i have a strange feeling about this

i have a bad feeling about this

is a phrase you'll hear in every Star Wars movie. yes, all six episodes of them.
(if you don't believe me, there's a youtube clip here or a wookiepedia entry here)

i heard Indiana Jones say it too yesterday, right before those crystal skulls came alive.

and if you noticed that i have placed two links above, embedded a number of ted and youtube clips, mentioned a couple of movies, quoted both Obama and O'Brien, you will conclude that i seem to have so much time lately.

as a matter of fact i do. and this is the this that that this on the entry title is referring to.
in short, i have a strange feeling about this summer vacation that i'm recklessly spending on sheer joy and entertainment.

there's the occasional errand or two. or that meeting or this dialogue about some lofty ideal or noble pursuit.

but here i am couch potato-ing through my last summer vacation as a student. a friend told me he'd trade his life for mine and it just made me feel so strange (almost bad) all of a sudden. the next few weeks must be the most exciting weeks of my life.

i said life can wait. now i can't.

and i leave you with yet another source of pleasure, Lollipop by Mika.

Mama told me what I should know,
too much candy gonna ride your soul,
if she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.
Take a look at the boy like me,
never stood on my own two feet,
now I'm blue, as I can be,
oh love couldn't get me down.