Round-up time, bitches!

Because I hate you all enough to never post, I'm doing a round-up. Not just any round-up though, a little-to-no effort round-up, with posts that are unrelated and not even in chronological order.

And away we go...

Entirely too much McDonald's

I dislike McDonald's, probably enough to say I hate it. The food makes me sick, and so do their corporate practices. Unfortunately, the closest and fastest food outlet to the bus depot in downtown Toronto, is indeed a McDonald's. So inevitably every Tuesday and Wednesday I run-out of time to eat before having to rush to make it to the bus and end up starving an hour later in Toronto with little more than half an hour to get to class. My options are limited, and I'd rather eat cheap lard from evil corporate McDonald's than expensive lard from evil corporate University Cafeteria. This past week, I had three extra value meals. Once on the way to class, and twice on the way back home (McDonald's is the only place I can get a meal in less than 10 minutes in that neighbourhood after 9pm, other than a hotdog vendor of course. Shudder).

Do you think you're too good for me?

Homeless people seem to be hassling me a lot less lately. I used to be a regular target. Probably an easy target, I tried a little too hard to avert my gaze, I think. But lately, I'm a pariah or something to them. They don't even bother anymore. Maybe I look more cynical, or maybe it's the way I now stare right through people, homeless or not, when I am forced to walk in the city. I do think though, that maybe I 'm starting to look like one of them. All my clothing is second hand, all of my shoes are falling apart, and I rarely ever shave. Maybe I've found a group I can fit in with.

I've only been approached or solicited by a homeless person once in the last two months, it was Wednesday night and he offered to sell me pot so he could get something to eat, so really he was more of a drug dealer, than a bum. In the the interest of preventing comments suggesting I did buy his pot, I must say that I did not. It might have been because I didn't have any cash (I didn't), it might have been because I, like any intelligent person, wouldn't buy pot from a random guy standing in a darkened underground walkway (I won't), or it might be because I don't smoke pot (...well I haven't for a long time). You decide.

Batten down the hatches

The weather lately has been horrible. I'm sure Adria can attest to this, her city having recently encountered an all too rare tornado, rarer yet in November (It may have been a tornado like event, I didn't really follow the story). So yeah, it's been windy- the huge lightbox sign at the mattress store near my house fell over, and about a week ago the trees went from fully shrouded in yellow and orange to bare skeletons, over night. Then came the rain. The miserable, damp, then moist, then wet, then soaking rain. It rained for AGES. On Tuesday, it rained all day, and it picked up every time I had to wait for a bus outside. The image of me sitting in the bus depot waiting to go home with my shoes off and my socks inside out is probably part of the reason the homeless have stopped bothering me. Now it's snowing. Yes it's already snowed this year, but it melted when it touched the ground. But it snowed most of the day yesterday and all day today, and I can barely see the grass anymore. I'd like the wind to come back and blow it all away. Please.

Take this job and do what you will with it

I quit my job. My last day is Sunday. While I originally loved the job, I eventually realized I wasn't being paid enough and decided I'd rather be paid nothing and focus on my studies. Inevitably, I'll blow my student loan on second hand sport-coats with those neat suede elbow patches and be forced back into the workforce.

How many iPods is too many iPods

Despite my recent rant about the iPod nano, when the new iPod video was released I got all hot and bothered and had to have one. So before I gave my notice (see above) I laid down 500 big ones on a black 60 gig iPod with video. It's beautiful, and when I fall into a horrible depression from a combination of the horrendous weather and having no money, it will be my prozac.

But that's not all. Last weekend, I found out from a co-worker that Motorola was offering Moto ROKRs to Rogers Wireless dealers for $99, about $400 less than what it would cost to just buy one without signing a contract with a service provider. So I took advantage of the offer, literally. They're offering the deal in the hopes of selling lots of them for Christmas, but I only have two days of work left, and I'm not going to go out of my way to be productive.

So now I have an iPod, and what amounts to an iTunes compatible device. Really it's an iPod shuffle in a phone- an amazing phone with a huge display, room for countless pictures with up to 4x digital zoom and adjustable exposure, stereo speakers that are surprisingly loud, a little light that works as a sort of flash for the camera, and can make and store lots of videos up to about a minute and a half in length. All that and it came with a 512mb transflash card (Which on its own would cost almost as much as I paid for the phone), and an ipod/motorola hands free headset, with both ear pieces (instead of the standard one ear piece that most hands free headsets come with), so I can walk down the street listening to music and make or receive a call at the touch of a button. Better than Jesus.

Keep on Tranglin,

Anthony