First of all, I love you all so much I can't even describe it in words. Thank you so much for all the wonderfulness, I wish we all lived in the same place so I could hug you and be more appreciative than this, but I love you to death.

Second, you are awesome, Anna and Chili. Just, you know, pointing out what awe already said.

Third, although in the middle of the night, I freaking loved the phone call that confused me for a little while because it made me feel amazing and I was surprised I could get long distance calls. And I love you. And also, it made me really happy.

Fourth, skipped because of bad luck.

Fifth, I have to get up in 3 hours and 45 minutes, so good night my awesome amazing readers. <3

Highlight of the day? Saltines for dinner and a 9 o'clock bedtime. Yes please.

Rude...

Dear Chili,

Love,
Ouch

Meckere...

Aso, iich bin fascht explodiert wiil ich han di ganz ziet scho wele schriebe aber han denkt viellicht soell i das mal nett sii und noed meckere. Aber i han mich anderscht entschide und mecker jetzt mal los. Also, erstens, miini lieb mitbewohnerin isch so verdammt luut. Sie stampft die ganz ziit i de wonig ume. Und mit stampfe mein ich sie machts extra wills so hohl doent mit dem zement bode. Den saeg ich ire sie soell doch noed so luut sie, das ghoered alli im huus. Sie seit mir denn das de bode zement isch und niemert chan das ghoere. aber denn meckeret sie ja au wenn'd nachbere hei choemed und luut sind. Also choem mer sie ghoere und anderi ghoered mini mitbewohnerin wenn sie ruecksichtsloos durt wonig stampft und ich krig fascht en aafall....

Denn dut sie ja no so super assozial dicke luet entgege. Sobald oeper oepis dicker isch werdet die verarscht. Haesch den nonig in spiegel glueg, liebe dame? Aso, ganz eerlich, du chasch da noed anderi verarsche wenn'd selber noed a schlanks meideli bisch. aber au suescht soell mer doch anderi eifach lebe laa.. ich mein, ich fuel mich au agsproche wenn sie so asozial isch und gemein isch andere entgege.

und susch no. mein gott... ich schtaas fascht nueme uus. in e paar wuuche chunt iire fruend au no und daenn verschwind ich eifach. ich chan sie noed uus sta und denn beidi zaeme isch ja no schlimmer. aso, sie haet mich ja mit nach californie gno, aber denn nachher haet sie so bloed ta vo waege es saeg komisch gsi mit mier de bi.. ich han das nur fuer sie gmacht wiil sie noed haet wele e leige sii mit ihrem daenn ex fruend... bitte, schlampe....

dummi chue...

Inspiration

Oh, so the art continues. This image represents the turmoil present in poverty stricken countries in southern Asia. Or, you know, it's a polar bear surrounded by colours.

Give me your best

While Sunday clearly had a lot to offer (see previous post), I always feel Monday is the most deciding day of the week. And it was not started off well. If I could dance it for you my interpretive dance would encapsulate a twirl of confusion, a couple of bounces of stress, a swoosh of organization after chaos, bows of resolution, and mostly lunges of frustration. Following the interpretive dance I set the house on fire and lock the emergency exits.

I think sometimes Mondays just do that to you. So I hope my trip to the gym will just make it a little better. I might even do some exercise, but I'm not sure of that one yet. We'll see how I feel about my butt later....

The value of simplicity

As a college student I can really appreciate the simple things in life. While we are learning higher information at our institute of higher education, we know that there are certain things you never unlearn. There are other things that revert back to those of your childhood years. The simple things you may learn are that you can go to cheap outlets and shop by the pound. That means the entire store has just a bunch of donated stuff that you can have and you pay by putting your shopping cart on the scale. 

What kind of stuff can you find there? Everything, everything someone may have owned before and now parted ways with, including old dishes, clothes, shoes, books, TVs, paintings, and letters from mothers saying she is fed up of paying rent and will not send more money... ever. 

I ended up with picture frames and old books, from which I ripped pictures and put them in the frames. Voila! Immediate classy pictures for my home.

Also, I learned people go crazy when new stuff come in the carts and you do NOT want to get in their way... crazy I tell you.

I also reverted back to my wonderful child self by spending study breaks drawing with my fingers. It was glorious, fulfilling, and relaxing. We talked about the wonders of naps, and decided to have another study break two hours later, during which we got frozen yogurt. 

Laze-inspiring

 Well hello there, people who live in the real world. Luckily I do not belong to you people because we all know that I could possibly not survive that. Here's why. Today.
Today has been an interesting day. I woke up in the morning, after staying up too long. I would like to say I stayed up so long because I was studying or something intellectual like that, sadly, I cannot lie on the internet. Ask me in real life, I'll tell you I did math work, solving the equation to life. In fact, I was... well, I was watching a movie in front of my opened books. They were not read, just opened. So this morning I woke up tired. Exhausted from my late night procrastinating, I thought today I would get a little more done.

Here is the day in a little simpler terms:
7:45 wake up
8:00 take nap
8:30 wake up
8:35 go to class
9:00 be in class, fake paying attention, dream about my glorious bed.
9:15 struggle to stay awake
9:20 feel physical pain for being awake
11:45 finally free from classes, remember the next two classes were cancelled. skip gym. go home
12:15 arrive home, go to bed.
15:30 wake up go to work
15:35 meet stranger, talk
16:00 make it to work just on time
17:45 linger in office to get off work early
18:15 arrive at home
18:16 have dinner, awesome chicken pumpkin soup
18:25 think about going back to bed

Yeah, sloth, I knowst thy face.

