Bohemian dreams

Yeah! Maria's here! Apparently she had a rough trip.

In other news, I'm reading a lot.

The First Movie IS NOT Batman Canon

A few quickies:

Batman Begins makes you appreciate so much how little George Clooney is in it. Especially on the IMAX screen. Went with the Mom who did the Motherly thing and footed the bill. A good movie, worth seeing without a doubt.

R2 is MIA. God help him, I'm searching, but... (there may be tears shed in the future).

Work got screwed to all hell. The other 'partner' showed up after her four month disappearence, and now is going to start working the insane hours that my boss does. Everyday, with no days off. As well as meaning I have another boss to be nice to, a coworker is gone and the remainings have been cut so drastically, that I think some others may quit. I like who I work with, but at this point I barely have enough pay to cover living. Not happy that I can't open ever again either. Yep, this bew boss of mine has SO made a good first impression on me.

Alicia's giggling in the background.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

'The Mom' is here. And the gathering storm on the horizen has retreated in fear, the apocaplypse must wait another day for 'she' has come.

Tee hee! What the hell is that? I'm so odd in the mornings.

Far Away Coast - Dropkick Murphys

Matt lives!

So it turns out my friend Matt is still alive. This is good because I've been trying to contanct him for a while now.

Oh the geek has been flowing.

He was the original creator of the universe that I'm putting Becca, Emily, and Ana through in the D&D game I'm running for them. And so many questions and ambiguities have been cleared up after talking with Matt. I mean, I thought was being kinda mean to them through the backstories I'd had them write, and what they would eventually come to realize was happening to them, but now... after Matt... lol, oh god, Emily's already dead and she's going to get so much more mad at me! Becca's on a quest to save the world. HA HA HA HA HA HA! And then their's Ana, who still doesn't have a clue what's going on I think. At least they'll eventually learn. But man the fun I'm going to have with them.

As soon as we get this history, timeline, and mechanics worked out.

Lithium - Nirvana

WHY DOES HE DO THIS!

God... damn... you... WEDGE! I had a great post going, one where I even added R2-D2 my digital camera, to the list of electronic toys that I named (see March 23rd 2005 post). And what does Wedge do RIGHT WHEN I FINISH AND GO TO POST! He reboots. Why? We'll never know. Sick twisted machine sense of humor? Well Wedge? What is it? I just cleaned you! Were you jealous of R2? Hm? I know you can see this you piece of scrap! Just remember that I'm on the outside, and I can so pull the plug. Jerk face.

Maggie stop with the proximity alert, klaxon sound, geek-alert noise thing your doing.

I WAS listening to Old Black Rum, a live version of Great Big Sea. But no. Wedge rebooted so that doesn't go into the blue text. Here's another picture! Now I'm off to bed! GROWL!

Poor man's shades against the sun setting in the West. A view of the living area from the front door.


Takeoffs and Landings - The Ataris

Can't Sleep, so I'm playing with software

Our kitchen. Isn't it cute?


Eventually I'll get a better handle on this.

Succession of Witches - Nobuo Uematsu

The 'Living Room'. Notice the ginourmous poster of Mia in a towel! Thanks Julia!

One more thing.

Shit it can be lonely when your single and the third, fifth, or pick another odd numbered wheel.

Sucks so much.

Okay, I'm all depressing right now. To the sleep! (again)

One Thousand Sarahs - Eddie From Ohio

Isn't something missing?

Uck.

That sums up well how I feel. 13 hour bus ride made longer by some keener high school programmer who wouldn't let me sleep, then a nice closing shift at work. I'm going to sleep. Screw the homework, I'll work on that tomorrow.

Zsa-zsa passed on after almost nineteen years of life. Sadness. So much sadness. This summer shall not be looked back on fondly I'm thinking. Way to much bad shit happening. I did manage to go to Burnsy's party though in the later hours of last Saturday night, and it was good to see the some people I knew there again (there were a shitload I didn't know, of course it was at Burnsy's house and HE didn't know them so I don't feel bad).

Emly's birthday party went off without a hitch and I got to hang out with me old Pater before he finishes packing up and moving. Both of those were pleasant occurances. You know maybe this weekend isn't as crappy as I think it was and I'm just letting my current mood and state of well being cast its extremely ugly shadow over my thoughts and memories. Enh. Time for bed.

