Its Monday Morning... Where are my Millions???

Well, I say with a sigh, Monday has come once more. I woke with a crick and a crack and a few other odd noises emanating from my body and started to shake off the wrecked feeling that so often sweeps across my body after waking up. Before I have my morning medicinal drink that is. I know that the feeling would grow and grow until my sickness would encompass me entirely if I were to forego my medicine. So I pull myself together and walk over to the pharmacy to get it. 60 ml later and on the walk back to where I am staying, I start to feel like a human again. I start to feel like myself again, which is quite nice after spending too much time trying not to.

I scan the headlines of the day and see that the transporting of the accused, or rather, self -accused murderer, of the JonBenet girl was traveling back to the US in style as the newspapers took note of every detail of his trip - from what he ate, what he drank and what he watched on the TV during bis flight back from Thailand. Do I really care? No. The Toronto Sun headline made me snicker a tiny bit I will admit with its "Snake on a Plane" comment...

The movie 'Snakes on a Plane' is doing quite well at the box office and has actually gotten fairly good reviews - surprise surprise! In real life, too, serpents have been known to sneak aboard planes with sometimes hair-raising results: In July, Dutch customs officials at the Amsterdam airport thought they were looking at a plastic snake in a parcel marked toys being sent from Hong Kong. Wrong. It was a live poisonous Feas viper sent airmail to a Netherlands collector. Luckily, no one was bitten. In another incident a copperhead snake emerged from a heat vent on a helicopter flying near Rock Hill, S.C., in 1991. The pilot tried to step on the snake, lost control of the copter and was severely injured in the crash, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

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Snakes are prohibited from cabins on commercial airliners. "No reptiles or rodents in the cabin for safety reasons", says United Airlines spokeswoman Robin Urbanski. Such creatures could escape and wriggle into crevices, she says. But pet snakes have been hidden in carry-ons, especially before post-9/11 baggage scans. And a snake once slipped aboard an airliner, taking shelter in an overhead bin and later dropping onto the lap of a terrified female passenger, recalls Joel Chusid, a former airline executive who is chairman of the Association of Travel Marketing Executives. Although pilots are not specifically trained to deal with snakes, they are taught to deal with calamity. "Should an incident occur, rest assured that the pilot or pilots would react professionally and ensure the safety of the passengers," says Jeff Orschel, spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association.

In other news over 70 Taliban killed in weekend fighting afghanno Afgan or Canadian casualties. Not one death was caused by snakes, but death is still death and it is still a shame that anyone was killed this weekend in any kind of fighting. There are few things I would support dying over and most of the conflicts that are currently going on do not make my list of worthy causes. I do however find the posted cartoon a bit funny and I do feel badly for the people who have died in this struggle. Life is just too fucked up sometimes. You have to laugh or else you might just cry...

I look in my pocket and take note that I am still not a millionaire. As much as I would like to be rich I am still dirt-poor. I see a few bottles in a recycling box and grab them to add to my weekend collection of bottles. A slow weekend for drinkers around here as I am lucky if I have collected $5 wrecyclablesyclables to return. Oh well - Mondayl monday - I head back and make a mental list of things to do this week. First and foremost, I need to find a volunteer position badly. I have put my name in with Field to Table and Habitat for Humanity but have not heard back from either yet... I will look online after writing my morning blog and see what I can find for myself.

In other news Sara Michelle Geller (see pretty picture) still doesn't know I exist and therefore is very likely still not in love with me... sigh...