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Bubble gum pellets with candy powder in a plastic jug, what a great invention. I can scarf while I type. Oops, I think I just swallowed some gum with candy powder by mistake. The candy powder tends to collect at the bottom of the container too. Mm, sugary goodness in my veins.

Speaking of mistakes, turns out I don't work at Price Chopper until tommorow, I misread the schedule. Well, at least I found out now, rather then later.

Hey, The Lady of Moof, hope you're serious about a trip to Japan one day because I sure am. I've already got a couple of investments going that I just opened today. Wish I could go in 2005, but I doubt I'd have enough funds or time to do it by then. However, I was thinking of going during 2008, when most other tourists will be off in China for the Olympics.

Now don't get me wrong about the Olympics, but I'm just cynical about the whole thing. I mean, sure it's nice to be impressed with these people's athletic abilities and I know they went to a lot of trouble to get there, but let's face it, the majority of them don't profit that much from their efforts, unless their in the top 1% that gets a gold medal, or (like Michelle Kwan) look really hot in tight outfits. The sponsors and advertisers get most of the benefits from the whole glorified circus. And saying that the counrtry that hosts it is going to benefit is total malarky, all they get is a strained infrastructure and tons of money spent that would be better going to social services. Yeah, yeah, I'm a pinko commie, screw you. I don't like seeing people in a state of misery.

Besides, there's just something perverse about the whole aspect of amazing feats of the human body being pushed to its limits, being watched by a ton of lardbutts who haven't exersized since the 9th Grade while they eat trans fat laden snacks. Then when their country wins an event, they start crying like they just delivered a baby or found the cure for AIDS. What the hell are you crying for? They did all the work.

If they really wanted to convince me that it really is about the triumph of the human spirit and showing triumph over adversary, they could at least give a little more time to the Paralympics. It's pretty amazing that people who were born or became handicapped due to an accident will train and compete, even though Wheaties really has no interest in sticking their picture on those stupid cereal boxes.

I'm still interested in the Olympics, but I happen to enjoy the science behind it, plus the aspect of the whole seemy underbelly underneath this nice glossy image projected to the world. I like reading about the newest tests for drugs (anabolic steriods are so easy to trace these days, your pee may as well have hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers and blue moons swimming in it). And some of their nasty side effects; I read about this drug that's supposed to increase your red blood cell count, increasing your body's ability to use oxygen more efficiently and give you more energy. Problem is, some guy ODed on it and died once, he'd used so much of the drug, his blood had taken on the consistency of honey. Cool, huh? Oh, and you don't need to be an insider to hear all the stuff about IOC vote buying, bribery, corruption and all those other fun thingies.

Moving on, no immediate projects due soon, so I'm just chilling right now before I do my homework. I think my cough's gone down too, that's a plus.

I'm hoping November will come and go soon too. Not because I'll have my midterms out of the way, but because then all this garbage about the U.S. elections will be out of the way. Now don't get me wrong, I have relatives who live in the states. I love traveling to the U.S. for my vacations. Heck, they live an hour from New York City and they saw the smoke coming from the horizon of their house. Put a lot of aspects of the U.S. Government really piss me off. Their whole foreign policy c/o the Bush Administration can pretty much be summed up as "if it's in the way, steamroll/dynamite/machine gun it now, even if it screws your own citizens over, you can always say sorry and act sad about it later". Even if it weren't for that, from a Canadian perspective, the latest psychodrama about the elections is straight out of the twilight zone.

For one thing, George Bush is about as popular as a frog in a punch bowl for most Canadians. How anyone could wanna vote for him is beyond our comprehension. And what's with all this debate about what happened in Vietnam? Gee, who was more patriotic, someone who volunteered to go overseas and fight for their country, then had to balls to come back and discuss what was going on down their, or some other guy who used his daddy's connections to get a cushy position, when AWOL for a while, then left early so he could attend college? But a lot of Americans are very upset about how veterans were labelled as baby killers, despite lots of documentation about atrocities committed against civillians?

And that's what also pisses off a lot of foreigners about U.S. policy and attitudes. My parents are immigrants who came to Canada in their late teens. It annoys them how some Americans can allow their government to have policies that effectievely bully other countries for their way, declare themselves morally superior, then turn around, label any who even ask an honest question as "Anti-American", then throw up their hands and wonder what everyone's so angry about. And it's not just the U.S., lots of other countries like Russia and China bully other countries around and now they can excuse themselves for making draconian policies like Bush is doing right now. Way to go, people.

I don't totally blame Americans. I can understand them being scared and they need to believe that this guy who's in charge knows what the hell he's doing. But he would have never gotten into office had more people bothered to vote. Plus the whole messing with ballots thing is just plain stupid. Here's an idea: have a piece of paper with each candidates name next to a box. Put an X in the box next to the name of the person you vote for. Duh.

In any case, I don't trust those stupid popularity polls by a long shot. Why? Because they don't poll people on cell phones, just home phones. Come on, how many times have you sat through a phone survey? I've got other things to do and chances are that people who will vote against Bush probably have more on their minds then answering a few dumb questions (or they fear the FBI will knock on their door should they pick the wrong guy). Most of the people who actually bother to answer those things are a bunch of old people with nothing else to do.

*snuffle* Well, I'm off for now, later.