No Sale - Suicide Machines

I hate being this tired and unable to sleep.

Why the hell can't I sleep! What the hell! I have to go to work tomorrow! ARRRRG!

What did I do today? Worked, was extremely insulted and angered by a publc employee then escorted out of the building by a police officer who was on my side, slept, then went to Kung Fu Film Friday. 'The Royal Tramp.' To quote Ben:

"Ah Steven Chow... what won't that man do for money?"

We went with Kara and some of her drama friends, it was great because she gave us free tickets, so it was free, and free things mean they're better.

Today (Friday, yesterday I suppose), was disgusting. If you liv in the Greater Toronto Area, you have some sympathy for me. 115 degrees with the humidity index!?! What happened to the whole 'spring' thing. You know, that nice bit of early frost and warm evenings? Take today, a construction crew outside the store so we had to shut the windows, and then turn the ovens on all day at near 300 degree heat. Yeah. I may or may not have lost about 10 pounds of water. I need to get one of those camalpak or camelback things. Those backpack water bottles with the tube that goes straight into your mouth, that might Keep me from dehydrating. After I got off work today (on time for once, thank god Steph was coming in to take over for a bit. She's always on time, of course she also lives insanely close too), all I could do was sit down and drink water for a bit. I couldn't even leave I was so not in happy shape. Happy shape? Does that even work? Sounds like I'm cutting out Jello or something.

And Sunday is coming. Oh shit is it ever. And you know what? There's a street festival. Yep, Bloor, one of the busiest streets in a North American Metropolis is going to be closed to all but pedestrian traffic. And there will be lots of it too, since you know, it'll be a festival and all. With face painting. Ben's talking about getting a rainbow on his cheek. Shit it's going to be so busy.

Oh well. the jerk offs in the parking lot outside seem to have to decided that constant yelling is no longer their 'thing', so maybe now I can crash.

The dull roar of idiots outside at 2:39 in the morning.

Can you hear me now? Okay.

Oh the grey region mentioned last night was so missed. So overshot. I didn't know Ana had done much in the way of drinking though. The things you learn the day after.

Just watched 'Once Upon A Time In Mexico', and it was of course a good movie. Anyways, to the homework.

Canadian Rose -Blues Traveler

No kicks to the crotch for me!

Oh it was a good night. I got to artificially forget that katy and I had broken up, it was Emily's birthday, and I didn't care about Maggies judgements.

I think the basic argument runs as this. That's you're culture, welcome to ours, guess which one has been around longer. Of course that's Ben speak so taken with grain of salt as always. I think we did right though. It WAS her 21st, and she wasn't in Texas (where she grew up) so we did what was necessary. Drunk, not throwing up drunk, but still had to be psuedo assisted home to bed, means we may have nailed the grey zone with which we were aiming. Awesome. Now all that's left is to get her a nice breakfast and a good nights sleep. Sweet.

Stupid school, making me study. I'm so going to complain about me trying to get a new passport too, but not now since it's 2:34 in the morning. Oh shit, screw this, g'night.

Take The Reins - Tsunami Bomb

Hear my excuses first

Yes this is the first blog in a LONG time. And the reason is quite simple, you see I've been having so much fun over the last two or more weeks that I just couldn't find the time to explain all of my good fortune!

Yeah right. In another bleedin' universe maybe.

I unofortunately have had not so good weeks. Though recently the turn around has been making me feel a bit better. The working and class sort of tire me out, so that's part of an excuse to not post. What made me want to avoid posting like I want to avoid syphalis was everything else.

May: Red Sox get swept.
Katy and Jae break up
Jae gets jumped on the way home by high school idiots.
Jae has a mild concussion so he can't go to sleep.
Jae has to open the store, and stay until about 10:30 when his boss comes.
Jae goes to clinic, is told that he should be okay, and that he can get some sleep.
Jae collapses into sleep
Work next day still sucks
Police never even end up showing, and they WERE called.

