iMyDayster

For all of you fans who subscribe in the FSU areas (it's crazy, I have a big following both in the Former Soviet Union Republics as well as Florida State University), this pays a bit of homage to you, but not as much as you might think...Something that has become almost a disease is what I have simply referred to as the CCCP System. not quite a direct link to the ideas that emanated from the Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (transliterated as Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik) necessarily...though perhaps in an '80s Cold War-fashioned movie pitting the US vs Big Red in anything from hockey to espionage and back to boxing they might have been responsible for the common day CCCP from which I suffer, or escape in depending on your perspective, to undermine the capitalist Americano laborer.

It doesn't actually stand for the fancy Russian speak that sounds like alliteration with 's' but is somehow instead spelled in its native tongue with 'c.' (on a slightly somewhat related note, I think it is crazy how a behemoth of a company has made it difficult for me to accept the word 'singular' spelled with an 's'). Rather, this acronym I coined is a function - essential function, I should add - for my day, whether beginning, middle, later than middle, a bit after that and whatever time in between then and the end of said day - that stands for Check-Check-Check-Pause.

a few years since the cognizance of the system, I know it as both wonderful and detrimental. simply put, it is a description of how I occupy myself, usually at work, on slow, lethargic days. I check my email consistently, three times. then pause. then repeat.
It usually starts with gmail, then hotmail, yahoo...yahoonews.
hmm. what else can I do now? Eureka! CCCP - that was so much fun let's do it again! this time I might actually check my work email too.

in the process of my semi-Russo-inspired system I find some funny pieces along the way. for instance, on yahoonews this evening there were two asinine things. on a list of Today's Top [Ten] Searches, none other than Chelsea Clinton was listed at number 10. hmm. is this a Letterman list? could be. did some desperate guy convince himself that Miss Chelsea is now hot in her post-subject of SNL tv years and want to obsessively track her down? maybe so. number 9 on the list was Fast Times at Ridgemont High. but by contrast, more people were interested in 'pesto,' ranked at the night's number eight spot, than either of the aforementioned subjects. to give Chelsea credit though, I cannot say that many people in their high school/early college years are at the peak of their attractiveness as they grow into their bodies and sport braces. to indulge you all a bit, and admittedly myself too, I clicked on her name which brought me to page of links for more info on the famous former First Daughter. perhaps as a compliment in camouflage, the first link on the top of the new page suggested: "Also try Chelsea Clinton weight loss." ouch. I did find a picture of her and it's not too bad. so maybe it gives testament to the 'if I can do it, you can do it' mentality...but at the same time, maybe she didn't have lots of weight to shed, contrary to what the search engine suggested and only was successful at aging well in her 20s...

one of the other links for an article caught my interest as well. it was something about how air travel can possibly alter world climate change. I like anything related to air travel and planes, kind of. the experience of flying and reaching your destination is always fun and exhilarating. seeing the jumbo jets (remember that term?) in the skies make me think of the next trip overseas I'll take...
The first quote of the article made me laugh aloud, perhaps commonly known in these circles as an instance of LOL. it explained that, according to protesters at London's Heathrow airport, the only way to reduce the carbon print of air travel is to altogether stop flying. I would want to tell the protesters' union chief guy - 'Dude, Gandhi would disagree with you!'. maybe not. but honestly how many people a) even know about carbon prints, much less carbon dating - or just carbon in general! (I certainly am not as educated about such matters as I'd like to be) and b) how many people who fly are aware or become aware of the environmental hazards of aviation will really stop their jet-setting? We can't even get a properly functioning recycling program in Chicago. so how can these protesters expect that many of the same people who leave their A/C, televisions and lights blaring all day can actually cease traveling? the remainder of the article did raise interesting points. I am a big fan of alternate energy. I think that it would be great to not pollute the earth and conserve at the same time as buying Rolls Royces from the Saudis at prices less than Yugos at their foreclosure sales.

Maybe I can add pictures or info to my MySpace, Friendster and Facebook accounts...? The day continues. what's happening in celebrity news? anything going on CNN? NY Times? oh wait, I almost forgot about LinkedIn. maybe there's a good fare on United's site. other sites I like include allmusic.com to read up on discography of artists, Wikipedia to check to see if something so bizarre is actually listed there and anything else that might come my way. it's the old tale of procrastination that ruins an otherwise fine day - or, with nothing else to do gives us an interesting way in which to occupy our time.
wow I should be going - feels like I haven't checked my email in, like, forever and I have to get started with my day already.