001. tomo...

001. tomorrow afternoon we are going to play 'capture the flag'.if anyone wants to come, we are meeting at 3pm by the VAG, robson side of the street and hopefully lots of people will show up and we can drink 40s and breathe in some fresh air. plus, there are going to be free goodies.002. somebody should hire daniel. he makes pretty graphics like the one below.

in thailand, you c...

in thailand, you can float down canals past the buddhist temples and feed bread to the fish that live in the water. you sit in a rickety boat with other tourists and there are hundreds of white fish that bubble to the surface, for one second the water is calm and then you throw your pieces of bread as far as you can and everywhere around you splashes and jumps and explodes with excitement. somehow i think the experience is supposed to be soothing and life-affirming, like we as the general westernized public should appreciate this twisted circle of life concept where they keep the fish to entertain the tourists but i just thought it was a little bit frightening. when i was a little girl, i used to have nightmares about monsters under the water, maybe it felt just a little bit too close for comfort because i haven't eaten another fish since..the water is so dirty that it is the colour of weak chocolate milk. there used to be a water market that you could actually go and enjoy but the government shut down that practice due to pollution.

little...

little old women sit alone on uncomfortable plastic chairs in department store resturaunts, mittens piled neatly to the left of a cheap cafeteria tray and they order everything on the menu even though they can only eat seven bites before their small stomachs are full. these women sit for hours spooning watery jello into their mouths and they think about their grandchildren and great grandchildren and husbands and sons and daughters and neices. .my grandmother is seventy-five and she likes japanese television and twelve dollar candy bars. she is diabetic. last week, she missed the end of a made-for-tv movie and spent the next two days on the telephone with a cable company trying to find out if they would send her a video cassette tape of the entire film. they said no. on valentine's day, she called me to tell me what sort of man i am to marry, "someone ordinary, not too special, just nice." when you've got nothing else to do, the whole world feels like a mission.when i am eighty-four, i want to spend my days smoking opium and watching day time television. if i have grandchildren, i will set aside five dollars a week for each of them and if i don't, i will own three cats.

yearsgone

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