bone in sub

i’m having so much trouble with sleep lately. no matter how tired i am i can’t sleep until i’ve been awake for at least a day. this month i not only got a new cell phone contract, i had to pay $200 for my hydro deposit. this made me run out of money and consequently food, and when i’m hungry i get ANGRY. it’s especially bad because i never get angry any other time. i have seriously been in a ‘funk’ or something the past few weeks, which, again, is especially bad because i don’t really get ‘down’.

but i’m still doing all right. i have enough food – peanut butter oatmeal etc – until i have time to go somewhere that accepts visa (ugh). i haven’t eaten this badly since like 2006, i can’t believe i did that for so long. i also haven’t really done anything awesome since early october. i’m glad there are a bunch of christmas things coming up, that should be good times. everybody else is all stressed about school, and i’m just out of money and tired. i haven’t been on a date in forever, and oddly enough i don’t even mind.

i realized today that a big quantifier in how well i get along with someone is how good their memory is. i don’t think i’ve ever met someone with a memory as good as mine (as far as i know at least), so it’s refreshing to me when someone can remember things that most people can’t. i frequently find myself acting like i don’t remember something inconsequential because it was months/years back, and i don’t know, it seems creepy. a while back i reminded an old friend of something that happened in grade 4 and he told me “i really don’t remember day-to-day stuff from when i was 8, that’s kind of crazy that you do…”. i think that was the first time i realized my memory is wicked.

memory was covered in depth in the psychology course i took a couple years back, and since then i’ve read a good amount on it – synaesthesia is strongly correlated with eidetic memory. definitely true, if there’s a sensation or unique aesthetic to a situation i’ll remember it incredibly well for a long, long time. another thing i’ve noticed is that anything i speak is very easy to remember; this has very practical applications day-to-day, although it might make me look weird.

i’ve been responding to all of the nigerian 419 scam emails i get lately, just for my own amusement. today one of them called me, he was a perfect analog of george agdgdgwngo. i messed with that guy so hard, a kind of reverse fonejacker situation. it was incredible, but i wrapped it up after a couple minutes because i think it’s pretty expensive to talk on the phone to africa. i’m not sure about that…i’ll find out how much a 2 minute call costs next month i guess!

i finished watching the new 24 prequel tonight. jack bauer is this decade’s indiana jones, but instead of fighting nazis, russians, and asian people he fights middle eastern terrorists and african warlords. does that mean massive attack and other derivative beep boop music are this decade’s john williams?

something i miss about my old neighborhood is all the 24hr food places. i miss going out for food at 4 in the morning.