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Recent thoughts. [Jul. 21st, 2008|03:09 am]
I can't sleep. I sit here in front of the computer, three in the morning, having just finished putting a load of clothes in the dryer and putting away the dishes, I wonder what 'normal' people must be doing right now. Hmm. Sleeping, I guess.

I've been feeling a lot of pressure these last few days.

First, I was working on this painting for an old friend, and like, most of the time when someone commissions me to do some art as a favor, I'm really insecure. I worry if I'll finish on time, whether it'll meet their unknown standards, or even my own standards. After three days of hand wringing, countless sketches and thoughts, and several cans of spraypaint, I finally finish. Even after he came to pick it up I was feeling tense for several hours. I was worried that he thought it was 'too weird' and that he would ultimately not even use it. But like, it's his business, right, why should I worry about something once it leaves my hands?

Anyways, there's some pictures of it on my cell phone, which I'm too lazy to upload here. If it was any good, you'll see it around town. Shawn wanted something bright and catchy for his truck-for-hire business, so you'll see it around if he actually liked it.

I've been thinking about moving out of Coral Gardens for about a month now. To me it seems feasible. People are always moving in and out, right, so it shouldn't be difficult to find a house to accomodate me and a couple friends. I've been losing a bit of sleep lately, thinking about this. One part of me is scared to leave, another part doubts my ability to even find a place. I'm giving my notice tomorrow afternoon. This will give me a month and a half to find some place or else I'm living on the street. haha.

I have too much junk around here, a lot of random shit that I've become attached to. I find myself too accustomed to this apartment. It has been over three years here, after all. I don't think I can take just picking everything up in a couple of days and moving. I need to put it all away piecemeal. So, I'll be packing one thing every day or so until I move out. Today I carefully wrapped all my gundam etc. models in old t shirts and put them in boxes.

What will I need with me? Do I really need a pile of old magazines? Right now, I am keeping the things most important to me the closest to me. As long as I have my girlfriend and my best friend, I'll be okay I think.

The damage deposit is gonna be a huge bitch. Cheap and Corey wanna take the apartment after I leave in September. I'm unaware of the details right now, but thats what we'll be discussing with our landlord tomorrow. Best case scenario, he lets me move out, allows me to transfer my damage deposit over to Cheap and Corey without any hassle. Worst case, he won't allow Cheap and Corey to move in, perhaps because he wants to renovate or maybe there is a waiting list. Then he keeps the majority of my damage deposit after seeing what kind of horrible mess the apartment has become.

I am irrationally ashamed of my apartment, so much so that the kitchen faucet has been leaking for half a year now, even after I turn off the hot water tap. I coulda (/shoulda) got it fixed immediately but there was so much illegal and random garbage in the house that I didn't wanna let my landlord in.

I sometimes wish that randomly someone will come and just 'fix' everything. Like, I realize how immature I sound when I say it like that. Everyone eventually has to man up and take responsibility for their life. I just wish it was later than sooner, you know? So often in the past I've just relinquished control and gone with the 'easy' option. I don't take the risks. Take my boring, unfulfilling job as an example. The only reason I haven't quit already is the fact that it's easy, undemanding, and I'm too scared/lazy to quit and find something new.

I'm trying. I'm trying. Please, bear with me here. Life seems new and exciting right now.

In a couple days I'll be spending almost a week in a small town, at Rhiannon's parents' house in Flin Flon (Denare Beach, actually). I'm kinda nervous! I keep thinking that her parents have all these expectations for her boyfriend to step up to. These are cloudy thoughts I need to remove.

Anyways, I feel calmer about a lot of things since I've committed them to type. As long as I don't let the world overwhelm me I'll be fine.
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Plans. [Jul. 21st, 2008|02:56 am]
I picked up another book on theoretical physics, this time something that elaborates on parallel universes called, aptly, Parallel Universes. It's at work right now. I haven't had a chance to look through it, as Corey is digesting it currently (he says it's ridiculous, but interesting) and I have a different book which I purchased at the same time. The book I'm reading at the moment is on the teachings of Zen. It's easy to read and understand, but ultimately, my skeptical self is rolling its eyes and in practice it would seem difficult. The first step, I guess, is to admit that I am a flawed human like everyone else.

I'm already a pensive person, but this stuff goes deeper, to the point where I'm often left just stunned. As I think about myself, I see a lot of ugly things going on. I get insecure about a lot of things, defensive, often to the degree where I intentionally hurt other people, the ones close to me. I am greedy with my time, obsessing over it, always WANTING more of it.

Dammit, Evan, when you lay out your flaws I can't help but dwell on mine. :P

I need to turn all of this negative energy towards something positive. I need to let go of shitty memories, of old friends and past romances. Like, I'm worried that I'm falling into old routines, ones that lead to failure, when I should be rejoicing in something new. This is an adventure right? Something new that I wake up every morning happy.

hmm.

Somehow I was gonna write a post about all the things I had planned for the future but it turned into a post on self reflection. I need to sleep. I'll write something more coherent tomorrow, I guess this will be a placeholder.
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over bored and self assured [Jul. 15th, 2008|01:58 pm]
My diet lately has consisted solely of pitas and energy drinks. I sleep six hours a night, with the occasional eight, wake up tired and dazed. There's this persistent stress that tries to keep me in bed and then the anxiety that ultimately pulls me out. You'd think they were the same side of the coin but whereas stress keeps me still like a deer in headlights, anxiety keeps me alert and moving. I find it difficult to relax lately. Why is that.

I'm terrible with deadlines. Throughout university I was always handing assignments in late, skipping classes for awful reasons (DoDonPachi, really?) and missing important meetings. I agreed to help a friend out by painting 'something' on two 2x8 foot boards he's attaching to his truck. Something like a 'Student with a Truck' business. He dropped the boards off on Weds last week and I promised to have it completed by Saturday. It's already almost a week now and I'm not even half done.

I wasn't really sure what he wanted. Something 'eye catching' and 'graffiti style'. I think he overestimates my abilities since he originally wanted to pick me up, drive me to his house, and then just paint there for a couple hours til I finished. Of course, art art art art, I'm stressing out and nit picking over every little detail. I figure, if I can't have absolute control over my life then at least I will prevail in this arena where I am in complete control.

So, I run downtown this afternoon to pick up some yellow spraypaint. I usually get this stuff from the skateshop down the street, Dunas, but they're pretty much out of every color I wanted. Someone working there suggested I go downtown to Undergrind, where they have a huger selection of 'graff spraypaint' colors. Shawn said he'd reimburse me for the paint I used if I saved all the receipts. I find the exact yellow I wanted and go to pay for it. He just tells me how much and I hand him some bills. Then when I ask him for a receipt he just looks at me with a 'uhh, seriously?' kinda look before he scribbles on a notepad receipt and hands me the slip. hahah. What ever happened to kids shoplifting paint.

