It's strange this world is. I sound like Yoda. Though I'm not a big Star Wars fan, I know who Yoda is. Although some freaks regard him as some god, I see it more as what happens when you live TOO long. Yoda's like a million years old, and he actually LOOKS like he's bored with everything. Yes he is incredibly intelligent. Yes he can conjure up wisdom in a snap. And yes he can kick like Bruce Lee. But he SO LETHARGIC! man, maybe it's the age, but then again.. if he can fight like a troll doll on steroids, why does he limp around with a stick all the time??! it's beyond me. oh by the way, my coworker kinda looks like Yoda.

If you ever want to see what preachers call the "excesses of life", look at this: paperwork. That's another pet-peeve of mine! Billions of sheets of paper each day are copied and recopied, and collated so perfectly in offices around the world. Then these beautiful reproductions, still hot off the xerox machine, are processed by office workers. Some copies get shipped off. Others are scanned. Some get to the morning meeting. But these sheets are the lucky ones. Most of that paper take a lonelier course- they get exiled into storage. Sad sad sad... the reds go in one room, the greens in another.. the whites get passed around.. this is the real segregation in the workplace.
I'm riling about this mainly because it's 10pm, and I'm still at work. I'm fine, of course, it's not often I get to blog at work, but the real reason why I'm here is paperwork. Lots of it! Since the office doesn't have those thousand dollar copiers that automatically sorts staple punch and collate, I have the privilege of doing it all by hand. So archaic. Yet, I've mastered the skill of copying so well that I can collate 5 different hundred page double-sided stapled hold-punched documents faster than ANY copier on earth. Seriously, I'm the Gary Kasparov of the Xerox-world. Put me up against Deep Blue. =)

I hate to say it, but computers are probably the single biggest threat to life as we know it. People logging in logging out, staring endlessly at jumbled words in some self-proclaimed news site, shuffling symbols on a screen, working.. yet not. Is it really important to be connected to the world in this way? Where life becomes digitized into paragraphs, where your friend in China is so much closer than the person sitting right beside you.. simply put, the Internet is degrading everyday life more than it helps. Sifting through sands of 1s and 0s, we're not finding stuff we want, but finding stuff we don't. Although the Internet helps satisfy our unquenchable thirst for information and entertainment, sites are purely run from Americans succumbing to repetitive and deceptive advertising. The world has to get up off the chair and wake up to the permanence of a well-worn book, or satisfaction of an early morning jog. Think about it: computers were meant only to help people crunch numbers, not eat up vast amounts of one's precious day.

"Do you like sexy animals doing the wild thing? We have the super hot content on the Internet!"

I'm getting more and more of this stuff in my email. It won't go away.. I even take the time to follow some of their instructions to unsubscribe.. and then I get EVEN MORE! MAN.. First of all, I don't even WANT to see animals doing it. I mean, if you're going to catch my attention, this is definitely not it. Second of all, they have super HOT content of this stuff. Like HOT. Since WHEN was the biology film about the cow's three reproductive systems HOT??

OK, that's about all I can muster up for now.. man Jon, how can you write SO much?????

these days, you really can't say you're exercising anymore.. that's just not cool. people are tempted to say they're "pumping iron", or "working out"..it's more proper. working out doesn't really make sense when you think about it.. i mean, can you ever work IN? (actually they say THAT too. "Can I work IN with you?" meaning can you take over the machine and set it ten notches lighter..

you could say I worked in today working out during my workout.)

I get a little envious when the guy next to me pulls a dumbbell five times bigger than mine, and YET looks the same. where DO those muscles come from. then there's those people who look unhealthy. some look unhealthy as they scream in pain while lifting the bar as they chest press. problem is.. they're just lifting the BAR. haha. then there's those who look like they go to the gym 3 times a day. i can tell you that they must be popping some active ingredients into their mouths in the morning. i kinda feel sorry for them too. they can't even bend over because they're so big. they can't even clap their hands..tsk tsk... of course, there's me. i look pretty healthy by my standards. 5'3" 120 lbs. fine, they're pretty girly statistics.. BUT that's WHY i'm heading to the gym more..

whoa.. that's easy! before i begin typing some nonsense that might urge you to swing your mouse pointer to that big red X on the upper right hand corner of your screen, i am going to SLEEP.

thanks to some friends who have blogged up, i've decided to blog it too.. let's see what happens when i press this..