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I am sitting here in a lonely home that is not my own. The echo of memory is moving through this place. But there is a power that is beyond that. Someone that is in touch with it can feel it. But I digress. A lot. I just really think that most people can not even feel it. Well, at this point I just feel alone. regardless my mind goes to the dreams of what is to come, and what is to be dreamed. Recently I received money for my creative arts. I have received renumeration in this manner previously, but this feels different. More as though never before have I felt more in the place that I should be. She makes me so happy, my job makes me happy, and my creative pursuits have produced profit. In other news I am watching an interview with Neil Gaiman which includes a presentation of some things he wrote about alcohol's effect on writing creativily while I sip on Gin and try and write this blog entry. Interesting experience. |
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I don't know, it is an open ended day. That is the best way to describe it. Back in the day, I had an open ended day where it started out normal and ended with me working the pit crew for a Hawksley Workman Concert. I need one of those days, a nice random day were I can allow the fates to take me on complete freedom. I really want to take those people that I love and be random, and see where it takes me. I know there are a couple people that can allow themselves that kind of freedom. Pagans seem better at that. mabey in the summer a random trip on motorbike with them is needed. |
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Well I had a very fun day today. I went to school and enjoyed a work period. We have been getting quite a few of these. It is an opportunity to work on our various projects but have the resources of the instructors available to bounce ideas off of. Downside is I am surrounded by fellow students, and I really don't have the attention span to concentrate to long. The afternoon was another work period, but instead I went and volunteered to be an extra on a film that is being shot here in Edmonton. They were looking for "Hardcore Gothic" people. So I put on my club wear and headed out. The film is called the Pharmacist. It is pretty low budget, but it was fun. I will give you some of the exciting moments: When I realized that they were using Reds as their camera's I had a little squee moment. Reds are so cool, and to see them in action was awesome. Yes, them... they had two! Reds are modular cameras that can be built to whatever spec you need. Think Mechanix toys, and camera mixed. So awesome. Also for the majority of the scene I was in the front because I was part of the team that was doing the crowd surfing... ever crowd surfed people for 5 hours straight? I can now take that off my bucket list. The hardest part was at one point they would get us to surf the main actor, Corey was his name, and just hold him there until they called action... which would take a painfully long time. Especially because I was placed specifically in a spot where I would get the majority of the weight cause I guess I looked meaty or something. Once the shoot was over they needed 20 extras to stay behind. The casting, event coordinator specifically asked for Shaena, Travis and myself to stay behind... we said no... she asked 3-4 separate times. She mentioned we had a "good look" aka we were fucking pretty. All in all it was really nice to see real lighting crews, and real sound people, do real things on real sets since we have been learning this theoretically at school. Although I still snicker when one of the lighting people called to the extras "who is making that jingle sound" and the crowd responded "all of us". They seriously proceeded to ask the chain laden goths to stop jingling... The casting lady asked me to keep in touch with her for future projects. May be fun. I do like being in front of the camera. The day ended with Shaena and myself going out for dinner with Natasha, Travis, and Joshua. Then Shaena and I headed back to her place to cuddle. Iain showed up later and brought a movie I have been dying to see. I watch the first part of it a while back but never saw the rest. The recent remake was called Quarantine, but I was watching the original Spanish version. It was nice. |
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Had some new experiences today, spoke with some people that I didn't think I would ever actually have need to. I am just amazed at how much pain I caused with this break-up. I have to keep telling myself that it was for the best, and that in the long run everyone will be better off. But her pain is so great...
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because it is a good idea, although I am showing no symptoms, I went in to get check for every STD known to man the other day. It is just smart. While I am there, the doctor asks me the questions: Doc -"have you had multiple partners" Quinn - "ummm ever? uummm ya" Doc - "have you ever had sex with animals?" Quinn - "snerk, ummm nooooooooo." this goes on a while, like a very formal web purity test. All of my answers seem to be no, and I realize I may not be as sexually adventurous as I though... (probably shouldn't think of her list as a to do list eh?) although she never did ask anything really interstesting like, "have you ever had oral sex on a Russian train whilst twirling through the air on the back of a panda singing the Star Spangled Banner". Would that be sex with animals? aaannnnywho. Then she ask me, "Do you have sex with only woman, only men, or both sexes" I say "Only woman" she raises an eyebrow, "Do you consider yourself to be gay" I answer "Only woman", her eyebrows raise to an even higher height, "being bi means you sleep with both men and woman, are you bi?" I speak slower "O N L Y W O M A N". I swear she really thought that if she rephrased the question she would get a different answer. Guess it's the frosted hair.
