NaBloPoMoNoMo! (National Blog Posting Month No More!)

This is my final post of NaBloPoMo for 2007! I'm writing it in a Neo Citran-induced haze, too, which could be interesting. Or just very messed-up.

Even though I was getting progressively sicker there was no way I wasn't going to the One Of A Kind show with Maysie yesterday. We planned to meet up at the show at around six-thirty, so I left home at five, figuring it would give me lots of time to get there and get my ticket and maybe wander around a little bit before finding May. It was a good thing I gave myself all that time, however, because the streetcar route had been changed due to track work, so things were messed up. Plus I had to wait for over half an hour on the Bathurst station streetcar platform, only to have six streetcars arrive within a minute of each other. In the end I had to take the streetcar to Queen's Quay and take a shuttle bus to Ontario Place. I got there pretty much right at six thirty.

Sheesh. Once I arrived and found my Maysie everything was great. We ended up covering half of the show which is pretty good for about two and a half hours spent there. And going with May was also perfect because we looked at a TON of jewelry. I mentioned before that in the past I've ended up not looking at the jewelry enough, but we spent time at almost every jewelry booth we saw. AWE. SOME. May did point out that there were several vendors who weren't really producing 'one of a kind' items, but there were many many many that were and I made some fantastic purchases.

May's dad picked us up and took us back to her place where Andrew and Dan awaited us for a few more hours of goodness made up of Thai Food, Survivor and The Amazing Race. I was feeling worse and worse by this point and ate barely half of my sticky rice (which was the only thing I ordered), and it made me feel very unwell. I was comforted by the fact that one of my least favourite Survivors was voted off in a very embarrassing and ironic way, but then felt all upset again when we watched last Sunday's episode of The Amazing Race and there was animal-related badness that I found more than mildly upsetting.

The racers had to cram a chicken in a mesh bag (which most of them did very ungently) and carry it around for the entire episode, doing a lot of running and bouncing and generally chicken-in-a-bag unfriendly traveling. Then they had to ride a bicycle loaded down with a ton of unwieldy items, one of which was a live goat all tied up and tied into a basket. That was bad enough, but in order to get their bicycles balanced and successfully loaded with all the items many racers chose to pile stuff on top of their goats. Yes, I'm aware that these goats were intended as food and weren't going on to live lives as cherished family pets, but a tiny scrap of respect for another life form would be nice, especially since these goats were very capable of voicing their displeasure (and did so.)

So: Not my favourite episode of The Amazing Race. Most of the animal stuff portrayed on this show involves livestock doing what it's been trained to do in the first place and doesn't involve the racers having to handle them much beyond leading them somewhere or riding on them. This was different, and both scenarios involved a lot of potential harm to the animal on television. It made me sad. And I don't like feeling sad when I get to see Phil and his Amazing Eyebrow.

Sigh. That's it for NaBloPoMo, people! I intend to do it again next year, unless for some unforeseen reason I am no longer writing in this here weblog. I do intend to keep writing, though, and will try to do a lot more than I have in the past year or so.