Tuesday, 14 October 2008

• Land of the Lost

  Sometimes it feels like I'm taking crazy pills.  It's at these times I think there is some government/divine conspiracy against me to try to make me suicidally insane.
  
  Like when I know I changed stuff on files at work, and know I saved it, and know I saved it at multiple places because I'm so OCD about it, then my boss will tell me it's wrong and I'm like WTF I fixed that days ago.  It makes me want to hurl myself out the window.
  
  And then, the cleaning person (allegedly, purportedly, almost undoubtedly) is stealing shit just to frak with me.  Little things like the plastic earbud part of my earbuds two days in a row.  Like these little things:
  
  
  
  I come in one morning and my earbuds are on my desk and one of them is missing, and I'm like, "Hmm, it must have fallen off." But I search the ground and nowhere to be found.  So I assume it fell off the day before and somehow the cleaning person threw it away, even though I don't think they vacuum.
  
  So I replace it with a spare plastic piece from home.  But then it happened again, when I know for a fact both plastic pieces were on yesterday. Someone is trying to destroy my mind, and you know, it's working. 
  
  So, now I'm forced to mean-mug everyone at work.  It's horrible.  But, there's still a chance that I just somehow lost it, because let's face it, that's been happening.
  
  Things I lost inexplicably recently
  My iPod: Never found it. Had to buy a new one.
  My work badge: Never found it. Had to get a replacement.
  My Action Jacket for my iPod:  Happened extremely separately and months apart from losing my iPod.  Had to buy a new one.
  My desire to blog.
  My will to live.
  
  Things I lost that I know were stolen
  3 years ago: My electric toothbrush retail about 80 bucks.  I am certain the cleaning lady stole it (I was living in an extended hotel at the time). 
  
  That doesn't include things I lost that I found again later.  It's enough to drive me to the brink of full-blown "brain has encountered an error and must close" mental malfunction.
  
  Luckily, I have my volunteering to fall back on when I need to take a break.  Today I worked at the blood shelter donating blood for a while, and then plasma.  Tomorrow I'm scheduled to work a shift at the soup kitchen, then I'm volunteering at the pet refuge animal hospital this weekend.

  Oh, here are some pictures from volunteering at the homeless shelter this past weekend.
  
  
  Tim, Gina, and Sue making lunches.
  
  
  Some of the guests getting ready for bed.
  
  
  Renzo, Bob, and Sinclair handing out food.
  
  
  Jimbo on his bunk.
  
  
  Carlos and Gary scooping up tasty soup.
  
  Album of the Week: Battlestar Galactica soundtrack.  My nerdiness scares me sometimes.
  
  Other Album of the Week: All The Hold Steady albums.  I like this band alot.  They use alot of recurring characters and story lines in their songs, which makes it really worthwhile to not only listen to their whole album, but all of them.  I almost considered only listening to this band in the half-marathon (12 days away).  But, I'll sprinkle them heavily into my mix instead.
  
  Honorable Mention Album of the Week: Visiter by The Dodos.  I've given this way more repeat listens that I thought I would initially.  It's really chill overall, but with flashes of emotion.  It's lyrically dense and thoughtful, but without being overly self-aware and pompous.
  
  Lyric of the Week: "Slip like Freudian, Your first and last step to playing yourself like accordion"
  This comes via Madvillainy by Madvillains, the only rap album I have listened to this year (ever?).  It's a hookless, lyrically driven, album which I actually dug alot. 
  

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