truthism

So, in the same breath that you say, "Oh my gosh, I went to this one stupid website and the guy said that aliens rule the world," you should also say, "Oh my gosh, I believe that humans rule the world, even though I have absolutely no proof for my belief." As you can see, one cannot just posit that humans rule the world. Where's the proof???

Church

Horny
Originally uploaded by knicole7.

The best advice I've ever received from a church.

snow

Odd picnic spot
Originally uploaded by knicole7.

So I decided to explore this Aussie snow a week ago, but am only writing about it now.

Yeah, it was alright. Crunchy. There was a decent amount of it. We went cross country skiing. I remember why I don't like cross country skiing now. It's all about downhill or snowboarding.

These people in the picture are picnicing in the parking lot. They're not sitting in the mud, they have a blanket. They also have a small stove and are making noodles. I sat there watching them for about 10 minutes while the other people in my party got ready to go. I have no idea why you would eat there when there are tables pretty close by. And just, why would you eat in a parking lot with all the exhaust and stuff? Strange.

Let see, what else. Stopped my boring job last week. Now I'm doing mostly nothing. Probably moving to Canada at the end of August. Not warm. But i'll probably go via some warm stuff. Really, I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing. I've even considered going back to China for a bit - well HK or Taiwan, but we'll see.

Anyway, yeah.

sunburnt country

As most people should know, it is winter in Australia right now. Although if you were able to come here from January in the northern hemisphere, you probably wouldn't notice. I must say, Australia can't handle the cold for the life of them.

The surge in demand is largely caused by consumers using gas appliances to keep themselves warm as the temperature outside dipped close to freezing.

Close to freezing. We're not quite there yet.

Don't get me wrong, I'm the first to complain about the cold but that's mostly because central heating doesn't exist here, like in China. They just use their air conditioners as heaters. Not a good option.

I used to laugh at how the east coast in the US dealt with a little snow. If an Australian city were ever to get snow, the entire country would have to shut down (the picture above is from up in the mountains near the ski resorts, not in Melbourne.) Although I do hear that Melbourne did get snow once. It lasted for an hour.

VH1

I get a large chunk of my american news from VH1 Best Week Ever podcast. I think it's probably just as good as CNN.

over it

My new, fun work activity is rolling up a broken rubber band and then letting it go and watching the pattern it unrolls to. I'm thinking of making a movie of it.

The internet at my work is the slowest in the world. I was going to post an article like an hour ago but the flash gets all messed up, and the webpage never loads properly and then...

I can't remember what I was just writing about, someone came through with some candy and I had to pretend to be happy so I'd get a piece.

Anyway, i can't remember the article I was going to post. Something about how nobody cares about where you travel, actually, I'll try to find it since I'm not working anyway...

Why backpackers are so boring

Probably not that interesting, but I'm bored.

I might be going to East Timor (or 'Timor-Leste' as we like to call it in the 'in'), but I probably shouldn't say that because it's very iffy and if it doesn't happen, which it really might not, then people will say, 'so what happened with east timor?' and I'll have to invent a story.

It was independence day yesterday in the US of A, or today since it's still the 4th there. I celebrated by going to Chinatown for Chinese and going to see the musical Miss Saigon.

The American Dream.... (jazz hands!)