I'll try to post pictures when I finish this, which I will start soon, with a hardcore painting session in the park.
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The Weekend in Review [Jun. 30th, 2008|01:34 am]
The weekend began frustratingly enough. I had Corey cover me for a couple of hours so I could do a draft at the Lane friday night. My pile was much to slow to compete and I got tooled by Jesse and John. I never wanna sit next to Remus again, as he was both slow and retarded, ruining my deck by hate drafting two cards that woulda been awesome in my deck. Rusaw wasn't faring much better either, as he lost most of his matches as well. The only highlight of that night was playing Leighton in the last round, beating him handily, and then seeing him rip his hand in half in anger.

Then I worked til four in the morning, came home feeling sorta sick and woke up completely miserable. Saturday I bummed around the house, walked downtown and back, then spent the night in bed, trying to recover with a lot of warm green ginger tea. Mostly uneventful, but really, disappointing, since I had a few plans and was actually excited to have a Saturday night off. But of course, the sickness just made me feel miserable all day/night.

Sunday I woke up feeling much better. The staff party was this afternoon and I was sorta on the fence this morning. After a hot shower, I decided that I was fit enough to go out to the lake. It was a good day. I spent the majority of it with Rhiannon, just laying in the sun. We drank quite a bit, much against my better judgement. I mean, I'm trying to get well, right. Anyways, the night winds down with a bunch of us hanging out at Jane's. I woulda drank more, but my head was kinda swimming at that point. Me and Rhiannon walked back to my apartment, twenty minutes away, and we kinda laid around.

It's not that I'm bored, it's just that I feel like I have a lot of energy but there's nothing I can really do outside other than go for a run. I woulda invited Cheap over tonight, but I didn't feel like being a host at all. I dusted off my xbox an hour ago, to play some Killer Instinct on the emulator. It wasn't very fun, not as fun as I remembered it. After playing the Marvel Vs. games, regular fighting games just feel sluggish and unresponsive, even though Killer Instinct was THE game that started the ridiculous combo/juggles. But it seems the older I get the less 'retro' gaming I'm up for. Maybe because we begin to value our free time more and more as we find life's responsibilities piling up? Maybe. There's an entire stack of awesome games I wanna play that I just can't find the time for, such as FinalFantasy Tactics A2, The World Ends with You, Soul Bubbles, etc.

Hmm. That was a lengthy digression.

Anyways, my adventures in gaming deserve its own post, something else to throw on my to do list.
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This is for all my friends out there. [Jun. 29th, 2008|02:00 am]
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[Jun. 26th, 2008|10:25 am]
My life is surreal at times. Take right now, for instance. It's barely ten thirty in the morning, I haven't even been awake for longer than half an hour. I'm lurking on facebook. Recently, someone I barely remember from high school facebook friended me, and through her contacts/friends I added several other people whom I graduated with. Then it dawned on me, the fact that I haven't been in high school in SIX years. Six years.

I'm looking at all these profiles and I'm seeing all the things they've accomplished and all the ways they've changed in those allotted six years. Then I take a step back and look at all the things around me. Did it really take six years to get this far? I don't feel like I've gone that far at all, really.

Some days (like today) I feel like I'm living four or five years behind everyone else. Here I am, working at Pita Pit, playing Magic still, goofing around, doodling, slacking, building toys, running from responsibility. This all seems like the life of a twenty year old, not so much a twenty four year old. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm unhappy or depressed. I'm actually really really happy about specific aspects and obviously there'll be the ones that I'm less enthused about.

I wanna get into details and I sorta don't.

Some people live their life like they're on a mission. Is it coincidence that when I hear about, or read about these people, that they are successful? But really, maybe it's the fact that I'm reading about them in the first place that makes them seem that way. Did that make any sense? Like, I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who are really focused and good at what they do (I'm thinking of art here, as an example, but feel free to sub in whatever your dream is) and they aren't known/recognized yet simply because they've just had bad luck.

When I was younger I had different ideas of what life would be like all grown up. At one point, I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but I had poor timing and I felt dragged down by my physical self. As time went by, my list of goals became narrower. Maybe I've become more realistic, or maybe I've given up on a lot of things. Now it feels as if I'm standing on the precipice, desperately clinging onto anything before I am literally thrown off the cliff into the unknown.
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Two days of doing stuff. [Jun. 23rd, 2008|11:39 am]
Because Alex is so fond of To Do Lists, here is mine. I have today and tomorrow off from work, so, weather permitting, I'll try to get as much of these done as possible:

-Type out a to do list
-Finish laundry
-Do the dishes
-Clean my room entirely

-Trade with people to finish my cube deck
-Run to ToysRUs to pick up Guitar Hero
-Finish reading a good portion of McCarthy's The Road
-Pick up a paper and start looking for possible new living arrangements
-Finish downloading Seinfeld episodes
-Convert all the videos to mp4s

-Half hour of weights, half hour running
-Go see the Hulk again
-Pick up a book on chess from Westgate books
-Maybe pick up some allergy medication from Shoppers, if this gets any worse

Actually, I can't think of anything else I need/want to do. I find that half of these things on the list aren't so much chores as just stuff to do. I'm sure there's more I need to do... but hmmmm. I'll update the list later tonight.
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[Jun. 19th, 2008|01:06 am]
What are you holding out for?
What's always in the way?
Why so damn absent minded?
Why so scared?


So, I guess our relationship is 'long term' now. Six months is a pretty long time, much longer than any previous relationship. I feel really good about this. There's a solid foundation and she's incredibly dependable especially when I really need someone there. I would say that I still have commitment issues, and maybe, I always will.

Did you know Brenna from rez just got married? I didn't know either, not until I was randomly trolling facebook, because I'm bored. Isn't that insane? Married! Even thinking about that makes me really uncomfortable, thinking about the future, if I'd ever ask Rhiannon to marry me. I know that the next step is prolly her moving in, which wouldn't be so bad because she practically lives here anyway.

Today was really stressful, for only a few particular reasons. I've had nightmares over the student loans looming over my head. I got the letter in the mail today, asking me to send in proof of how much I'm making. I texted my boss' boss asking for last month's pay stubs, but she was kinda like 'I give em to you every pay period with your cheque. You should have saved them', which was sorta like a no. Then that got me super stressed out, worrying that I couldn't get my loans processed if my boss didn't gimme copies :S

Of course, there's the whole messy apartment, shitty boring job (where no one is assertive enough to come out and tell me if I'm doing a shitty job, i gotta hear it from everyone other than management), moving out into a house for the rest of the year, dealing with my failing FAILING health, and then, of course, I'm worrying about school next year. I'm thinking that I wanna register for art classes in the fall, but there's the issue of how I'm gonna budget the costs, which I plan on taking on myself without financial aid. Then there's how I'm gonna juggle a full time job and full time studies.

