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the watermelon saga:

i bought a 1/4 of a watermelon who's packaging claimed it to be "seedless". i thought it was going to be a relief not to have to pick out the seeds but i was very wrong.

instead of it having about about 100 black seeds that i could pick out before i ate it, it was riddled with hundreds of small white preformed seeds that were impossible to remove without destroying the crispness of the flesh. every small white "pip" i excavated damaged the surrounding area adjacent to the pip, and in the end i was left with a savaged watermelon whose flesh was gouged and all the water was pressed out of the flesh due to my efforts to remove those small white pips! after i had removed those little white pips, the watermelon was a sludgy mush and it looked revolting and i decided to throw it away!! !

at least in the old days when watermelons had about 80 big seeds in them, i could gouge them out easily and then enjoy the melon, but with the pseudo seeded variety that i bought today, i had to spend ages on removing those little white bits that were preformed seeds!! ! seedless watermelons are now the only watermelons available (because people prefer them and are not troubled by eating the pips) but i hate pips.

normal people can tolerate inconsistencies in texture that make me gag. for example: orange juice in supermarkets is predominantly pulpy, and it is rare to find "pulp free" orange juice. i can not drink orange juice with pulp in it because it makes me gag. everyone i have asked (except tammy) prefers orange juice with the pulp in it.

the sticker on the watermelon is this (i am sorry but it got destroyed as i removed it to scan it (and now my scanner is sticky!! ! (i will have to wash it tomorrow (another lamentable by product of the seedless watermelon)))).



the sticker says "enjoy the bright red red flesh that is refreshingly cool and crisp. the melon contains edible white pips that are called 'initials' but you may find the odd black pip"

i do not care whether they are edible!! i am not afraid of being poisoned by them. they just interrupt the homogenous texture of the watermelons flesh and i find myself having to do an oral dance to coral them toward the front of my mouth while eating the watermelon so i can spit them out (which requires a receptacle to be employed for the purpose).

i am sure that average people can just swallow them without worry, but to me they render the melon inedible and i will not buy watermelon again. i really liked watermelon, but this new evolutionary direction that they have taken crosses them off my culinary menu.

grrrrr!!

i know that my gripe may seem trivial, but to me, i see it as an intrusion by humans who have crafted what i used to like into what most people like more, and as a result i like it less and well... i am out.

seriously . i was angered when i saw those thousands of little white pips in my watermelon that i had no hope of excising without destroying the cellular walls and rendering my melon to a pile of butchered mush.

sorry i know most people have more serious gripes than i do, and the fact i am unhappy about my watermelon experience is trivial relative to other people's gripes, but nevertheless it made me very annoyed today.

tammy asked me to play this and i tried but she did not like it much. it does not sound like what she likes.
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=7559374

i woke up this morning with a sore neck.

tammy is a very serious critic and she likes very few things. this is her favorite song and she can not like what i play because it my stuff is not professional like this song which is her favorite song. she is in love with these band members.

E[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWBqNFJ0HVE[/youtube]


i can not compete with them because i have not the heart like they do. i wish i could play like they do. i do not like this song much but tammy loves this song very much.

I have to go to work in about 5 hours.

I knocked over a glass of water.

My espresso machine produced very bitter coffee without much crema.

Not waking up next to my boyfriend...and thinking I have to wait a year for Valentines day to come round again, when I can (hopefully) celebrate with him.

yesterday i walked in redfern because i missed it and i walked past my house and it was all different. part of the fence had been removed, it had been painted and what's worst is that on the fence my comrade had painted stencils of children playing which everybody thought was quaint and those had been painted over too. i wasn't pleased. it's all different and it's like we've been removed from the house's memory.
also i feel kinda lonely and alone and worried and scared and a lot of things. i wish i had somebody to talk to but it's almost always me people talk to not the other way around. i hate my feelings. i wish i were a robot like everybody say i am.

Cycling back to my house at 9:15am today, I turned left into the neighbouring street. It's a thing two-lane road with terraced houses throughout, and cars parked either side of the road, so I cycled almost down the middle. What with snow being still around here and there, I had to do this slowly downhill, circa 6mph maybe. A car came behind me and started revving quite a bit, and I think it beeped a couple of times. To get to my house I had to pull up to the pavement on the right, which involved practically stopping before turning when the car overtook me and the scrote driver inside it called me a "f*****g little w*ker."

Can't beat respectful courtesy for obeying the law of the road, can you.

I consider this an unproductive day, although I managed to get some stuff done that has to do with my future. I'm just tired, exhausted and unconcentrated and can't focus on anything that doesn't involve listening and saying okay. Not to mention I intended to learn a bit but I guess that's impossible (also thanks to my neighbour who decided that it was time to make noises by using his drill machine, not even music helped to cover that background noise), so I'm doing a forum tour to raise my mood before I go sleep. Sleeping at 2AM, that is quite unusual for me (I'm very nocturnal - my family dislikes that).

I am in a bad mood today.

This summer I find more cockroaches inside the house than past summers. I'm really worried that maybe they are starting to infest the house.

WP

I slept too long and missed my morning. I intended to get up at 8 or 9 am, but instead woke up around 12midday. I feel so angry with myself and will waste another couple of hours thinking about it.

I happened to see my post that I posted yesterday and found that I had written something that didn't make sense. I was doing other things concurrently when I typed that post and didn't check what I had written before posting it. I feel so embarrassed and angry with myself.

Its still hot I wish Summer would hurry up and finish I'm sick of the stinking hot weather its hard to function in the heat.

Another headache filled weekend.