The Return of the Muse

To find things we never even thought to look for while seemingly unable to find the things which we so desperately seek. Is serendipity not the greatest irony of all?

My muse is at once omnipresent and elusive; concrete yet wispy. She comes and goes in her own whimsical way and once again, she has returned to me to be the words etched onto lavender scented parchment. Perhaps I'll ask her to stay this time.

wtf r u lol-ing abt u rtard?

I forgot to mention it in the previous post but I did manage to complete my 50,000 word novel for this year's NaNoWriMo but the last 20,000 words or so is just me rambling on about totally random things (even more random than most of the stuff I ramble about here) in a manner best described as utterly incoherent. I do intend on fixing it up to at least a readable standard and will do so when I can be bothered (pronounced "don't hold your breath"). Anyway, onto today's rant...

Has anybody else noticed that the internet has taken over every facet of our lives? Now we can do all our shopping online, communicate with people online, read the newspaper online, attend university online, watch movies and television online, etc. We're so caught up in our virtual world that we can't seem to interact normally with reality anymore. I quite frequently hear children saying "LOL" and "ROFL" rather than actually laughing out loud or rolling on the floor as in on fire. This is alarming. Are we so used to utilising "lol" as our standard online chat response (something I'm shamefully guilty of myself) that we've transferred this to real life? So used to it that we've forgotten how to actually laugh? Even more alarming is when people say "sigh". That's right, they don't sigh anymore, they say "sigh". Then there are people who speak in acronyms. Yes, I understand that acronyms will often be faster than pronouncing entire words. Especially when said words may be a mouthful. But when the pronunciation of the acronym requires more effort than the actual words themselves, it hardly seems to make any sense. The most common example of this is when people say "double you tee eff". It's not as if people don't know what the acronym means. It makes me wonder what the f*ck people are thinking when they use an extra two syllables.

Also worrying me is the number of verbs suddenly appearing in the vernacular. These days we don't search for something random online. We "google it". We don't read shoddy inaccurate articles on an online encyclopedia about some new drunken bimbo. We "wiki it". We don't find stupid navigation instructions to some random location. We "whereis it". It gets even more fun when we start conjugating these noun-verbs into their various tenses.

Anyway, funny story. I loved whereising my way to new places so much I developed a callous from it. Thinking "WTF, this might be troublesome", I wikied up a page on callouses to find out how long it would last. And GG, I found out it would last up to six months but could be surgically removed. I intend to google the nearest clinic as soon as possible and have a doctor perform the surgery over the internet. LOL.

Yes, I am very bored...

Three Names You Go By:
1. Aldo
2. Purple Gerbil
3. 666 Blessings

Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Boxers
2. T-shirt
3.Too much hair gel

Three Things You Would Want in a Relationship:
1. Me
2. My muse
3. Romance

Three of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. Sleeping
2. Being a cynic about everything
3. Arguing with evangelists

Three Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. For this boredom to go away
2. For something better to blog about besides a stupid survey
3. My muse

Three pets you had/have:
1. A chihuahua cross which died of internal bleeding because my grandmother insisted on feeding it chicken bones
2. A small school of goldfish which died from unknown causes (although they did look quite zombie-like in their final days)
3. A hampster which I put into a cage after it found it's way into my backyard.

Three things you did last night:
1. Went to see 'The Sword of Alexander' at the Japanese Film Festival
2. Listened all the way through 'Inside In Inside Out'.
3. Pondered about various trivialities

Three things you ate today:
1. A triple cheeseburger (a.k.a. lard in a roll)
2. Roast duck (a.k.a. lard with wings)
3. A mostly frozen glass of iced coffee

Three people you Last Talked To:
1. Samantha
2. Monica
3. Dad

Three things you will do tomorrow:
1. Bitch, moan and whine about the sorry state of humanity
2. Get RSI from too much DS-ing
3. Erode whatever eyesight I have left with DVDs of old black and white movies

Three Favorite Holidays:
1. Talk like a pirate day
2. NYE
3. APEC holiday (if only because I got to have a bitch about the lockdown of the city)