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Monday, 08 March 2004 22:18:31
The bus I take when going to lunch has become a problem lately. Theres this little gang you see, made up of a bunch of little piss-ants and ass-holes who wouldnt be much of a problem on their own but in a group, well, Im not the toughest brown-coat around. This is unfortunate because theyve picked me as a target. No idea why. Its completely uninstigated. I look as menacing as possible at all times. They just started a few months ago. First with soem verbal abuse, insults to my appearance, the fact that I listen to music on the bus, the stuff that I read. Its just general harassment and I ignored it. Then they apparently found out I was mostly Irish. Dont know how, but theyve got some kind of problem with it. Its gotten continually worse, they started throwing little things at me. Its remarkably juvenile sounding until you get it on a daily basis from grown men, then its just threatening. It escalated again today. They surrounded me when I got on, peppering me with questions and racial slurs until it turned physical. This one bastard behind me started jabbing me in the shoulder with something which I ignored for a while but trafic was bad so we werent going to get to a destination any time soon. Eventually he got fed up with my silence and jerked on my head-phone cord. My hand snapped up on instinct and grabbed him at the wrist. I turned, twisting his arm into a very uncomfortable position as I did so. "Dont do that." I said in the most menacing tone I could manage. He wasnt about to stop. His buddies had laughed at him you see. At the next opportunity, I got up and oved to an area of empty seats right behind the driver, I might be spared there. One of them of course followed me, setting down in the seat right behind mine and proceding to do a drum solo on the back of my seat with a mostly-full Gatorade bottle. It was a nnoying but I didnt care any more. My stop was in sight. I stood up as the bus stopped and then the bastard hit me. Right over the head. Hurt like hell too. I snapped. Spinning around I stalked after him as he ran towards his friends. I was trailing more Chinese expletives at that point than an Asian gangster film. Reaching the spot where he cowered I proceeded to ream them all out, shouting at the top of my lungs and generally frightening the other riders. They denied the whole thing and the driver ordered me off the bus, their smug smiles hitting me in the back even harder than that Gatorade bottle. Ill never win, Ive probably caused all manner of trouble for myself with those guys too. It was not my best day ever. I dont think I'm going to ride the bus any more. * Sorry for ranting at you folks for so long but I really need someone to vent at right now and everyone has been remarkable unresponsive to my woes.
Wednesday, 10 March 2004 11:58:17
Id like to start off by giving a big thank you to everyone who passed along advice and kind words after the incident I had a few days ago. It has been taken care of and I'll leave it at that. In other better news (depending on how you want to look at it.) I got the assignments back from my teaching gig. And well, (nervous laughter)... Yeah. A good deal of them were good and original and all but Im not quite registering how a lot of these people got into a second and third year creative writing class.Mostly because those that werent pretty good were written by people with apparently no grasp of the english language whatsoever. I shouldnt say things like that though, its [i] "mean" [i]. Finally I come to the best news since the announcment of Serenity: The anouncment of a free downloadable expansion pack for Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. Dont care? Well I do and Im excited about it, ha ha. And here I was worried that they were going to terminate the project after the online portion got canceled. That be all for today. Thanks again and, good day.
Friday, 12 March 2004 21:51:32
Thats right. I came home today to find that one of my lizards had piled all the sand into one corner of the cage and laid some eggs. I'm going out to pick up some stuff for an incubator an about an hour but until then, Uru. Should be interesting to say the least. She's never laid eggs before so Im assuming that theyve been fertilized. Im kind of worried though, this is way out of natural breeding season and she's now very very skinny (not good in a Uromastyx). I guess Ill see what happens in three months. Good day all.
Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:42:55
Scott Kurtz's game-based webcomic ran a Firefly related joke today based off of his conversion to the show. It can be found here:
Sunday, 21 March 2004 15:33:31
My browncoat arrived yesterday afternoon. Im so very happy right now! Unfortunatley it came a day late and I wasnt able to wear it to the con' I attended yesterday which kinda sucks but hey, I still got to meet Rob Salvatore. One other thing that I noticed was that there were at least three distinct costume groups there ranging from the 501st to Stargate so i got to thinking: Why not us? Why dont we mob conventions with our Browncoat pride? To get to the point though, what does everyone else think? If there was a Firefly costume group, would you join it?