pet peeve!

oooh! guess who's got a new pet peeve? after months of serious seething over the relentless invasion of pop-up windows into the hallowed halls of my screen, i've discovered a new level of hell in my computer: they're kind of like pop-ups, only more insidious. they sort of float over the screen, rendering whatever bits of information they happen to cover utterly unreachable and illegible. skyy vodka seems very fond of this particular marketing tactic. as do the producers of the movie "the ring."

okay, so, yeah, it may be effective, but...really. it's just getting kind of absurd. i find myself avoiding the net on a semi-regular basis, just because i can't handle it. there are places where i don't go that i used to go before (that's a mangled song lyric, and if you can figure out what it is, i'll give you twenty bucks), all for dread and irritation at these damned quasi pop-ups! come now people? are we helpless against these things? is there nothing to be done? what is to become of us if we allow corporate america to completely dictate what we can and can't see, no matter where we are?

in other news, i'm starting to develop "the fear" of my new kickboxing instructor. this is twice now i've come out of his class with some seriously fucked up leg muscles. this probably means that if i stick with it (while managing to stay just shy of hurting myself), my little ped-stems will get ripped! of course, i have to stop gimping aroudn first. that might be good.

in other other news, congress just gave bush the go-ahead to fuck shit up in iraq. batten down the hatches, darlings. it's going to be a bumpy ride.