Six Months and A Day...

Until Christmas. My mum's favorite thing about her birthday (tomorrow) is that it's in the middle of the year between her favorite holiday- Christmas. She gets presents every six months at any rate. There's a tropical wave off the coast right now. Sounds happy, doesn't it? It could turn into a tropical depression, thus taking it's sadness out on the rest of us. Then turn into a storm then a hurricane. Let's hope that doesn't happen. Great dark clouds though. No strange mental ramblings to report today, unfortunately. Just my usual Saturday hour or so in Borders. Heard that song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"? Very interesting. Gets stuck in the head far too easy, in my opinion.

So, in honor of the song, I shall close with the lyrics.

Black Horse And The Cherry Tree
KT Tunstall

two, three, four 

(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 

well my heart knows me better than i know myself 
so i'm gonna let it do all the talking. 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 
i came across a place in the middle of nowhere 
with a big black horse and a cherry tree. 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 

i fell in fear, upon my back 
i said don't look back, just keep on walking. 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 
when the big black horse that looked this way, 
said hey lady, will you marry me? 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 

but i said no, no, no,no-no-no 
i said no, no, you're not the one for me 
no, no, no,no-no-no 
i said no, no, you're not the one for me 

(ooooo,woo-hoo) 

and my heart had a problem, in the early hours, 
so it stopped it dead for a beat or two. 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 
but i cut some cord, and i shouldn't have done that, 
and it won't forgive me after all these years 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 

so i sent her to a place in the middle of nowhere 
with a big black horse and a cherry tree. 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 
now it won't come back , cause it's oh so happy 
and now i've got a hole for the world to see 
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo) 

but it said no, no, no,no-no-no 
i said no, no, you're not the one for me 
no, no, no,no-no-no 
said no, no, you're not the one for me 

(ooooo,woo-hoo) (not the one for me, yeah) 
(ooooo,woo-hoo) 
said no,no, no,no, no, no, no 
you're not the one for me 
said no,no, no,no, no, no, no 
you're not the one for me 


big black horse and a cherry tree 
i can't quite get there cause they've all forsaken me 
big black horse and a cherry tree 
i can't quite get there cause they've all forsaken me

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day. A few more gray hares from me. <- my father's day card to my dad. It had gray bunnies on the front. It was his kind of joke.
We're up in Gainesville, FL visiting my grandparents today. They moved about a year and a half or so ago to this retirement community, Oak Hammock, from Frederick, MD. I've decided I really am happy for them because their leaving the area meant I am less homesick at school, more independent, more social, and more self-reliant. I liked their house though....and the city. Anyway. Gainesville's the home of the University of Florida, UF to the Floridians. Sprawling mass of a school with about 48,000 people attending in a given semester. The city's population (normal) is about 50,000. Thus, the apartment complex on every corner around here for the students. I like my smaller school. :)
Not too much else going on for me...working, filing and the like. Typing envelopes on a typewriter! It's kind of fun...quite loud but makes me appreciate computers all the more. And my iPod helps keep away the boredom and some of the mental wanderings while filing. I'm too efficient at it though...I get done far too quickly and things don't pile up fast enough. And I can't just sit around until they do pile up again. More's the pity.
My mum's birthday is this coming Sunday. We're going to the beach. One would normally think that for a person living in Florida, thus an hour and a half or so away from the beach most of the time, the beach would be a nice place to go. Not so much for me. I think it's the sand. Or the sunscreen thing. Or the heat. Either way, I'm not a big fan. So, I'll bring a book and just read. The week after that is the 4th of July. I don't have to work that day, which is nice, but I do have to work the day before. And we're going to the beach again. But my dad always has a concert he has to play on the 4th so at least they'll do the beach thing while I'm not there. Then it's Pirates time. The movie comes out on my dad's birthday. He's well aware that we'll be going to see it that day. He's voiced no objections so if he has any...well...whatever.
Other than the holidays coming up, not much is going on. Work, blah, meeting a friend to go to the local fitness room, yadda yadda...going through DVDs the family has acquired in my absence, fun.
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight. Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you.
So fine. I watched the Sound of Music yesterday. I'm also trying to pick up a bit of French for Brussels. It's slow going.

Mental Wanderings and Long Words

So, while at work this week, filing away, I came across a name of a company suing somebody. They were called Superior Hobbies. So, I got to wondering…do they only stock superior products or do they simply have a snooty idea of what is a ‘superior’ hobby? In addition, does the Superior Hobbies place have an inferior hobbies section to placate the less cultured hobby enthusiast? And if in a parallel universe the store would be called Inferior Hobbies and stock superior goods or still stock inferior goods. Or would they have their own ideas of what is an inferior hobby?

It was after the parallel universe thought that I decided that either I had a really impressive imagination or just that such thoughts were brought on by filing, hours of nothingness, and paper cuts. Either way I’d spent too much time on the thought, though I did manage to pass some time considering the idea that I spent too much on the whole thing. Such is how I
spend my days, until August 11th, at least. I never want to be a secretary unless it’s a title, so that knowledge is something at least. 

Also, fun and very long words:

floccinaucinihilipilification, noun: Estimating something as worthless
antidisestablishmentarianism, noun: opposition to the separation of church and state
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, noun: A lung disease caused by inhaling fine particles of silica., i.e. "black lung"

End note: Ann Coulter needs to get over herself. Or simply fade out of existence, taking her narrow minded, nonsensical ideas with her. And that is the end of my soapbox rant for today.

An Ode to Borders

Borders, Borders,
Thou art wonderful.
You have good movies,
You have good music,
You have good books,
Thus your name.
You feed and magnify my book store addiction
But I don't care,
Because you're just that cool.
And you gave me a dessert for my birthday.
And you have mango smoothies that taste real.
Fin.

So, the air conditioning is working, but because we have dial-up at home and not the nice, fast wireless Borders has, I'm at Borders right now. And drinking my smoothie...and eating my chocolate creamcheese muffin that they warmed up for me. I love this place. :)

An Ode to the Creator of Air Conditioner

Oh, Air Conditioner Creator
Your product is one of the best inventions ever
You made Florida habitable
You made summers bearable
And now your creation is not working at my house
You should have foreseen this problem
And made them self-fixing

Thank you.