creepy bus story

A couple of weeks ago, I was busing back to Rideau from my favourite Starbucks (mentioned last post). On the bus, I felt someone watching me. I turned to my left and saw someone who looked like a hobo0ified Santa Claus staring at me. He seriously looked like he had saved up his life savings just to take that one bus ride. I smiled and said "hi" because usually if you let someone know that you know that they're staring at you they stop. However, this guy was like "I can't stop staring at you". I was like "PARDON ME?!" and he repeated himself and added "there's just something about you..."

Thoroughly creeped out, I got off the bus at the next stop (Rideau Center woohoo) and the hobo followed me through the mall. CREEPY

cloudy days suck

I hate how I always think of interesting things to write about whenever I'm walking around or I'm on the bus but whenever I actually have time to write about them in my blog, I always forget.

I woke up really late today but somehow I had gotten ready for work earlier than usual so I took a super early bus to go downtown (I start work at 13h00 but I took the 11h30 94 bus). The 94 picked me up a little late but that ended up being perfect timing because as soon as I arrived downtown, the next bus I needed was pulling up. The bus driver of the second bus (the 97) was pointing down at my feet when I got on the bus and I was all confused until I realized that my headphones were dragging on the ground. I really like the mid-day bus drivers because they're usually friendly and have conversations with people and make jokes and stuff.

I went to my favourite Starbucks - the Bank Street one (they make the best pumpkin spice fraps/lattes and they are super friendly and talkative) and read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick for about half an hour before deciding to go back to work. I hopped on the 2 to go back to the Rideau Center so I could walk back down to uni. I've noticed that the downtown busses usually have really shady characters occupying the funky-smelling seats and I'm usually the youngest occupant in there.

While at Rideau, I decided to walk around the mall and go to the Buck or Two to buy a notebook so I could write down my thoughts and post them here later. After looking at over-priced notebooks for a couple of minutes, I looked at my watch and decided that I should head to the university to avoid being late for work.

The 13 minute walk proved uneventful and boring until I reached the building where I work. There was a notice taped on the door that coldly explained that the building was closed due to some maintenance thing. I tried the doors and they were locked. I tried entering the building via other sets of doors (there are always multiple ways to get into any university building) but they were all locked. I think that's kind of of weird because I swear I saw someone walkining inside and he didn't look like a maintenance worker...

I tried calling work and no one answered so I went to Chapters and picked up a comic book that I had been eying for a while - Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse vol. 1 by Ben Templesmith. The art is spectacular and the storyline looks interesting.

Then I bussed home and as I told my mum that I was fired (my dad's idea) to freak her out. Now I'm supposed to be doing my German assignment but I really can't be arsed to do so.

I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not working today because I pulled together a snazzy outfit and I 'm more efficiant at doing my homework at work than I do at home. I'm also really mad because I just found out that I had anassignment due at 03h00 this morning and I thought it was due at midnight tonight. FML

Here are some pics:


This is was my outfit + my fave jacket that I bought a couple of days ago. I got that scarf yesterday.



This is part of the cover of Wormwood. Sorry for the bad webcam quality. And for my chipped nail polish.



Here's a bad quality snapshop of a random page in the comic.



I really need to charge my real cam's batteries so I don't need to rely on my webcam for photos. But this is the Gentleman Corpse. The pictures look a million times better irl.



This is from the back of the comic, where there are pictures of the original Wormwood sketches and pin-ups. I really liked these drawings and it's a shame that my webcam doesn't take nice photos

talking about now

Whenever I get bored, I alwys like to write down interesting things I see around me on post-it notes. By interesrting, I mean things that seem to be some sort of anomaly from what I would normally see in my every day life.

At the momemt, I kind of forgot my post it notes at home or somewhere in one of my purses or who knows where so I'll write down stuff here instead.

1) The hug thing from my last post

2) A group of guys with the exact same faux-hawk (+ dyed blond and looking really stupid) walked by. They kind of all looked the same. I really do not understand how anyone can find faux-hawks attractive. Real mohawks plz.

3) A guy walked by me while I was eating lunch. He had long curly hair, a wear cape-ish trench coat, and a tricorne hat. He seriously looked like a pirate but it didn't look like he was wearing a costume; it looked like he seriously dresses like a pirate all the time.

4) I have a really good friend that I met here. She loves to cause trouble... today in our chem dgd, she started calling people on her cell phone. As soon as they'd answer and start talking, she started blowing on the phone. I could hear people getting mad on the other side. That wasn't as bad as Monday's calculus dgd. The room we have for that has microphones at the desks and our TA is this Chinese guy with a really thick Chinese accent (this Chinese girl always argues about everything he does too but that's beside the point). Anyway, my friend kept turning on the mic and rubing her finger / finger nails on it which would make a really annoying loud scratchy sound which really confused our TA. Then she took out her phone and put on a really high-pitched noise (full blast) that really irritated our ears. Then some random dance music turned on (oops). We couldn't stop giggling. I think ppl kind of figured it was us (except for the TA) but it was really funny.