Those stupid ass kids. The fight happens as follows:

Jae is walking home, head down, sort of dejected, not in a very happy state of affairs. You may even say he's upset. Decides that he just wants to go to bed, remembers that he has to get up and open tomorrow, and says what the hey, I'll go to 7-E and buy some milk for cornflakes, at least I'll have a good breakfast tomorrow, and the extra walk will help. So he passes his building and keeps going. At the end of the block, he crosses the street, only to be grabbed by the vest, punched in the head, and pushed against the light pole there.

Yep, out of the blue, no provocation, other then the other two kids in the background egging him on. Just, punch, ow, and now I'm a wee bit dizzy. I said something along the lines of, 'Dude, you don't want to do this with me right now, not tonight.' And he tried to hit me again.

It's really amazing how crystal clear everything gets when you have that much adrenaline, rage, and aggression built up inside of you. I remember I blocked the punch (my arm hurt for a day and a half after) and I remember punching him in the solar plexus area. It didn't much matter as I then proceeded to lay on the hurt. A piece of advice to anyone stupid enough to want to pick a fight with a perfect stranger on a darkened streetcorner: learn how to fight first. This kid was bad. After I had knocked the wind out of him, I just started hitting him wherever he didn't put his arms, face, stomach, nose, ribs, and so on. I just held him up and beat on him. After his friends stopped cheering for him and got quiet I hit him as hard as I could in the face. I'm surprised I didn't break my hand but I did split my knuckle open, and his eyebrow. He fell, started to get up and of course I kicked him as hard as I could in the torso. After that all I did was sort of pick him up and push him at his friends who I think I scared the hell out of. I said something like 'get the fuck out of here I don't want to deal with you shits' and walked away to Maggie and Beccas place. Total amount of time from start to finish? Probably about 45 seconds. Man I was so pissed off. My hands hurt, my head hurt, I was bleeding, and still pissed off and charged with energy. I sat myself down after the first dizzy spell though.

Stupid people suck. Maggie and Becca were cool though, let me clean up at their place, walked with me to campus police, subway, and stayed up to help keep me from falling asleep. Ben yelled at me because he'd already written out my wedding speech, and Emily of course showed me her pinky (she cought it in a swing and broke it, yes it's as dumb as it sounds). I still get mad thinking about those idiots. AHHH! At least I got a lot of anger out on him.

Later I would find out all sorts of bad. Not all of it's all that important, but little things have not been going my way. Also, Brian and Nicole had a break up (they're back together again, again), Alex and Sunita break up, and Dan and Vanessa also separate. What the hell. Why did I stay here for a summer. Craig you're so lucky that you're not here for me to rub all my bad luck off on you. That's all the detail I really want to go into now. This last week though has been getting good. I saw an awesome concert on Sunday after work, it was the Lord of the Rings soundtrack by Howard Shore, performed by a full symphony orchestra and choir. It was amazing. The soloists were spot on and the score is amazing anyways. There was a bit of sadness involved with the show itself and my being there but that's not my business to discuss and we had a good time anyways. Also, Futures Bakery, is an awesome place to eat late night on a Sunday.

New things going on, lets see.

The Star Wars RPG is on hiatus since not everybody can be in the same place at once right now. We'll start again with school I suppose.

Dundgeons and Dragons campaign with Becca, Ana, and Emily has started. Emily is an absolute fiend for roleplaying now, it's a bit rediculous actually. Although she's not used to the concept of PC's actually being able to die, and wow does she let bad things happen to her. They seem to enjoy it though, and this is good, since this is my first DnD campaign as a DM. Matt, be proud, I'm using a lot of your old tricks (at least I'm on the other side of them now), and man am I glad I read a lot of books. At least...oh 45% of my material is so not my own. Sweet.

GURPS is going strong again, and Simone del Forcina de la Castille is doing just fine. Has won two duels of honor, helped his fellow shipmates out several times, saved the prince, and is slowly reclaiming the honor of the Castille family which was so wrongfully taken away. We won't discuss the other 'conquest' of course as it is ungentleman like, but one of those duels was a result of such a misunderstanding. He just got a new sword and is slowly developing his latent skills in magic (again a result of the 'conquest, twice over'...this campaign is so wrong). For the Spanish crown, Honor, and an earnest desire to kill a dog of a man named Edward Grizzleby!

Okay, time for bed. I work Wednesdays now.

No music right now. Sleepy time!