Business Time!

Been busy again at work. "Business time!" is a phrase used by Fuyutsuki-sensei in the Japanese TV series Great Teach Onizuka. Yes, you should probably watch that show. Fuyutsuki-sensei is hot.

Phrases that never made sense to me:

"Don't you know?" - When you un-contract it, it becomes "do not you know?"

"You don't want none of this!" - This linguistics professor was lecturing the class. "In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." Immediately, a voice from the back of the room piped up: "Yeah..... right...."

"I need to take a shit!" - The only person I've known to ever take a shit was when my uncle had to take my brother's shit out of the toilet cuz it wouldn't flush.

"I could care less." - Or is it, "I couldn't care less?" It's like flammable and inflammable.

"Hadoken!" - The idea of people shouting out the names of their moves in general doesn't make sense to me. Imagine someone in real life saying "Straight right! Uppercut! Roundhouse! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!" in a fight. Then again, imagine watching Naruto and these ninjas are doing all this cool stuff but you have no idea what it is. They're just fighting all silently like real ninjas. That wouldn't be fun...cuz everyone would have their own names for the moves and people would be confused when they talk to each other about it. "Did you see last week's episode? That was pretty hot when Kakashi was totally giving Deidara the eye."

Public transportation is a part of my everyday life. I often wonder what criteria people use when selecting their seats. If there are 3 seats on a bus available...one next to a black guy wearing a t-shirt with an ironic slogan, the other with a mexican guy with a beard and a poncho wearing an expensive Yves St. Laurent cologne, and the last a hot girl on her cellphone speaking louder than a bear horn and coughing and sneezing incessantly, which seat do you choose? Would you sit next to a monkey?

Me and Belle were wondering today, which musicians out there have really depressing lyrics yet the overall melody of the song is happy and upbeat? I want to put that all into a CD and name it "Do You See the Irony In This???!!!?!?!???!??!" like the Roots. If I want to be happy I can just hum the melody and ignore the lyrics. If I've been feeling a little too happy lately and needed a bit of depression in my life, I can listen closely to the lyrics and think over the events of my life that make these lyrics relevant. It would work on exactly 2 levels.

My lower back's been hurting lately so I haven't been working out for the past 2 weeks. I'm gonna try running this weekend and see how it feels. But I've been enjoying the lazy time so maybe not. I'll get Dr. Romeo's advice on how to help it heal faster. I guess this is what it feels like to be old and unable to go outside and do stuff. Hopefully I'll still be able to play videogames then. Or videogames have evolved to the point of becoming virtual experiences, like in Total Recall.

What type of virtual experience would I like to have? I don't know...something equivalent to childhood happiness. I don't know what it was back then that made us so happy...because there were also equivalent sad times? Maybe because we've gotten so used to the feeling? In any case, I'm approaching 30 and those times are long gone. But that doesn't mean they can't be replaced by better times.

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