5) The guy beside me is eating something with A LOT of curry. In fact, there's so much that it's making my stomach knot up and I feel like throwing up.

6) I keep seeing people I know from work/highschool/not uni. It's kind of surreal.

7) I just looked up from my computer. There was a guy sitting at the table across from me. He was staring at me while drinking coffee. Creepy.

8) I'm trying to be quiet because I'm in a library but I can't stop laughing. I'm listening to a story called Got Milk. It's about some guy with a third nipple that spews inky black milk. And him licking himself. I don't think this should be a horror story. It's more of a comedy. It's great.

hugs are a sexuality radar

You can always tell if a guy is straight or gay by the way he hugs.

If he does the typical "man-hug" (where guys clasp/shake hands and put one arm around each other), the guy is usually straight.

If a guy gives another guy a real hug, then they are usually gay.

If a guy is bi, they do either or.

I got this idea while seeing a guy give another guy a real hug. In fact, he kind of ran up and gave him a huggle. It was cute but kind of weird to see a guy do that.


Notice that Bush is only using one arm for the hug and the other guy is using both arms.

on the topic of death

Lately, I've been seeing death everywhere.

I've started watching a movie called Waking Life again. Whenever I see that movie, I always become phylosophical and deep and I start questioning everything around me. Before reading this entry, I'm going to suggest that you assume that there is some higher entity out there, like God, just for the sake of this discussion.

Anyhow, the death thing started when I was getting ready for class. I didn't have enough time to watch the whole movie so I was just going to listent to the music at the credits. Since I have the illegal pirated a really weird version of the movie, I have to manually find the beginning of the credits, instead of just using the scene selection tool that is typically available in movies made in the 21st century. While I was looking for the credits, I found one of the last scenes near the end of the movie where the main character was talking to a pinball guy about time and dreams and death.

The pinball guy was explaining a dream he once had. Before the dream, he had read an essay by Philip K. Dick about his book Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said. Basically, long story short, four years after Dick wrote his book, he went to a party and met a woman who was exactly like the female character of his book; she even had a boyfriend and an affair with people with the same name and job as the people from his book. Later on, Dick had to go mail a letter and in the parking lot, he saw a really sketchy guy standing by his car. Dick approached him (something that he'd usually never do) and asked "Can I help you?" the guy told him that he ran out of gas so Dick gave him some money (something else he'd usually never do). After driving off, Dick realized that the guy had no way to get to a gas station so he drove back and found the guy and dropped him off at a gas station. That's when he realized that the gas station and the guy he helped were also right from his book. He went and told his priest about it because he was getting pretty freaked out. His priest then told him that what he was describing was from the Book of Acts (from the Bible). Dick had never read that so he went home and did that. Then he noticed that the story and even the names in the Book of Acts were the same as the book he wrote. That's when he came up with the theory that time is actually an illusion and that some demon had created the illusion to make people forget that Christ was supposed to come again and that we were actually living in 50AD (when the Book of Acts was supposedly written).

Now in the pinball guy's dream, he dreamed that he was talking to Lady Gregory and she said "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe" and proceeded to tell him that Dick's theory of time is right except that we're not in 50AD, we're in a single instant that's eternity. It's in that instant that God is posing a question "Do you want to be one with eternity/do you want to be in heaven?" and we're replying "no, not yet". So "time" is really just us saying "no" to God's invitation and death is when we finally say "yes". And it's like that for everything that's alive. yadda yadda yadda and so on and so forth

Right after watching that scene, I was walking to the bus. On my street, I saw a dead squirrel. It didn't look like it had been hit by a car or mauled by some animal; it looked peaceful and at rest. As soon as I saw it, I thought "yes", not as if "yes i love dead animals" but rather "yes it was finally ready to become one with eternity". And then suddenly, Dead Tree by Dir en Grey started playing on my mp3/mp4 player thing which kind of creeped me out because I was staring at a dead thing and listenning to a song about death.

Then the next day, I was on my way to class and I saw a dead skunk and a dead raccoon on some streets that never have dead animals on them, which was pretty weird. And then I keep hearing discussions about death. And I can't stop thinking about it.

I don't really think of death as death but rather of change. I keep seeing this symbolism everywhere so I'm starting to think that some big, radical change is going to happen soon and I can't decide if it will be good or bad.