Expressions and Quotes

I couldn't go without recounting some of the more humorous or interesting sayings I came by today.

First, a classic. "Riding the short school bus" (and variants thereof). Simply put, being special. And not necessarily the good kind of special. Less critical, and more funny.

Next, a curious one, might rely on context, but I found it rather pleasing. "I thought the pope was supposed to give miracles, not migranes." Must just be the funny consonance, or my personal anti-organized-religion stance. Literally, this was just an attack against another player in a game who was named 'Holy Pope' or something like that, who was at the same time being particularly annoying. The real pope, although uncapable of performing miracles, can do quite a good job at doling out migranes, methinks.

Lastly, I saw one written. Sophomoric maybe, but it made me chuckle. I was sealing envelopes (see the previous post), and I opened an envelope full of stickers I was going to use as seals. There was a little handwritten quip on a sticky note. It said, "20 ass. stickers" ... so I'm tired, and when I read it to myself... I'm such a loser, nevermind.

(Twenty ass stickers, hahaha.)

© Duke Univ. Special Collections Lib.

The imagery such a simple thing can bring to mind; language is marvelous, isn't it?

Floating in the Wake of Graduation

I'm in the middle of writing a mountain of thank-you's for all those kind people that went out of their way to send me a graduation congradulation card. (Not to mention the money therein.) Due to the professions of my parents, both ordained clergy, they have tons of connections with people who like to stay in good spirits with them. So, lucky me, it pays off being a PK².

© ILUSA

I just hope they don't compare cards with eachother, they might be unplesantly suprized by some of the similiar... vocabulary used. Hey, one's sincere, just like all the others.

My hand is just about worn out, not to mention it hasn't done this much writing in ages. Not since the IB exams anyway...

Verdant Green and Gasoline

Lesson 1: On Human Nature and Destruction

I smell like I've just been swimming through a sea of oil and plant sludge. The weedwhacker is a gruesome device of plant extermination.

© EBNA

The only reason I bring this up is because when I was using one of these ealier today, it made me think of wielding something akin to a giant wielding some kind of massive killing device. Instead of chopping off the heads of people, I'm chopping off the heads of plants. Bits of green are flying everywhere, a wet, sometimes sticky situation. You must squint lest the pieces (of plant or of flesh and bone) find their way into your eyes.

This is one of the few things that is left in this day and age of the barbaric nature of man. The power behind one of the many machines built only to destroy... They have made something "better," but there's something significantly different about holding the instrument in one's own arms.

Next time's lesson: The Wrecking Ball

Hello World

Welcome to the Neanderthal(ic) Meanderings of the confused and mislead individual known as shigeki.

A briefing of (possible) things to come:

Ne·an·der·thal:
Slang. Crude, boorish, or slow-witted.

Me·an·der:
To move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction: vagabonds meandering through life. See Synonyms at wander.

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