I like feeling invisible as I circulate throughout the world hearing snippets of other people's conversations. Perhaps one could base a novel on such? Today I was at a college campus and overheard a woman telling a friend that she blamed her problems on her "mother being high on acid" when she was conceived.
Snippets I would rather NOT hear are from the house of the tenants across the street. They are LOUD and VULGAR (the tenants) and I can't wait for them to move or get kicked out(this eventually happens to ALL of my neighbors). As I was walking down the street admiring the fall leaves and the pleasant street I live on, I passed their house and from inside the house, I could hear FUCK this and FUCK that. And I fear that this woman has several children. No wonder people grow up strange.
Had a very enjoyable day today even though it was raining. Went up to where I work part time to have a photo shot for the new web page. I am quite pleased with it and the photo session was fun. The campus was beautiful with the fall leaves. Went to lunch with three colleagues and had a delicious salad that was not too expensive.
Showing posts with label overheard. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Can I sit next to you when I come back so I can listen to your music?
Overheard from a patron at the computers at the Vineland Public library. Of course, he wasn't saying that to ME. Guess I do not know the secrets of meeting men.
New book about assassination of JFK. Kind of shocked to read that over 40,000 books have been written on this topic? How is that even possible? I must say the details do sound MIGHTY suspicious.
Amusing comment from some guy about the new curved phones...."a solution looking for a problem". Why didn't I think of that? Still procrastinating about getting a new phone. A friend just switched to Sprint and got a new LG phone. She also got a FREE tablet!
I wouldn't mind having one of those. I was so looking forward to becoming eligible for an upgrade (it has been a YEAR now) and ending my servitude to Sprint (it has been 10 months now). Yet, here I sit, having NOT taken any action on the subject. I liked the comment I read in the Sunday New York times that marriage should be like cell phones, with a two year contract and an option to upgrade!
Listening to one of my favorite L'il Wayne songs on Youtube. Oh yeah, No love involves Eminem, too.
New book about assassination of JFK. Kind of shocked to read that over 40,000 books have been written on this topic? How is that even possible? I must say the details do sound MIGHTY suspicious.
Amusing comment from some guy about the new curved phones...."a solution looking for a problem". Why didn't I think of that? Still procrastinating about getting a new phone. A friend just switched to Sprint and got a new LG phone. She also got a FREE tablet!
I wouldn't mind having one of those. I was so looking forward to becoming eligible for an upgrade (it has been a YEAR now) and ending my servitude to Sprint (it has been 10 months now). Yet, here I sit, having NOT taken any action on the subject. I liked the comment I read in the Sunday New York times that marriage should be like cell phones, with a two year contract and an option to upgrade!
Listening to one of my favorite L'il Wayne songs on Youtube. Oh yeah, No love involves Eminem, too.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Where I live at, you can't trust NOBODY
Overheard, at Wawa. I don't really WANT to trust anybody in my neighborhood. Feel sort of bad about my glee thinking that the dog next door may have run away yesterday. I saw her out the window with NO leash and NO people. That night I walked around the outside of my house picking up trash since it was trash night and noticed a LOT of trash on the one side of my house. Never have I had so much trash before those people moved in next door. Also saw two big piles of dog shit in their yard. They don't pick up after their dog. Must remember to add that to the letter I probably won't have the nerve to send to their landlord, who is a LAWYER.
Not much on my calendar today. After I get done using the computer, I am going to go home and STAY there. I need to do that more, but I don't really want to. Am much more comfortable running around the county doing errands of one sort or another.
A feel good story today about Charles Ramsey liberating the girls from their captivity in Cleveland. A black man freeing white and hispanic girls being held by a Puerto Rican guy and his two brothers. Charles said, "I knew sumpthin' was wrong, when a pretty little white girl ran straight into the arms of a black man!" (him) Americans are so desparate for good news that they stand out in the street and CHEER when they hear some. The three girls had been missing for ten years or more.
Not much on my calendar today. After I get done using the computer, I am going to go home and STAY there. I need to do that more, but I don't really want to. Am much more comfortable running around the county doing errands of one sort or another.
