McDonald's yoghurt for breakfast, caesar salad for lunch - as well as the occasional croissant, I have been having a really healthy week eating during the day - and just having my usual dinners at night. Will be home alone for two weeks from Boxing Day on, and I usually eat like a bird when I don't notice meal times LOL, so let's see how much we can lose - the gaining heaps on Xmas Day itself is a given of course. Am starting to get fast food cravings though - think a week is the longest I've gone without burgers etc in yearssssssss :)
Bought the Wedding Singer on DVD today, in the grocery store in amongst the salads and stuff - saw it yesterday is pretty cheap and is a movie I want as well - saw Blades I and II there as well, but even though I think I would like it eventually, and remembering viewing Blade at Jonty's place in Wellington was kewl, have to figure out whether I really really want it. I so need a Blockbuster or Video Ezy membership, my pool of recent would like to see movies is growing larger by the week...
I mentioned that they are hiring over 30 permanent staff at work didn't I? The application has about eight questions, and not to write over a page per question - was thinking that this meant that they wanted a page each, but had it clarified by SW this afternoon (well as much as one relative newbie can clarify with another) that it's up TO a page each.
There go my plans for War and Peace Redux LOL. As you may or may not know, I work in a call centre - and would love to be able to write as well as this person about it, but the warm fuzzy glows talking to the customers, the office politics and the trying NOT to stare at the attractive girls all merges into one big chasm by the time I get home and have the chance to write here. And much easier material at hand websurfing around the world. The work itself is fairly forgettable, the socialising is the thing (and not enough of).
There was a bit of Florida 2000 like excitement in the US elections - not at the presidential level though, but the governorship of Washington State. On Election Night, the Republicans had won by 261 votes, after several recounts, the Dem has burst into the lead with 10. And the Republican lawyer saying that the Dems have alienated the people of the state, hmm pot calling kettle black, eh party of shrill gay marriage baiting LOL. It is the kind of result that burnishes that old saying of every vote counts :) One state down, 29 to go - well, Washington was a Dem state Presidentially anyways, still thirty red states to go :)
Good article from the Washington Post here, about probably the most pressing issue the US forces have in Iraq - the lack of actionable intelligence, and the wall of silence the Iraqi public has towards coalition forces. If the US military had sufficient intelligence about the other side, maybe they could stop a few more of these suicide bombings. If you can't protect your troops having lunch, then when can you - made me smile in a rueful grim way the fact that extra guards will be posted within barracks now - two terms come to mind, horse has bolted and how many layers of protection can there be and the military still to be effective? Have a vision of 90% guards and 10% grunts, like I said, smiling at the thought in a very rueful way...
When I mentioned yesterday that women being killed and wounded in war was not a good thing, for the US as well as the Iraqi side, the person that popped into my mind was a girl who was in Iraq for the Sound Of War, which got spliced into Fahrenheit 9/11. She was singing a gospel song or something, and she was so damned pretty, reminds me of one of my Canadian, now currently in Florida, friends. And to think of that girl killed or wounded really gets to me - for some reason Stalingrad just popped into my head, with all the hundreds of thousands of casualties there, and is easier to think of German and Soviet MEN chopping each other up with machine guns - even though Rachel Weisz was in Enemy At The Gates LOL...
Hmm, with all the chaos in Iraq and stuff, along comes a story like this from the LA Times saying that Rio de Janeiro could soon become like Mogadishu, and is Los Angeles itself on it's way there? The gangs blowing up police kiosks and sniper fire on police up 80% in ONE YEAR - hmm, no, won't even go near the guns debate this evening, too tired to bring my brain out to play LOL...
'Years ago I asked gang members what happened to kids who "just said no" to the Bloods or V-18s. They brought me a videotape other gang members had made for a 14-year-old boy who had refused to join them. The tape showed gang members raping his 13-year-old sister. The boy joined the gang so that its members wouldn't return to kill her.'
Less LOL, more ick. From that story about the LA Ganglands again...
Later peeps
Pauly
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