exciting week

What a week I have had. I just have to tell you about all of the wacky things, I saw or did over the last few days...
I flipped off an old lady the other day. traffic was pretty light with only a street sweeper in the old lady's lane. She purposefully changed lanes and cut me off, after she had looked at me time and time again. She didn't use her turn signal, she just kept looking at me, and then, there she went. Total surprise! And she missed my bumper by about a foot. The sun roof was open, so I flipper her off. she knew she was a bad girl, as she was watching me in her rear view window and waved back.
Later that day, I saw a guy (a long haired, red-neck looking guy, probably really nice, just tacky looking) walking down a busy thoroughfare with out his shirt on. I yelled out the window to put his shirt back on.
I followed a cop for about 15 miles of surface streets the other day. He was either a very distracted driver, or he was drunk at nine in the morning. He kept sliding across the center divide line and then jerking the car back into the correct lane. Crazy!
I have a classmate, who must have sat in the very back of the room, or never showed up to class. I found it interesting that I have never noticed him before, as he is very well spoken (we had a verbal final) but he looks like a homeless, Hasidic Jew. A very strange combination of styles.
M took me out to dinner after my mid summer finals were over and low and behold, I saw crocodile Dundee. No, not the real one. this guy had on the hat with croc teeth around the band, he had on 3 arm bands located on his biceps, and bad Bermuda shorts. I kept looking for the knife. I can only hope he had an Australian accent...
It amazes me how many different people there are in this world. They say everyone has a twin, and I can only hope mine is crazier than I am.

legalized nudity

So, Dad and I were talking one day, and as our habit, we started to solve the world's problems...
We decided we need to legalize nudity. Here is a list of some of the problems we could fix if more people walked around naked, not all of the time (burr winter), but by having the freedom to do so.

Obesity - people would work out more and gym's would sponsor the bill, because they would make a ton of money from all the new recruits.
Diabeties - people would take better care of themselves.
Cardiac health problems - same as above
Manners - people would learn not to stare at others who are different, teens would learn that bodies just aren't that interesting.
Pollution - less detergent for cleaning clothes and less electricity need to run all the air conditioners in the summer
Teen pregnancy and promiscuity- bodies are funny looking and the mystery would be gone for those inquisitive teens.
Little boys - would learn to control their little body parts at a young age and hopefully keep that control as they grow up into nice, pollite men.
Shame - we would stop being embarrassed by that extra 20 pounds. We would stop judging others by what they look like.
Sun screen - sales would sky rocket (another sponsor to the bill)
Healthy foods would become cheaper - with more people eating from the outer edges of the market, you would have less packaged food and with a higher demand prices would go down so more people could afford to eat their veggies. Junk food sales would go down.
Movie tickets - I'm not sure if the price would go up or down? Up to make up revenue or down to encourage people to actually show up.
Cancer - there is that thing about taking better care of yourself.
Smoking - people wouldn't smoke so much if others could see the damage (eeww you look old!)
Motorcycles - people would race inbetween cars on the packed freeway or zip in and out of traffic (morons) if they thought of having scars on their 'you-know-whats'.

where did all the sunshine go?

it's raining, it's pouring, the old man is drowning...
It's weeks like these I question global warming. I live in a desert, 2nd driest state in the nation. I has rained for 3 weeks straight ans going to rain for at least 10 more days, according to the weather report. We have turned into Seattle. We have enough coffee shops, we don't need even more. Grunge has long gone in the fashion world. And I can't stand yuppies any more than I can run over them with my tiny car.
I wonder to my self what this world is coming to. I study the environment at university, and all the information and predictions says it should be 115 degrees and no a drop of rain for months. Yet here I sit, a deluge of water. Flooding homes, streets, and parking lots. I guess I need to get my rain coat back from the dry cleaners and I should go by some cute wellies, huh?

predictable

I think I have become predicable to my school chums. They have come to depend on me, and I'm not sure it is a good thing. 3 of my classmates have left today and have asked me for my notes. Now, usually, I am fine with this as I am known to take pretty good notes. This class is not that interesting so my notes are a little thin, and now I am cursed to share. Now don't get me wrong, I like these classmates and I love to help. I'm not sure who's bad karma this is.

neighbors

My great neighbor... I don;t get a chance to talk to her much, I see her husband a lot more. Well, she happened to be outside when I got home from school today. I walked over to ask about the cleaning lady she has working for , and has been for about 4 years. As I'm asking, she interrupts and asks if I would like some flowers cut fresh from her garden. The were so pretty and smell wonderful. (She did eventually answer my question.)
It is great when someone you don't know very well can brighten up your day by just doing something so small. :)

excitement

I sometimes wish my life was exciting and full of plans. I think of all the beautiful places I could go, the people I could meet, and yet I don't want to leave my house to get it done. I barely leave the house to meet friends as it is, and they lead busy lives, just the same. There are flowers in Paris during spring. I want to watch the great white sharks breach off South Africa. I want to dive with the whale sharks and manta rays near Yap. I want, I want, I want, but there is that money thing and the school thing and, oh yeah, the work thing. I suppose there are a lot of things I should be doing, like homework or writing a paper that is due in 2 days, and I know I shouldn't procrastinate, but it is the same thing I do with the list of exciting things I want to do. Hopefully, if I wait long enough they will come to me. Yes, I'm waiting for the future.
Yeah, I know, that is a bad way to be. I have a great cop-out, though. I can do all the cool things as soon as I finish school. Then, I can get a full nights sleep and start to plan for my new found freedom. Well, at least until graduate school.