Of course, on my day off I had to worry about all of these, at once :S

Well. There are things that keep me in good spirits. Although I am currently 'wasting' my time, I do have a lot of potential stored up. I have a brand new nine times board setup that i haven't had a chance to ride yet (did i mention that it rained all last week?) and there's still more sunny afternoons to go longboarding. I have brand new running shoes, and when I start to feel better, I'll be back on my diet and work out schedule. I wanna try to gain about twenty pounds, through eating healthy, jogging each morning, and then weight training each night. I have about three books I'm currently reading.

I dunno. Rhiannon is sleeping in my bed right now, and like, everything is pretty good when I think about it.
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ARGHHH, FUCK YOU MTGO [Jun. 10th, 2008|01:38 pm]
I had some sexytime with Rhiannon this morning, so it was looking like a good start to the day. Then I got dressed, loaded up the new version of mtgo, and bought a couple packs to check it out.

...

Not only was it the most frustrating experience ever, it also ate up two hours of my time. The interface is poor, the game crashed three times, and there's a problem with the memory usage wherein the program eats up all my available ram. This equals slow, shitty gaming experience.

Anyways, it got to the point where I almost threw my keyboard across the room in frustration. A quick google search revealed that there were others who were having the same difficulties. Maybe it's for the better. I'm the kinda player who is super competitive. I didn't wanna give up, especially to such low ranked players, even though the program was literally crawling causing me to make simple-to-avoid game mistakes. If mtgo was a perfect game I could see myself becoming addicted again, a bad time to start since there's so much going on right now.

Well. I don't think I'll ever play it again, not until they fix all the things that bother me.

I picked up a shift at work, so I only have a few hours before I'm back to the grind. So disappointing, wasting what precious little time I have on such a stupid game.
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Dave Wrong and the Curious Gathering of Friends [Jun. 8th, 2008|07:41 pm]
Obligatory shout-out: Evan McCoy recently turned the age of twenty two. Friends and well-wishers gathered on Saturday night (as well as the previous Tuesday, his quote-un-quote actual birthday) to celebrate a night of drunken debauchery and ne'er'do'wellin'. Much drinking and carousing, though, curiously absent was Matt Slind and his entourage. I mean, busty entourage. haha.

I discussed at length today the details of last night's outing, so, as to not place myself in a contradicting position, this post will entail the official last word on the events that transpired. Those of faint of heart, let this be a final warning because what you will hear next will chill the warmest hearts and moisten the driest crevices.

It's funny. Funny how something that has happened twiiiiccceee in succession can automatically become 'tradition'. For this is what Evan has considered his obligatory birthday celebration, more specifically, certain details have now become 'tradition'. For example, Evan thinks that it is tradition that I invite bodies to my apartment, drink, and then parade around Broadway in a drunken stupor. The last two years/summers have become epic, almost legendary in their own right. Unfortunately, Tony has been absent both occasions, but, gripping my forty (or equivalent) in hand, he is almost there in spirit if not in body.

Anyways, never one to disappoint (haha), I hastily threw together components (each on their own, quite ridiculous anyways) into one SUPER ridiculous concoction. The players included: Evan the boy wonder, Cat and her cock-on-a-leash Kenton, my signig other Rhiannon 'the Rhino' Rhino, Tim and his beautiful entourage Mark and pretty boy James aka Jimbo, Patrick the Starfish, Christian..., and of course, our favorite 30year-old-metis-in-residence Curtis. Oh, and obviously Cheap was there. haha

I don't have the time, nor the tenacity, or even the diligence to cover EVERY detail in..uh, detail, but allow me to highlight the night's events in point form. Let's begin with part one: Dave's Apartment.

Part One: Dave's Apartment

-Me and Rhino each bought a twenty six between the walk home from work Saturday afternoon. I poured myself a healthy drink at around five thirtyish. At this point it is important to note that I had fixed myself a TASTY leftover kentucky fried chicken sammich. (prepared with the obligatory delicious Hellman's mayonnaise, spread with love).

-Evan and crew come over and then immediately leave to the liqour store, around ohhhh eight thirty. Tim purchases and subsequently enjoys an entire 1.5 litre bottle of Baby Duck wine. This will play an important role in the next few hours, as he of course gets to 're-enjoy' the consumed Baby Duck. His friends are lovable dorks and while they are away, me Rhino and Cat stay back to play a short drinking game, one that involves me losing and getting super fucking drunk.

-It's not even ten oclock yet, but I am so drunk that I:
...stumble to Seven Eleven, eat a corndog that kenton pays for, soaked in mustard and ketchup, that i dont even recall eating. however, I do leave proof on my shirt, as I'm wearing a fifty dollar shirt and fifty dollar tie that now has mustard stains.
...fall down with half a dress shirt on as I change out of my mustardy clothes. Rhiannon has to help me button it up.
...spill my beer all over the table, which has my ipod on it. With the kindness of my houseguests, disaster was averted and my ipod still works.
...fall over in my hallway, in turn destroying my hallway closet door.
...don't remember any of this at all.

-What is this? My birthday? I failed to mention that it was also 'tradition' that I be the drunkest on Evan's birthday.

Around ten oclock, against my will, the crew minus Patrick and Christian, head over to Broadway to ruin drinking establishments with our iron wills. Thus, I introduce you to the second part

Part Two: Broadway or
Evan McCoy and the Search for Pussy

-First stop was the Yard and Flagon. I'm not sure what was going on, as my memory is really really fuzzy at this moment. I think everyone was inside trying to get a seat (it was super busy up in therr) and me Cat and Rhiannon leave for Lydia's

-Lydias was host to Dr.J, a local DJ that (I think) Christian raves about. (haha, there's a pun in there). It was super dead in there, think the opposite of the Yard. Rhiannon graciously pays our covers, which we will soon learn is fifteen dollars wasted. Evan and Co. find us and Evan is really really drunk and acting super outrageously upset at us for both leaving the others (although, to be fair, Rhiannon said she told at least three people where we were heading) and then making him come to Lyds where it was dry as a vagina. This will be foreshadowing for the rest of the evening.

-As some of us were waiting outside, Tim came outta Lyd's, walked down the stairs. When I went to pat him on the back, he, as if on cue, immediately threw up all the Baby Duck that he had spent so much effort consuming. It was a horrible horrible waterfall of digestive juices and cheap wine. For good measure he threw up once more before we left for our third destination...