A feel good story today about Charles Ramsey liberating the girls from their captivity in Cleveland. A black man freeing white and hispanic girls being held by a Puerto Rican guy and his two brothers. Charles said, "I knew sumpthin' was wrong, when a pretty little white girl ran straight into the arms of a black man!" (him) Americans are so desparate for good news that they stand out in the street and CHEER when they hear some. The three girls had been missing for ten years or more.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
And that's why we sent you to private school all them years
Said a mother to her son. Overheard at the counter at the Vineland Amish market this morning. She was criticizing the public school system of Vineland New Jersey. (He didn't look like he turned out all that great).
I am having a relaxing day, killing time in Vineland. Made it to my 8 AM Exercise for arthritis class (my goal is to get to one of the two weekly classes). Then I head for the baked oatmeal breakfast at the Amish market. Oatmeal started off as a diet food. By the time I get done with it it is NOT a diet food. I load it up with bananas, raisins, hot milk, and brown sugar. And I have a sneaking suspicion that "baked" oatmeal already has eggs, flour and sugar already added to it. Then I stopped by to make a hair appointment. Next I went to my previous place of employment and visited a few people. Now I am using the computer at the Vineland Public Library. Already had to ask my neighbor to stop cursing at the computer. Those old librarian habits die hard!
It is such a struggle trying to lose weight. Unwanted (unnecessary) pounds are part of my excess STUFF. Maybe if I eat sensibly and exercise EVERY day for a VERY long time, I could lose some weight? I was rather pleased today, though, when I had my body fat percentage checked. Maybe there was an equipment malfunction but, according to the stats, my body fat declined from somewhere in the 40's in January to somewhere in the 20's in April. (Strangely enough, they measure this in the middle of the top part of your arm instead of pinching your midriff). I guess it was in January when my self improvement campaign started. When my "home away from home" became the Fitness Connection instead of my CAR. Possible diet plans:
- Eat one meal a day and have 100 calorie snacks at intervals the rest of the day?
- Behave myself all the time and only have one "treat" after the weight goes down five pounds?
- Paleo diet?
- Gluten-free diet?
- Spend an entire day at the Fitness Connection?
- Curb the nightime eating? (I may have to wean myself off of the Ambien to accomplish this)
I am having a relaxing day, killing time in Vineland. Made it to my 8 AM Exercise for arthritis class (my goal is to get to one of the two weekly classes). Then I head for the baked oatmeal breakfast at the Amish market. Oatmeal started off as a diet food. By the time I get done with it it is NOT a diet food. I load it up with bananas, raisins, hot milk, and brown sugar. And I have a sneaking suspicion that "baked" oatmeal already has eggs, flour and sugar already added to it. Then I stopped by to make a hair appointment. Next I went to my previous place of employment and visited a few people. Now I am using the computer at the Vineland Public Library. Already had to ask my neighbor to stop cursing at the computer. Those old librarian habits die hard!
It is such a struggle trying to lose weight. Unwanted (unnecessary) pounds are part of my excess STUFF. Maybe if I eat sensibly and exercise EVERY day for a VERY long time, I could lose some weight? I was rather pleased today, though, when I had my body fat percentage checked. Maybe there was an equipment malfunction but, according to the stats, my body fat declined from somewhere in the 40's in January to somewhere in the 20's in April. (Strangely enough, they measure this in the middle of the top part of your arm instead of pinching your midriff). I guess it was in January when my self improvement campaign started. When my "home away from home" became the Fitness Connection instead of my CAR. Possible diet plans:
- Eat one meal a day and have 100 calorie snacks at intervals the rest of the day?
- Behave myself all the time and only have one "treat" after the weight goes down five pounds?
- Paleo diet?
- Gluten-free diet?
- Spend an entire day at the Fitness Connection?
- Curb the nightime eating? (I may have to wean myself off of the Ambien to accomplish this)
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Pet peeves
It is annoying when many of the library computers are "down", the handicapped access button on the front door continues to not work, young girls walk by talking about someone's "birfday", and people were talking during a good portion of the movie today (Les miserables). On the plus side, the weather is gorgeous and it was $2 popcorn day at the movies.
Kind of rushing. The PRESSURE of having to complete all of my computer tasks in ONE hour. I do have my laptop in the trunk of my car....just too lazy to bring it in. So, in addition to catching up with my email, I must think of a few topics to write about on this blog and look up a bunch of stuff, like the French revolution and what that big stone elephant was doing in the movie, Les miserables. Left over from a world's fair, or something? Plus I have a Princeton folder full of stuff to do on the computer and a couple of plastic folders full of papers. So I will BEG for more computer time (that is the policy at the Millville Public Library).
