john.
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another boring post
it’s a thursday night/friday morning. the majority of street is brimming with partying, but i here i am hanging out in my apartment not really doing anything aside from listening to music and getting sleepy before i head to bed. it’s been an extremely sunny, productive day for me and i’m taking tonight to unwind. at the same time, i have also taken tonight to regain some energy because i’ve been plagued with shitty spring allergies or something along those lines. i’ve spent the greater portion of the past three and a half hours laying on my couch, listening to the newest “architects” album, and doing some reading. it’s a pretty hot date that i’ve shared with some sinus pills and vick’s vapo-rub (aka my saviour).
no montreal for me this weekend… last minute school-related issues on brandon’s part left me with no one to go with, and since this isn’t a trip that i could completely cover on my own and still be able to pay bills, i am in wolfville for the weekend. i do believe there’s some drinking going on at some point, but for the time being, i’m just going to relax and enjoy the days that i had booked off.
currently reading “the pirate’s dilemma: how youth culture is reinventing capitalism” by matt mason. it’s a good read so far and i recommend that you search it out… you can download a free copy somewhere, so google that sucker.
i’m going to do some more reading then head to bed. i’m getting my car’s oil changed in the morning so i want to get in my coffee before i have to hit the road.
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orange rolls, angels’ spit
so i’m living on my own now and i’ve got to say that i’m really enjoying it. things are quiet in my little bachelor apartment, but it makes me appreciate conversation a lot more when i get to have it. i’ve never been a real big fan of instant messaging, text messaging or anything like that, but now verbal communication means a lot more. for some this would probably be really strange and even lonely, hell, who knows, maybe i’ll become really sick of it before i even know it, but for now it’s pretty nice.
having people over is nice as well, i’ve had quite a few visitors and the general opinion is that i snagged myself a nice little apartment. who is proud of their apartment hunting skills? i am, i am.
tonight i’ve spent my evening post-work hanging out in my apartment listening to some sonic youth and reading blogs. i’ve been reading a lot of tobi vail’s blog lately, it’s really cool. i’m also reading tour journals from bands like the go team (the old go team from the early ninties, not the one that’s big today) and heavens to betsy. makes me want to hit the road, but i know i’ve got too much going on here so i’ve got to stay grounded for the time being. brandon and i are going to montreal next week though; driving up, spending the weekend camping out and hanging around the city… should be a good time for sure.
the valley is beautiful but i’m really doubting what is around here for me. i love the scenery, i love the feeling of living out here, but it really is such a conservative little area. people piss and moan about their homes, i know, i’m probably one of the many (though i make it a point to rarely do that). today i felt really suffocated by it all, i wasn’t acting like myself for most of the day, but i just couldn’t shake the feeling. uprooting for a little bit is going to be good… i need a change of pace, so i am really looking forward to moving to antigonish for two months come july. i know it’s not a big chance, but it’ll be good just to be in a different area for a bit if anything else.
living alone makes me a victim to my own thoughts… i think myself into a corner.
i’m trying my best to keep things moving in my life though. my life right now consists of working, hanging out at my apartment, driving up to the halifax-area to see people, and a lot of that kind of stuff. i spend most of my time either in my apartment or in my car, so i really can’t complain.
four hundred and sixty-six words, most of it rambling. seventy-six now. go me.
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king procrastinator right here
the show went really well i’ve got to say. relatively small turnout (the number sitting somewhere in the forties), but i can’t complain. it was nice to get up and play in front of people again; even nicer to play bass at a show again. spent my whole day yesterday in the halifax/dartmouth area. helped brandon’s dad move his motorcycle, picked up my new camera (a 35mm minolta), sold my mini fridge, had breakfast/lunch with brandon, and hung out with the guys in the band prior to the show.
when i finally got home last night i was majorly pooped and so happy just to be able to lay down in my bed and pass out… ended up sleeping for about 11 hours which was very nice.
i will admit that i have done basically no packing/sorting since i’ve moved back home. i’m hoping to jump on that today, but who knows what will happen? i’m building a bookshelf with my dad today, so the sorting will more than likely come after that.
“the intruder” opens this friday. i’m really excited, but at the same time nervous; comes with the territory i guess, but i’m just really hoping this turns out to be as spectacular as i have been seeing it in my head.
time to have a coffee and enjoy my sunday morning.