-Next destination, the Hose and Hydrant, which if you've never been can be adequately described as 'three floors of sweaty throbbing throngs of chotches and their counterpart, the ho-bags'. Seriously, it was fucking tight up in therr, as it was barely eleven oclock and crowds were forming outside. Anyways,

-we dance (we being me, Rhiannon, Cat, Kenton, and Evan) like such huge retards that one of the staff came up to us and was like "you guys are gonna have to tone it down or we're gonna have to ask you to leave" hahah. Like, me using the word 'dancing' to describe what we were doing is me being very generous. In actuality, we looked like giant retards, hopping up and down to music that only existed for us. Highlights of this highlight include:
...Evan trying, unsuccessfully, to dance with bitches, in hopes of possible grinding and/or groping. The bitches were fucking stone cold receptive and dashed Evan's little boat of unbridled libido against the rocks of cold hard ...non-sex. Kenton would throw Evan into seas of women, but to no avail, as they were rubber and he was glue. Even the Rhino tried to help him reach the golden plateau by 'faux dancing' with girls. Alas.
...they played a techno remix of 'Jump Around' by House of Pain. Of course we all jump, jump, jump, jump, jumped.
...by the end we were all sweaty meatsacks. Rhiannon's hair looked ridiculous. There was a car parked in front of the Hose and we all sorta sprawled against it, leeching it's coolness into our sweaty sweaty bodies.
...Evan was fed shots and shots from Tim and his two friends. This made him really horny and he was becoming a little upset that he had not touched a breast yet.
...Outside we all leaned against this little picket fence that was across the street. Everyone had their head down and it was like "Man, I'm gonna puke. I'm so close to puking. If someone else pukes, I'm sooo gonna puke too." haha. That about sums up the conversation.

-We stumbled back to Lydia's, where it was actually pretty awesome and full by this point in the night. I went in, but no one else really wanted to come in, even though we had each paid five dollars for cover. Kenton was making out with Cat outside and like, I sat next to this blobbish woman on a bench who was yelling at them (because they were making out and obviously no one wanted to make out with pudding monster). I was yelling with her, too, because I was super drunk. haha.

-Some drunk kid yelled at Curtis, something to the effect of '...get this colored guy the fuck outta here'. And when Curtis turned around, the kid SPIT on him. ...
Cheap was upset, I was reeling from what happened, and Curtis kinda turned around and started walking away. Cheap stood there, really intense like, and the kid THREW HIS BEER AT CHEAP. It kinda glanced offa cheaps chest and sprayed the ground beneath them. Hmm, like, eventually, after a really tense few minutes, onlookers convinced both partys to just 'walk away, man, everyones just drunk'.
"Fuck. If that fucker spit on me, I woulda fucking knocked him out." - Cheap, showing more emotion than I've seen from him in a long time

-I bought a delicious slurpee, that was blue, raspberry, and limeish on top. Tim and Co. were heading to Bud's but the rest of hte party retired to my house, leading to

Part three: Dave's Apartment (Again), the Ruining

-Evan demanded sustenance, in the form of pizza. Eventually, Cheap acquiesced and purchased two XLs from TJ's pizza. Apparently, Evan was the one who did the ordering over the phone and he just asked for 'two pizzas', and then they gave us two XLs. Like, no one was really hungry cept for those two, so it was kinda funny. I didn't even get a piece. (in more ways than one). Sigh.

-Evan crawled to the bathroom before the pizza arrived. I peeked in there a few minutes later, and he was laying on a towel, on the floor in front of the toilet. haha.

-Kat and Kenton (aka, KnK Wrecking Krew) went home, Cheap took his awesome self home as well, Evan was left to the bathroom, and Curtis to his own devices. Me and Rhiannon passed out in my bed fully dressed

-The walk back to my place, Evan was so outraged that he was going home pussy'less, that he was (allegedly) kicking hard surfaces, kicking and punching cars in our parking lot, and swearing 'Fuck, this is the worst night ever'. Some dude on a balcony in our apartment complex told Evan to relax or whatever, to which Evan duly replied, 'Fuck you! I'm gonna come up there and FUCKING KILL YOU!'
*I say allegedly because this is scene recollected by Kenton and Cat, since me and Rhiannon were still on Broadway until maybe twenty minutes later

Well. Upon waking this morning, at eight ay em, Evan was quizzed 'how was your night' and he was reported as responding 'it was alright'. So, there you have it, the man had an alright birthday, one that I would have to agree, yes I do.

I've been typing for almost an hour now.

Whew. This is all I can/will say about the ridiculous that is Evan McCoy's Birthday Bash, or, more appropriately titled 'Party Boy and the Quest for the Elusive Drunken Pink Clammis' (Shit! That just gave me an awseome nickname for Matt's girlfriend, Cammi = "Clammi" hahahah)

Speaking of Matt, I will end this post with a sorta funny, sorta sad, sorta wtf story. Okay, so first, I get a call from Matt in the afternoon where he was like, 'wtf, dave. How come Evan invited you and your girlfriend, but me and Cammi (my girlfriend) can't both come? Why do you get to bring Rhiannon???' I was like, man, who cares, you're both invited since it's my house. Of course, Matt doesn't show up and then I get a stupid facebook message teh next day from teh guy, saying somethign to the effect of: you called my girlfriend stupid, watch what you say. But he ended it with, and I quote "I'm 26 years old, not 22. Remember that next time." What the hell did he mean by this? Rhiannon thinks it's him telling me that he's more mature than me, but then I thought, maybe this is a threat? I dunno.

So, to sum it up, Matt is being a weirdo, simply because he wasn't so fucking defensive when he was single. And like, I have nothing against him or his girlfriend, it was just awkward the first time we all met because he was saying weird shit (as usual) and it was drawn out, quiet, and conversationally fucking awkward. Matt, if you're reading this, just relax man. I'm kidding.

(oh, and 'Im not 22'? Your girlfriend is twenty, what the fuck are you implying, even?)
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[May. 31st, 2008|01:34 pm]
Sleeping on the floor really sucks. I've already decided on what I'll be doing on my first day back, and that is having a really sweet nap in my full sized bed (hopefully) with Rhiannon. Of course, really, it'll be technically me 'holding her until she falls asleep', but I always fall asleep first. Funny things like that happen that way.

I was looking at a pictures of tattoos and I sorta realized that I could never really get a tattoo since whenever I'm faced with actual decision I sorta freeze and go with the popular opinion or 'experts' opinion. Something as permament as a tattoo would be difficult for me to 'always like', much less multiple tattoos. But I think that this kind of indecision I need to overcome in order to accept responsibility. Err, what I'm trying to say is, maybe I need to start making real definite decisions in order to fully accept responsibility as a young adult.

Where will you be next year? Are you happy being this for the rest of your life? I figure I'm young and that what I need is to just relax. Just relax. Relax.

