#fox8299

[bloodvulpes]

The Idea

I would really love to be an inventor.

The first thing I'd do is fix my earphones and headphones so that they're wireless. Then I'd make them waterproof.

That way I can listen to music in the shower without having to cart speakers into the bathroom or worry about waterlogging my iPod.

Better yet, can someone else do this for me?

Fox

[bloodvulpes]

The Work Experience

I just rang the vet to talk about my work experience and to let them know my form had been approved, so now I get to start that. Yay! I start this Thursday morning and work until late afternoon. I'm way excited about this.

I hope your week is as awesome as mine has been already!

Fox ^_^

[bloodvulpes]

*texting Simon, asking what game he's playing*

Simon: League of mother ducking Legends

Me: Now, now, no need for the fowl language.

Simon: Foul*

Simon: ... Never mind, I understand now...

Fox

[bloodvulpes]

The Thesis Idea

So I was on Omegle and talking to this guy. He's twenty-one, he's from Australia, and, oh yeah, he's a proud virgin.

Like, that means absolutely nothing to me. I don't care who sleeps with whom, and when they sleep with someone, or anything. But this guy has the strangest ideals. There not really strange, per se, but more like his way of thinking is more of a minority than anything.

For example, he's saving himself for the special someone. That's fine. In a way - if I weren't so disbelieving in love and soul mates and so forth - it's kind of sweet. I think. That didn't strike me as odd. But he said he wouldn't date anyone who's slept with someone and wasn't a virgin. I gave him a hypothetical scenario where the girl was in love, slept with a guy, and he ditched her. What would he do then?

He said it was poor judgement on her part. I got kind of annoyed at this. Figuratively, my hackles stood up for this imaginary girl whom couldn't speak for herself. I got over it (okay, I was still a little annoyed about it) after a while, he explained himself more and I realised he wasn't actually sexist like he sounded. Same with the  virgin thing, at first he sounded like an almighty god demanding virgin sacrifices. Now I understand better: he's a virgin, he'd like for his significant other to be one as well.

But the way he speaks, it sounds like something out of a movie, I'm still debating whether or not I believe everything he said.

But now, all I can think about is this scenario he proposed to me. 'What if you meet the guy of your dreams, but he turns you down because you aren't a virgin?'

Now, I don't care about whether or not that happens to me, but it made me think about whether that actually happens or not.

Then Ding! 

Thesis idea right there.

I'm a bit of a scientist at heart, I like knowing how things work and why they do what they do. So now I'm convinced that if I don't get into my vet course at uni, I'll do this for a thesis in psychology. (I'm putting psychology as one of my back-up plans, by the way.) 

How does someone's virginity, or lack thereof, affect their chances at a successful relationship, and their initial chances at finding a potential mate?

See? I could have some fun with this. I'm totally going to have to investigate this now.

This is what happens when an idea comes into my head. This is why I have almost twenty books in progress. This is why I'm slowly going crazy.

I get stupid ideas and have to do something with them, otherwise my brain will not let me have any peace of mind until I do. Every book I've written started from an idea at work, or during school, or from something I saw happen in the shop, or lack of sleep at five am. Then I have to do something with it or I can't think about anything else until I obsess over it for a couple of hours.

Ahh.

Fox

[bloodvulpes]

Mum came into my room yesterday and told me about a fox that had entered a house and bitten off a toddler's finger - which the doctors later managed to re-attach.

My good name has been tarnished.

Tarnished.

Fox

[bloodvulpes]

The Old Woman's Slyness

Me: Have you ever wanted to try rabbit?

Dad: No. I think that's why I always eat the wings on a chicken, so I know it's not rabbit. I remember once when my grandma brought a rabbit over for lunch, and told us it was chicken. I wanted the wings, but there wasn't any.

Me: *dies from laughter*

I have never laughed so much in my life.

Fox

[bloodvulpes]

The Feels

I've had arguments and discussions regarding animals, and people have, on more than one occasion, suggested that I should stop acting as if animals have human emotions.

...

I'm sorry, but what exactly do people define as human emotions?

Anger: I've seen dogs and cats that are angry. That are so aggressive they physically hurt someone. Whether they get angry because someone is hurting them, or people or animals don't know when to back off.

Happy: I've seen my dog happy before. His tail wagging a hundred miles an hour. Whether it's because I'm playing with him or because he got some meat or just because he's in a good mood. Regardless, he's still happy. 

Jealous: Another good example is my dog, once again. I've had him for thirteen years and he's been my best friend for the entire time. I remember getting him, I remember teaching him stuff, I remember playing with him. I know more about this dog than anyone else. I've seen all of these feelings in him alone. He gets jealous. He doesn't want some other dog to play with his ball, he doesn't want the cat to eat his share of the steak, he doesn't want that bird to spend time with me when he could spend it with me himself. 

Okay so 'proud', I'm not really sure if animals are proud. I know someone mentioned that they have a very proud dog, but I didn't really see how it was proud. What is proud? Proud, I suppose, is just being happy and content with something you've found or done. I'm proud of some of the effort I put into some of my school work. I'm not sure I could confidently say animals are proud. That's not really a bad thing, proud doesn't really get them anywhere throughout their lives. 

Possessive, tired, sick, surprised, curious, scared, anxious, loyal, frustrated. It all exists in animals. Hell, you could argue that animals regret what they do sometimes. Maybe for different reasons than what we would feel it for. Maybe they regret digging that hole because it displeased us or because it got them in trouble, rather than because they destroyed the grass. 

This is a really touchy subject for me, probably because my pride steps in and takes over, or because animals can't argue for themselves so I want to try and help them out. I don't like people thinking that just because I love animals I, therefore, I treat them as humans. I do treat animals as humans in some ways, but not all the time. Or rather, I change myself to act like the animal instead of them being human, I try to be their superior - not their mother - when they do something wrong. I don't waste my breath saying 'you did this wrong, you shouldn't dig holes, you should know better.' because they, as far as I can tell, don't understand the long-winded speech. I don't tell them, rather I teach them how to behave the way I'd prefer. 

I'm probably just humouring myself by thinking like this but I honestly believe that animals aren't mindless creatures. Humans are animals as well, we've just pushed ourselves to the apex of the food chain. We would not survive in the wild without our guns and spears and weapons and clothes and homes and so forth, but that's why we're at the top, because the other animals haven't figured out how to go about it all.

Fox

[bloodvulpes]

The Encounter

Last night I started watching Tenacious D for the first time. I stole it off of Tyson's hard drive a couple of weeks ago and thought I'd give it a go, since I liked some of their music that I'd heard.

Ten minutes ago I went down the road to the bakery to get some bread and the hot - and I mean really freakin' hot - guy, Steve, served me. As usual, we spoke to each other, which is what you'd expect to happen between a customer and a employee, but today was very different. I kid you not, these are pretty much the exact words:

Steve: You know what song I have stuck in my head right now?

Me: No, what?

Steve: Have you heard of Tenacious D?

Me: Yeah...

Steve: Dude I Totally Miss You. Good song, look it up.

Me: ...Will do... 

My thoughts: The fuck just happened? Are you kidding me right now?

And I paid for the bread and we said our goodbyes and I left. In a complete daze.

I really hate when this sort of stuff happens. The whole Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action and all that. It makes me kind of paranoid. I'm a fairly paranoid person but then this happens.

Good God.

But, regardless of how weird it is that no one in this town has ever said anything about Tenacious D before today, I don't mind. This encounter just puts a couple more points in his favour.

I like this guy. ^_^

Have a great week!

Fox