The phone is making that noise that means I am about to start talking to someone in realtime. I hate that noise. Who could it be? Someone who wants money? A wrong number? Fedex? Fedex means I have to put on shoes and run downstairs. No, it's

Christ, that took forever. Anyway, today I was really sleepy. I figured it was just slackness congealed in my arteries, so I started working as intensely as I could to try and melt it, but unlike normal slack, it didn't go away. I was working away, but still almost falling asleep. It was like my body wanted to go to sleep all day. What POSSIBLE use is there for that much sleep? Jeez, body. Get it together, would ya?

Well, today on the web I found 600 people that all hate each other on the same website. Did I say 600? I meant "three thousand, two hundred and fourteen". "sXe" means "straightedge", which is a punk-related movement having tenets such as veganism, drug and alcohol avoidance, and abstinence, though it seems like a lot of those sXe people don't seem to realize that.

"Veganism," of course, is the animal-exploitation free lifestyle. Vegans do not use animal products or by-products for food, clothing, or any other thing if they can possibly avoid it. Once when I was hanging out at Guitar Center, an "Emo" haircut having "boy" and square framed placebo glasses-wearing girl asked Kris if they could get a "Vegan guitar strap". Some people are vegans out of concern for the animals exploited. Some do it out of concern for their own health, or for the environment's. (If you ever saw how we get meat, you'd be concerned, too.) I've got a hunch that these particular vegans (and some at that web site) do it because it is fashionable. Of course, I did the right thing and emailed EVERY SINGLE ONE of those folks to ask them the burning question:

WHAT IS THE DEAL?

They look like mary tyler moore or one of the monkees with lip and septum piercings, and listen to "rap". I'm guessing "rap" means "limp bizkit". That reminds me, I was at the "Baltic Room" seeing a jazz show where this woman was doing rap-style lyrics, and someone in the crowd came up and took a turn at the mic, a tam-wearing african dude who I guess was a friend of the band. Then this baseball hat wearing white guy goes up there to ask for the mic, and the lady and the guy look at each other like, "aw man, not this." So of course he starts up with a whole bunch of trash talk and they shut him down in about five seconds. Ha ha, dumb fred durst motherfucker. What was I talking about? Oh right, Emo.

Apparently, half the people in that scene wish the other half would just shut up already. This seems typical of any scene. Probably extensible to religions, political parties... hmm. Ah ferget it. Some people just shouldn't relate to each other.