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So many people have asked me to update my blog more often. Due to school I have been way to busy... but then, I just went through another breakup so it seems like a good time to update. I am going to change the format a little bit, instead of giving a boring list of the crap I did, I am only going to write something significant as it occurs to me. Some days there may be nothing significant, and some I may have many entries. I give no promises. And so here it goes... This morning I woke up in a fugue. Stretching in my empty bed I thought of what had come before, the thoughts stretch back. I let it flood me, and wash over me. New York, Edmonton, and Downstairs. The people that I care about, and all of our perceived and real insecurities washing together. Each one of them ride on my shoulders. I let them rest there and whisper in my ear. I put the Tibetan monks on, and lift the phones to my ears. A bell rings and I swim a little longer in the moment. "Step out the door", I tell myself. One last look at her door, and I step. The world lightens. Step. We can only do so much. Step. I am honest. Step. As honest as I can be. Step. They do care about me. Step. She cares about her. Step. We all mean well. Step. In the long run it will ease her suffering. Step.
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I was not able to make it home for thanksgiving and my family here in town were a bit to busy to have me over for turkey dinner, as such I had me some Thanksgiving Pizza Pops... hmmmm... Pizza Pops. I also got alot of coding done on the website I am creating for Mad Dog Blues Band. I have a vast majority of it done, I just need some more copy from the band, aswell as I have to teach myself a little Java so I can put in some streaming audio. I started planning my Birthday party. Originally I was supposed to have a joint birthday with Dave since he was also born on Oct. 25th, but his roomate had to reschedule because of a conflict in her schedule to Oct. 24th. This would mean that a few of my guests would not be able to come, and I would only be able to make it there for about 1-2 hours because of work. As such I decided to hold my own birthday party at my house on Satuday Oct. 25th. I have so far invited 80ish people, and so far about 10 people have backed out, but I am still having a nightmare that most of the people I invited will actually show up. You see I am planning for the 80/20 rule, that if you invite 100 people only about 20 people will show up. Oh well if that many people show up, it will be one hell of a party, and the house is relatively big. Dave has mentioned that he will be there on Saturday and I have promised that I would save some candles for him too. The fun part of this party is going to be the cimbination of people that will be there. I am rather social, and I have rather diverse interests. I have invited people from all of my interests. This means that the party will have gamer nerds, poli-amorous goths, artists, martial arts, gun nuts... all under one roof. I feel like I should invite a sociology major or two just so they can document what happens when these worlds collide. It should be an interesting evening. Oh and if you didn't get an invite from me already, and I know you, you are invited... just contact me and let me know. Final note: check out my newest work on my deviant art site (url in the previous post) . It was a Miniproject for school. It was based off of Grimm's version of Sleeping Beauty. Most people decided to visually narrate their respective stories, which ended up making their pieces look a little like a scrap book page of fairy tales. I came at it with a different approach. I concentrated on the moment of the kiss, and the expection of it. Aswell as being rather heavy handed with the death and life themes. I mean... it has a rose dripping blood....
