March 23, 2006
I went to a Drupal meet-up today, and it was hella-fun. John, Jen and I went together and put on name-tags and got all enthused about 4.7. What a trip. It's like an Elks Lodge for geeks. Is it weird to say I am looking forward to the next meet-up? I am. Thanks to koumbit for organizing that.
I had to leave before the beer and pizza to meet with my accountant who collects birds. She has a love-bird who lost it's mate, it's been picking out it's own feathers for two years now, poor thing.
Small things make me appreciate how much I love being in this city. Having an accountant who is also an ornithologist, sitting at her table covered in bird-seed talking about how to build up my business expenses. I wonder if that is typical of Montreal, no-one is just one thing.
Later I walked home and saw the AA sign up outside the rectory. All the AA'ers were outside having a smoke break. This is something I love about St. Henri in particular. AA is supposed to be a discreet entity, you go in anonymous and come out anonymous, no one has to know who you are. Not so in my neighbourhood. Everyone knows it's an AA meeting due to the giant AA sandwich board up outside the doors every thursday night, and during breaks all the AA-ers stand on the porch making loud crowded smokey conversation.
Okay I just got some spam and the title is "Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache" forget this contextual title that's going up there right now.
Also on the way home I stopped to buy some toilet paper, and realized that it might be over-thinking things to get so incensed about tp that is NOT MADE FROM RECYCLED FIBRES. What the frig people, it is not a good startegy to kill trees to wipe your bum repeat after me, TREE=hundreds of years of growth HUMAN POO= at least once every 24 hours which is gonna run out first you do the math.
Okay I know Charmin just feels better, but if you make one sacrifice in your day to day life why not let it be yours sensitive little rosebud okay?
I know I am overreacting. I could stand by the side of the raod and cry fat tears over car-clogged arteries, but you gotta pick your battles and apparently, the family obsession with scatalogical issues and the environment has come home to roost.
Jen says I should start one of those one woman crusades that makes me look like a weirdo. Were I less concerned about looking like an utter spaz, I would. I would call it "Don't Cut Down Trees For Your Pees."
The logo would be a giant bum floating over an old growth forest.
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Posted by Miriam at March 23, 2006 10:01 PM
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Count me in on the don't cut down trees for your pees campaign.
It could be our new adult club, much more mature then our teenage club of WAH.
I like the logo already. However, the sad part is most people like looking at bums more then they like looking at old growth forests and they might worry that the bums were endangered by the old growth forests and then we might really see some mad people.
Ruth
See that's what makes our friendship so excellent. we strengthen each other's vision. I see your point about making it clear that forests are not a threat to bums.
but....(no pun intended)
Jen said that if I were to throw a lot of weight behind DCDTFYP people might start drawing satirical cartoons of me with a pine tree coming from you know where. Not that I am so protective of my reputation, but still, no-one wants to look like a dork in cartoons.
Also DCDTFYP isn't a militant group, we should be accessible to everyone, so the brand shouldn't be too angry. It's a gentle bum that arcs over the old growth forest like a sunrise, not a scary bum. A loving bum.