my already tumultuous marrow.

So this is my very first goth poem, written according to advice i read on found Internet pages such as http://www.deadlounge.com/poetry/tips.html. Maybe I'll post this on a goth forum to get some constructive feed back. I certainly think this poem is more interesting than some i found in cyber space with a quick Google, but perhaps it's not dark enough? I think i might have used too many positive connotation words like 'light', 'love' and 'day'. I'm not sure if i acheived a gothy feel: any opinions? Also the Wal-Mart comment might bring the reader out of eternal sadness and into the humor realm. I'm a satirist by nature and thought it was too good to take out. However, I'm aware that irony shouldn't be in goth poems, unless of course it makes one sad to think about it. although, right now i cant think how irony couldn't be funny on some level! that's what irony is, isn't it? Something so tragic, yet it's funny. Like the the Crock hunter who died of a Sting-Raye...the least dangerous of all the animals he dealt with his whole life! It's sad that he's dead, but that's still kinda funny. ppl joke about it all the time.

Any how, let me know what you think of my attempt at big worded expression of depression.

Moudly Bread Theory

I kept noticing that in the morning for breakfast, that if i was wondering if my bread had gone bad yet and upon inspection the bread seemed fine, in the afternoon if i went back to the bread for another meal, the bread was now mouldy. Covered with bluish, black and white mould! (Which would always make me uneasy about the breakfast i had). This happend often enough that i started to notice, and subsequently made a point of conciously observing it. It appears as though my bread only goes mouldy after 12 pm, and never in the morning.

Irony

On the way to work, I saw some graphitti under the bridge i pass. It said "Anarchist Movement April 1st at the Jordan* community centre" I think this is funny because the anarchist movement is held at a community centre which is funded by the government! lol


*This name is made up as i forgot the actual name of the community centre