Maybe I could relax if I wasn't sleeping for mere hours a night on a floor. haha.
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[May. 30th, 2008|11:19 pm]
In some ways, I see myself as a failure. Like, it doesn't help your self esteem to compare yourself to your peers, because really, when I do, it doesn't seem like I've accrued that many accomplishments. Like, Katy Brown is almost my age and she has her own house and a live in boyfriend. Then, I visited my friend June Ann here in Moose Jaw and she's living in her own house, married, and has a nice car and a good job. And finally, Kenton fucking Reed is married, to a fucking foreigner no less, and he writes more well than me.

Hmm. I feel pathetic. What are you doing right now, Dave, what are you doing? You really wanna know? I'm at this computer eating KFC chicken soaked in KFC gravy, because it's delicious. God.

Sure, some people bring up such things as 'At least you finished University' or, 'Damn, he keeps himself in good shape'. But to what end are these really 'accomplishments'?

I just feel down on myself tonight because I've spent the last two days here in Moose Jaw revisiting old haunts. And even though I've gone far 'geographically', it doesn't seem like I've grown much as an individual. I still feel the same inside. (Did you know that every cell in your body dies and is replaced at least every seven years?)

But don't get me wrong, there's a lot of things in my life right now that I really appreciate. I have a girlfriend that I really like, even on weekends. Wait, I mean, especially on weekends. My boss is pretty cool at work, I even drink with him sometimes. I just bought two pairs of cargo shorts, both my legs are in functional shape, I'm smarter than a lot of people I know, and sometimes I just 'get it' when others don't.

'At least you can build gundams fairly well.'

In awesome news, today I found/made a Requiem for a Dream ringtone. It's epic whenever someone calls me, as if by not picking up the phone my life will spiral into a urine soaked oblivion. Fuck, even my analogies suck, compared to Roenspies. Damn you, why did you steal the best part of me.
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Everything must go. [May. 30th, 2008|02:25 am]
There was a transfer from buses about three quarters of the way to Moose Jaw. We stopped at this shitty highway town and since I was the only one not going to Regina from Saskatoon, the bus driver failed to mention that I had to switch buses. If I hadn't had gone out during the five minute break to stretch my legs, I woulda likely ended up in Regina. It was nice though, being the only one on the bus for about forty minutes. I read about philosophy for awhile.

I came 'home' and made a leftover chicken sandwich. Me and my brother skated across the bridge, to 'South Hill' tonight where we used to live. Everything is different, the high school, the elementary school, our old house, new gas stations, running into old faces. The trip was longer than I remembered.

There's a few things that are disheartening though. The local game/comic store is in shambles. It's so bad here, the mtg scene, that instead of weekly drafts Friday nights, they are driving to Regina FNM instead. I got an awkward invitation, but I prolly won't go, as much as I wanted to draft. I'm pretty broke. There's a twenty dollar bill in my pocket and I'm gonna try to keep it there until Sunday.

The longer I stay here, the longer I'm missing Saskatoon already. It's two thirty in the morning and there's nothing to do or go outside. I guess there's the tim hortons, but it's not as fun going by myself. I'm not particularly looking forward to the weekend. I don't know very many people here and I wouldn't go to the bars by myself. My brother has his own set of friends and issues with his on again off again girlfriend, too busy to accomodate me in his plans. I don't blame him really, I sorta had my own thing going at his age.

One plus is, it's really quiet out here. I don't feel rushed, or disturbed. When I go to sleep I won't have to worry about getting up early to run errands or do dishes. I plan on just skating more this weekend, until my legs are too exhausted and then I'll sit in the shade and read or draw. It's gonna be wonderful.

I'm not very good at goodbyes. I'm sorry. I can't sleep right now, for what it's worth. This is something I had to do alone, but after these few days here I don't think there's anywhere else that I would wanna go without you. I'll book that week off and we'll share some quiet time together.
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[May. 27th, 2008|01:29 am]
I dunno. I'm an idiot sometimes.

I dunno.

I let her consume me entirely sometimes, and it's always been worth it. Sometimes I don't feel adequate, and sometimes I make her feel less adequate and for all those times I sincerely feel bad. Bad isn't the best word, I feel my vocabulary is slipping and I'm at a loss to find a better word.

You reach that stage where you start taking things you love for granted. I need to just re align myself. Maybe all it takes is a box of memories, of the things you have done and would do for her again. Every week I feel like I need to take two steps back and evaluate myself. It can burn me out some days, but again, for her it's worth it.

When I study my past (/failed) relationships, I try to figure out where it all went downhill. Maybe I never tried hard enough. God knows that I was a huge prick most of the time. Or maybe they woulda all self destructed no matter how much effort I poured in.

I dunno. I've been feeling so much anxiety and worry lately, I dunno where to attribute the root cause, I'm stumbling around, I dunno where to start 'fixing' my life.

I'm leaving for Moose Jaw in a few days. I plan on spending my days hanging out with my brother, skateboarding, drawing, writing, reading, sitting in the city park, reading magazines in the library. I'm gonna visit my old house, my old friends' old houses, the high school and the elementary school. It's a real Citizen Kane occasion. Im packing a few essentials: longboard, physics books, sketchbook, my DS and my ipod.
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One day off every two weeks it seems. [May. 23rd, 2008|01:59 am]
I woke up at eleven twenty this morning. Ten minutes were spent laying in bed, half asleep still while I contemplate my day. After a quick shower and dress, it's already twelve thirty. It's my day off today. My last day off was last week, Tuesday. I spend far too long at my computer, watching episodes of Hell's Kitchen on YouTube, fixing my DS flashcart, downloading NeoGeo games and then making spaghetti for dinner.

By one thirty I'm out the door. I longboard cross eighth street, to Pita Pit, where I pick up my paycheck. I left a hastily scribbled 'to do list' on my desk at home. The weather is beautiful. I'm sitting outside on my board, for maybe ten minutes, texting Rhiannon. I tell her how boring my day is and how I feel like I'm just waiting for her to get off of work.

It takes me twenty minutes to get downtown, to the bus station, even though I take the long way. I can't help but think that the majority of my time is spent on the journey and not so much on the destination. Rhiannon tells me later that night that I'm a really high strung person who's really restless. It's true. I have trouble relaxing for some reason.

The bus ticket only costs me sixty six dollars. I lied and showed her my defunct student card to receive a discount. It's crowded downtown. At this point it is almost three oclock. I pay a three month overdue internet bill at the Sasktel store. The bank is next door, where I deposit my paycheck. I withdraw eighty dollars.

Rhiannon is working, but she still has an hour and a half before she gets off work. It's busy in there and I feel like I'm sort of a hindrance. But she tells me that she's happy I visited. I decline a free smoothie. Instead, I have a pita downtown, stopping in for a visit as well. There's some surprising news, but this post isn't worthy of a forum. It's great. You'll all know eventually and it becomes a highlight.