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i know you’re itching to hear from me
minifest was hectic but rewarding. i’m just getting over the most sleepless three weeks of my life so far, but i’m pretty pleased with what i’ve been able to accomplish. the year is wrapping up and while i’m glad i have four and a half months to kick back a little bit, i am definitely going to miss the theatre company, and cannot wait until september rolls around.
rehearsals for “the intruder” are going well. we’re off book really, really soon (like this friday soon). here’s hoping all goes smoothly. i feel like i have a really short time frame, but considering what i’ve seen done this past school year, it seems like i have all of the time in the world.
i’ve been kind of building a list of goals for the summer break in my mind. currently i’m looking to:
- figure out how to do, and make a camera obscura (better yet, turn my apartment next year into one)
- learn to play the ukulele (since i have one kicking around)
- go to montreal as i’ve been planning on doing for a while now
- write more, draw more
- actually put away some money
- go to mushaboom… finally (i’ve been taking about it for way too long now)
- rock the holga as much as possible
i don’t know if i had mentioned this, but my holga 135 came in and i love the little beast. she comes everywhere with me and never complains a bit
goal for this weekend: catch up on sleep and do my world religion reading. i’m going to go work on one of those right now… the one that doesn’t involve reading
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blue in the face
so i actually have some free time this afternoon… i almost can’t believe it
this week has been pretty crazy. when up in dartmouth on tuesday night, my car’s alternator went out on me, leaving me, brandon, and his friend shane stranded in a petro-can parking lot. bran and i ended up taking a bus back to his place, i stayed there tuesday night with him, then bussed back in the morning to get my car to a garage. rolled my car down the hill (with the help of a mechanic’s truck) to a garage and waited for them to do the repairs, it was all done at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. i had missed my class that day and was late for work, but it’s all good… next step is to put a new fan belt on that sucker, then get the crack in the windshield fixed. cars cost a lot of money, but it will all be worth it; i also need to get it checked out before i drive to montreal in may.
worked quite a bit this week, had a considerable amount of school work as well so i haven’t had much time to really do anything. met with students at horton on friday to talk about the play i’m directing. holding auditions on wednesday afternoon before i have class, and casting the show that night. i have to get my design plans worked out, while it’s not much, i would rather be ahead of the game because i have submit a script with tech notes within the next month or so for the in-house technicians. “machinal” is almost over, i’m running sound on the show tonight, then ushering tomorrow i do believe. the strike is tomorrow after the show, then cast party so that should be nice, although i doubt i’ll be drinking all too much. theatre pubcrawl is this upcoming friday anyway, so i’ll make up for the cast party then.
need to finish my reading for world religion and conquer my music tech assignment so that i have a bit of free time this weekend… if only i had money though, stupid alternator
i’m going to go try to finish this assignment before my call at the theatre
by the way, the band has a show on april 25th in windsor… more information soon
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this one goes downhill quickly…
so i’ve been listening to a lot of norma jean’s new album “the anti mother”… really good stuff. hadn’t really given it much of a listen to, then a few weeks ago when i was out driving with brandon he played the song “robots 3, humans 0″ roughly sixty-thousand times and it took days for it to get out of my head. sad thing is, i’m listening to it right now.
aye, another busy week ahead, captain. my one class was cancelled today, as was my meeting at horton high about the play i’m directing there. i guess i’m going to have to head in some other day this week… ah, i’ll work it out
homework, reading, and all of that fun stuff is sucking away my free time. i’m devoting tomorrow night to actually being social, then the next few nights i either work or have to work sound on machinal, so i may be doing some homework in the booth… long-hand i guess.
i don’t think that there’s much more for me to talk about at the time-being. looking for a place to stay in antigonish this summer while i’m up working at F.A.S.T. (festival antigonish summer theatre), aside from that, i’m a horrible, boring person.
i’ll write more when i have stuff to say and i’m not so tired.