Is today the day I am going to stop by Staples and invest in a calendar system for 2013? Still have not been able to make the switch to the electronic life. It is a slow process. One of the things I have to tweak today is my list of features I desire in my new phone, to which I am "entitled" as we speak. It is nice to be "FREE" of Sprint, but not nice to be indecisive and want to save money. If the sky was the limit, what would I get? Not accustomed to thinking like that.
Kind of rushing. The PRESSURE of having to complete all of my computer tasks in ONE hour. I do have my laptop in the trunk of my car....just too lazy to bring it in. So, in addition to catching up with my email, I must think of a few topics to write about on this blog and look up a bunch of stuff, like the French revolution and what that big stone elephant was doing in the movie, Les miserables. Left over from a world's fair, or something? Plus I have a Princeton folder full of stuff to do on the computer and a couple of plastic folders full of papers. So I will BEG for more computer time (that is the policy at the Millville Public Library).
Is today the day I am going to stop by Staples and invest in a calendar system for 2013? Still have not been able to make the switch to the electronic life. It is a slow process. One of the things I have to tweak today is my list of features I desire in my new phone, to which I am "entitled" as we speak. It is nice to be "FREE" of Sprint, but not nice to be indecisive and want to save money. If the sky was the limit, what would I get? Not accustomed to thinking like that.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
"No one's had a female, sniper, serial killer..." - overheard in Greek restaurant. A customer was telling his friend about the book series he is writing when he isn't selling veterinarian supplies. I guess we all have a secret life.
I had a coworker with a secret life. On the surface she is a serene, stand-offish, long haired beauty with a great figure, living in a small town. Secretly, she writes historical, fantastical bodice-rippers, and has several pen names, blogs, genres and series in the works. What a very busy little creature she is. She dresses up in wild outfits and goes to odd conventions. I think she should be the SUBJECT of a novel, not the AUTHOR of the novel.
Today I got an urge to visit the Olympia, a restaurant I used to visit on a weekly basis. The same odd guy was sitting there along, reading a dog-eared paperback copy of an old science fiction book. I wonder what HE was thinking about ME?!?!?
I am taking an organizing class. The instructor was helping someone get organized who is a scrapbooker. "I can't believe there is a stamp made just so you can make a period!" she told us.
Things I love:
- cold coffee
- warm Diet Coke
- being in my own little world
- a beautiful day
Things I hate:
- people who cough and hack out in public
- Running out of time on the computer
- when it is a beautiful day and I forgot to bring my bathing suit
- shopping
I would like to be invisible. That is why I have a secret blog. I guess I don't really GET this blogging thing. I suppose the whole purpose to to get FAMOUS or to SELL something.
I was going to make a book display once in the library made up of books which started out as blogs. However, they don't really have any good subject headings for that. That is an example of a book display which requires A LOT OF WORK.
I had a coworker with a secret life. On the surface she is a serene, stand-offish, long haired beauty with a great figure, living in a small town. Secretly, she writes historical, fantastical bodice-rippers, and has several pen names, blogs, genres and series in the works. What a very busy little creature she is. She dresses up in wild outfits and goes to odd conventions. I think she should be the SUBJECT of a novel, not the AUTHOR of the novel.
Today I got an urge to visit the Olympia, a restaurant I used to visit on a weekly basis. The same odd guy was sitting there along, reading a dog-eared paperback copy of an old science fiction book. I wonder what HE was thinking about ME?!?!?
I am taking an organizing class. The instructor was helping someone get organized who is a scrapbooker. "I can't believe there is a stamp made just so you can make a period!" she told us.
Things I love:
- cold coffee
- warm Diet Coke
- being in my own little world
- a beautiful day
Things I hate:
- people who cough and hack out in public
- Running out of time on the computer
- when it is a beautiful day and I forgot to bring my bathing suit
- shopping
I would like to be invisible. That is why I have a secret blog. I guess I don't really GET this blogging thing. I suppose the whole purpose to to get FAMOUS or to SELL something.
I was going to make a book display once in the library made up of books which started out as blogs. However, they don't really have any good subject headings for that. That is an example of a book display which requires A LOT OF WORK.
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