Bikers... oh dear Bikers

I used to think it was really great having a motor bike. I wish I could drive one without tipping over. I wish I had one to drive around traffic with.But after today I'm not so sure anymore. We went out for a wonderful day in a national park. We went hiking and had lunch there. Actually we went walking for 5 minutes then had an hour and a half break, then walked another 10 minutes. That was hiking for us.

Well, after eating cookies, looking at a lake that was really just a little swamp thing, acting out an imaginary play about a troll under a bridge, having a philosophical discussion about trees and noises in forests, we decided to head home. We wanted to have a movie night, but it was probably best that we ended up working and being really really productive.

Anyway, on our way home, on the highway driving like 80-100km/h, we drove onto the highway not knowing there were 200 or more bikers on the highway. They were sitting on the handlebars, doing wheelies, speeding obnoxiously then slowing down really hard, and swerving around cars. They were being more than obnoxious with their own lives, but putting others at peril. We drove carefully but at several points almost hit bikers who were being stupid and swinging from lane to lane. It was scary and to the point that we called 911. We told them where they were heading and that the bikers were cutting us off from driving where we had to, and being precarious with their and our lives.
Idiots...

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Why we should care about the Dangers of Foreign Species to an Ecosystem

Natural habitats and diversity are being destroyed by humans and most people are ignorant to the consequences of such destruction. The loss of biodiversity can be observed in Hawaii, as Wilson explains in his book “The future of life”. In Hawaii, before people populated and changed the island, there used to be 125-145 types of birds (p43), vast exotic landscapes, and species that could not be found anywhere else. Today, after years of hunting and population, only about 35 species of birds still exist, 24 of them endangered (p43). It is important for us to understand the consequences of our actions, as is otherwise demanded of us anyway. While we are told to know that police will chase us if we steal, our friends will hate us if we cheat, and our families will be disappointed if we lie, no one teaches us in the same way that species will go extinct if we destroy their ecosystem, they will go extinct if we bring in other animals, bugs, and plants into their home, and perhaps most importantly, our actions will impact future generations negatively.

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In Hawaii, 902 flowering plant species (p44) and 35% of insects (p47) are alien. With Polynesian seafarers also came pigs, rats, plants, and other organism that did not previously occupy the island. This invasion did not stop then, as Americans also brought other birds, mammals, and plants with them for domestication. Causing extinction like this can stop us from reaping the benefits of this exotic land we are destroying. Perhaps there are medical benefits of some plants that have now been destroyed by non-native plants and insects? Perhaps a native mammal could have become another popular meat product that would have spared us so much waste of grain and pollution of the environment that is being caused by, for instance, China’s pig industries or large bovine industries. But with still continued destruction of ecosystems we will never be able to learn everything we would like to from species now endangered or extinct.

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Not only the have we lost some benefits from species now endangered or extinct, many ecosystems have non-native species destroying their lands already in delicate condition since human population. Countries such as Australia are working a lot harder to keep foreign species out of their country, although such animals as the cane toad were already brought into the country long ago and have caused a great deal of damage over the past decades, especially to crops and native wildlife and insects. Other animals, such as the rabbit, are also abundant in Australia and are affecting agriculture greatly. With a lot of ground uninhabitable or unfertile to crops such as maize or oats, the agriculture in Australia greatly relies on the available land. However, non-native species that destroy these lands may cause them to be destroyed for a very long time, long after they have left the area. This has hopefully obvious disadvantages for future generations, as agriculture becomes more important with more people inhabiting the world, yet fertile land and other resources for agriculture become more difficult to obtain.

Don't F-ing mess with me!

While many people ignore the fear expressed by ecologists, the long term impact of such careless distribution of species and destruction of the biosphere may not go unnoticed for long. The human population is increasing like never before and countries are scrambling to be able to provide both food and other needs for their people. While “balance” is a difficult word to use in science, it is a word that can be used to make things more clear. People need to recognize the “balance” needed in nature, the “balance” we need to find as inhabitants of this biosphere. “Balance” is not equilibrium, but rather understanding and acceptance that we are not the only inhabitants that need help and need the earth.

What next?

I wonder why people make Oreo cookies. I mean, turn Oreo cookies into other cookies... Oreos are already cookies. Is that not enough? What more do you need, man!?! Next thing you'll be turning water into wine! Outrageous...

He's never coming back...

Is drinking completely out of control? Yes, I think so. The other day I went to a concert of a cool-freaking hip hop dude and it was amazing. The amazing part was his songs are awesome. The not so amazing part was that there were tons of people so super drunk it wasn't even funny anymore.

We got to the concert and already we smelt illegal substances flirting in the air. People were smoking indoors and spending the most of the warm up time before the main act either drinking excessively or smoking illegally. People were stumbling around, into people, onto the floor, throwing cups around, smoking indoors while security looked for them very ineffectively.

It was embarrassing to see the student body of my uni stumbling their way through activities fees the way they did. People were drinking from flasks, cheaper than buying something there, they were screaming their heads off, and frankly, embarrassing us in front of a performer. There were three wonderful contestents for most ridiculous act of the night:

1. Mr. Showed-the-performer-his-middle-finger flipped off the performer right in front of him. The performer stopped and called him out on it. Wy such anger? he asks, is this some political debate or what? the performer only has songs about happiness and good times, so why the middle finger? I mean, totally legit question for Mr. STPHMF... douche. Everyone booed him, haha!
2. Mr. Held-up-a-sign that read Smile if You Masturbate. Yup, it happened.. it happened ... proud, so proud. Again, the performer took it and said this is stupid, and then threw the sign away back stage. Awesome. So much respect for the performer I have. 
3. Mr. Threw-paper-balls-at-the-performer of flyers about saving puppies. The performer actually stopped and asked people to stop doing it. Yet they continued. It was another fine moment here in the Lou.

  This particular performer is never coming back here again....

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