first night


i just got my first camera earlier today, a canon powershot G2. i took many pictures tonight.

the power went out for about 3 or 4 hours today at around 1 PM due to a large wind storm. at 3 a.m., the bc hydro lines men were still repairing. looked like an awfully tough night for them!

shut up you [censored] baby

thanks to our collective swearing and cussing, we had enough money for some prizes last night. i got a bendy loopy straw! woohoo! pictured behind the fundable offences jar is rockin’ randy, a student from ACP who, in all probability, swore more than everyone else in the group combined. thank you randy!
so, about this title .. shut up you [censored] baby is the name of david cross’s new album. who is david cross you ask? i do not know, but the title of his album caught my eye in one of the onion’s top ten of 2002 album charts.
it’s really interesting that someone could sum up a year or so’s worth of creative work and theme it or sum it up with a phrase like “shut up you [censored] baby.” maybe he whines a lot. maybe he whines about other people whining. maybe he just kicks ass and thinks everyone should. we can all kick eachothers asses then. it would balance out, right?
in any case, i did a little reading up on it, and its supposed to be some sort of comedy about how most comedy is not funny. i was close! as trashy as it sounds, well, i want to hear it now. it is interesting that someone would pick this way to represent themselves. i think it’s one of those things that is good from far, but possibly far from good. if he thinks that making faggot jokes is funny, or that the formula for true hilarity lies within treading along the usual taboo subjects, then he’s a moron. but i guess i’ll have to hear it now to decide for myself. one thing is funny for certain – listen to the samples on the shut up you [censored] baby album page. haha!
from the subpop website:

To see such an outcast (you try growing up [as] a wiseass Yankee Jew in the deep south with nothing but sisters to get your back) talk so much negative [bleep] about people with so much venom, and to have it come out as a heart-warming example that we’re not alone and we all feel ostracized by virgin secretaries, is something only a huge [censored] faggot like David Cross could pull off. (Just kidding.) (About the fag part, I mean.)

the last day


that’s it. that was our last day at the victoria wave of the PowerSmart Youth Team for fall 2002. we cleaned up and cleaned out. click on the image above for the full 2.0 megapixel resolution.
tonight i hosted my very first party. i think it went well!
anyhow, i am falling asleep writing this so i think i’ll be calling it a night around now. good night everybody!

so what do you want to catch?


tomorrow is the last day of work for the victoria power smart youth team. woohoo! i am happy, yet i am sad. as any of my regular readers or any of my friends would know, i’ve really enjoyed this job and it really went by quickly. i had my post-employment interview today and that’s when it really felt like time had evaporated.
my endofterm party is tomorrow evening and i’ve barely begun to clean up. everybody seems to be moving or cleaning up, or both.

in other news, i finally figured out how to use the macro on the fuji cameras at work. i suppose this will be useful for next term in nanaimo! speaking of nanaimo, it seems apparent to me that i will be doing a lot of reading and working out and such up there. i mean, what else is there to do in nanaimo?

just another manic monday

so here it is, 8 am on monday morning. its going to be a long day for me, working here at bchydro this morning and then at hush tonight. yeehaw!
angie says: yaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwn
pretty much that’s how it’ll go today. we’ll probably find our own jobs to do, much of it probably involving cleaning up the mess we’ve made over the last few months. better done sooner than later.. like, friday afternoon when we all want to leave, yet we don’t, but we would if we had lots to do still.
angie nods her head solemnly as i type this.
it’s just so true.
dave’s words of wisdom for today: don’t play leapfrog with unicorns.
robin’s words of wisdom for today: don’t eat the yellow snow.
text.

do you work here?


tomorrow is my last week for the Phase 2 VI PSYT. so far there’s been a few good suggestions for what we should do and have on friday night. some of my coworkers have suggested i bring my turntables upstairs and mix for them. at first i was like “what?” i don’t want to be background music.. but i think they’re actually wanting me to do it, so that’s cool.
another interesting suggestion from julie is twister. haha ok this is something i can say i’ve never done before. i’ll see if anyone at work has The Stuff.
angie’s suggestion is a gift exchange, and something called the ‘egg nog dipping contest.’ haha, that sounds dirty. it isn’t.
i think.
it’s going to be a potluck, so there will be prizes for best dishes etc. plus we’ll get to eat all sortsa stuff! mmmm stuff.
last night i went to see The Seams. morgan from work is in the band and he plays bass for them. it was a good show. they describe themselves as country, but sort of tongue in cheek country. it’s in the lyrics. i would liken them to blue rodeo, so sort of prog country. if there is such a thing.
wednesday morgan is playing with his other band, mourning wood, at steamers. this should be an entertaining show as well!
that’s it for now. i am going to attempt to go swimming tonight.

exhibit a


i have decided to wait until boxing day to get a digital camera. i mean, being this close to boxing day, why not?
the picture above is of myself and angie. i hereby acknowledge the cheesiness of this picture. but it’s good cheese. i work with angie. this coming week is my last week working with her and everyone else. over the last couple months, we’ve become good pals (as displayed in Exhibit A) and i’ll be sad not to be working with her any more. so then, of course we’re going to have an end-of-work-term-party. all 27 of us. on friday i am hosting my first ever (non-birthday) party. so far, what i know i’ll need is this:

  • ghetto blaster
  • paper/cardboard plates
  • ghetto blaster. um, no, i already said that. oops!

obviously i have no idea what i am doing. got ideas? help.