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pardon me while my head explodes
so where has my head been this past month?
between band practice, the show opening (on wednesday may i add) along with theatre busy-work, school work, work at staples, NSSSA stuff and everything else, i have been run off of my feet. in fact, i shouldn’t even be writing this right now because i have a midterm, a test, and an assignment due tomorrow. i’m finished the assignment, comfortable enough to do my test, but have a huge amount of reading, reviewing and all of that fun stuff that midterms entail left to do.
things have been working out well lately. i got the festival antigonish job for this summer, and i am slowly but surely conquering all of my busy work to be done. as it stands, i’m 3/4 of the way through my first year of university which is a bit scary when you think about how quickly time has passed, but at the same time, i cannot even begin to say how happy i will be when the last day of classes rolls around because then i can relax a little bit. well, after exams i guess. not that i don’t enjoy, but it will be nice to catch up on sleep.
speaking of sleep, time to not get any.
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i am currently the living dead
not much has happened since the last post, really.
practiced with a new band tonight in eastern passage, brandon asked me to play bass for them/do some singing about a month ago, and things are sounding pretty good so far. they already have quite a few songs developed, so right now i’m just playing catch-up which is a tedious process. haven’t really played bass that much in the past year, but that’s not that big of an issue.
my schedule has been crazy between school work, work, theatre stuff (which is slowly starting up again)/crew calls, and everything else that i’m juggling. because of this, i haven’t been in residence since i was sick. it started off as a courtesy thing because i was hacking and coughing all night for that week when i was sick, but these past few days, i’ve been doing homework until 4 or 5 in the morning, or just too exhausted when i come home to pick up my stuff. tonight, i parked on campus then realised that not only did i not have my room key with me, but i also didn’t have my contact lense case or anything. so i had to get back in my car and drive home at 12:30 at night after just getting off of the highway.
i haven’t been getting as much sleep as i should be this past week… it’s been brutal and hopefully i’m more on the ball next week when it comes to stuff.
i’m going to wrap this up though. i have class in the morning/early afternoon, then i have to go pay the damage deposit on my apartment for next school year followed by a five hour shift at work.
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i don’t think i was built to have normal sleeping patterns…
it seems that on the nights that i want to stay up, i am sleepy and the nights when i want to go to bed at a reasonable hour, i can’t sleep. tonight’s the latter; i work in the morning and i can’t seem to fall asleep. this always seems to be the case when i work a 7:45 shift, i don’t know why.
brody dalle’s new band, “spinnerette”, is really good. i finally downloaded their EP “ghetto love” today and it’s basically been the soundtrack to all of my driving today (yeah, it’s already on my iPod). between that and laurie anderson, whose music i can’t stop listening to… i blame michael devine for putting her music in the opening of “rhinoceros” and etching it into my brain.
hoping to hear on summer theatre work relatively soon… it would be nice to have some replies from that or from tree planting; theatre work definitely trumps tree planting in my priorities though. i have been shopping my name around quite a bit and i hope that it ends up paying off.
i’m going to try sleeping… don’t know how this is going to work out, but it’s worth a shot.
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post-holiday update
the holidays turned out to be much more interesting than they have been before… when we got to my grandmother’s house on christmas day for the usual family thing, we were greeted by a group of people standing in her side yard looking at this tree that was being blown by the wind. the tree which measured upwards of forty-five feet and a few feet in diameter and was growing on a slope was being uprooted by the wind. every time the wind would blow, the tree would rock toward her house, and there was probably about six inches between the roots and the ground as time progressed and the wind blew stronger. more family arrived, we evacuated the house, and called around to see where we could get help on christmas day. we ended up calling the fire department, and after a few hours and a whole lot of worrying about my grandmother’s house being demolished, we were able to begin our christmas day.
the holidays were pretty laid-back i must say. i just worked, hung out with brandon and some others, and did the family thing.
for the past day or so i’ve had this insatiatble urge to just go driving somewhere. i just want to call someone up, fill my car up with gas and just hit the road. it would be nice to get out of the province for a bit, hell, it would be nice to have a few days off from everything and have money to solely put into gas and accomodations. i should do this soon.
i don’t know what’s going on for new years eve at the time-being… my plans are all shifty at best, so i don’t really know if i have anything to count on (no offence to anybody, but things just seem to be teetering). it may just be a quiet night at home, because i don’t really feel like going out to bars or anything like that. i don’t know, i live by the seat of my pants so i’m sure something will come up… at least it’s not like last year when i had a bad stomach flu.
i’m getting even more antsy to move into my apartment in may. i keep getting the urge to look at housewares, and i’m really not sure why. i’m stupid and i like to be really, really prepared, so i guess it’s understandable on some level.
i’m going to bed.
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