anyway, check it out and let me know what you think. I really think, as far as technique is concerned, one of my best pieces. The veins, skin tone, sallowness, etc on her face alone took me 2-3 hours. |
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here is a link to my deviant art site. Kenjutsu Assinment, Tak, and Ninja vs. Pirates are things that I drew in school over the last week. http://brinan.deviantart.com |
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Occurance 1:
So, I am working my shift at the Wine and Spirits Warehouse. And a man comes in with two ladies. They are nice ladies, and he is a very charming man. We discuss the in's and out's of various wines, styles, and countries. He displays a great deal of knowledge and understanding of wine without sounding pretentious. This is a difficult balance to find I would like to say. He chooses a couple of my recomendations and proceeds to the check-out counter. I am part way ringing his order through. Somewhere between "will this be all" and "Would you like paper or plastic" he pops his own question on me: "So... do you like swords?" I have to admit, I studdered, I sputtered, and squeaked. "So... have you seen one of my performances?" I retort. He simply shakes his head, "No you just look like a swords kind of guy". I cock my head to one side, "Well" I say while squinting one eye, "I train in Noble House Kenjutsu, training in traditional Japanese sword. We do alot of performances at cultural events... So... why did you ask me about the sword?" The man is about to open his mouth when one of the girls he is with cuts him off, "He always asks weird questions like that". I shake his hand, "Well you were bang-on this time, talk to you later." And with that he left the store.
Occurance 2:
My last day at the range was relatively uneventful. But I did have an interesting moment with one person. He came into the range. He mentioned that except for Ice Tea movies he had no experience with guns. I assured him that 90% of the people that come into the range have never touched a gun before either. I went through the safety speech, and explain to him that he must keep it pointed downrange with his finger off the trigger, and inside the booth at all time. He nods and agrees. Then commences to shoot his first magazine. He has fairly good accuracy for someone that has never shot before. He has put bullet onto of bullet and got a pretty good grouping. Finally he is finished his box of ammo, I retrieve the target for him. As I hand the paper to him he looks me straight in the eye and asks "So... do you guys have real bullets in these guns"
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Jasper Well lets start with my "vacation". It has to be in quotes because it was on 3 days. Much like a Stipend is "Money". All in all it was good though. My dad came into Edmonton on his Harley, then the next morning we packed up and headed to Jasper. We Got to the Miote Hotsprings later that evening. After a day of riding a nice soak was great. We set up camp and crashed hard that night after buying some supplies in Jasper. The next morning we headed up The Whistler on the Jasper Tram. At the top I continued on up to the summit. It was beautiful. About 1/3 of the way the clouds set in... or mabey I set into the clouds. Either way I could not see shit. It was at about this point that Dad decided he would appreciate the mountain by waiting for me there. I continued up the mountain and met a temporary friend. He name... escapes me now, but we had delightful small talk conversations as we ascended to new heights. It is my jadedness that when we first started talking my main thought was "what does she want from me" and "why is she talking to me". I was trying to figure out the angles she was using. It perplexed me that, as a "People person" I could not read her angles. It was not until we were almost at the summit when I realized that I could not find her angles because she had no ulterior motives. Why did it take me so long to just enjoy the conversation and the hike? I got to the top, and the cloud dissipated. A great scene was around me, I could see so far. But nothing made me feel smaller. It reminded me of a George Carlin bit, where he talks about environmentalism. www.youtube.com/watchWhen I looked at the mountains, the forest, I kinda started to get the idea. The parasites that are humans could come and go, and really would the planet even notice? It was a surprisingly comforting feeling. So after we got back from the mountain, we had a mighty nap. And at the end of the nap Jenny showed up and the three of us went for supper in Jasper. The next day we went white water rafting down the athabasca. It was nifty, but best of all the Guide, Brian, showed me a hike that I really want to do next year. It is a 2-3 day hike called Skyline. Basically you hike up a mountain, across the summit/ridge then back down again. I want to convince some of my fellow martial artists to go up with me. Doing sword and Jo kata at the top of the mountain would be so... perfect. SuicideNo not mine!?! Some of you may have heard about the recent shooting death at Wild West Shooting Centre. I have had enough people ask that I decided to put the details up on the blog. Yes I was working and was watching the range when a gentleman ran across the firing line and shot himself in the head. I am not going to go into details, but I am okay. I am a bit pissed that he chose such a public and busy time to kill himself. I just thank God that there were no children on the range at that time. I am also a little frustrated with how the Sun reported and made it sound like he had been shot by the other customers which is so not even true. See covered a story on the many himself, and I included a link below about him. www.seemagazine.com/article/music/music-column/star-spangled-blair-1094/Graphic DesignFinally, good news. As of yesterday I got confirmation of my funding. I am going to be going to Guru Digital Media College. After the 6 month course I will have my diploma and be set to work at a marketing creative house (aka what I wanted to do with my degree off the start). Unfortunately my student loan and bursaries only cover the tuition and not living expenses. As such I will be selling my 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer for $18,995, my Beretta 92FS 9mm pistol, and anything else I can think of that will give me a couple dollars to buy rice with. I just hope I don't have to sell my Motorbike though. Mental note, I am not above free dinner offers *cough cough*. |
