Non Sequiturs

Last week was interesting in that I had a Facebook friend email and point out that some other person was using my photographs in his profile. When I went to the profile for "Junaid Khan" in the Philippines, the profile pic was of some middle-aged man on a horse which was obviously taken somewhere in the Southwestern United States and was clearly not a native Filipino. Once you went into the photo albums there was an album with every single one of my profile photos. It was very strange to see the pictures there considering you have to be a friend of mine to begin with to even see those pictures. I was able to contact Facebook and have all the pictures removed, but what disturbed me most about the incident was how gullible some people are. When I looked at the individual photographs of me, there were dozens of comments from seemingly normal American men acting as if this "Junaid Khan" looked like me. Were these people so lonely and desperate for attention that they could overlook all these glaringly obvious disparities between who this man is and the pictures that were posted? I ventured into the guy's Wall Posts and it was interesting how people could get caught up in someone's life. This Khan person posted several things about being in the hospital and there were several comments from friends saying they would fly over from the United States to take care of him. It was truly astonishing seeing seemingly well-educated people fall for such a scam artist. The Internet can be an amazing tool, but it is no substitute for actual, physical contact with other people.

Lyrics Rattling Around My Brain

"Leave you Move on
To a perfect stranger
You talk I walk
Wanna feel the danger
See me with him and its turning you on it's got me saying
Ain't getting me back at the end of this song

Get outta my way
Get outta my way
Got no more to say
He's taken your place"

Kylie Minogue
"Get Outta My Way"

"The sky seems full when you're in the cradle
The rain will fall and wash your dreams
Stars are stars and they shine so hard

Now you spit out the sky because it's empty and hollow
All your dreams are hanging out to dry
Stars are stars and they shine so cold"

Echo and the Bunnymen
"Stars Are Stars"

"Inside where it's warm
Wrap myself in you
Outside where I'm torn
Fight myself in two
In two
Into you"

Smashing Pumpkins
"Pug"

Appealing Things

Kurt's cooking
Really loving my job
The second sip of a Johnnie Black and soda; not the first, the second
My mashed potatoes
Figuring things out and realizing it was not as bad as you thought it was
Watching Missy play with her catnip squirrel
4th of July weekend with low heat and humidity
Thursday night drinks with the Terris

Annoying Things

People bitching about the heat; it's summer people
Really, really, really bad Atlanta drivers (which is about 99% of them)
People who park in the fire lane
Grunters at the gym