Grr.

I am awake.

I am not at all happy about this.

I went to bed around 1:30, tossed and turned and FINALLY fell asleep around 2:30.

4:30 rolls around, I'm dying of thirst, so I get up, get a glass (okay, like, three) of water and then toss and turn for another few minutes. Am I able to go back to sleep?

Hellllllll no.

I just tried to sleep for God only knows how long, and at 6:37am, I'm still awake.

Bleah.

I suppose I could watch some Olympics stuff, live, but (and this is where I get pelted by large objects), I hate the Summer Games.

No joke, really. There's one event that I care about (100m dash), but I don't even know who this Pierre Browne is that's competing for Canada. I miss Donovan Bailey. Oh, and I hope Simon Whitfield wins the triathlon again, too.

Apart from that, I'll watch diving, but it doesn't really interest me.

Gymnastics bore me to tears.

Give me the good ol' Winter Games. Not only is there HOCKEY, but there's skiing (all kinds), and ski-jumping and all kinds of NEAT sports. (Although sitting through figure skating competitions will make me homicidal. I do enjoy speed skating, however.)

Don't get me wrong -- go Canada and all that, but face it. We're a nation that has snow for half the damn year. We're not built for these outdoorsy summer games, and we never do well in them. In Sydney, we finished with 14 medals. 3 gold, 3 silver and 8 bronze. True, in Salt Lake we only had 17, but seven of them were gold (including both men's and women's hockey. And only the men's hockey really matters to me. The women winning was a bonus, 'cause hey, we beat the States for BOTH championships!).

Since I was a kid, I've always been a little annoyed with Canada's performances at the Olympics. We're a small nation (30 million people or so) and apparently, most of us aren't really good athletes. I guess if we were racking up medals like the USA or Russia or whoever tend to do so, I'd take more interest in them. As it is, I have my few events scattered throughout the Winter Games and the one event in the Summer Games, and that's about it.

And... <looks at what TSN and CBC are showing> Yeah, softball, baseball, volleyball and water polo? Not my style.

I suppose I could work. Or write. Or something.

Being bored at 7am is, well, boring.

Bullshit!

Will someone please, please smack Jacques Parizeau upside the head? And then fit him with cement shoes? Please?

This story says he wants a Parti Quebecois win in any future provincial election to mean that people have voted for sovreignty.

Sometimes, I am truly embarassed to be a Quebecer, since it associates me with complete fucking retards like Parizeau.

(And yes. I'm still awake. I am, therefore, cranky.)

Weird question.

A friend of mine said this to me yesterday:

"You have a horseshoe up your ass!"

This is referring to a very strange phenomenon regarding me and money.

I'm poor. We all know this. But I have this uncanny ability to somehow always just manage to make ends meet. Sometimes I will literally have like, three dollars to my name, and miraculously, my brother will pay me back money I've lent him. Sometimes, I'll have just enough money on me to pay for food, or just enough to pay a bill after being threatened with disconnection.

It's very, very odd.

But then it occurred to me that a lot of people I know have this ability in other areas. Financially, I'm not *doing well*, but I always *get by*. I have a friend who always gets herself in sticky situations regarding school, but somehow, she goes up against all odds and manages to pass the class/exam/assignment in question.

And the friend who told me I have a horseshoe up my ass always gets herself into weird LIFE situations, but always extracts herself in the nick of time.

So I'm curious: Do you have a horseshoe up your ass in some aspect of your life? If so, do tell!