Yes, before anyone says anything, it’s probably been several months since I’ve given my wordpress blog a good kicking; I’ve been busy, clearly, and neglectful of this blog.
I’ve sort of been hired, at least for a little while, by the company I’ve been interning at for the past three months. It’s been an interesting time, and I enjoy things here by-and-large most of the time. I’m an Associate Publicist for now, so I spend a lot of my time looking stuff up trying to figure out who to send things to.
Anyhow, despite being a Friday I should probably keep on working 
As mentioned, I’ve been ignoring this blog – I meant to pay attention to it during my ongoing internship, but have been very lax. Here’s a random thought for the day!
Every day, now, that I drive to work, I wish I could just drive like a total asshole to see if it really gets me where I want to go faster, and to see if I feel better about myself for being a massive douche-bag. Probably not, but when I see people using off-ramps as lanes to get around people, waiting until the very, very tail-end of on-ramps to merge and fucking up traffic behind them because they inevitably cut someone off and slow traffic down, or practically driving on the shoulder because they want to get around someone on front of them… I wonder what makes them do it. Just sociopaths or if they have some desperate sense of accomplishment out of it.
As a driver, I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve missed some changed in the laws concerning stop signs. “Stopping” at a stop sign seems to be more of an idea than something that people practice, and yesterday, I saw a guy approach a stop sign on Eastwood, honk quickly as he got near it, and drive straight through. I mean, I realize he was honking to warn other motorists that he wasn’t going to stop, but really? Really? It’s a social phenomenon that I’m really just not understanding as much as I’d like to. The etiquette of driving has always been something that I’ve been interested in – the unspoken rules, like on Mortimer, it’s really a lane and a half, but you can’t pass, unless it’s a bus pulled over, and if in a line of five cars at a stop light, the third is making a left, you can pull around them, but only to that third car – to drive past them is just bad form, because then you’re racing the first car in the line through a very short intersection. I love it.
This is also part and parcel with me wondering if people are just really getting stupider. Or more stupid. Or less intelligent.
I remember a few years back in Toronto, we had a bunch of kids who had managed to get their hands on semi-automatic weapons and filmed themselves flashing them in their apartment and being cooler than all that and a bag of chips. Yeah, pretty much the police figured out who it was. <a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=7241188″>Now this just happened in Maine</a> – a bunch of kids film themselves and run <i>credits</i> at the end of it. Well done. Your internet fame has bought you some jail time, and your video has been pulled, which I’m pretty sure, isn’t what you wanted.
What I thought was interesting, though, was an ad that ran beside this article, a program on ABC called <i><a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7266934&page=1″>If I Only Had a Gun</a></i>, which I’m pretty sure is a book that we saw in a catalogue, cut out, and have pasted in our bathroom at work as one of those “omg, this is such a bad idea” books. I mean, if I had one, I’d just shoot at other motorists, or people who drive through stop signs, because that pisses me right the fuck off. We live in a society, there are rules; when you fly in the face of those rules, don’t expect them to protect you.
Anyhow – in much happier news, <a href=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5118283/Bacon-sandwich-really-does-cure-a-hangover.html”>bacon sandwiches are really a good idea after a night of drinking</a>. If we’re getting stupider, at least we won’t be hung over 
School is done, possibly forever this time, although being a student has always been kinda fun.. except for all the parts where they expect us to do work for marks etc.
Anyhow, now I’m waiting for an internship to land on my lap, which I’m not loving. In the meantime, I’m going to do my taxes and read the news and find ways of killing my brain.
While reading Poe-News today, this caught my attention; apparently, a movie-reviewer decided to watch a pirates bit of the new X-Men movie and got caught and terminated from his job at Fox. It’s kind of interesting to see how hard some people/groups are coming down on piracy. I’m still on the fence about it, because I don’t have anything that anyone is pirating; were I to make music or movies or what-have-you, I’m sure I’d be pissed that people are stealing my stuff. Likewise, going into the publishing business, it’s weird because book publishers still don’t seem to have a good idea as to where they want to take online/downloadable books. To that effect, I don’t think there is a good way of managing them yet.
Anyhow, to get to the point 0f the reviewer, just by him watching and thereby, I suppose, condoning the act of piracy, makes him… liable? An accessory? I’m not sure how that’ll go down legally. The movie company came down hard on him. I don’t know if the music industry has that kind of umph anymore, and I doubt book publishers do.
Oh, and help make me a Youtube star!
Turn it up, since I mumble a little and this wasn’t professionally done. Hat’s off to Ariel @ HarperCollins!
So our school year is quickly coming to an end: Our magazine, On the Danforth, had a successful launch last Wednesday at Myth, a bar/venue near our school; assignments are wrapping up, our group work is becoming tedious, and all of us are just keen to start our internships so that we can finally graduate and track down some jobs.
So, with homework quickly becoming a thing of the past, my mind has been drifting to the lovely virtual world of Azeroth and my beloved World of Warcraft, which I have wisely been neglecting for the past year or year and a half or thereabouts. I gave it up because it was eating up way more of my time than it ought to have – but I was having a good time and a few laughs. I’d been clean for however long, and then it just started tugging at me again. Cynthia said that this was a normal step in fighting addiction – you come around to it again, swear it off, and come back for a lil more. I love how WoW has sort of worked it’s way into not only popular culture, but just about everywhere – didn’t a director or someone who won an Oscar admit to being a guild leader in WoW? More recently, I saw this clip on Kotaku,
Oh, Vin Diesel – you’re a bigger badass than I am, and a bigger nerd. I’ve only got a 70 rogue and ‘lock, lol.
