2000-05-11 11:00:48 the exterminator came to our apartment this morning. i have mixed feelings about it, i guess. mysteron has a mouse in his office, and I totally cheer for the mouse. jo-e and I have mice in our apartment, and I want them dead or gone or whatever. I guess because I feel like mysteron's mouse is sticking it to corporate america, while our mouse is pretty much an excuse for our cat to drag bloody corpses across our bed. or something like that. not that she's actually KILLED any mice. she's sucky that way. anyways so the guy came. Gino, from Acme Pest Control. how cool is that? this guy was cool from the old school. big guy, wheezing when he got up from the floor. told me about sticking steel wools in holes under the radiator. he was soo cool. i wish i had a trade. i want to research how someone becomes a pest control expert. i should have just asked gino, but i get shy and didn't want to sound like i was being condescening or anything. and I want to learn about that trade, but then i'm not sure how i would feel about having a job that involved killing animals. probably i wouldn't like it. and i'm sure that the karma is no longer through the roof in our apartment for having all these poisons stacked up in every corner now. so i don't know. am I a hypocrite? kinda, i guess. we have a humor mailing list at work. people send jokes, funny url's etc, and it goes to whoever's on the list. this morning someone sent the url for a new story about a guy who'd been jailed for having sex with sheep. a lot of people thought it was funny, but it was lost on me. sexual assault against people is different from sexual assault against animals, but they're still both BAD. what really bothered me was that i just didn't think this was something for a humor list. I'm a vegetarian, i don't believe in killing animals for food, I sure as fudge don't believe in having sex with them either. it just bothered me that someone thought this was appropriate for a humor mailing list. although i'm sure other people are reading this and laughing and wishing i'd included the url. i'm usually in the minority about stuff like this. of course, a coworker's argument went, if we can kill and eat sheep, why should there be laws against having sex with them? i don't think he personally believed in having sex with sheep...but he did have a certain point, i think. also, that the person in question got 20 years in jail because of how the laws in that state work, whereas if he'd sexually assualted a person he would have only gotten a few years. which is totally insane, yes. anyways. i don't believe people should sexually assault any other person or animal. i don't believe animals should be killed for food. but i believe that animals crawling through my cupboards and hiding in my food should be killed. and I think the exterminator had a really interesting job. i suck. why is life always so complicated? k thank you very much & credits music: |
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