Hanging from the ceiling a sign of lights
Telling riders to go left or right
Down the stairs, no crowds in sight
That is why I commute at night
…and because I had a lot of stuff to do at work today.
Now watching: The Colbert Report
These are some recent magnets that I’ve received from people.
The Paris ones are from a co-worker of Severin’s that he had them get for me. I love the Paris By Night one. It will fit nicely with my Amsterdam-Red Light District one.
The London one is from a longtime Livejournal friend who went to London in the Spring and finally mailed it to me. YAY! Now, I just need a Bobby, a London Bridge, and Mind the Gap one. A Jack the Ripper one would be smashing too.
I may have a Seattle one coming my way from a pal in Brooklyn who just got back from there. I hope it’s a Space Needle.
Sometimes I feel much more pessimistic than at other times. I feel like a pessimist when it comes to how I see the majority of people, but Brian insists I always expect too much from people and thats why I end up disappointed so often. I do think he is right when it comes to how I see society. I, perhaps foolishly, expect Americans — as a whole — to look at something ridiculous and actually understand that it is indeed ridiculous.
When I was a kid we spent spring to fall in Illinois where asparagus was cultivated along fence lines and in people’s back yards. The same went for a variety of berries and rhubarb, and other seasonal produce. You could tell the season by what produce was available fresh as opposed to canned or frozen. With our current food supply lines spanning the globe there is no longer any real seasonality to our eating.
The fact that we, as American consumers, have moved away from that paradigm concerns me. Its a very slippery slope in my opinion. What starts out as filling in the gaps to make something available year around has, over time, led to a complete out sourcing of our food production. With labor so much cheaper elsewhere, why only import snowpeas from Guatemala in the winter months when, at the cost of a bigger carbon footprint and the loss of decent domestic jobs, American food companies like Hanover Foods here in Pennsylvania, can just import them year round.
He is VERY attached to me. He pretty wants me to hold or be next to him 24/7
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