Pepper' @ MindSay

Excessive use of large words
gives me a headache.

Most law terminology coupled with
excessive use of large words gives me a headache.

Drinking a double shot of coffee
in the morning and not eating any breakfast, then going into uni to study
during a mid-semester break gives me a headache.

Hitting my head with a cricket
bat gives me a headache, and also massive blood loss.

Trying to figure out how a movie
like the Dukes of Hazard can be made without a creditable plot gives me a
headache

Watching Jessica Simpson in hot
pants doesn’t give a headache.

As you may have concluded, I have a headache.  Well actually to be honest with you all
(and heaven forbid that I tell a lie on this thing) I had a headache.  At 5pm in the afternoon to be
exact.  But if I were precise, I’d
say 5:05:23:34.  That’s 5 hours, 5
minutes, 23 seconds and 34 mini-micro seconds or something.   Regardless, its just past 2am
according to the timestamp located somewhere on this blog, so its been more
than 9 hours since the stated headache. 
So how did cure myself from the headache?  I don’t know.  I
found that stopping from hitting myself with the cricket bat sure helped a bit
but I’m not too sure if it played a major role in my recovery.   

Hmm

Hmm indeed. 

Since I got this whole honesty thing going on, I must say
that I wrote bits of this blog over the course of the day, and me being the
silly bugger that I am (its true, for real), forgot to save it.  And lo and behold, my word document crashed
on me.  So here I am, the early
hours of the morning trying to remember what I wrote.  As I recall, it was a nice rambling, touching a lot of bases
and other softer things with my patented random writing style.  And like a rabbit with a tongue
depressor, I’ve forgotten most of it.

Oh wait, I had a line that went, ‘rah rah rah like a pink
elephant riding a tricycle, it came and went’….Yeah that probably is funnier
when read in context.   It
doesn’t really stand up as a random statement does it?  But as a non sequitur, it’ll do me.

Stuff.

Stuff happens.

‘Stuff Happens’ is an interesting play, written by David
Hare (and no, he did not have a tongue depressor) and performed recently in
Melbourne by a series of actors and actresses whose names I had no chance at
all of remembering.  I liked it because
it meant that I could hide out at the Comedy Theatre, and as far as away from
Disney as I could.  Not that I love
selling my soul and parts of my lungs to the corporate giant, just that I like
to not feel dirty when I come back from work.  Anyway, enough about my deep hatred for Disney, and more
about sex.

Lets talk about sex baby.  Lets talk about you and me.  Lets talk about all the good things and the bad things that
may be.  Lets talk about band
names.

Salt and Pepper. 
Now I’d hope most of you remember Salt and Pepper, if you don’t you’ll
probably aged 12 or something and just kicked my arse in CS.  But Salt and Pepper was a good band
name.  Well good enough at the
time.  Salt and Pepper begot TLC
(or maybe not, I’m just working off my limited memory of the past, circa
primary school days if I recall) who begot Boyz II Men.  Well they didn’t but I always liked the
fact that Boyz II Men used a ‘z’ instead of a ‘s’ and ‘II’ instead of ‘to’.  They were the earliest known uses of
1337 talk.  But we can understand
where they were coming from, when written without the cool misguided spelling
mistakes, the band name looks a bit, lets run with shit shall we?  Boys to Men.  See?  It needs
the ‘z’, it needs the ‘II’.

That actually brings me back to another topic close to my
heart, spelling.  Actually its not
close to my heart at all, I don’t really care for it.  If spelling came over and asked for a cigarette I’d say no.  And that’s no just because I don’t
smoke.  If I did happen to have a
unhealthy and quite frankly stupid addiction to nicotine and spelling came
along and wanted to bum one off me, I’d still say no.  But anyway, I was talking to some recruiters from a ‘Big 4’
corporate company, I don’t want to name names here so I’ll just give the
initials out of order; Y and E (not that hard really is it?  Not like I wrote M P K G or C P
W…)  So anyway, she said that she
received numerous applications for vacation work riddled with spelling mistakes
and spelling shorthand.  Words like
‘ppl’ instead of ‘people’ or ‘i’ instead of ‘I’.  Its quite scary really, how ppl can do that.  i for 1 have nver used shorthand to
type.

849 words.

Hmm guess I should go for that 1000 word mark huh?

In case you were wondering, and people have been, my last
post came in just under 1100 words. 
I’m going for the longer ones this time around, mainly because I’m a) an
arrogant wanker b) an idiot and c) think I have important things to write
about.  Obviously this will pass in
time, and you’ll probably see posts in the comfortable 50 to 100 word
range.  And considering that I’m
currently at 934 words, I might just finish off with a poem.

And ode to minesweeper

‘I click once,

And my heart races,

I right click,

And hope for the best,

One day I will learn,

How to play you properly,

And then,

It’ll all make sense.’

Dear god, 982 words? 
18 to go?

Scraping the bottom of the barrel is not as fun as you’d
think. 

Done.