Day 213
Today I learned that even if you only have just a few drinks you can be massively hungover AND I learned that I am so behind the times with my youtube viral video watching. Honestly, I don't even know when a video has gone viral or what that entails. All I know is that I watched "The Coolest Guy in the World 2" and thought I was really onto something. I was so excited about this video that I popped up chat with my brother to tell him all about it. His reply was, "this was waaaay popular about 3 weeks ago god get with the now." And that was when I realized I am old.
I spent the rest of the morning watching videos from his top 99 best things on the internet list, thinking that I could be hip again. I saw a katana blade cut a guy during an infomercial. I saw a water buffalo fling a lion into the air. I saw a kid get kicked during a break dance show (flew just like the lion, weird). I saw the one with the kid who just got out of the dentist office. I saw the baby panda that looked like a stuffed toy sneeze. I saw a big lady fall from a coffee table, repeatedly. I saw a story about George Lucas falling in love and writing Star Wars. I saw a baby laugh (they say that is the noise that makes people the most happy, it's kinda true). But, my favorite was "Charlie bit my finger - again." I cannot get enough of those kids. I must've watched that video 12 times and every time laughed like a maniac. And yet, I don't feel in the loop. Must watch more videos to catch up. Still feel old.
So, today my friend came over to install more anti-virus software and check out the fact that I have multiple warnings on my computer. As in, viruses captured and held in some fake vault. I am not sure what any of this means. Later, hours after scans were run on my computer that said I was okay, he told me that he was concerned that I had had a virus. Apparently, he didn't tell me because he thought that I would freak out. I did anyway. But, I learned something very important, not only can I be a hypochondriac with things like the flu and mono (though I never think about that when I am making out with strangers), I can also be a hypochondriac about viruses my computer could get. I mean I have virus protection. What am I so worried about? Well, there was that one porn site I went on last week, at least I didn't get mono from it.
My friend and I decided to go on a long walk today. This is something that we were going to do three times a week, but have only done once in the past month. Today we were walking all around campus and we came upon an area of high rises whose streets dead-ended into parking garages. Okay so we didn't just come upon it, I insisted that we go into that yuppy area. After we saw all of the dead ends my friend wanted to go back the way we came that led to the main road. I decided that we would follow a mysterious path leading to a thicket. I said, "Let's go! This way to Narnia!"
My friend followed along and said, "Oh, I know where we are now." We were on the outskirts of some national park. Inside were trails that cut through the trees. There were two Vietnamese women with a stroller down one path and a crazed-looking old man in a poncho down another. We bypassed them and found our way back to the townhouse-type area with kids playing on the sidewalks. It was then that my friend suggested that we go on walks in the national park in the future, and then directly after that she told me of the murders that happened in that very park. What the hell? She was telling me how freaky the whole thing was and that she thought we should go in there anyhow. Is she someone who has OD'd on CSI, or is she a murderer? And, more importantly, why isn't she more concerned with finding Narnia?
Turns out if you have had a lazy ass day where you were mostly hungover for most of the waking hours eating a giant piece of banana cream pie doesn't help. What's worse is that afterward when you want to watch Pippi Longstocking and Jem and the Holograms you come to find out that the videostore only has them on VHS and you aren't cool enough to have a VHS player anymore. What's even worse is that your bodyguard keeps threatening to blind you. But, them when you say something about how you are going to call the cops on him he says, "You are the one threatening to kill me all the time, I am just threatening to blind you." And, then he tells you that he won't write you postcards when he is back in India this summer, and you almost make good on your threat.
So, I am supposed to be sitting in the dark for the next 9 minutes as the Earth Hour has that many minutes left. Yeah, apparently people think it's going to do some good to turn off all electrical appliances to raise awareness about energy usage. Maybe I am cynical. But, really? That's like saying everyone put a band-aid on your breast to raise awareness about breast cancer. That's great and all, but really nothing is going to change anything without throwing some money at research. Is it so wrong to think that actually doing something is better than just raising awareness? Instead of sitting in the dark why doesn't everyone throw five dollars toward research to develop low energy cost appliances? Maybe it would help more than turning off WOW for an hour. I'm just saying...
Tip of the Day: If you have no sound on youtube check to see if the control was bumped to mute. Don't panic. As much as it may seem like it sometimes this is NOT a life or death situation.
-Canadian Castaway
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