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I won't go into details, but Heritage Days seemed to go well for the Japanese Pavillion aswell as Noble House. We got a solid page of people interested and hopefully out of that list we will get 1-2 solid students. By the way, for anyone that is interested we are going to have a beginner introductory seminar running for 8 Monday's starting on August 25th. If you are intesested either check out www.noblehousekenjutsu.com or contact me and I will put you in touch with those who are organizing it. Anyway, I just had my first day of Test Cutting. It was nifty, I did bend my sword... but the Dai-Sempai was kind enough to straighten it for me, and show me how to straighten it. Anyway, I would write more but I have to be up in 4.5 hours to run with sensai then I have to work at 10am-9pm. Oh, and the liquor store gave me an offer for a promotion that I am actually thinking about. We will see what he officially offers me in a few days when he puts it together. |
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So, things are kinda falling into place. I have been chatting with a friend of mine about getting a job at the same place he is employed. The job would entail layout and graphic design. In addition I am looking at going into the fall inlet for Guru (Digital Media School). It means I need to get my portfolio in place, student loan lined up, and order my transcripts. Oh, and I am on the verge of getting a contract with a Vancover record producer to do the album artwork for one of their bands. Next weekend is Heritage Days here in Edmonton. It is one of my favourite events. It is similar to Folk Fest in Saskatoon, in that it is a bunch of different countries putting on pavillions. The Difference is that instead of them being spread out throughout the city they are all in one park. And there are demonstrations, and food, and food, did I mention the food? It is all about the FOOD! This year my Dojo will be performing again: 4:30 on Saturday, 3:30 on Sunday, and 12:30 on Monday. I was at last years demo, but I had only been training for a month at this point last year, and did not feel confident enough to actually do any of the performances, and as such I simply held the flag. This year I will be doing first and second Bokken Kata, aswell as Two-Sword/Naginata Kata. All of them are with Graeme. He is about 2-3 inches taller then me... in other words we need super amounts of distance to do our Kata. Especially Two-Sword/Naginata which as me travelling alot and quickly. I really want to try the space before we perform in order to be certain he and I will have enough space. Graeme seems to think so, but I am still nervous... nothing worst that running out of room and accidentally skewering an audience member. Speaking of performances, I guess Warner Brothers contacted our Dojo again and wants us to perform at the openning premier of the new Starwars: Clone Wars movie. I am a huge Starwars nerd and the chance to dressup like a jedi and swing around lightsabers is so full of the awesome. We are not sure the details yet except that it will be August 8th. We are not actually sure if they want us in Jedi garb/costume or our normal outfits... already people are talking about ways to make our Shinai glow though. |
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I have most of my stuff in the new place. I still about 1 car worth of stuff to bring over here. This includes winter jackets, hides, horse hair, and kitchen stuff. My new place is still a rats nest. I have the essentials set up (aka computer, bed, etc.) but the kitchen is still a mess, and there be boxes filling the hallways I would normally have thrown out the boxes, but DD is still in the process of packing so I am going to bring them over to her tommorow when I pack up the rest of my crap. Oh, and Dyson rocks! My girlfriend brought over her dyson, and we sucked about 4-5 cats out of the carpet and furniture. I was having trouble breathing previously, now no problems. I have already started practicing "Mommy, Daddy, if you loved me you would by me a Dyson" . I have a funny feeling that won't work. Anyway, I plan to finish setting up all my stuff tommorow on my day off, then I work 1 day, then I am out of town for 3 days of drinking, debauchery, and bad 80's music. I have been so looking forward to this weekend. I already have some books lined up to read, my wine list is complete, all I need to do is pick up some cheap port and another six-pack of some sort of light import beer, and I am good to go. |
