Going to be in Vegas July 4th?

I'm really upset about something that is happening only here, and no one else in the world knows about it. I haven't seen it on MSNBC or even the crappy FOX NEWS channel. Here's the story...



A couple of days ago, there was a man who was trying to call his wife from his cell phone (here in LV). All of a sudden, his phone call got mixed with another (and this does happen, it's happened to me, you can actually listen to someone's whole conversation) and he was about to hang up, when he heard the Arabic language being spoken (he knows how to speak Arabic). The people on the other line said (I don't have an exacty quote), "We are in the city of sin, gambling, legal prostitution. We will get them on their day of freedom." So I'm thinking that holy shit, this is going to be investigated, people are really going to check into this and all that crap. Well, Oscar Goodman (our beloved alcoholic mayor) got really angry because of how this terrorist threat would affect tourism ($ching $ching). So they've been discrediting this guy left and right, saying that he took a lie detector test, but would not disclose the results. What I'm really worried about is that our city is so worried about losing money, that they aren't really going to encourage the FBI or whomever to investigate this claim. Doesn't that bother anyone? It's really making me want to scream from the rooftops about how fucking greedy Las Vega$ is and how hard we're going to fall if we aren't prepared for a terrorist attack that might happen on July 4, when we weren't expecting it. I'm just getting my feelings out of the way, so that if something does happen, we can get that fucking drunk ass mayor out of office (ass-uming we're all still alive) and try to repair our city.
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Another note, if Andy is reading this, you had better call me or write me or I will kick your ass.



Another note, The G8 summit is taking place in Kananaskis, Alberta. How? Why? Why not Calgary? It's just weird.



I've been having my terrorist dreams again, I hope they really don't come true.



Paul was just filling in for Jason in the Second City show at the Flamingo Hilton, and he did really well! It was really funny, and he seemed relaxed on stage. He will go places.



I'm trying to get the freaking Star Trek: Nemesis trailer from the internet, and I can't find it anywhere. I was supposed to be at a convention this weekend for work, but they ended up not going. At this convention in Tulsa OK they premired the new trailer. The trailer will be out in MIB II on July 3 or 4, but I wanted to see it before anyone. I wonder how many times I said trailer in that last paragraph? I feel like I'm living in KY. (smiles at Paul's family). Bada boom *smiles at Uncle Steve*.



Yesterday was my mother's 60th birthday. I took her out to dinner and to the Second City show, we had a good time. She got a whole bunch of plants and stuff and she really liked the shorts and shirt we got her.



I haven't been able to get to the gym this week, I'm really low on energy. I'm going to the doctor on July 1, to make sure something isn't really wrong. I've had this lump on my neck for 7 years, I've just now decided to get a second opinion *in light of my friend discovering two lumps on her breast*.



Congratulations to my long time friend Jeff, who just got accepted at Vanarts in Vancouver. He's a really tallented artist, one of these days, I'll scan some of his drawings and show everyone.



I think that's all for now...



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The Gym

This is just a little rant about my experience at the gym yesterday. I've been going about 4 times a week, for the last few weeks. It's a coed gym, but there is a seperate room that is just a "ladies" gym. So, I usually go in there, it's less crowded, and well, there's no men ;). I look over at this one woman, who was thinner than I, and kind of greet her as I'm walking toward the stair master. You know, just one of those little acknowlegements that happens when two people pass each other. She looked at me with such pity, up then down. I just smiled and kept walking. I think she might have stopped and watched me walk past her. I then had an epiphany. I was someone else's motivation at the gym. That girl was giving me the "thank god I don't look like that" look. When I look at people who are larger than me, at the gym, I'm always thinking "you go girl." It motivates me to want to lose weight. I guess some people need negative motivation in order to feel motivated.


Then I started to get really sad and angry because here we are all, at the gym, working our asses off (literally) and there is all this other shit going on in the world. I was watching Fox news on my headphones, and I was totally blown away by the events of late. And there I was, on the stair master, worried about some beauty standard that really isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. I was thinking about how that girl who looked at me funny could take her hostility and put it towards a good cause, like Yucca Mountain. I was thinking about how totally unfair it all is, I'm in an air conditioned gym, while there are people all around the world who are hungry, without shelter, and have no family.


Then I started thinking that I was a hypocrite. We all are. I would not give up this lifestyle, for anything. I would not go live in Afghanistan for 6 months, just to feel thier pain. I really just wish that things were good for everyone, or at least not so abso-fucking-lutly horrible. I realize that we need bad in our lives to recognize the good, but there is just so much bad right now.


On a lighter note... I have a job on Monday's and Tuesday's at my college as a math tutor. They pay me and everything. I will be tutoring 6 hours a day, and it's kind of like a drop in thing, where I'm there for 6 hours and people come and go. Maybe when the fall semester comes, I'll quit Star Trek and tutor full time. But I have to see how I like it. I might hate it more than here, but I doubt it. I just need a change. I'm getting restless...

YEY!

So I'm just sitting here at work, minding my own business, when I hear the doorbell. (They have to ring it, and then I let them in). Who is there? Paul. What does he have? Spider-Man 12 inch action figures! Holy crap! They look pretty good too. I really have to clean my room, and make it so that I can display all my toys. Not very feng shui, but oh well. Nobody's perfect. I have a waterfall near the door, for prosperity.And my bed is angled north/south instead of east west. I'm trying, damnit. I've also been going to the gym. It never fails, whenever I have to see people from Edmonton, I always feel fat. I have to go to the gym like 85 times a week. I think I need to just calm down.