s . l . s . b . --- today

010402, 1709hr, central time.

happy april's fool day!

of course jokes were played today. i got bluffed for a while by our campus newspaper. the leading story was that our alumnus hugh hefner [owner of playboy] has decided to donate a huge sum of money to renovate the old buildings on the quad, in exchange for a new building being fashioned after his playboy mansion. [read article here.] man, for a moment i was thinking this university was finally really going crazy, though maybe we can get some tourist money with that playboy mansion II. haha. yeah, that's me thinking, all money and more money. but then i took a closer look at the picture of hugh hefner sitting on the quad with his playboy bunnies and realized that they had done a terrible superimposition job with it. [it looks more obvious on the web, the printed version was kinda more blurry, so it was more difficult to tell. hmm. that's my excuse anyway.] so anyway, i was fooled for about 10 minutes. now i feel so silly. i forgot it's april fool's day, ok!

and someone sent a mass mail around campus, something about a condom recall.....i deleted it immediately, because my first impression was that i don't have any condoms that i will be using anyway. haha. but my friends picked up on the stupid name of the sender "dr ivana fukalot" or something like that. and now i wish i didn't delete the email, cos it apparently contained some gem "information", like how people should unroll the condom to check for holes or something. or actually i suspect if i had read that email, that early in the morning, functioning only with my post-essay-writing-through-the-night intelligence, i may not actually be able to make the immediate connection to the date today. i would just think it's weird, and drift right back into my zombie-ness. haha. i'm kinda dense that way, ok?

another bogus article in the campus newspaper is also very funny. about how god has decided to punish evil masturbators. hahahahahaha....they even made up a pie chart, illustrating 100% of females surveyed claiming to not masturbate, and 99% of males admiting to masturbating. the remaining 1% didn't have hands. and apparently the way god has decided to punish us for the sin of masturbation was to kill our little kittens. my favorite punchline, "if you feel the need to go at it, at least go at it with a person - random or not [.....] please, think of the kittens." hahaha...man, this article is just wrong, and yet so right on spot. [read article here.] go read it, it's got quite a few hilarious punchlines in there. maybe because the article is so overtly out to poke fun at everyone, it's really the funniest. heh.

i think i've been lacking a sense of humor these days, so constantly worrying about everything, so irritated by a lot of little anal things i didn't used to care about. i feel sorry for the people around me, especially alvin, whose most adorable antics would have worked last night, if i didn't insist on sulking about my exchange program thing the whole time. now i see my horrible attitude, and i feel terrible about it. really, have to stop taking everything so seriously, and got to especially stop feeling like the world is against me.

well, i don't think i'll suddenly transform into a completely carefree person, after all it is still true that my exchange plans are once again jeopardized by my own [and other people's] stupidity, and it is still true that i have less than a month to complete 11 gis assignments, which by the way, corresponds to about 90 pages of short answers and essays. god, combined with the 160+ pages i wrote since i started with these courses, i am writing a book, it seems!

see, everything just seems so much more manageable when i have a more cheerful attitude about it. there's always humor in everything! i should hit myself on the head - i was just telling someone that day, to look for the silver lining. i, of all people, should know this. not only should i look for the silver lining, freaking look for a silly idea too. now i actually have a silly idea. now when i write my freaking gis assignments, i can see it as though i'm writing a book. a very dry and boring one, no doubt about that, but at least i can still have some imagination, and i can laugh at myself. and believe me, self-parody makes life a lot more fun to live, and troubles a lot easier to swallow.

so really, happy april's fool day, everyone. may tomorrow, and everyday actually, be as humorous as today.