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So today was a good day. I may have an option available for a home come August... well and mabey July. Although, I am doing the "am I willing to have this person hate me" thing. You see, I am really easy going, I rarely get mad, The person who I would be roomates with is one of my favourite people, and living in his space would mean that I would have access to his Dojo (presuming that he would allow me to use his dojo space). Now that being said, he is one of my senpai (senior students) at the Dojo and so I would not want to have fouled his opinion of me by living with him and being too loud, or too messy, or any of the too's really. I am basically scared that I would be oblivious to the things that I do that would piss him off, and therefore earn his disrespect. But then my fears may be tainting my point of view due to my current living arangements where I do not know what ticks off my current roomate until it explodes and becomes a big issue. It comes to me that my prospective roommate has never been one to avoid confrontation, in fact his ability to deal with confrontational situations in a polite manner has been highlighted by the Dia Senpai. This actually set me a little at ease knowing that he would simply bring up any issue he may or may not have. Well we decided to discuss details during our run tommorow so I can figure this stuff out, in addition to the other mundane stuff like where to put my things, rules on late night female visitors (innocent whistle), weapons, and so on. Training was good today. We worked on Book one, Shinai Kata. It is one of my favourites because it is about 10% physical prowess and 90% mental. What I have found with this kata is that if I can improve on it, all my other kata improve greatly. Which I beleive is its intention. Also I was able to make one of my Senpai blush. I mentioned to him that a couple of my friends said "We sure are glad that the hot one is still training there" refering to him. He asked me to thank them, and assure them that they just must of caught him on a good day or in good lighting. Oh! I almost forgot I bought a waterbottle finally. I am really excited about this, since running without a water bottle is really rough. I mean you lose so much moisture when your doing 10K. The clerk assured me that it was vinyl and does not let off the harmful chemicals that the hard plastic does. I still would have preffered a stainless Steel one, but they had none, and the cost would most likely have been prohibitive. And finally, a friend of mine sent me the following link: http://www.mouseguns.com/compare.htm
It is freakin' hilarious, but I feel that you would have to be a bit of a gun nut to find it funny. |
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So, once you make it to 5km, 10km is easy to run. And once you can regularily do 10km what is 16km? At least that is my hope. I have now been running 3 days a week at 5:30am for a few weeks. I have actually started to see some increase in my tone. The thing is last Saturday we went running and we did 12km. Sensei decided that since we ran the 12km so well that we should be able to do 16km this weekend. I hope that it is not that big of a stretch. I am going to have to head to the running room today and pick up a water bottle. In other news there is some stuff going on in my romantic life and I am not sure how I feel about. Needless to say that it is personal enough that I would prefer to not discuss it in such a public media... but, ya, not sure how I feel about it. Which is surprising since I have been in a similar situation before. |
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Today is the first day I have actually had two days off in a row since December. I guess that is not entirely true, I was off for 3 days in March thanks to being the bestman for Shea's wedding. Being bestman is less like time off and more like running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I am sure people don't need a huge update on what is going on in my life. So instead you will get point form: 1. Dating Jenny since about February 2. Broke (gotta sell my car, move to a cheaper place) 3. Got full time at the range, and two raises in the space of the last two months 4. Meeting with people at Guru Digital Academy to discuss taking their course Okay! now that you are updated let me talk about what I want to talk about. Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 1:30pm my Dojo is going to be puting on a performance for the Japanese Festival at the Kurimoto Gardens in the Devonian Gardens. I am really looking forward to this demo, because it marks my 1 year anniversary of training with the dojo. It was at last years festival that I watched the dojo and decided to join. I have been pretty obsessed about the dojo lately, and I have REALLY been trying to not talk about it to ad nauseum. Basically my schedule is that I train at the dojo on Monday, Wednesday at 8:00pm. Then Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 5:30am I run 8-12km with Sensei and do some extra training along the way. Plus side is that I am getting into great shape, and really making advances in my training. The downside is that none of my clothes fit. Before I started training a year ago I weighed 220 pounds and had a 36 inch waist. Now I weight 175 pounds and have a 31 inch waist. I am having a problem with my belts not fitting anymore! Yup... I am boasting. As far as the other stuff goes, well I am more broke than normal, but I am a little better than I was back in January when I lost my job selling copiers. As some of you may know, I am a spiritual christian, but I hate religion. I could go into detail on what this means to me, but I will summarize my beliefs as this: Everyones connection to God is dependant on how they seek their path. Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit as a guide and we have to listen to that spirit. Religion has a tendency of puting boundries on faith, and that limits spirituality. Okay so summarizing is not easy. Anyway the gist is that you need to feel what makes you closer to God. This gets really hard to explain when I start thinking about peoples paths that do not involve christianity all together... So part of my path is listening to the holy spirit. One of the ways that God communicates with us is by openning a door when one closes. So I think I have had alot of doors close to me as of late, and a few doors open. But the door that seems to constantly open, and I keep ignoring is the artistic doorway. God - "You can't do sales, but hey look over there!"
