ok i'm back

'cause i've had a couple of cocktails, you see, and so i feel like chatting. but i didn't feel like chatting with the real life people i was spending time with. not 'cause they are poor company, just 'cause i wanted to come home and play with my imaginary friends. or my computer friends. or maybe they're the same thing....

so two things happened this week which made me mad/upset/sad/frustrated.

1) two kids stole $12 worth of gas and killed the gas attendant for it. can you imagine being the 15 year old kid in the passenger seat of that car? your life is pretty much fucked - even if you don't go to jail you are going to hear buddy screaming as he was being dragged to his death across 7 kilometres of city streets every time you close your eyes for the rest of your life. it's twelve fucking dollars and a stolen car - you think you are out for some kicks and all of a sudden you killed someone. bam. dead.

2) langley just elected, as their provincial LIBERAL representative, a woman who has campaigned tirelessly to keep books with any sort of gay/lesbian theme out of school libraries. how is that, in any way shape or form, liberal? i always get confused between capital-l liberal and small-l liberal. and the difference between federal and provincial liberals confuses me, too. can anyone explain that to me, please? cause right now i'm really irritated that someone who's adopted a 'liberal' persona could agitate against gay & lesbian rights. or rather, would work to prevent people from making their OWN decisions regarding such matters.

actually, there are any number of things that happened this week which have had that same effect on me. jetsgo stranding people all over the world. people killing babies. mounties getting blown away. people being plain ol' mean to other people. i know i get weighed down by my own personal shit on occasion, but then there are weeks like this one where my crap seems so small scale when every time i open the newspaper someone is killing someone else, or cheating hardworking people out of money they probably can't afford to lose, or disrespecting the basic human right of us all to live a good life in the way that best suits us as individuals. i think if i ever met my fairy godmother, and she granted me three wishes, one of the things i'd ask for would be my own magic wand so i could go around making people just GIVE A SHIT about each other. (i'd also ask for a bottomless shoe budget and to have no food allergies, but that's beside the point.)

k, rant over. clearly i'm not ready to wean myself off blogger's teat, so you'll all just have to put up with me a while longer.

g'nite xoxo