so i just went into my bosses office and said "i know this is a bit cheeky but i'm hungover, i feel like crap and i want to go home". she immediately responded with "tell me what you got up to last night and then you can go".
i am going home to bed.
1:53 p.m. - November 22, 2002
if you were hoping i was going to say something witty and interesting today you are very much out of luck. i am dying. my hangover is killing me.
i got into work and threw up whatever i ate yesterday and then i had a bagel with bacon and threw that up and now i am trying to decide what i would like to throw up next. i think something pink or purple might be nice. its been a long time since i got that drunk and had to deal with a hangover on this scale. i have to say that i'm not keen on the whole experience!
12:46 p.m. - November 22, 2002
in an admittedly pathetic attempt to make myself feel better i am asking people to either say something nice about me or tell me the worst thing they did when they were drunk. this is a very enlightening project and i'm hearing some stories that make me sound almost angelic when i've had a few too many. someone told me about being so drunk that they lost control of their bodily functions (ewwww!!!), someone told me that the other night they were so drunk that they passed out in a nice restaurant and smashed a glass when their head hit the table, someone told me about a birthday dinner speech they made that resulted in their parent's throwing their credit card on the table and walking out and someone else said this "I like you cause you're a good hearted person and rarely talk ill of people, and you've always been there for me, and have been a better friend here than most friends that live next door to me". i want more drunk stories
10:05 a.m. - November 22, 2002
when i woke up i was still drunk. when i got into work my hangover kicked in. i am feeling very very sorry for myself right now. please send me messages that make me feel like less of a drunken fuckwit.
9:14 a.m. - November 22, 2002
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message: RE: Bowling for Columbine. Like all Moore stuff, its oversimplified esp. in regards to Canada. One of his main points is not that the US necessarily has a gun problem but that it has a fear problem and illustrates the point by comparing with Canada � Canada has a fair amount of guns but low gun crime. What he doesn�t say is that nearly all guns in Canada are hunting/rifle guns NOT handguns which are heavily controlled. Canadians have guns for hunting/sport not protection. That reflects Canadian law as well as culture. By the way, is hunting really a sport? Where�s the competition? Paint-balling makes more sense to me. Americans do seem to have this fear thing � historically, every time there�s a war/terrorist attack, air travel by US citizens drops far more than Canadians/Europeans etc. Maybe its because they feel that its more directed at them but still its out of proportion with the risk. People�s perception of risk is often distorted (not just in the US), e.g. buy a gun to avoid a very unlikely crime but then don�t wear a seatbelt. But fear works - keeps the media, police, private security and politicians in business. Its how slaves were/are controlled, afterall. I also think Moore took it too easy on the Heston (wooden actor). He put himself in the position of President of the NRA so he asked for it. Surveys show most American favour more gun control but powerful/rich/well-connected minorities like the NRA prevent it. And why do they follow these gun tragedies around, have they no compassion? Course not, they�re right so they can do what they want. If you�re right then its all OK. Anti-abortionists are right, so they can kill doctors; Osama is right so he can fly planes into buildings; Bush is right so he can bomb Iraq/cancel birth-control funding to third-world countries/execute criminals. Point being I wish people would do things more on rationale, less on beliefs. Fuckers. Anyway, I�m not anti-US. I fucking hate the smug European (and even Canadian) attitudes to the US. They seem to forget the a lot of the worlds problems started with them � all Middle-East countries are just bits of land carved up by the British and French. Vietnam started �cos Charles De Gaulle (another cunt) and France wouldn�t leave, allowing communism to fester under French repression (then left when the fighting got hard �cos the French can�t fight a poodle). And what the Europeans did in Africa, fuck. Compare that with what the US did to rebuild Japan and Europe after the war, one of the most enlightened acts of the 20th century. Then they buggered it with their actions in South America and Middle East later, but... And all the oil the US is greedily after in Iraq etc, seems Europeans use that too. The only reason the French don�t want to attack Iraq is �cos they�ve developed some nice trade with them (against UN sanctions in many cases) including arms. So enough badly written ranting. Not a bad movie, bit flawed. Biased but why not. America � good but need for improvement (seems to be getting worse). Canada � needs more locks. France � bomb �em.
i like this guy. i wonder if he's cute.
3:49 p.m. - November 21, 2002
in 1996, long before columbine, 16 kids and a teacher were shot to death, by a wacko, in a small town in scotland called dunblane. he walked into a classroom full of 5 to 6 year olds, fired 743 rounds from 4 handguns and then, as is the trend, turned the gun on himself. somehow this event had slipped from my memory until last night, although i doubt very much any one in dunblane will ever forget. in a small town in britain the loss of 16 kids would make a hefty dent in a whole generation and totally change the nature of the community. the british government response to this massacre was swift (some say too swift and too soft). in 1997 the firearms amendment act was rushed into force banning handguns and amending the way in which gun ownership was regulated. this basically meant that if anything like dunblane ever happened again, and the whole idea was to ensure it didn�t, then the gun used would be an illegal weapon rather than one freely bought. this was at the very least a step in the right direction. the difference between america and the uk in terms of gun law and the response to gun massacres is the constitution. the constitution (with a great deal of help from the NRA) prevents the government doing what it should do in terms of gun law. i actually believe the constitution is something americans have every right to be proud of, if only for its uniqueness, but i think the second amendment should either be laid to rest or be interpreted in a different way ie that the country has a right to bear arms rather than individual psychos. saying that, i�m a flexible person. i�m willing to listen to anyone who can give me a good reason why people want guns in homes. however, �because they can� will not cut it.
someone just asked me "do you hate america now?". lol. of course i don't hate america. all the americans i've known have been great people, all the vacations i've had there have been big fun. i just don't agree with everything that goes on there. in fact there are few places in the world right now where there is much to be proud of.
11:21 a.m. - November 21, 2002
a couple of years ago the coolest guy and i were doing a 3 month road trip around the US. at one point we dipped down into tijuana (for tequila and cheap clinique make-up). on the way back i walked easily through border control with my british passport. however the coolest guy, who was behind me, did not fare so well with his canadian passport. he seemed to take forever getting through while i waited outside the building, behind the white line, wondering what the fuck was going on. i�ll grant you that the coolest guy�s passport is a little on the odd side since he has a canadian passport which was issued in india (where he had had his original passport stolen when he was traveling) yet he was born in the US (san fran to be exact). for some reason the american border guards found this last fact highly amusing. they actually looked at each other, laughed and said to him �you were born in the US and you actually chose to live in canada???�. i always imagined that at some point we would move down to the US. we have talked many times about living in places like new york and san fran (as part of our long term commitment to living in as many of the top 5 most expensive cities in the west as possible :)) and i was always excited by the idea but last night i realized that moving to america was something i didn�t really want to do.
8:57 a.m. - November 21, 2002
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