The Age of Aquarius...
My graduation speech from UW Madison this Spring was themed as "We Are Entering the Age of Aquarius" (Complete with a bellowing rendition of the notorious Abba tune) and leaving the "The Age of Pisces." Whatever...I'm born in March and I don't feel the least bit dated or rejected from this statement. *wink*
I was born in March on the biggest blizzard to hit the 80s, second only to Madonna's hairdo, at St. Francis Hospital. My father got his most unreasonable parking ticket and his car was towed for being in the snow plowing zone. I feel proud that even in my meager 4 lb beginning...I took up that much unwarranted space. Anyhow, growing up as a child my mother always told me that the month I was born in owned this saying of "If it enters in like a lion, it leaves like a lamb." Well...despite being born on such a roaring storm, I strongly hope I do not leave this world so timidly.
Storms are on my mind today. For those of you who have not caught up with the news, you've sure missed out on the most freakish and tragic of deaths. About a mile from my coworkers house, a mother and child were standing in the storm waiting for their bus to come, when lightning had struck a 4,000+ volt powerline above them and snapped it, whipping it down to the puddle below them. The current transmitted to the water was so strong, it had ignited their soaked clothing ,and they started on fire in the middle of the water. Soon the bus they waited for had arrived. The flood was so deep it had reached the bus's bumper as the driver jumped out and attempted to save them, only to be horribly shocked and dragged from the horrific scene. A passenger jumped into the blazing puddle and died trying to save them, as onlookers watched helplessly and tried to prevent people from going near them. Later a fire truck drove by and found the bodies. Can you imagine? In the middle of a storm, seeing the body of a woman and child on fire on the sidewalk?
This is the freakiest story I've ever heard, and being a metro transit passenger, it shook me up. If that bus had arrived a minute or two sooner, the mother and daughter and passenger would have lived. It sounds like something from a Charlie Kaufmann film...or a Present Day written Bible.
Okay, too horrified, I'm switching the topic.
Age of Narcissism, is much more fitting to me than the Age of Aquarius. I am officially on Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, and now this Live Journal, and I believe I have a very dormant OKCupid account that I made 2 and half years ago but got too confused with all the goofy "yourbestmatch" quizzes. They frighten me. I mean really after turning 15 I've been doing nothing but trying to figure out who my soulmate should be and suddenly this screen flickers at me and says "David1234232 from Los Angeles is your perfect match, he likes cheesecake and Porcupine Tree too?" Isn't this nothing more than resurrected digitalized witchcraft? Reminds me of those greek myth stories I used to read as a kid where the prince or warrior would go visit an oracle and be like "So is this little nymph gonna screw me after I beat up this three headed dog monster or what?" Yet so many of my friends have had so much luck with this site on finding neat people. I'm confused. Thank God for Internet Explorer curing Social Ineptness. We've opened a highway to each other's hearts apparently. Too bad that highway comes with so many goddamn viruses. No, Window's viruses I mean...Syphilis was brought by the Victorians before Bill Gates. Perfect Guy comes with free unsolicited porn in my folder. I guess its fitting.
I know, I'm sounding way too cynnical about online dating. I shouldn't be, I met my coolest friends on the internet or through firends I meto n the internet, and I must say I'm probably much more charming in virtual black and white text than in my alter ego giggling nervous fleshy persona, but still, I read people through touch. Friends requests I just don't trust.
Well enough ranting about that, probably just cursed myself, now I'll go on OKCupid and get a weirdo *sigh*
My Kinky Quote of the Day:
"The person I trust to tame me,
Does not merely restrain me,
But must also contain me."
I'll follow up on that later...for now...back to idle volunteering.
I was born in March on the biggest blizzard to hit the 80s, second only to Madonna's hairdo, at St. Francis Hospital. My father got his most unreasonable parking ticket and his car was towed for being in the snow plowing zone. I feel proud that even in my meager 4 lb beginning...I took up that much unwarranted space. Anyhow, growing up as a child my mother always told me that the month I was born in owned this saying of "If it enters in like a lion, it leaves like a lamb." Well...despite being born on such a roaring storm, I strongly hope I do not leave this world so timidly.
Storms are on my mind today. For those of you who have not caught up with the news, you've sure missed out on the most freakish and tragic of deaths. About a mile from my coworkers house, a mother and child were standing in the storm waiting for their bus to come, when lightning had struck a 4,000+ volt powerline above them and snapped it, whipping it down to the puddle below them. The current transmitted to the water was so strong, it had ignited their soaked clothing ,and they started on fire in the middle of the water. Soon the bus they waited for had arrived. The flood was so deep it had reached the bus's bumper as the driver jumped out and attempted to save them, only to be horribly shocked and dragged from the horrific scene. A passenger jumped into the blazing puddle and died trying to save them, as onlookers watched helplessly and tried to prevent people from going near them. Later a fire truck drove by and found the bodies. Can you imagine? In the middle of a storm, seeing the body of a woman and child on fire on the sidewalk?
This is the freakiest story I've ever heard, and being a metro transit passenger, it shook me up. If that bus had arrived a minute or two sooner, the mother and daughter and passenger would have lived. It sounds like something from a Charlie Kaufmann film...or a Present Day written Bible.
Okay, too horrified, I'm switching the topic.
Age of Narcissism, is much more fitting to me than the Age of Aquarius. I am officially on Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, and now this Live Journal, and I believe I have a very dormant OKCupid account that I made 2 and half years ago but got too confused with all the goofy "yourbestmatch" quizzes. They frighten me. I mean really after turning 15 I've been doing nothing but trying to figure out who my soulmate should be and suddenly this screen flickers at me and says "David1234232 from Los Angeles is your perfect match, he likes cheesecake and Porcupine Tree too?" Isn't this nothing more than resurrected digitalized witchcraft? Reminds me of those greek myth stories I used to read as a kid where the prince or warrior would go visit an oracle and be like "So is this little nymph gonna screw me after I beat up this three headed dog monster or what?" Yet so many of my friends have had so much luck with this site on finding neat people. I'm confused. Thank God for Internet Explorer curing Social Ineptness. We've opened a highway to each other's hearts apparently. Too bad that highway comes with so many goddamn viruses. No, Window's viruses I mean...Syphilis was brought by the Victorians before Bill Gates. Perfect Guy comes with free unsolicited porn in my folder. I guess its fitting.
I know, I'm sounding way too cynnical about online dating. I shouldn't be, I met my coolest friends on the internet or through firends I meto n the internet, and I must say I'm probably much more charming in virtual black and white text than in my alter ego giggling nervous fleshy persona, but still, I read people through touch. Friends requests I just don't trust.
Well enough ranting about that, probably just cursed myself, now I'll go on OKCupid and get a weirdo *sigh*
My Kinky Quote of the Day:
"The person I trust to tame me,
Does not merely restrain me,
But must also contain me."
I'll follow up on that later...for now...back to idle volunteering.