try your best, natural disasters.
lately i’ve been in a bit of a funk so i haven’t written much. usually after the redefine print deadline push i pretty much want to die and therefore do not do much except for veg out. been playing a lot of ninja gaiden II with alex (and eddie the other day), watching a lotta siff movies reviews here, and working a lot on sushimonsters.com and other projects — new sushimonsters blog, too! wewt wewt. but yeah, if the last (current… spring…) issue of redefine doesn’t sell well… like 50%+, i think i’m done with printing. we’ll see………………………… it’s just………… too hard. yo. i wonder if i should try to hire someone one last time, though, to sell ads… i think i will try that maybe and see how effective they are… :/ but really it seems pointless. hmm. weighing the options here.
but yeah, if the last (current… spring…) issue of redefine doesn’t sell well… like 50%+, i think i’m done with printing. we’ll see………………………… it’s just………… too hard. yo. i wonder if i should try to hire someone one last time, though, to sell ads… i think i will try that maybe and see how effective they are… :/ but really it seems pointless. hmm. weighing the options here. oh yeah, amanda, the boston terrier i used to live with, had like a heart attack earlier this week. maybe she will die soon T__T must visit.
cali tomorrow. james’ wedding. too bad i’m missing a fuckload of events this weekend in seattle. GODAMMIT. if i had known i woulda just stayed here.
anyway, last friday we had a really interesting conversation at work. i wish i’d written about it earlier cause i can’t much remember now but yeah… here’s an attempt.
we got started talking about catastrophes somehow… natural disasters, and then went into some schpiel about how we needed to protect ourselves from natural disasters. first up, earthquakes and how seattle is long overdue for one. we assess our building and think that it should probably be okay since it’s brick and we’re on the top floor. there’s also the olympic sculpture park right next to us.
“triangle of life,” i told them. “not duck and cover.” there were visions of perplexion until i described to them the triangle of life routine and then they understood.
we decide that we’ll take a computer tower — probably mine, since it’s closest to the window and most bulky — to smash our single-paned windows (would be quite a feat really since there are wood bars in between). then we would jump to safety — or wait… we would take one of our ikea tabletops (which is basically just a flat sheet of wood) and use it to lower people… although sucks for the last person, who we’d have to catch on the bottom.
then we’d run to the olympic sculpture park and hide under this black squarish sculpture they have, since its underside is large triangles and it wouldn’t be smushed or anything. after all, there’s a lot of high skyscrapers all around us even though our building is not.
since we’re near the water, kristoph mentions that he has read that seattle’s ports are a top place to potentially smuggle nuclear weapons. what’re we going to do about that?
summer brings up indy’s using a lead-lined oldschool refrigerator to escape from nuclear holocaust in the new indiana jones movie, and we decide we need some of those in our office in case of nuclear war. and who knows, maybe it’ll work in other events, too. someone brings up that we probably won’t even notice that the nuclear radiation is coming until it’s too late, but kristoph says we can see the mushroom cloud before effects. i suggest that with every and any small move, we’ll just jump in the fridge. doesn’t matter what it is — we can find out later. summer says the problem is that we won’t know when to come out. good point. kristoph says that we’ll probably end up in there when the ups guy comes and freak him out.
but then we think… in the event of an earthquake or something, a tsunami is a big deal. what’re we going to do about that? we decide that we should put our lead-lined fridges outside the building and use little chutes to go into them (after all, the islands will feel the wrath of the tsunami before we do)… and we’ll have little drills inside the fridge so that we can drill a hole to eventually open the door of the fridge. and oxygen tanks for when we get out of the fridge. i mention that the fridge has to be IN the water for maximum safety (since sherry’s ex-roommate was in thailand during their last tsunami and she was in the water scuba diving and was safe, but when she got up, the boat they had come in — and all the people from that boat — were gone). hell while we’re at it, why don’t we just build a lead lined submarine so that we can all get to safety? custom-made. with persicope.
then comes talk of the fact that if seattle has a really long earthquake, the ground will liquify (solid liquifaction) and that buildings will sink into the ground. scurry.
that’s the gist of the convo. i’m sure i left some shit out but man, was it amusing.
really, though, living here is scurry.