Job/Camping/Life

Ohhhhk, so after a little twisting of my arm by the Coop coordinator for SFU Surrey, I have decide to remain at my job until December. Well, there are many reasons to do it, but that was the final one that made up my mind. That, and I will still take one class at SFU Surrey, thus seeing my friends and hanging out in the new campus which should be much better than the old campus. It may take a little getting used to though. Plus...knowing me, well knowing my group of friends, I will end up staying at school really late and hanging out.

Despite what the Surrey newspaper said, this is not the mezzanine of the new campus.

Since I'm going to school for only one class, I 've also decided not to be a Peer Educator (the volunteer position I had last year). I'll probably still help out with some events, but I'm not going to do any weekly hours. Some of my friends think this is good...as they are almost anti-volunteerists.

Now for something completely different...tomorrow we're going camping...and by "we" I mean Rob-Murray-Gordon-Greg-Alex-Erin-Nate-Aaron-Brad-Tanya-Q-Laura and I. It's just like Whistler's group except we now have Tanya instead of Jessica, Laura instead of Danielle, Q instead of Adam, and Aaron instead of Kyle or Parkes. You know...practically the same group.

It's going to be a blast, I can feel it EVEN THOUGH we're not even there yet and Rob has yet to light the fuse on anything.

Speaking of Rob, I will probably be living with him and Q and Oliver starting sometime in the next month. It's going to be interesting to say the least. I may end up doing all the cleaning while the others do the cooking, and I may like it that way.

Sweat

I call this weekend...the weekend of Sweat. I am glad it is over, although perhaps I lost some weight? I went running both mornings and spent a lot of time going from place to place outdoors (where it was HOT). Hey, even indoors was quite hot.

Decided to shave on Friday night, and then also went and got a haircut on Saturday afternoon. Thus, I am as z! put it..."clean" now.

I am probably one of the few people to see both Clerks II and Monster House in theaters this weekend, as that's a very odd combination.

Oh, and Shea...sorry about the...uhh...joke. She knows what I'm talking about.

mustachio...

If you didn't know...for the last month or so...
I've been growing a mustache!

I think I shall shave it off soon for I don't think it is really me
despite others saying I should keep it. That and my hair
which is growing pretty long. I don't know whether I'll cut that.

We shall see.




My msn plus has decided to randomly hide some desktop contacts and randomly show others. I am sorry...if you are mysteriously being hidden I don't really hate you...it's really not my fault. Anyway, you wouldn't know about it if I hadn't just told you.

Now if that last paragraph wasn't useless...I don't know what is. I'm going to a baseball game on Friday. I don't know where it is and I don't know who's playing - I only know it is from 1pm - 3pm and I have a free ticket from work and other people from work will be there. I have answered very few of the questions I praised in my time management workshop. I guess that makes me a hypocrite. Ah well...at least I plan to look up the answers tomorrow...I've just been too lazy so far.

Greg's back!

So on the weekend (sometimes I think I live for the weekends) there was OL training in which I gave workshop on time management and stress..well..management as well. It went alright, although it was all really just part of the wait till Rob's where we had a welcome back Greg sort of get together turned party. It turned into a party since a whole bunch of people were there drinking who we didn't even really know. The party broke into two as it usually does when this happens. I swam in the pool way to much and I only remember my camera well enough to take this shot...

My friends love each other very much :)

Luckily, the nexy morning after I went home I recieved an email calling us all back to Rob's for a planning party for our camping trip. It was a good thing cause I left my camera at Rob's and he'd starting using it. I took a few more pics...

My friends don't love me so much :(

Oh well, at least he's back!

Lyrics

Sometimes I think songs are cool purely because of the lyrics in them. The following 4 songs have interesting lyrics, ironic or ryhming or both and I like that...

Alanis Morissette - Ironic
"It's a traffic jam when you're already late
It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife... "


Howard Jones - No one is to Blame
"You can look at the menu but you just cant eat
You can feel the cushions but you cant have a seat
You can dip your foot in the pool but you cant have a swim..."

Tim McGraw - Back When
"Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew..."

Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave your Lover
"Ooo slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus..."

Very different songs I know...but all with catchy lyrics in my opinion.

Cave People, Balls and Soccer

So last weekend...sooo long ago, stuff happened. For one I went to a caveman party and did cavemen things all cavemen do like play caveman video games (in black and white of course).


In retrospect it appears the rest of my weekend was a bit painful but quite fun...
After this was over I had a pretty relaxing Saturday swimming in my aunt's pool and such in which my mom commented that I was FAT. Saturday eventually led into Sunday in which I decided to go for a morning run...just because. Our weekly (but no too weekly) Icetek meeting happened minus a few members, and we got a little done on our website. We also went on a Google run, as Brad likes to call trips to T&T.

After this all we ended up at Rob's place which tends to be the trend. At Rob's we threw juggling balls back and forth across the pool at which point I ended up laying curled in the fetal position on the ground for a good ten minutes after Q sent a ball into mine. Rob just went on about how that was nothing and how it hurt much more if you had worse done to you twice in one day. Ok, Rob.

After we got something to eat Gordo called up Rob's friend Mike and since they he was playing soccer with some friends we (eventualllllly) decided to go play soccer with them. Not against them mind you, as they were wearing shorts and t-shirts (some wore cleats), had been playing for 45 minutes, and were soccer players. We on the other hand were wearing jeans or nice pants or sandals or any other things not designed for playing soccer in. So we mixed up the teams a little...not much it turned out...but a little. It was an awesome game, in which my team...which turned out to be with most of them...won. It was also good exercise and I was sore for a few days after.

Saturna

I'm too busy lately for this thing. I haven't even blogged about last weekend, much less this one. I guess I'd better start at the begining. Last weekend was rather exciting. I spent it over on Saturna at my parent's place which is quite removed from civilization. Much of civilization followed me there though, as there was a huge Canada day lamb BBQ, where more than 1100 meal tickets were sold. The population of the island is about 300 with no camp grounds or hotels on the island. Just B & B's.

The next day we were at East Point, which is the farthest corner of the island from where my parents live (although it only takes 20 minutes to get there). They have some crazy rock formations on the slope down to the beach and this time I didn't forget my camera.

She got sucked into the rock...oh well...I've got 4 more siblings anyway.

The water had way too much fun molding the rocks in this section.

We walked around the point and then we went back up to our cars, but at the time there was a whole bunch of people showing up. They told us that someone had sighted killer whales coming toward the point so we headed back down to the beach. We saw a lot of boats off in the distance - whale watchers and fisheries boats zooming between them telling them when to back off or spread out and not to cut in front of the whales' path. About 15 whales swam by about 15 feet from the shore or so.

Later I went swimming in the ocean, although that was at a different beach. It was a pretty relaxing weekend, and nice to get away from the city for a couple days.