Me - "Ummm... that is a door to art... art is the way to broke, so.... no"
God - "Fine! you want broke! I will show you broke... okay the door is open again"
Me - "ya.... but.... still art"
God - "Moron" So I am thinking about trying to find an apartment in the white ave area that I could get a roommate and run a walk-in studio. I have spoken to a few galleries around edmonton that want to carry my work. I am just starting to do research in that area. Although I guess I should hurry the hell up since I only have 2 months until my current lease is done. If any of my faithful readers know where I could look for such a space let me know. |
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So let us review the recent couple of weeks. As some of you may know I was the Bestman for my friend Shea's wedding. As such my first duty was to organize the Stag. Since I was the one doing the organizing we of course played paintball. It was really good fun. I forgot how much I love that game. I broke out my Proto Matrix. The nice thing was that I was playing against a bunch of rec players, so I was able to pull a bunch of rambo moves and look like I knew what I was doing. After Paintball we retired to Kody (one of the other groomsman's) homes to have a couple refreshing cocktails. After cocktails we went to a local pub for a few more cocktails, then to the strip club to have a few more cocktails at "gynacology row" and then once again back to Kody's. Somewhere around 8am Shea and I shambled back to his place to crash. There were probably a few other stories in there but you would have be there to have seen it first hand. Anyway I got back to Edmonton.
Monday night was the Christmas party for the Wine store. It was rather nice, I am not sure if I have every had such a nice meal. I don't think there was a bottle of wine bellow $75. The Merlot was surprisingly my favourite, and the Amarone was my biggest disappointment. See I love Ripassa, Amarone, etc. but this one was a bad bottle and was rather high in acidity which really overpowered the complexities of the wine.
Tuesday and Wednesday passed rather uneventfully, although Wednesday was fun with us focussing on Iaijutsu. Thursday Danielle and I left for Calgary for the Wedding proper. Friday we ran around and did 1001 things to get ready for the wedding like the rehersal, decorations, etc. Danielle was awesome, she just pitched in without needing to be asked, and without complaint. I was really impressed. Saturday came and it was time to get the wedding going. Shea and I got into our Kilts and got going on getting everything ready. We even had one lady ask us "where are you boys playing?" both of us first thought of the Drop Kick Murphies... turns out she thought we were in a pipe band. Anyway just before the service the grooms men all decended on an irish pub to eat peanuts, watch curling and get our pictures taken with pints of Guinness. The service itself was amazing. And... I didn't cry... there was something in my eye! The reception was fun, I even got a note passed to me at the head table that said "My friend Debbie thinks your hot" which made me feel like I was in highschool again. The speech I gave seemed to be well received. I talked about all of the things that Shea taught me, like how to accidentally turn a jerry can into a flamethrower... and how to keep my face further away from the gun powder... people laughed, although it was hard to write the speach. When you have known someone since your birth it is hard to find stories that are fit for public consumption. Oh... and I forgot to mention that I even got a spray tan. My cousin Nicole owns Banba Tanning Salon, and it was neat to tan. Danielle tried to tan too, but her goth overpowered the spray tan and she came out just as pale. there are probably other details but I can't remember. Oh, and I will be on the Global morning show at 7am on Friday with my Dojo doing a spot on Kenjutsu. if anyone is actually up that early... |
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I am so fucking exhausted. Just so you know, I didn't get the call back for the Capital Health job, but I am applying to a few more. I had the Stag for my friend Shea last weekend, then this weekend was the wedding. It was good, but I am way to exhausted to give you more details. I will after a good nights sleep update you all on the events of the Stag, up to today. But, the update will be tommorow when I am conscious and can string together a somewhat intellegable sentence. |
