(no subject)

Caffeine, caffeine
Always so fickle with me
One day you make me hyper
The next there's no effect
If you can't make up your mind
How can I know what to expect?

Yes folks, I'm that tired. And no, the caffeine is not working. Can we just go back to Kindergarten and have naptime (not to mention juice and cookies)? Wake me when it's time to go home.

(no subject)

Hee hee hee. Guess what happens when you go out of the way to make the country paranoid? They act on their paranoia! Shocker!

A man armed with an assault-style rifle opened fire on a helicopter landing in a residential neighborhood, thinking the chopper was carrying terrorists, police said..."Maybe I overreacted, but I did feel this was terrorism at its utmost," Chwaszczewski said.

Maybe he overreacted?!?!

(no subject)

My coworker Neil is from England, and we often get into discussions about cultural perceptions etc. Today's conversation got started because he and his girlfriend watched "Gone with the Wind" and he mentioned that it was interesting from his point of view of not knowing anything about the Civil War. So that set us off on discussions of history and how "history" in America is so short vs anywhere in Europe etc.

Anyway, I asked him if it got annoying getting all these kinds of questions all the time.

Neil: No, I only mind the stupid questions.
Me: Like what?
N: Well, I once got asked if there were any African Americans in England. I said, "Well, not exactly..." Hoping that maybe they'd clue in to the stupidity and general non-sensibility of that question, but no, they said, "You mean the whole country is white?!?"

Hee, hee, people are dumb.