Uh. Mah. Gah.

This is the funniest shit EVER. Thirty second re-enactments of your favorite movies - Jaws, Titanic, Aliens, The Exorcist, and The Shining - by cartoon bunnies.

My favorite is Titanic. "I have a child!" BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! Oh, crap. ~gasp~

Link courtesy of Sundry Mourning.
- posted by Laura @ 8:57 PM

 
New Entry

There's a new entry up...

"I can hear Calvin now. "Hi, Kettle? This is Pot. You're black.""
- posted by Laura @ 4:04 PM

 
What she said...

There's a thread on TUS that's talking about using your online journal as a spiritual sounding board. It started with someone (gabby) offering a quote from another online journal (Lance Arthur) that expressed why that particular journaler kept an OLJ:

"Everyone needs to ask the universe a few questions now and again. Some people call that prayer, some people call that meditation, there are different words and different methods but the goal is the same. We come to places we can’t figure out on our own, and even our friends and family can’t really help. So we ask the universe—the larger power, God, what have you. And I think your Web page, that act, that place, that’s you’re larger power. You launch the questions out there and sometimes you get a response, sometimes not. It’s the act that’s important. You’ve just chosen a unique and very public God to question."

One of the posters (amyd) offered this:

"But just the act of writing something and trying to make it at least clear enough for people to read (or clear enough that at least I know what I meant) is almost an act of faith for me. I think that you don't really know something until you can say it or write it or in some way communicate it."

Which prompted a "Huh!" response from me. Because that's exactly it, and I never could figure out how to word the "why" of keeping an online journal. I responded with:

"Although for me it's less an act of faith and more of a "writing myself out" kind of a thing. Often times I don't know what's wrong with me/on my mind/driving me crazy until I actually start writing, and then it all comes out. Writing it with the knowledge that I'm communicating it to someone else is the clarifying element that I need to communicate it to myself. And I didn't know that, really, until I read what amyd said.

TUS - Answering life's questions. Since 2001."
- posted by Laura @ 3:58 PM

 
Annoyed

Well! I'm stuck outside of a conference room, sitting on the floor for the next half-hour. The meeting was supposed to start at 10:00, so I left my desk at 9:45 to make the walk across campus to the 7 building (I've measured it with my pedometer, a round-trip walk from my desk to the 7 building and back is over a mile). I looked in the conference room and didn't recognize anyone, so I figured it was the attendees of the prior meeting that haven't cleared out yet. I wait. Nobody from my meeting shows up. I wait some more. Then I dig my laptop out and connect to the network (love wireless) to see if anyone sent a message.

Sure enough. The meeting organizer sent out an update at 9:59 (so sayeth the time stamp) that there was a conference room mix-up and the meeting wouldn't start until 10:30. She is the ONLY one out of eight that is in the 7 building - all the rest of us have to walk from the 5 building. So sending out an "oops" message one minute before the meeting is supposed to start is unspeakably annoying.

And yet... no once else is here waiting, so I guess everyone else got the message in time. Which means they hadn't started walking over by 9:59. Which means that if the meeting HAD started at 10:00, I would have been the only one on-time. Which is also unspeakably annoying.

How many days until vacation, again?
- posted by Laura @ 10:09 AM

 
More Bloomy Goodness

The bower vines are going nuts with all the rain we've been having.


- posted by Laura @ 5:38 PM

 
Bloomy

The "nuclear plants" in the front and back yards are having a fit of bloomy-ness.


- posted by Laura @ 9:15 AM