10.08.2006 or "Business as Usual"

It is very easy to look back on a day, in search of memorable events and anecdotes and be put off by the fact that there werent any. Usually it just means you need to think a little harder

Today after I awoke I walked through to the kitchen and saw a huge tub of something called "CLIM". I was a little too sleepy to heed it any attention and I as of yet still havent actually looked to see what it actually was. Instead I laughed at the fact that because of the L in CLIM, It could also be titles CRIM, which would make even less sence save sounding like its an all purpose powedered food stuff developed especially for criminals. Im sure if I actually got off my ass I would find out it is something really mundane, but that would spoil the illusion and the joke wouldnt it. On the way out I grabbed a garbage bag full of ice, shoved it in my bag and peddled like the clappers through the busy Taiwan streets in order to make it to school in the blazing morning sun before the ice melted all over my back, down the back of my trousers, onto the peddles causeing me to slip and fly straight under an articulated lorry. Thats the second time now Ive expressed that irrational fear, I wonder where that comes from.

So why the ice? Well we were studying ice today. Well not ice in particular but the sun and how it melts things. I pretty sure by the end of the day no one was any the wiser on the topic but we had fun nonetheless. On the way home I swung by the house and played with the kitty a bit.He had just woken up but after a quick stretch he was back to his old tricks again. He walks on his hind legs so often now I think he has make a concious decision that it is just more effecient to do so. It alows him to box and swipe and run all at the same time. He got up onto the counter and started feverishly scratching at the other laptop, I took my eyes off him for two seconds and he rips off the F8 button and then runs off. Luckily I managed to fix it back on but he would'nt listen to my scolding.

So after that I headed out to the American diner to get myself some food. I had a chicken burrito, which I have never had before but it's very similar what us litteral British folks call a wrap. I chose it because like a burrito, I wasn't really sure what I would be getting if I ordered a quesadilla or enchilada. Maybe Ill try each over the next two days. They have walls of American food stuffs in the restraunt which you can buy. I like to look at them, and seethe. I dont know why they anger me so, maybe because the names and the pictures on the boxes and cans are just so stupid. Such meathead American Joe products like "Potatoe buds", since when did potatoes come in buds. They call rice crispy sqaures(our name, literal, factual) rice crispy treats. What are they for Dogs? Dont get me started on the word treat, I hate it. And the breakfast cereal, so obvious and clumbsy and in such hideous 1980's packaging. I could never live in America because I could never bring myself to put the stuff in a shopping basket. And what the hell is produce, it's fruit you bloody morons. huff huff huff. Sorry. I honestly cant tell you where that came from, I dont mean to offend and I am even more confused about why this particular strand of American culture irritates me so much.

So after Tea, Taiko, two games. I started trying to get perfect scores and in persuit of that quest I stopped caring the moment I missed a note and just whacked the drum for the remainder of the songs and made a bored face as if the game was dead to me now. I still love it though, im just finding new ways for it to be entertaining.

Now Im home, got some stuff to plan but after tomorrow its the weekend again yey! I t came around so fast. Lets hope this weekend is more cheerful than last. (See "Idle Hands") and I can get some quality relaxation and anime going on.

Until tomorrow folks,