This is What I Think...: March 2006

The enchantment of department stores

Sooooo yesterday I decided that I am in most need of a mirror and a laundry basket. So where can I go to get an affordable deal...TARGET. So im strolling down the aisles everything in red, completely knowin what i am there for...mirror and laundry basket. But i see all these signs, ONLY 14.99, Bedding, Sale today, Buy me buy me buy me!! And i found myself in the issacc mizrah bedding isle asking myself if i really need this number thread count on the new designer sheets i was about to buy. So i picked it up thinking to myself the whole time, don't i just want a mirror, why is my carriage about to be full of things that i did not come here for. Do I really need these sheets? Does it come in a bed and a bag form too? Wait, HOW much are these sheets? 70 DOLLARS?! For some sheets?! and this is the price on sale?! And then it hit me, this is why stores like walmart are monopolizing the country and are mega billion businesses. You become enchanted with all these deals around you and how everything is all in the same place...how i can buy sheets, walk two isles down buy a cd and get a hotdog and coke. (yea they got a lil spot to eat at up in there too!) It's almost amazing, kinda a genius-"lets just give them a lil of everything, they will be so happy with the convienance of it all that they will buy more and more stuff". I must say tho when i snapped out of my delusion, i realized some of these prices aren't really "deals" but I guess when your shopping for a sweater and you can pick up a new carpet and a gallon a milk in teh same place, its okay. Whatever thats my rant about Target and department stores for that matter.

As my old math professor would say.....*CHEERS*

The Deathlook Chronicles

Now we all know we have been there...on a bus, train, subways, even plane where there was someone near by that you have deemed a 'threat' to your sane existence. Either they are extremely annoying or they just look straight up weird and scary. Well people i deal with that every waking day of the weak as i ride the ghetto bus to our beloved Newark. Ive found the only way to combat this threat is through the use of a look that would stop a heart. Everyone knows wat im talking about..some people reserve this look for when they anger, others walk around with this look all day long. The look that says "I DARE YOU DARE YOU to say somethin to me..I will slice ya throat you mess with me". Well I have mastered it..can turn it on like a lightswitch. So lets begin:

Quietly I am sitting on the bus home yesterday relaxing gettin ready for the endless ride back to my beloved town when I hear...HI!! My first reaction was to calmly ignore this crazy man sitting across from me screaming at the top of his lungs. So I did and it seemed successfull and i calmly listen as he gets on his 1987 cellphone (bigger than my soul) talking LOUDER than life on it. Heard EVERY word of his conversation..as he asked for a person named michael and then yelled aww man when he wasnt there. Then he mumbled something along the lines of him gettin his money or job right..who knows...anyway back to me. A few mins. later HELLLO HI?! So to stop this madness I shot him the deathlook, yea thats right and even to his slow ass it said "leave me the f*uck alone!"..Didn't hear a word from him again..LOVE IT

More recently today, once again i was sitting minding my business in the lil cuby they call seats in the back of the bus when I see this HUGE girl and I think to myself, why is she gonna come sit next to me, just because im skinny doesnt mean that there is extra room. Look at all the open seats around you. Once before she had sat next to me and i promise you I thought I had stopped breathing for a good five mins. We were like two packed sardines. So this time I was like no, i refuse, esp. when there is like fifteen seats around me open free for her to park it. So I unleashed the look and sure enuff she gallopped her ass to the seat that was infront of me. Serves her right..can i live?!

If anyone else has any funny yet neccessary moments where they had to let a fool know through they eyes..let a sista know :) ill keep you posted about mine.

lata bebes

Work sux

Here I am peacefully and quietly bein miss info technology at the computer lab when I see aggrevation approaching me..thats right, my supervisor. The one person who can out talk anyone I know..will talk my ear off endlessly about irrelevent rules and regulations about working at a school computer lab. The way she talks about the lab, you would think that I am consultant for microsoft when in reality im sitting at a dinky desk, surrounded by student, newark riff raff, and books. Today she had the audacity to tell me what she thinks is the best way to open paper. Thats right, the best way to open up a pack of paper?! I almost wanted to pull out my braids...as she spoke, I wondered why am i the only lab consultant that she continually harrasses with irrelevent information..wat did i do? Why cant I just work in peace?

Im sure everyone has that ONE boss or supervisor that makes you wanna jump out of a window or better yet push them out of one...please share

Evil Snow

I HATE SNOW!! You know there was once a time when I truly loved snow, when i saw it i started to jump up and down, wanted to play in it, even sometimes wanted to eat it. Yea that was back in the day when I was a lil person and didnt know how snow can potentially ruin your day. Yes snow is like kroptonite to any adult's commute. For myself, riding that endless bus and tredding through the hard streets of newark is not fun esp. when I have flakes of snow clouding my vision and concentrating SO hard to not bust my ass on the slush. And in general lets not forget to mention holding my life in my hands as i drive to wherever i need to go. Snow is just not fun. There is no snow day for adults...just makes life a lil more harder...Don't You Agree?!

Dave Chappelle

I must MUST see his movie this friday or at the very least by the end of this weekend. Whether it be via a date or one of my homies I MUST see this movie...its gonna be a hilarious, i feel it.

Black Celebrity

Sooo on my usual quest to see whats good in black gossip, i ran along the following pictures that i must definately say are absolutely outrageous and ridiculous..i just dont understand it sometimes, check it out for yourself

This is Jada Pinkett...all i gotta say is what happen?

A wreck..she never looks like this on bernie mac

Of course my husband, JIGGA, looks wonderful but ne-yo's mom...what?!
I see this guy everyday on my way home from newark diggin threw the garbage at the bus stop

is that a grill or his teeth just corn yellow
Star and her 'husband'-ridiculous

Tyra Banks going undercover as a stripper for one of the episodes of her wack ass talk show. mmm what