being a stalker! and judgemental!

I can't quite pin down when I started feeling like I never had time to do anything anymore.  I think it must have started sometime in the last year, but I don't know exactly when or why!  Certainly I've gotten more busy at work but I thankfully have a job where I leave all of that AT work - so while I go in a bit earlier these days, it's my evenings that feel like there really is just no time for much besides getting home to eat dinner and then getting on to bed!  (That is slightly a lie because I have dance class in the evenings and I never get to bed as early as I should.  But it's more that I don't feel I have the energy to be doing all that much, like sewing every night or drawing or painting or something, which is what I WANT to be doing, until it comes to be evening time and all I want to do is go lie around and rest.  Bleh.)


I blame some of the mental lethargy on the house hunting process.  Sure, the process of going out and looking at places happens on the weekends, but the brain power evidently has leaked out of my ears because I certainly have very little of it left in my head these days. 

I do have enough brain power to add another Character, this time with a picture.  For some reason I find this fellow to be extremely creepy, although I freely admit I know nothing about him.  I'm sure he's perfectly nice, but I see him around on my commute and every time I can't help but think he looks evil!!! Maybe it is the slightly older-but-I'm-still-a-hipster look, or his glasses, or his hair; some combo of all that makes him look very sinister.  In fact, I think he looks very much like the James Bond villian Le Chiffre!!  What do you think?

<---- real life                                                  movie villain ---->

Duck in a pool!

Duck in a pool!, originally uploaded by dorisaurus.

I call this guy CEO Duck. He's been hanging around for about two weeks, finally caught him on video. Like a rich CEO he has a pimping ginormous pad; he's so rich other people clean it for him. His friends are much poorer and are hanging out in the puddles of a nearby shopping center. But like a lonely human CEO, CEO Duck must be so busy in life he can't find a nice lady friend to live in his pad with him. Good luck in your search, CEO Duck!

Character #2- The Salad Lady

Who would pass up a cheap lunch option? Not the Salad Lady!

Every once in awhile I make a nod to being healthy by having a salad for lunch – and ever time, I see the Salad Lady. The great thing about this salad bar, you only pay according to box size instead of by weight. As everyone who has ever been a college student/Asian/have a fast metabolism, this is the equivalent of vegetarian food heaven – eat all you can smash in a box for low price of $4.75.

The Salad Lady has perfected filling her bowl to an art form. Every day, her salad overflows her small size bowl like a volcano. Cheap leafy greens? Not for this Madam of Vegetables. Her skills are so advanced, she has negated the usefulness of the box lid. This is the kind of salad that you can’t help but stare at – and it will stare back at you. I would estimate that her salad rises above the edge of the bowl by at least 3 inches every time. When she gets soup at the adjoining bar, you better believe that she’s ladled out all the good stuff that sank to the bottom of the broth and her (small) bowl is filled to the brim.

Now, I understand the joys of being cheap (see above – re: college student, etc.). But I’m starting to wonder if the Salad Lady is a recovering kleptomaniac distracting herself with harmless salad. Sure, cheating the system is fun the first few times, but it gets little ridiculous on a when it happens every day. Also, it is obvious to everyone that 1) the Salad Lady is not a poor college student and 2) she is not eating salad for the health benefits of tons of cheese, eggs, and sunflower seeds. If you have a problem Ma’am, please – there have got to be support groups out there.

Character #1 - Thor

Thor is the god of thunder and lightning and he exists at the university where I work. The first sighting of Thor dates back approximately a year ago, when I first saw him shuffling his way across campus. He looks like this:

Only instead of impressive abs he has a beer belly and is badly dressed because he is a college undergrad. At first, the sight of Thor was enough to make me giggle and sigh, because his swagger plainly states he does not care what others think of his appearance. He may have a belly and sloping shoulders, but he walks as proudly as if he had Thor’s war-hammer with +80 awesome factor. He is just that confident. You would be too, if you had the power to throw storms and lightning bolts.

Then came the day my heart was shattered, when I saw Thor light up a cigarette and puff away. It was further shattered when he cut his hair, let it grow back long enough to put into a ponytail, and now I see him walking around with no shoes on. That’s right, barefoot in a public place. Thor turned out to be a dirty hippie and I died a little on the inside when I found out.