Another Movie & Other Randomness

A River Runs Through It is cool. God I wish I was born a long time ago. What is it that longs for this simplicity? Maybe it isn't as beautiful as it seems...in fact...I'm sure it wasn't. I'm sitting here blankly starring at my computer screen, welling up with tears. Tears for simplicity. I wish the thoughts in my head would melt into the river and be swept away by the current. Now I have that odd burning knot in my throat...I hate that. Good Lord I'm a selfish dirty bitch. I hate myself & adore myself. This is why I loved Dallas. I turned off my mind for 2 years & just lived. Didn't think about anything that meant anything. I wasn't weird or uninteresting or 'special'...I just was. I existed...no more trascendence...no more metaphysical-ness. I didn't sit in the backyard anymore & watch the dragonflies dance across the trillions of hydrogen bonds on the pools surface. It was the only time I've been allowed to do that in my whole life. I blame my parents. Old Man read me Paradise Lost as a bed time story. I affectionately referred to it as the Hell Book. I was five...come on. Yes, they ruined me. But I love it. Somethings wrong with me...

Peat Bogs

Ok. So, that man I lived with for 18 years is freaking me out about Siberia. While he still holds true to his stand that Global Warming is not a derivative of cars and carbon dioxide emissions, he is worried about the peat bogs in Western Siberia. This is my understanding of it:

So, throughout the history of the world the earth has warmed and cooled. Granted, nothing ever truly cools, it simply lacks or looses heat. Anywho, the earth ends up adjusting and we go on our merry way or something like the great flood of Noah happens when the ice caps melt. Yee freaking Haw. So back to the peat bogs. Back in the day when the world was warmer in Siberia, there grew moss & lichens...lots of it. So it froze over during the ice age perhaps and could be possibly thawing as we speak. BFD, right? Wrong. This is were I freak a little. As long as all the peat is covered with slush...it's only producing carbon dioxide. Now if the slush melts...it produces methane...tonnes and tonnes of methane. 20x's more destructive than CO2. And they're melting.

So, I say all that to say this: the ozone over Siberia will be depleated causing massive Global Warming. And you thought Houston summers sucked.

In Medias Res

So, my family was sitting around the dining room table one evening after dinner just chatting. Sometimes these conversations get uber heavy, talking about my middle sisters Calvinistic views on predestination or Dad saving the world from Global Warming, but this night was an exception. For whatever reason my youngest sister was singing that Presidents song. You know the one...you just list the presidents to a little tune starting with Washington of course. Well, I personally don't know this song, which, number one makes me feel a bit ignorant and number two makes me feel like my parents wasted a ton 'o' money on private school from Kindergarten to fifth grade when one would typically learn such songs. Anywho, my baby sis is doing outstanding all the way up to Reagan. She stops, looks at us and says unashamedly, "I always forget everyone after Reagan" [insert uproarious laughter - at her...not with her]. She only been alive for Bush-Clinton-Bush. I just love this story...maybe it was one of those 'in the moment' things that was so hilarious, but no one else would think so.

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