i have a new term. i coined it today, i consider it clever and perhaps a little sad.  well maybe it's not sad that it exists, maybe it's just sad that i have it.  The term, bus crush. It's pretty basic really, i get on the bus and i look around.  What am i looking for?  In general i am looking for people who appear interesting.  This is, of course pretty easy to find, just about everyone is interesting on some level or another.  Or is if you are looking at them through my eyes.  Well, one of the best ways for someone to be interesting to me, is to be female, attractive in a distinctive way and to catch my attention.  It truly happens all the time. 
   It's really kind of cool.  i am fascinated by everything they do, every expression they have.  it's not like i fantasize about them, i don't put us together in any way really, i just become instantly and short term enamoured by them. i'm sure this isn't a surprise to you, i mean there's a whole big long thing in the challenge about the woman i fell in love with after all.

   why do i mention this today?  just because i coined the term.  and i had the pleasure of a repeat performance.  i do have some standard bus crushes that i see semi-often but for the most part it is seeing them once and then never again.  This morning i formed a bus crush on a pretty woman with long dark hair and sexy horn rimmed glasses.  I got a bonus and she followed me down to the seabus.  On the way home, i saw her again.  A special treat just for me. 

   my point? i dunno. did i need one?

   This weekend was very nice.  kinda full of activity too. only sort of.  Friday night was dinner and movies.  Kissing Jessica Stein.  I think this movie was quite well done.  And a lot of it touched me in some ways that we don't need to discuss here.  I formed full movie crushes (see how adaptable this term is?) on both of the writer/stars.  And then, staying for the second feature, i watched Lord of the Rings, again.  I don't know if i ever need to see that film again now. 

   Saturday, i saw Minority Report and then went out and hung out at the home of some friends.  That's something i don't do very often.  Just sit around and hang out.  We had some good food, some talks and some good sitting around not doing much.  Not to mention the fact that everyone was wearing candy necklaces and you were only allowed to eat that of others as they were wearing it.

  ya know how i talked about wasting time last weekend?  you know how you feel a little guilty when an entire day is gone and you haven't done anything?  but that leaving the house and just going downtown will make you feel better?  it's the same thing with going and hanging out with friends.  i can accomplish exactly the same amount of stuff as a weekend where i do absolutely nothing, but if i do it on a deck with friends then there will be no feelings of guilt or unaccomplishment (shut up it could be a word). 

   perhaps there is an inherent value in interacting with people.  perhaps i know this instinctively.  perhaps it's just a social construct that doesn't mean anything. either way, it's a good way to spend time and i should do it more often.

   tomorrow is my next pottery class. wooka-wooka.