s . l . s . b .
[ stuff . . . ] feeling: tired food: cheese sandwich with turkey slices CD: jay chou mp3s show: blade II reading: The Media at War by Susan Carruthers surfin': my laptop is disconnected from the internet! right now it's just a lean mean typing machine.... looking forward: SSA AGM 6 april goodness: happy april's fool day! sensei watch: nothing much today, actually. sensei seemed kinda out of sorts today, he thought we already learnt a certain conjugation of verbs, which we didn't, so he was quite confused for a while. actually, now that i think of it, he might have been confused because (1) he genuinely though we've already learnt it, and thought we were playing a trick on us. or (2) maybe he was trying to play a trick on us by refusing to teach us this new thing, and hoped to get us to panick or something. haha. but whatever it is, the moment passed, and i'm beginning to wonder if perhaps he's got a super lame sense of humor, if it was indeed (2). hmmmmmmm.
[ say . . . ] 010402, 1709hr, central time. happy april's fool day! of course jokes were played today. i got bluffed for a while by our campus newspaper. the leading story was that our alumnus hugh hefner [owner of playboy] has decided to donate a huge sum of money to renovate the old buildings on the quad, in exchange for a new building being fashioned after his playboy mansion. [read article here.] man, for a moment i was thinking this university was finally really going crazy, though maybe we can get some tourist money with that playboy mansion II. haha. yeah, that's me thinking, all money and more money. but then i took a closer look at the picture of hugh hefner sitting on the quad with his playboy bunnies and realized that they had done a terrible superimposition job with it. [it looks more obvious on the web, the printed version was kinda more blurry, so it was more difficult to tell. hmm. that's my excuse anyway.] so anyway, i was fooled for about 10 minutes. now i feel so silly. i forgot it's april fool's day, ok! and someone sent a mass mail around campus, something about a condom recall.....i deleted it immediately, because my first impression was that i don't have any condoms that i will be using anyway. haha. but my friends picked up on the stupid name of the sender "dr ivana fukalot" or something like that. and now i wish i didn't delete the email, cos it apparently contained some gem "information", like how people should unroll the condom to check for holes or something. or actually i suspect if i had read that email, that early in the morning, functioning only with my post-essay-writing-through-the-night intelligence, i may not actually be able to make the immediate connection to the date today. i would just think it's weird, and drift right back into my zombie-ness. haha. i'm kinda dense that way, ok? another bogus article in the campus newspaper is also very funny. about how god has decided to punish evil masturbators. hahahahahaha....they even made up a pie chart, illustrating 100% of females surveyed claiming to not masturbate, and 99% of males admiting to masturbating. the remaining 1% didn't have hands. and apparently the way god has decided to punish us for the sin of masturbation was to kill our little kittens. my favorite punchline, "if you feel the need to go at it, at least go at it with a person - random or not [.....] please, think of the kittens." hahaha...man, this article is just wrong, and yet so right on spot. [read article here.] go read it, it's got quite a few hilarious punchlines in there. maybe because the article is so overtly out to poke fun at everyone, it's really the funniest. heh. i think i've been lacking a sense of humor these days, so constantly worrying about everything, so irritated by a lot of little anal things i didn't used to care about. i feel sorry for the people around me, especially alvin, whose most adorable antics would have worked last night, if i didn't insist on sulking about my exchange program thing the whole time. now i see my horrible attitude, and i feel terrible about it. really, have to stop taking everything so seriously, and got to especially stop feeling like the world is against me. well, i don't think i'll suddenly transform into a completely carefree person, after all it is still true that my exchange plans are once again jeopardized by my own [and other people's] stupidity, and it is still true that i have less than a month to complete 11 gis assignments, which by the way, corresponds to about 90 pages of short answers and essays. god, combined with the 160+ pages i wrote since i started with these courses, i am writing a book, it seems! see, everything just seems so much more manageable when i have a more cheerful attitude about it. there's always humor in everything! i should hit myself on the head - i was just telling someone that day, to look for the silver lining. i, of all people, should know this. not only should i look for the silver lining, freaking look for a silly idea too. now i actually have a silly idea. now when i write my freaking gis assignments, i can see it as though i'm writing a book. a very dry and boring one, no doubt about that, but at least i can still have some imagination, and i can laugh at myself. and believe me, self-parody makes life a lot more fun to live, and troubles a lot easier to swallow. so really, happy april's fool day, everyone. may tomorrow, and everyday actually, be as humorous as today.
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