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I walked into a table at work.

I started a 365 project. So far I'm doing self-portraits, but come February I might get really bored of that and change themes every month.

I was just outside my building and I overheard a snippet of a conversation between a girl and a guy as they got into a car. I don't know what they were talking about, specifically, but we can all make an educated guess based on current pop culture. The girl alluded to a movie and complained "it was in Swedish... with subtitles" as if that was an absolute negative. She said she gave up after a while.

It sounded as if they were talking about an English-language remake, so my guess is that they were talking about Let the Right One In* and its (upcoming, I think?) American remake. I've seen the original and it was amazing.I wasn't bothered by the subtitles; I would have been bothered by a dubbed version.

It's sad that people will brush off amazing films just because they're shot in another language. The English-speaking community is not the world and does not represent the world. Don't these people understand how much they're missing out on?

Tomorrow:

I don't want to go to Toronto
I don't want to go
All of the blocks are square
None of the streets are twisted
None of the streets are paved with bricks
There's too many elevators in Toronto
Not enough stairs in Toronto
Not enough stairs
All of the food in Toronto is made of edible oil products
They don't have bagels in Toronto
They have doughnuts
Doughnuts made of edible oil
I don't like doughnuts
They don't have bagels
I don't want to go to Toronto
People don't have faces in Toronto
They have cigarette ads instead
They listen to your phone calls
There's a tower in Toronto that controls people's minds
It's illegal to possess brightly coloured balloons in Toronto
Illegal to own brightly coloured balloons
All of the children in Toronto must wear suits
Even the girls
Three piece suits
The buildings in Toronto have no windows
I don't want to go
Everyone lives in subterranean caverns
Filled with doughnuts made of edible oil
I don't want to go
Nobody goes to the bathroom in Toronto
They have a special operation
They have it removed surgically
There's a tax on all wicker goods in Toronto
There's huge buildings with no windows
And streets with no curves
And inside you find little girls in suits
Running around with black balloons
And munching on edible oil products
The kids don't have names
They have numbers which are assigned to them at birth
They're called three hundred and eighty seven point seven
Four hundred and twelve point nine
And they all have cigarette ads instead of faces
I don't want to go to Toronto
I don't want to go
I have plenty of wicker goods
I don't want a tax on my wicker goods
I like going to the bathroom
I don't want to go the hospital
I don't want to go to Toronto
I don't want to go
Do I have to go to Toronto?
Do I?
Do I have to go?
I don't want to go
Do I have to go to Toronto?
I don't want to go

(Edited to add: this is a rant/song/whatever by Radio Free Vestibule, not me! I just think it's awesome & funny & has been by going-to-Toronto song ever since I left.)

Happy holidays if you celebrate them. Happy random day off if you don't.

Yesterday I slept for about 20 hours out of 24. I went to bed Saturday night feeling fine but Sunday morning I woke up, made coffee, and before I'd had half a mug my stomach rebelled and vomited up the little liquid. Since that sucked, I just went back to bed. Got up for a few hours in the afternoon, and slept all night to wake up this morning feeling fine one again.

I guess my body just really, really wanted some extra sleep? Usually if I have a nap during the day I have such trouble falling asleep, but not this time. Not that I'm complaining.

Apparently in southwestern Ontario it snow-stormed so hard that people have been stranded in their cars on impassable roads for over 24 hours. As long as those storms don't shift to Toronto, please... I have to fly there next week!

What's your favourite meme of 2010?
For me, hands down, it's this dude:

Yesterday it rained really hard but in the middle of the afternoon, a sun-shower brought this!



Something about a rainbow always brings a huge smile to my face.

[Edit] P.S. WTF, the photo was vertically oriented when I opened the file on my desktop! Goddamn mystery annoying sideways fail.