I pore over a wall of used Science type books at the old bookstore downtown. After half an hour I settle on a book on time (About Time) and a cosmology book by Carl Sagan (Billions and Billions). The storekeeper tells me a story about how a guy had come in some time before and he had an old book written by Albert Einstein, signed as well. They had looked up the value and it was worth about ten thousand dollars. He talks with so much enthusiasm that it drains mine. I'm confused because I don't know how a book could become so valuable.

They keep Rolling Stone magazines in the library now. I sit and read for half an hour, until it's almost five oclock. I pick up Rhiannon and we walk back to our apartments together. I sort of upset her by saying a few dumb things. I'm sorry. I want to say that nothing could ruin such a beautiful day, but obviously I could (ruin a beautiful day).

The bridge is one of the best parts. We stop occasionally. I need the time to soak it (her) all in.

Rhiannon is hungry and I offer to make dinner together because I want to spend the time together. It's almost seven oclock. We pick up steaks and shrimp at the Bulk Cheese butchershop. We get a few other things at the market before we head back to my apartment. Dinner went well. I tried hard to cook four things at once and carefully time each pan in order to have the meal finish cooking all at once. The shrimp was a little overdone but I think it turned out wonderful.

It's eight thirty, almost nine, I think. Me and Rhiannon lay in bed and just kinda hold each other until i (allegedly) fell asleep first. When I wake up, she is still dead asleep. I watch two more episodes of Hell's Kitchen before Rhiannon wakes up. There doesn't seem to be anythign to do. She's not feeling well and I suggest we go for a walk. I order two donuts and a green tea and Rhiannon has an apple juice at the Tim Hortons down the street from us.

We talk for awhile. It's nice to just share these quiet nights together.

It's almost one in the morning by the time we get home. She's still not feeling up to par, and retires to bed. She works at nine tomorrow morning, it's understandable.

I waste more time on YouTube. I finish out the season, even though I already knew who wins.

I just downloaded seven or eight new albums. I'll have time to listen to them all when I'm spending some time in Moose Jaw next weekend. I booked off four days, Thursday to Sunday. I want to explain why I feel like I need to 'take a break'. Take a break from what, you ask. I'm not sure entirely myself.

Rhiannon is sleeping. I feel bad when I can't join her. I wanted to write something, anything, on Livejournal, and it looks like I had a really full day when it's written down. Was this an average day off? Let's recap. I got some errands down. Paid some bills. Bought a couple of interesting books. Talked to a number of different people. Picked up my girlfriend from work. Made dinner together. Laid together and subsequently fell asleep holding her. Had coffee sort of. I'm not sure how to quantify any 'progress' made today.

I realize I am looking at it with the wrong perspective. Maybe you can't or shouldn't try to quantify your days. This is good 'therapy', I'm starting to get tired.
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Weekend Update [May. 18th, 2008|11:06 pm]
[music |Rhiannon's gentle sleeping sounds]

It's the long weekend, but since I worked Friday night and Saturday day, and had to get up early to open the store this morning, it hardly feels long enough. It's not like I had any plans really. I was hoping to capitalize on the beautiful weather, maybe reading a book outside or going for a walk with a friend, or even just sidewalk cruising on the longboard. Unfortunately, I don't think I did many of these things. But, if it is any consolation, it was a really productive and busy weekend regardless. Lemme elaborate.

I'll try to get the geek stuff outta the way. I thought Friday Night Magic this week was Shadowmoor draft. That was half the reason for an appearance, the other half was the fact that Jon was gonna lend me his old Razr for a week, until I can run out my contract and get a new phone. But like, he shows up and forgets to bring it, so I'm a little bummed out. As well, it was Two Headed Giant Sealed and not draft. I didn't have a partner, so I agreed to join forces with my weekly mtg nemesis, Shae. All in all, we open a decent card pool. We destroyed our first round opponents quickly, and were poised to ruin our second round opponents, the formidable team of Rusaw and Jesse. On turn five we halve their lives, with us controlling five or so creatures to their board of absolutely nothing.

But then Jesse untaps and casts Godhead of Awe.

...

So, our team of beaters turned into a bunch of wimps. To make matters worse, Jesse casts this on the Godhead. Then we scoop a few turns later after not having found an answer. Sigh.

We win our final round, putting us in third place and due for prizes. It is here we approach the most frustrating part of the night. I know Aaron doesn't read my blog, but, seriously, for the love of all things good, don't let Andrew run any tournaments. Never. Ever. Like, Aaron, the store owner, was gone for the night, so he had his incompetent lackey, Andrew, run the FNM. But like every other time he's ran it, he's been a huge fuckup. Like, that night he gave the first place team TWO boosters for prizes and then he gave second place team ONE booster to split amongst themselves, then of course we get ONE booster as well. Like, for fucks sake, we each pay twenty dollars to enter, which is five dollars more than the cost of product. The Lane coulda at least given out four packs to first, then two to second and third place each. But of course, they have to be prize nazis.

Anyways. I worked that night and it was a super slow shift. I forgot my DS at home, so I had to entertain myself with...fuck, I don't even remember. I think I read... Reader's Digest? Uhh.

Saturday was sorta bunk, sorta fun. I haven't figured it out yet. I felt dizzy and rushed all day, mostly because since wakeup my entire day seemed already preplanned. Like, I had to work at two in the afternoon until seven. That meant getting up at noon, sitting for an hour, and then finding myself mad dashing to get shit together for my shift.

Rhiannon's parents are in town, again, for the weekend. I promised to come to dinner at their place at seven, which meant immediately after working all day. I was tired, but overall it was a good time. Maybe I was too exhausted to feel nervous, I dunno. We had bbq steak at Kenton's apartment. I opted to skip out on dessert, so I could lay down for awhile.

Tony's friend Eric from Ontario has been hitchhiking his way through the country with his girlfriend, en route to Vancouver. They've been in town since Weds, I think, and Tony suggested to him that he should not miss out meeting cool dudes like me and Corey. So, of course, there were plans made to hang out each night, but ultimately something would come up, be it work or poor coincidence preventing a proper hang out session.

I made plans earlier with Eric to hang out at my place Saturday night. The two of em showed up shortly after I got back from Rhiannon's. Patrick came through in a clutch and gave us rides to the liqour store, about ten minutes before they closed. Cheap came by later, we all gathered, (me, Cheap, Eric, his girlfriend Liz, Corey, and Evan McCoy) to play a game of Sociables. This time, we played with an interesting twist. Every time someone flipped over a king, each person at the table would have to tilt a small amount of whatever they were drinking into a 'master' cup. Then, whoever would flip over the fourth and final king, would have to chug the entire contents of the communal drink.

Yeah, like, epic climax ensues and the king comes to the absolute LAST CARD at the table. Liz is the unfortunate who flips the last card, after me and Eric narrowly dodge it. But she sorta flakes out and refuses to drink it. I thought that was sorta bunk, especially since it was so exciting of a conclusion to the game.

