Time is an Illusion, Lunchtime Doubly So.

"It was only meant to be a safefy drill but dozens of children were left in tears after an animal escape drill at a zoo went hilariously wrong..."

'Don't cry children, I was only aping about'

Aww man this story made me laugh... poor Japanese schoolchildren... check it out, and make sure you click on the link at the top of the page for extra pictures. I like the lady in the medical van with the shotgun.

Other enjoyable items afloat in the intertubes... I check this blog every day... indexed.blogspot.com. The writer makes a few flash cards a day with interesting graphs about... well... everything. For example...



Yep, taking a shot at myself there!

Speaking of which, this weekend is my big Bloc Party Japanese Groupie event, which should be awesome! Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, ahoy!

I just finished reading an excellent book, Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine. Non-fiction about Adams (a comedy sci-fi writer) and Cawardine (a zoologist) go out in search of some of the world's rarest creatures. Amazing book, both hilarous and rather sad. The first adventure can be read online here. Highly recommended.

On the way to see the Komodo Dragon:
"You're proposing twenty hours on a boat-"
"A small boat," added Mark.
"On violently heaving seas-"
"Probably."
"With a three-day-old dead goat."
"Yes."
"I hardly know what to say"

I found out yesterday that everything I've done for my project at work may be null and void once I leave... so that's kinda unfortunate, it's hard to be motivated to work once you find that out. Of course, that would have required me to be motivated in the first place.

The past week I've had trouble sleeping, thanks to some really weird dreams. I decided to start a dream journal to improve my memory of my dreams, which means when I wake up I'm supposed to write down everything I remember of my dreams...

Highlights from this weekend (in no order and not connected to each other):
My friend Brady had bear feet.
I was on a bus and the driver was shot.
I returned a lost dog to my neighbour only to find out she had died 6 weeks earlier. After kicking down her door I found out she was now an undead witch skilled in elemental magic, and we had a duel in the skies above her house with me using my Awesome-o ninja skills.
Frying sausages on a George Foreman grill.
Statues of octopuses and a chocolate river.

Saturday morning I woke up but kept my eyes closed, remembering my dream and making a list of what had happened. Then when I opened my eyes, I realized that me making a mental list of my dreams was also a dream, and I had to do it all over again!

Eventually I want to learn how to lucid dream... this is where you realize in your dream that you're actually dreaming. The benefits to this are great, most importantly, if I'm aware I'm dreaming maybe I can stop dreaming and go back to sleep. And second, maybe if I get good at it, I can free my mind like Neo, and show that undead witch who's boss!