Too much PDA

This is the coolest thing ever. I am at The Loft at the U of C. It's a wireless network lounge with loaner laptops. You just walk in, give them your ID card, and bam you're online. Plus they got Starbucks so you can fuel yourself with all the caffeine you need as you type type type away.

I thought that I'd take the time to jot down a few things that have been annoying me lately.

CAMPUS LIFE
1. Public Displays of Affection
As I am typing this I can look out the window beside me to the couple on the little round bench fondle and kiss each other. And I'm not talking about a peck here or there. I'm talking about hand up shirt, faces stuck together, hand on ass grabbing kind of affection. This is a little much I think. A little PDA here or there is acceptable, but do I really need to see the pregame show to what I'm sure is their typical friday night. And all I can say to the girl is "GET A TAN!!" I know it's coming on winter, but your fish white belly is too much.

2. Loud Talkers With Lame Opinions
I sit in my computer science lecture every monday and wednesday and put up with 3 noisy girls. I don't want to do this elsewhere. Today I was sitting eating my lunch and eavesdropping on these two girls. I know that it's my own fault for eavesdropping, but with dead batteries in my MD player and the volume of their voices it was pretty hard not too. But they made me laugh so it's not all bad. Too bad it was at them and not with them. Their conversation started with "Do you know that joke about how Chinese people name their kids? I find it totally racist. I mean how can you laugh at that." I know. SOme people are just so ignorant." Sure racist jokes are racist. But pointing that out is like me sitting down with a friend and saying "Do you know that stuff that comes out of the shower when you turn it on? It is so wet." "I know., like, water is too wet for me." But what made their socio-sympathetic converstaion oh so laughable was when they started talking about a video one of them saw in anthropology class. "In this video they showed these people who put discs in their lips. Like you could fit a whole CD in the whole and they just stretch it out more and more." "Gross, and those women that put rings on their neck, that's sick." "yeah, why would you do that to yourself." and then they went on to talk about their body piercings and how their mothers don't understand that they are adults and can do what they want with their bodies. hahahaha, god that made my day.

3. I'm More Independant Than Youers
I hate people that always have to be one more step independant than someone else. It's like the coldwar for listless directionless liberal arts majors.
"Hey I got the new Arcader Fire"
"well, I was listening to them when they only had bootleg stuff"
"Well, my friend saw them when they played a house party in high school."
or
"Did you go see the new Wallace & Gromit?"
"No, I only go to movies at the Plaza."
"well, yeah, but I had to see this one."
"I'm gonna go see this new one "insert name of obscure foreign film shot with blue filter in tibetan with aremnian subtitles here". It's supposed to be so cool and like esoteric. I heard that 95% of the audience walked out when it premiered at "interantional film festival that no one even cares about" so I totally have to see it."
"Oh, I saw that already when they played it on a monday night in the basement of "trendy pseudo-independant pub that everyone goes to cause it's oh so independant and shit""
"well, after that I'm gonna get a tattoo that says "Canada out of Haiti" in gaelic to go with the celtic cross I got tattooed on my shoulder last summer when I was at "commerciallly overpriced music festival."

TRANSIT LIFE
1. Smokers.
It's not that i hate smokers. We all have our vices. I would just wish that people who smoke wouldn't do it before they get on to the train during rush hour. There is nothing worse than a nose full of cigarette stench with no room to get away from it.

2. Seat-hoggers.
People who insist on getting more than 50% of the seat even if their ass is huge. I'm a wide guy, but I will squeeze into half the seat so that you can sit down too. Must you really insist on squishing more over even more towards the window?

Alright, I'm done ranting.