Soon, I found myself pretty drunk and ready to pass out. It's barely one oclock. Rhiannon gets home from a movie and there's a small crowd of us just milling around the living room being bored. Evan is really antsy and restless and I wanna keep everyone entertained, but I could barely focus my thoughts into coherent sentences. Corey is the first to volunteer an activity, that is, going to Pita Pit and getting something delicious to eat. I really wanted to go but then, I figured I don't think I was in any capacity to make food, or make it that far from the apartment.

Of course, I wake up at seven Sunday morning, still sorta drunk, definitely hungover and not really tired. Oh, yeah, and me and Rhiannon were completely naked, though I don't recall doing anything. Maybe she raped me. I dunno. I hope her parents aren't reading this. Well. Actually. Nothing went on, at least nothing I can recall.

I spend an hour or so at my computer, converting mp3s into ringtones for my new cell. Did I mention I got a new cell? It's sweet. At first, I didn't like my LG Shine, but the more I used it and fiddled with the settings, the more I just realized that it was simply a different UI I was used to from the Razr, not any worse. Sort of a funny story. I passed by the Sasktel Mobility store in the Market Mall as I was going to the washroom and I thought, hey, why not, I should try to get a new phone before my contract is up. Previous, I had visited the Mobility store on eighth street and then the other one in the Midtown Mall. Both places, the guys working there said that there was absolutely no fucking way that Sasktel or they would give me a phone on discount before my contract was up for renewal (in two weeks). The guy at Midtown was even sorta rude to me, not so subtly hinting that I should stop wasting his time if I wasn't gonna buy a new phone. Whatever.

Anyways, theres this girl working at the Mobility store at market mall. At first she is hesitant to help me out, but I guess I must've seemed desperate because she does me a favor and calls Sasktel, tellign them that I would be leaving the province for a couple weeks and needed a phone ASAP. This works, actually, and she gets me the phone I wanted, on discount. While she was processing the forms, she was generally being really chatty and possibly..flirting with me? Anyways, like, funny story, I go to leave and she says that if I didn't like the Shine that I had thirty days to return it for something else. Then she grabs her business card, crosses out the phone number on it, and then writes down her 'better' number for me. Hmm? hahaha. I told Rhiannon and she thought it was funny.

I think.

So now I have a phone again. It's been nice, being able to text people. In a strange (cruel?) twist of fate, Corey misplaced HIS cell phone last night. I hope he finds it because his phone (an LG chocolate) was infinitely better than my shitty razr.

Anyways. I finally get the program working, to put ringtones on my cell phone. I hastily throw together a cute Yeah Yeah Yeahs ringtone (maps) and then later this afternoon I spent another couple hours putting together some solid ringtones and message alerts. I was supposed to work from open til five, but it was sooooooo dead that I just left at one oclock to no one's protest.

Yeah, I think I kinda wasted my day. I wasn't up for dinner again with Rhiannon's parents, so I visited them for a short bit, enough to have dessert. Then I worked out for an hour, watched the movie 21, cleaned the apartment, and now it's midnight exactly and laundry is just finishing.

Would i say my weekend was produtive? I dunno. I got a lot of my art project done (well, it's always a work in progress so it's never done) on Friday. I got a lot of exercise, ate well, and even though I drank Saturday night, I still felt like I had the energy to do anything I wanted today.

So, this about sums up the weekend. I was gonna whine more about the shitty prizes/tournaments at the Lane, or maybe discuss more indepth about the various projects floating around in my head, or even talk a bit about my relationship.

Maybe later.
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[May. 12th, 2008|12:22 pm]
About two weeks ago, Tony moved to Ontario for the summer, leaving me in charge of a few of his possessions while he is away. This includes a tv, which I am thoroughly enjoying, and this giant flat screen monitor, which I am enjoying muchso more. Unfortunately, later that evening, when we were trying to install some extra ram into my computer, I accidentally knocked over an open bottle of windex, completely dousing my Nintendo DS which just happened to be on the floor for some reason. I left it alone for several days, hoping it would be fine after the liquid dissolved. When I turned it back on it seemed to be in working condition, except for obvious blotches offending both screens. I was fine with this, until several days later, when I tried to run a game that implemented touchscreen controls. At this point, I realize that the touchscreen was entirely unresponsive, thereby rendering the majority of my DS games unplayable.

So, I called Nintendo the following day and the rep was super nice. She gave me instructions on how to mail my DS, free of charge, and notified me that I would be receiving another DS in about three weeks. For the moment, it seems, fate has smiled upon me, and I'm making fine using Corey's DS.

But I must have poor luck with electronics, as early last week I managed to lose/break my phone. I was coming home from a day of work and stopped outside my apartment building to change a song on my ipod. Because I had my headphones on, I didn't hear my phone slide out of my pocket when I pulled out the ipod. Fast forward several hours later, and I'm backtracking from home to work and back again, looking for my phone. Just when I feel the search is futile, I come across a single PIECE of my phone right in front of my apartment, more specifically the battery cover from the back of the phone. It would appear that someone picked up the phone and just took it. I called it, obviously, but I kept receiving the 'This user is away from phone...' message.

I talked to the guy from the Sasktel Mobility place and they said that my contract was up for a new phone...on May 20th. So, my options were either I buy a shitty phone and use that for two weeks until I can upgrade to a better phone (the cheapest phone there costing around eighty dollars), buy a completely new phone...for four hundred dollars, or just wait two weeks being phoneless until the 20th when I can get an awesome phone. There was a chance that I could find someone who had an old unused Sasktel phone and then transfer my account to it, but I couldn't find anyone who had a spare phone. My brother did, and offered it to me a few weeks ago, but then I asked him about it and he said that he just sold it to someone. Bad luck, right.

It's been almost a full week since I've lost my phone. It's not like a lot of people wanna contact me anyways, so it doesn't feel like my social life, already at a low point, has dipped any lower. Though, I've been weaned on the luxury of having so much information at my fingertips, and I was more addicted to texting than I'd like to admit. But it's only one more week, and then I can get a new phone.

My life has felt strange, in ways that I don't know where to begin. There's the issue of Student Loans trying to contact me. They called me at the beginning of the month, and I told them to call back, which they never did, and now that I have no phone I feel.... free/absolved of that particular responsibility....only if temporary. In my mind, owing the Government money is analagous to owing the mafia money. I'm scared that large men in dark glasses are gonna be knocking on my door soon.

