The Last One to Die, Please Turn Out the Light

I saw Children of Men last weekend and it really touched me. I totally recommend checking it out as it touches on some good thought-provoking questions.

For one, imagine a world where no babies have been born for 18 years. How depressing would that be? I think I take for granted all the kids screaming around me at times, but you begin to understand through this movie exactly how bleak a future would be without kids. There would be no hope at all.

And that's really what the movie is about...clinging to hope. For many people, our hopes and dreams lie in future generations and our children, and no matter what happens, maybe things will be better in the future. However, when there is no generations coming in....how would you react? Would anything at all be worth it in life? How hard would it be to keep hope in such a world?

On a coincidental note, the last part of the movie ends up in the town of Bexhill in England. This is kind of neat because I used to be involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and the name I took way back in the early 90s ended in "of Bexhill." I am not sure why I picked the name back then, but it sounded really cool and this is the first time I've seen it used anywhere!

That Funk

Sometimes you get into a rhythm of lameness in your life and you need to break out of it! Too much video games here and not enough on concentrating on what really matters in life has been making me pretty crummy the past few months.

I have a vacation coming up next month, so now is the time to get into shape and take better control of my hormone regimen. Sadly, I have been slacking over the past several months as I hoped that maybe lowering my dosages would make me feel better. Sadly, it did somewhat the opposite and has been leading to me revisiting horrible things like acne and oily skin, and mild depression again. It's time to get back in gear and back on the program.

So, that means much less snacking and more watching what I eat. I also have to admit, I've been eating horrible the past month! Oh goodness...too much fast food, but watching Fast Food Nation has pretty much cured me of eating a lot of fast food lately. It was a pretty good movie, and if you ever want to see what goes into your burgers, well....you probably won't want to eat a lot of burgers after seeing this movie.

Now, I just need to find more ways to eat healthy. For one, I think I need more fish in my diet. Fish is really good stuff. And secondly, more vegetables. This is the hard part! I generally loathe veggies. I don't suppose anyone has some good veggie recipes out there to make them palatable? Otherwise, it's back to salady goodness!

Spooky!

So I'm a big fan of Wikipedia and yesterday I was browsing through some entries when a name popped in my head to do some research on--Kurt Waldheim. I'm not sure why it popped in my head, but I decided to check it out. I remember him being some sort of ambassasdor but I couldn't remember what.

I did some research on him and found out that he has been pretty much ostracized because of lapses in his history during WWII that and possible Nazi ties. I remember reading the guy was way old! I also learned he was Secretary General of the UN back in the 1980s.

Now the eerie thing...today he died!

Yesterday, he was quite alive and in fact was the oldest living Secretary General of the UN, and now today he croaked. Very weird! I hope I don't look up anyone else and find out they croak the day after I find out some information about them.

Anyone else had any creepy experiences like this?

Pride Day

I spent much of my day on Saturday down at the Pride Day festival in downtown Indy. It was quite the event! At first, I was going there to meet Jen and help her friend Stephanie move to a new apartment. That was all fine and cool and afterwards, we enjoyed a nice pizza on Mass Ave out on their patio. It was totally a beautiful day.

Afterwards, we walked down to the War Memorial Park where the celebrations were going on. There were people everywhere! It felt so good seeing so many couples out there and so many people just having a blast to the music.

I dropped Jen and her frend off and then came back and met up with some coworkers an hour later. It was way cool to get to see them here and some of them had never seen me out and about so it must've been a bit of a change for them.

Another surreal thing was seeing protesters there, with all kinds of signs deploring Gay Pride as an abomination before God, and steps queer people can take to change their ways. I can't remember having been somewhere where people were actively protesting against my beliefs and I have to say it felt good. I wanted to run over there and hug each of those Fundies, and let them know that I love them, even though they are so misguided in their ways.

With a nice SPF 15 lotion and my cute straw hat, I was able to avoid the sun's evil burning ouchiness. I will have to remember this for my trip out to Pittsburgh this coming July! That sun can't keep me away from fun.

Autumn

There is no time of the year I love more than autumn. I absolutely hate spring and summer and I'm not sure why that is. I am sure it has something to do with hating the sun, but also more with the fact that I have some wonderful memories in my life that always happen in autumn.

First, it's got my favorite holiday--Halloween. Second, the weather is perfect in autumn, and the leaves begin to fall from the trees and everything becomes nice and cooler out from the scorching summer. I find the sun looks more beautiful in autumn and the sunsets and sunrises are much more vivid.

Finally, people come into my life in autumn. I am not sure why this is, but I am always meeting people around this time of the year. I think since I love the month so much, I open myself up more to people. I'm really looking forward to autumn this year and getting to spend Halloween in Pittsburgh :)

Anyway, this is just my ode to autumn and how much I miss those few months, which are always my favorite months of the year. And with global warming being as it is, I think I can comfortably add December to the season. :)