Friday, January 18, 2002
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so yes... this week has turned out to be more than half decent. after thinking it was going to be the worst week ever, and that i would end up quitting half way through, it turned out to be just another week. not much to love, but not much to hate either. so yeah, i'm happy, good times, etc etc etc. i'm ready to get good and trizznashed tonight.
one thing about work. i seem to be poison to any work party i am scheduled for. the work party last saturday or whenever, like half the people who were supposed to show up actually did. first work party i went too, no one showed up from the community. the one with the high school kids, not enough people showed up to deal with the extra kids that showed up. this last one on thursday, one community member showed up, even though they have them every 2nd or 3rd thursday, whatever it was. they were expecting like 12 people, and one person showed up. it made for a funny work party. me and chris just kind of bullshitted around. it was actually really fun, chris is a good guy. in the end, we planted 5 trees, and dug out some blackberry, and that was it, hahaha. neither of us were going to go out of our way to look for something to do...
so yeah, i get to thinking about things, just kind of randomly. today i started thinking about early man's greatest achievements. i don't know why, but i did. i started listing down a few things in my head, and started sorting through them trying to figure out what was most important for the advancement of humankind. not necessarily best for the advancement of civilization, i had to tell myself, but best for humankind. i actually share my ancient history prof at UW's view, that agriculture is the greatest thing, ever. we owe our lives to the first person who planted wheat or whatever, so they wouldn't have to roam to find food. i mean think about it. it meant that many more people could live on a smaller area of land. it gave people a perminant place to live, which lead to the formation of perminant dwellings and cities and the like. it, in a very basic form, started the specialization of trades. not everyone worked the land, but still they ate, because they brought something else to the table that people were willing to trade food for. agriculture was hugely important. at BCC, i wrote this great essay on one of my tests about how agriculture was the single most important thing in early history, and i got a bad grade because my teacher was stupid or something. well, he didn't agree with me. he must be stupid.
anyways, i had that thought in my head, and started thinking about what else was important. currency came to mind fairly quickly, then writing, and then art. art is kind of a tricky one to explain. it is more a symbol of the rise of civilization. it wasn't good for humankind directly, but because civilization was good for humankind, i decided to leave it. art is important, because it is something that no one needs, yet still paid for. it was one of the first luxuries people had. it marked a huge step towards the seperation of humans from the rest of the animal kingdom, because it is something we make and want purely for pleasure's sake, not because some survival instinct tells us we need it. it is a symbol of higher level thinking.
after thinking about art for a while, i kind of got off track when a humorous thought popped into my head. what about drugs? i asked myself. man finds poisonous plant. man eats poisonous plant. man starts seeing strange things. man eats more. i mean, seriously, how rediculous are drugs. you take things that are poisonous, and you eat them because they make you feel funny. but don't take too much, because it will kill you. man runs out of wood for fire. man piles bush nearby on fire to keep it burning. man gets stoned off his ass, and carrys around the plant, creating small fires with the plant. i mean, rediculous i tell you!!! but somehow, it is so very necessary :) when you think about it, everything is rediculous.
last night, everything was beyond rediculous. friends was the most insane, jackassed show ever. it was just crazyness. words cannot describe how strange it was to us. perhaps more rediculous than friends, was bryan. he kept talking, only i didn't know what he was talking about, or why he kept talking. and he wouldn't stop talking, even to take a hit from the bong. the circle would just stop, and me and matt would just be there dancing, like, dammit, take a hit, we want some more!!! and he would just talk, and we had to pay attention because he had the bong. it was kind of annoying, but
so yes... this week has turned out to be more than half decent. after thinking it was going to be the worst week ever, and that i would end up quitting half way through, it turned out to be just another week. not much to love, but not much to hate either. so yeah, i'm happy, good times, etc etc etc. i'm ready to get good and trizznashed tonight.
one thing about work. i seem to be poison to any work party i am scheduled for. the work party last saturday or whenever, like half the people who were supposed to show up actually did. first work party i went too, no one showed up from the community. the one with the high school kids, not enough people showed up to deal with the extra kids that showed up. this last one on thursday, one community member showed up, even though they have them every 2nd or 3rd thursday, whatever it was. they were expecting like 12 people, and one person showed up. it made for a funny work party. me and chris just kind of bullshitted around. it was actually really fun, chris is a good guy. in the end, we planted 5 trees, and dug out some blackberry, and that was it, hahaha. neither of us were going to go out of our way to look for something to do...
so yeah, i get to thinking about things, just kind of randomly. today i started thinking about early man's greatest achievements. i don't know why, but i did. i started listing down a few things in my head, and started sorting through them trying to figure out what was most important for the advancement of humankind. not necessarily best for the advancement of civilization, i had to tell myself, but best for humankind. i actually share my ancient history prof at UW's view, that agriculture is the greatest thing, ever. we owe our lives to the first person who planted wheat or whatever, so they wouldn't have to roam to find food. i mean think about it. it meant that many more people could live on a smaller area of land. it gave people a perminant place to live, which lead to the formation of perminant dwellings and cities and the like. it, in a very basic form, started the specialization of trades. not everyone worked the land, but still they ate, because they brought something else to the table that people were willing to trade food for. agriculture was hugely important. at BCC, i wrote this great essay on one of my tests about how agriculture was the single most important thing in early history, and i got a bad grade because my teacher was stupid or something. well, he didn't agree with me. he must be stupid.
anyways, i had that thought in my head, and started thinking about what else was important. currency came to mind fairly quickly, then writing, and then art. art is kind of a tricky one to explain. it is more a symbol of the rise of civilization. it wasn't good for humankind directly, but because civilization was good for humankind, i decided to leave it. art is important, because it is something that no one needs, yet still paid for. it was one of the first luxuries people had. it marked a huge step towards the seperation of humans from the rest of the animal kingdom, because it is something we make and want purely for pleasure's sake, not because some survival instinct tells us we need it. it is a symbol of higher level thinking.
after thinking about art for a while, i kind of got off track when a humorous thought popped into my head. what about drugs? i asked myself. man finds poisonous plant. man eats poisonous plant. man starts seeing strange things. man eats more. i mean, seriously, how rediculous are drugs. you take things that are poisonous, and you eat them because they make you feel funny. but don't take too much, because it will kill you. man runs out of wood for fire. man piles bush nearby on fire to keep it burning. man gets stoned off his ass, and carrys around the plant, creating small fires with the plant. i mean, rediculous i tell you!!! but somehow, it is so very necessary :) when you think about it, everything is rediculous.
last night, everything was beyond rediculous. friends was the most insane, jackassed show ever. it was just crazyness. words cannot describe how strange it was to us. perhaps more rediculous than friends, was bryan. he kept talking, only i didn't know what he was talking about, or why he kept talking. and he wouldn't stop talking, even to take a hit from the bong. the circle would just stop, and me and matt would just be there dancing, like, dammit, take a hit, we want some more!!! and he would just talk, and we had to pay attention because he had the bong. it was kind of annoying, but
