kjpepper | Little things (Reply)

I know I've mentioned this before, but I an continually amused and a little freaked out by how excited I get when people post my stuff on metaquotes. I'm especially pleased by my last post - it made it up within five minute of posting, and within another ten I was awarded the internets. Yeah yeah. Self esteem. I apparently needs it. :)

Though, this is definitely my best one - already up to like 120 comments. Who knew irritating commercials would strike such a nerve? Though, one drawback - someone reminded me of those awful HEAD ON commercials, and now, broken record style, all i'm hearing in my head this morning is "HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD." Ow.)
One consequence of morlock needing to be at work by 7 is that I'm getting up hella early these days. Case in point (looks at post time) though I've been up for like an hour already and have already had my coffee and stuff. The weird part is that I don't really mind - part of the reason why I generally stay up late is to be awake in the house when no one else is, and the same effect is generally acheived when one rolls out of bed at 5:30.
Another consequence of morlock getting up early - morning cartoons. I'm seriously caught between hating the new Transformers (I know, I'm a little late coming into the game) and wanting to pick up Bumblebee and give him a big squeeze because TEH KYOOT IT BURNS.
AMERICAN GLADIATORS RETURNS TONIGHT OMG YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY *kermit the frog flailing*
One thing I've never quite gotten used to since moving to New England is how much closer the sky seems. I'm currently looking out the window at densely packed layers of cumulous clouds drifting lazily by like some freakishly animated bag of dusty cotton balls. They look low enough to reach out and touch, which is definitely a weird illusion for me to have, having grown up with the generally comforting idea that the sky was at least far enough away to be pretty much held up by the spires atop the Empire State, the Chrysler and at the time the WTC. Pillars of the world they were. I don't know, out here there's this constant subconsious sense of O KRAP WHAT'S HOLDING UP THE SKY.

....remind me never to go to a plains state or anywhere with pretty much 360° horizon. I'm pretty sure the above feeling would blossom into full tilt agoraphobia if I did.
People who have Twitter should follow StephenTColbert. A tweet from last night: "Nation, I don’t know if you've heard this, but gas is getting kind of pricey. It's getting to the point where I can't burn anyone in effigy."

Jhonen Vasquez (JhnenVEE) and Jeph Jacques (jephjacques) are also full of the periodic hilarity.
Something that made me chuckle when I read it this morning:

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
---Stephen Crane

Yeah.