Juh-Juh-Jaded...

I remember a good friend of mine used to have the hots for the girl in that Aerosmith video. I can't really remember what she looked like though, was she wearing green? Or was that just Jennifer Love Hewitt in Girl on TV?

I find myself feeling, well, jaded. I know that might seem a little weird or out of place to some others, seeing as how I don't exactly live a life of misery. I have a great girlfriend/wife/fiaance/dragon lady (eternally) by my side, am usually priveledged to be able to ride around looking snazzy in a (sometimes) shiny car, and (occasionally) enjoy the hedonistic pleasures that I used to only dream of or secretly watch online.

But I do.

I'm not entirely sure why exactly, but I think it might have a good deal to do with the kinds of people I have to encounter on a regular (read: day to day) basis.

Exhibit A

A teacher who personifies painfully anal, and not in any erotic way either. One who laughs at an unfortunate foreign student with difficulty getting around the English vocabulary, who dismisses a verbal presentation with a classy "Whatever" and one who might seem to be naturally inclined to view the world in wide-screen.

Exhibit B

Another teacher, but that is such a stretch of the term it isn't even funny anymore. It's like calling myself an internationally reknown and modest journalist/writer. The distinguishing difference between these analogies is that in the one invovling my person, it might actually come true in the future. I don't quite understand how someone who intentionally misinforms his largely-oblivious students and who can retort "OK, all of you, read the notes in your hands, I will stop talking. If you have any questions, come and see me." can be qualified to receive a friggin salary for his day's "work". If "looking smug" or "being maliciously boring" was in his job description, I'd say he'd need a raise though.

Exhibit C

And another teacher, can you detect a trend here? After several weeks of epileptic observation, I have concluded that this one is colour-blind. In case you are wondering how I came to this amazing deduction, you need to understand that when someone expects you to read black text on a dark blue background, while that someone is clad in a horrendous pink and white "top" (which, in all fairness, looks like the underside of a large piece of roadkill), you'd come to the same logic as I have. In addition to her unfortunate deficiency, we are also treated to roughly half an hour of verbal attendance taking every lecture, and sermons on the righteousness of a certain deceased professor and brief interludes on the inflections of a name.

Wow, I actually think I know what's been bugging me. Writing can be therapeutic after all.

Alright, I need to pack my shotgun now.

PS: There are more, but if I had included everything till Exhibit ZZZ93265 v81736, the Internet would crash.

People I Know

The progeny of a weekend of boring nights...

PS: If you're name isn't in here... sorry.

Kisses Hugs And Delightful Inspirations

Just Everything And Nothing Never Is Enough

An Interesting Sociable Young Adventurous Hip Romantic And Zany Amiable Kiddo

Somebody Understands Long Tedious And Nonsensical Animated Hits

He Always Never Needs A Hug

So, A Jolly Indian, Very Amazingly Nice

Jumping Around Gaming Just Everyday Everytime Totally

Eccentric Rabbit Finds Exotic Nuclear Destructive Isotope

Finally A New Gigantic Xtreme Ultra Nerd

Ye Angry Queen In Need

Find A Zodiac Lie Every Easter

Everyday Finding Everything Irritating

Can Lousy Emergency Medics Ever Not Talk?

Suddenly He Enters My Mind Over-and Over...

Kids Everywhere Run Ragged Instead!

Kinda Evil Villian In Not So Evil Anymore-way Huh?

Wont I Live Lavishly Crapping Happily In Nova-scotia

Meet An Unusual Fellow And His Magic Yak

Find English Lies In Cheesy Interesting Articles

Never Attempt Zero Randomness Except Everyday Now

Joyous Or Holy, New Whispers Often Near God

A Zoo Has Animals, Right?

Kudos And Noise Irritate Anything

Hell Only Opens Every Yesterday

Dude, Everyone Understands English Lah

Maybe We Encountered Nudity

Xylophone Inspector Now Cooks His Erotic Embers

A Happy Man And Down-to-earth

Elephants Live In Zoos Although Bats Excite The Horde

Anytime Kings Murder, Anyone Lives

Average Nicety Going In Everyone's Boring Ordinary Head

Something Headed Everywhere Next November, Yeah?

Aethists Run To His Unlucky Rabbit

Neolithic Airhead That Announces Loudly In Earnest

Atrophy Likes Big Egomaniacs Ready Tomorrow

Elementary

(Person) says:
there's actually something in my personal message too

(Person) says:
hahas

(Person) says:
if u can decipher it, i will treat u to a meal

(Person) says:
hahaha

nAz says:
in the tag board?

(Person) says:
no my msn nick personal message

nAz says:
oh

nAz says:
hmm

nAz says:
[CENSORED]

nAz says:
in there?

(Person) says:
yea

nAz says:
HA

nAz says:
[CENSORED]

(Person) says:
without the [CENSORED]

(Person) says:
WOW

(Person) says:
oh mann

(Person) says:
now i owe u a meal

(Person) says:
haha!

nAz says:
hahahahaha

(Person) says:
u are getting clever

nAz says:
are you implying that you thought I was stupid?

The Greatest (S)Hits

Relationships can be such complicated matters sometimes.

Everytime, really.

Movies and TV and love songs lie to the masses. No boy meets a girl only to secretly fall maddeningly in love with her, finding that she too has the same feelings towards him as they celebrate with a gentle kissing session against the sunset, on the hood of a Corvette.

I believe we are defined by our relationships. As Celine said in (the divinely excellent) Before Sunrise, "If there is any kind of magic in this world, it is in the act of understanding another person" because that's the gist of a relationship, I guess.

I've been lucky enough to find myself the girl, woman, that I can say I'm utterly and completely proud to call my own. At the same time, I've been able to surround myself with friends and minions who make me laugh and can show me a good time or two.

Not everyone is as blessed, of course. There are those who, try as they might, continue to feel lost (not you, Sul) or disappointed or confused or simply wrong. For these people, a few words of advice.

1. Never put up with anyone who physically abuses you. Even once. That's once too many. Even a good excuse leads to bad ones.

2. Remember to say the things you mean, and mean the things that you say. Don't hold back; regret is worse than rejection.

3. Be yourself. Even if it means commenting on the choice of meat at a cafeteria.

4.Sometimes it pays to be selfish. There's no point getting into or staying in something that will make you miserable, only to keep someone else marginally satisfied.

5. The only people worth changing for are the ones who love you just the way you are.

Remembering

On the eve of the anniversary of one of the most tragic and controversial events in world history, let me just point my minions to a few interesting opinions.

Loose Change

News Flash

What they say

Now, I'll leave you be.

Enjoy your stay, and do come again.