Editorial : Truth Corner
(Where I tell the truth, and no one else notices)
1) Item one for this month is job related. At one of my jobs I'm a library clerk, which means I work the circulation desk checking books in and out. There are two constant pet peeves that drive me up the wall. To the point that I'm not sure I won't go and slap someone some day, or at least tell them off verbally. Pet peeve one is the way people hand me their library cards. So many dummies hand me their card face down, with the bar code facing down. I'm not sure what motivates them to do this, except to say they're total idiots. There's NO reason to do this. If they had any sort of logic they would see me flipping the card EVERY TIME they hand it to me upside down. But of course they don't. My second pet peeve is this new thing that habitually late patrons do, which is to hand me a stack of book while I'm doing something else and nearly demand to have them checked in that instant. They do this because most of the time they're too stupid to look inside the pocket to see when the books are due. Because of that they "forget" to bring them back on time. Worse yet, they then want me to drop everything in order to accommodate them. They don't care if there's a huge line of people ahead of them, they want to make sure they're books aren't late. "Just look at the damn card inside the book," I want to scream at them.
2) My second item for the month is about women and relationships. I am a completely stupid romantic. I have become a cynic in so many ways, but I STILL hold out hope that I will find someone. This despite the series of fiascos I've dealt with over the years, most recently with The Silmarillian, aka Sylvia. I KNEW how that would end, and sure enough it ended that bad and worse. It wasn't just my heart that was broken, I think I was broken. After that fiasco I think I stopped knowing that I would find someone, though I haven't lost hope. But hope is a stupid thing. The Devil's dictionary defines hope as "Desire and expectation rolled into one." That sums it up. So stupid me JUST now wrote an email to a girl that I asked out last year. We never went out because at the time I had already fallen for The Silmarillian (little good that did me), and I felt that I shouldn't go out with someone else. But now it's a year later, and hopefully the universe will grant me this a year later, if only to make up for last year.
3) Speaking of the universe, on my way to work I spoke the universe and asked to make a deal with it. Now that I think about it, I'm not exactly sure what I asked for. I think that I asked it to give me an even break, and not turn a good situation into an opportunity to mock me. I want to do good things on this Earth, create art, write stories, and contribute. That's all I'm asking from the universe, though I guess that's actually a lot to ask.
4) It's been some 22 years since the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics met in the NBA finals. I remember the last time, and the second to last time, and the third to last time these two teams met for the championship. The last time they met Magic Johnson slay the Celtics with a baby hook in the lane... easily becoming the single greatest moment I've ever witnessed as a Laker fan. The second to last time was two years prior, when the Lakers FINALLY lifted the curse of the leprechaun to beat the Celtics in championship series. The Lakers had fallen to the Celtics eight previous times. The third to last time was the last time the Celtics beat the Lakers in the finals. It was marked by the literal clothesline of Rambis by Mchale. Those games were hard fought, and were something incredible to witness. And now, 22 years later the rivalry continues. The two most successful franchises in the NBA, with 30 championships between them in 60 years of play, met up in the finals. Is there anything more grand? Win or lose, these two teams will met up again in the finals, they're that good.