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Holy crap-monkey I have not updated this in a while. Well, I guess I have been having a good time. The two jobs, have spilled over into 3 jobs. London Drugs, Wine and Spirits Warehouse, and Wild West Shooting Ranger are now my employers. I also have an interview on Wednesday with Capital Health. The later being a real job with a real salary and all that. In other news preparations for my friend Shea's wedding are going well. I will be his bestman. When he asked me he mentioned after like it was a big deal to me to wear a kilt... that I would have to wear a kilt. Turns out that is so not the fashion issue. The issue is that I have to wear a Blackwatch kilt, and an Argyle Jacket. Pattern on Pattern? that is wrong... just plain wrong. I pray that the Argyle is soft enough that it almost looks like a solid colour. Although I just finished watching "27 Dresses" with a bunch of friends and I realize that he obviously chose that outfit for the same reason that the bride chooses ugly bridesmaid dresses... because of insecurities that my beauty will outshine him on his special day... or he is colour blind. Anyway, in other news started chatting with Jenny P. from S'toon. I know Lex and Mark know who I am talking about. Anyway looks like she is planning a move in the near future up to Edmonton like everyone else from S'toon. As such I have promied to show her around a few places, although I know she has a few friends here already... many of which are friends of mine. Fuck the Goth circle is a small one. |
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well I could update you on everything that happened over the last week. Bur really... it was a relatively boring week. I will give you this, it involved swords, guns, and liquor. The highlight was watching Juno with Danielle and seeing her french tempter flair up when the waitress at Brewsters ignored her again while giving me a ton of attention. So basically your run of the mill week. Last night was different. Because of my inclusive nature when I organize a week I invited Nitro and Gliserine out to dance. Luckily it didn't blow up in my face.I am going to have to use first names, because my usual initial thing will just get confusing. That being said, if you prefer that I not mention your first name, send me a message or something and I will remove it from this post. Okay, on that note: Deb contacted me a few days ago with a need to dance. So I sent out a message urging people to come out to Dervish's Bitch Bitch Bitch. Basically the only person that responded with any interest was Danielle. So the plan was made to meet at my place and then head over to Suburbs. While I was at work just prior to the evening Barb from Saskatchewan (now living in Edmonton like all good Saskatchewanians) called and mentioned she would like to come out dancing. So I told her to meet me at my place to. Then I rememebered that Barb and Deb don't like each other for a transgression that happened a few years ago. "Oh crap" was my thought. So I texted Deb, and talked to her when she showed up at my place. To my joy Nitro and Gliserine got along amiacably for the entire evening. Having a mutual friend Dupe (sp?) there probably helped. Like usual Suburbs was awesome. Bitch Bitch Bitch seems to have grabbed alot more popularity and it was rather packed. There was a point in the evening where I knew about 80% of the people there. Interesting moments would include Mana showing up, and it looks like she is moving back to Edmonton perminantly after a breakup with the boyfriend. Ya, anyway... moving on. Well by the time 1:30am rolled around Danielle was threating to chew off someones arm if she didn't get fed. So Eman, Danielle, Deb, and Myself ran off to Denny's (Supposedly just missing Cori who showed up just after we left). Denny's was not bad, we actually had great service (for Denny's), but some chick in the booth next to us was getting into the face of some gay man a couple of booths over. Supposedly the gay man walked into the bathroom to take a leak at the same time that the girl's boyfriend decided to tinkle. Which meant to this girl that the gay man was trying to steal her boyfriend. A fight broke out and the gay man took on the situation with a certain amount of flair. It was amusing to the level that Danielle wanted to start shouting "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry" Needless to say we left at that point. |
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