I'm finding more and more inspiration in everything I see. I am not sure if it is because the weather has picked up, or maybe because I've been working the same job for so long, but my artistic half is becoming restless. There are so many projects, most residing in my head atm, that I feel like I need to take a well deserved break from 'the rigors of everyday life' to just sort them all out. I wanna poorly hide my criticisms in crudely drawn comics, post these on the internet and have other people point out what kind of asshole I am. There's the issue of improving my writing by keeping up with this journal, maybe dust off my digital camera and take some pictures, I wanna do so much but I should walk before I start to run.

I want to train my mind as well as my body, this summer. I've already planted the seeds, taken the appropriate steps towards these goals. I eat, a lot, healthily. I manage to get in a daily regimen of weight training as well as some cardio. At work I've been digesting a lot of books, mostly concerning physics, metaphysics, and philosophy. Science is so interesting because it is things that are tested and 'real'. When I learn something about this world, it makes me feel like I've actually made intellectual progress. I can't wait to get my school/career worked out, so that I'm improving again.

I'm excited right now. There are so many things I am striving towards, I do feel like I have a lot of potential and all I need to do is point all this ambition in the right direction.
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[Apr. 26th, 2008|06:51 am]
It's almost seven in the morning, and I can't sleep. I paced about the apartment, sorted magic cards, rearranged the mess on my kitchen table into a different messy configuration. For some reason I feel contemplative, so much so that I've crawled in and outta bed three times already.

I do assholeish things and I am so moody that it can be hard to keep up with me at times. But she does, and I dunno how I can even properly appreciate her. Whatever that means. I become sad when I realize that there is only so many hours in a day and I can only spend so many of those with her.

She's laying in my bed right now, completely asleep, making soft noises, one foot dangling off the end of the bed. And she's here every morning, seemingly for me, and if there was any point to this post it's that I wanted it in writing, to confess how much I care for her. She puts up with so much of my I don't even know, and there's only a few people that would be here for me as much as she is. Some days I feel like I'm living a life I don't deserve. Then I wake up and start making pitas and it's like, shut up Dave. haha.

I got kicked out of the Copper Mug tonight, not even five minutes after me Rhiannon and Cheap showed up. I was really drunk, and you remember the rude waitress? The one that made Cat walk home to pick up her ID even though it was only five oclock and all we wanted was dinner? Yeah. She was serving the table that everyone was at (I failed to mention that it was Amy Kreger's going away to India party) and I loudly exclaimed to Rhiannon, "Hey, that's the waitress that was a real bitch to us last time." To which she responded, "You can get your drink from the bar."

Then two minutes later another waitress came up to me and said that I had to get outta the Copper Mug because I was 'starting shit' (?). I was really embarassed because not only was Kreger and Michelle there, but so was a few people that sorta knew me, like Scrub and Greg Dowdry's brother and SARAH EDWARDS. (All caps was totally necessary.) Mix in the fact that I had basically drank half a 26 by myself, I was super bummed out. The snow blowing in my face, my hands in my pockets, I tried to call Cat so I could tell her all about it, as I walked to Pita Pit. But you guys weren't home and I got Rhiannon's mother instead.

Awkward.

haha.

Awkward. I gotta go for dinner with them today!

I drunkenly made a pita. Which sucked by the way. Both the making of and the consuming thereafter. Extremely emotional still, I went to the back and just screamed in the alley. Like out of an Adam Sandler movie. Then I spent seven dollars at Seven Eleven, walked home with Rhiannon, drank two sips outta my energy drink, watched almost a full episode of the Office, passed out on the couch, talked to Michelle briefly on the phone. I think she wanted me to come back out but I was so outta it, there was no way I could make it to my bedroom much less the Colonial (ohmygod, four blocks from my house in THIS weather?).

So, I would give last night a rating of... bunk. Certainly much less satisfying than your night was. I had hype hype hyped myself up to the fact that, yes, I was gonna be fun and drunk and pull ridiculous shenanigans. But the only shenanigan I pulled was getting kicked outta the Mug (the fucking Mug!!) and then being a sad man full of dumb regrets.

Hmmm.

Fuck.

I can't believe that fucking waitress didn't get fired yet.
I console myself with fantasies of her coming into pita pit and all the ways I could be an asshole back.
I promised myself that I would never drink again. But really, I have half a 26 in my fridge. and a zest for life that is unquenchable.

Oh, and I got second at the draft tonight, losing to my nemesis, Ryan Rusaw who got hooked up with a MAD deck in his draft pod versus my semi ridiculous deck from my pod (full of pods). Then I opened the two packs I won and they were shitty rares.

BUT

To end on a good note, I love my new 'gundam' (it's actually a Super Robot Wars model kit, but isn't that more nerdy sounding??). It has huge shoulder mounted cannons, at least six inches of super ridiculousness, and then it came with a base so it's sorta bobbing back and forth at me as I'm typing this. In my head I'm imagining it agreeing with me, with all this bullshit I'm leaving on LJ, and somehow, like therapy, this is making me feel better. A little.
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Awesome. [Apr. 24th, 2008|11:00 pm]
Anything related to the following: robots/cyborgs, more specifically Gundam (modelling kits), Robocop, skateboards/longboards, Magic: the Gathering/MTGO, dice, stickers, the color pink, screeners/leaked albums, handmade art, handheld electronics (gaming or otherwise), roms/emulation, logo'less outerwear, t-shirts, the color brown, 'indie' comics, horror manga, MAGAZINES, thrift clothes, spider-man, mods, POSTERS, magic card accessories, Jesus, alcohol, e, monocolored shoes.

Do the things I like define who I am?
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[Apr. 12th, 2008|03:14 pm]
I've been feeling sick lately. Like, I'd wake up two or three times in the night simply because my breathing has become so labored. Perhaps maybe that's why I haven't been feeling in the best of moods. Yesterday, Friday, was a day off from work and technically speaking it was a pretty good day. I bought a brand new longboard from Escape. I only took it out this afternoon for about five minutes, but already I know that it'll be super fun to ride it to and from work. Then I played at a draft at the lane...which I won by the way.

Anyways, my point is, for some reason I felt like I had to drag myself everywhere. I never cracked jokes or smile really. It felt like I was working, running errands and such, when it was supposed to be a relaxing day off. Part of it, I guess, might be being at the mall alone part. I don't like shopping and I dislike it more when I'm by myself.

I'm really really excited about longboarding all summer, wearing shorts and sandals (which I hope to purchase today), drinking afternoon beers in the shade, going for midnight walks with my girlfriend, slacking off at work, drinking slurppees eating ice cream fooling around. It should be good.

Also, I've been spending a lot of mental energy thinking about new ways to bring together the Magic community in Saskatoon here, more specifically the casual crowd. I'm planning a series of fun tournaments at the Dragon's Den every weekend to hopefully get more people out. I really do think that the lack of a good community is not because it doesn't exist, but it's out there and you just need to exercise some effort to reach out.

There's a bunch of concerts I'm really excited about and there's days I'm excited about more to come.
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