watch the birdie

Grrrr, I have had the hardest time accessing this page...thus the lack of updates. Well last night I got to watch badminton on the Olympics (haha, you probably thought I was joking about that, but the joke's on you, I LOVE BADMINTON)...thank god for Bravo...it is definitely up there as far as decent cable programming goes; first Queer Eye , then Boy Meets Boy, then Olympic events utilizing shuttlecocks, I think I am sensing a certain proclivity here. Anyway, the American men's doubles team lost, they got their asses spanked by a team from Denmark...I mean the match was over in like twenty minutes. It is amazing that a sport can be so loved in the ENTIRE rest of the world and only be a backyard barbecue thing for kids and drunk adults here. I love badminton and I always have to explain to people that competitive badminton is so amazing, but people just giggle when I say that...hell even I giggle a little when I say it and I played it competitively.
I also realized why poor people are so damn unhealthy. I have been shopping at Whole Foods and Wild Oats lately, these "healthy"/bourgeois markets where they sell organic shit (amazing how organic and shit always go hand in hand) and vegetarian, and have snob-central stuff like olive bars and grain-fed non-steroidal beef. I love some of the stuff they have and frankly it is SOOOO much better than the 75% off ground beef aisle at Winn-Dixie...but damn it is so expensive. I can spend like fifty bucks easy and only buy enough food to last two, maybe three, days. So I was talking about this with this pretentious woman at work who apparently shops there exclusively and I said that I can't afford to eat like that all the time. So she says, "Well, what is your health worth to you?" And I told her "Hey you know what, I can die healthy or I can die sick, but I'm still gonna die either way, and at least my way I won't have spent all my money on food." Surprisingly she had no comeback for that. Now I just have to figure out a way to spend my cash. I want to take a trip to the UK, start in Ireland and end up in London. I'm almost desperate enough to do it by myself.