john.
i type, you read. simple as that.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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woo! more school-related ranting!
i am frustrated beyond belief with the student loan people right now.
here’s an idea, guys and girls: don’t misinform students, then treat them like fools when they come to you wondering why you haven’t sent their provincial loan to their university.
when i called them in december to make sure that there was nothing else for me to sign, mail, or do regarding my loan and the representative assured me that there was nothing and that everything was fine, i assumed everything was in order. then i go to look at my student account balance at school and i notice that my loan hasn’t been deposited. i call student accounts who tell me to contact the student loans people. this time i get a different loans representative who tells that i should have mailed them some kind of papers about two months ago that i have never even seen. thanks for telling me that now instead of in december.
it must be my fault, though. how could i be so dumb to think that “everything’s fine, there’s nothing left for you to do” actually meant “you still have papers to sign to get your money for school in january”?
end rant.
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oh hey, 2009
so it’s the new year, that means that it’s also resolution time. the first few weeks of the new year always seem to be the time for personal development. personally, i actually do my best to follow through with resolutions/promises; i made a ridiculous amount last year and all the important ones worked out (for the most part, some relied on others). this year, i’m being more minimal with things and not promising myself any miracles. i’m holding up quite well on not biting my nails so far, so hopefully the rest will follow and go accordingly.
i’m not going to sit here and say that 2009 is going to be the best year ever, but i will say this: i’m going to do my best to make 2009 an enjoyable, satisfying, and rewarding year.
school’s back in session on monday, and i move back into residence on sunday. i’m excited to go back, but at the same time, i wish that winter break would go on just a bit longer… i will admit though, i miss the acadia theatre company and will be happy to be back in the swing of things.
i work tomorrow.
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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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hey, i’m not dead
so it’s been one month since my last post, but i have a good reason. life has basically been a whirlwind of events and i’ve been trying to keep my head in order through it all.
looking for roommates turned into me finally saying to myself, “screw it, look for a cheap bachelor apartment.” i did so, i found one, and i signed a lease last friday for a place that i’m really, really happy with. it’s a great price in a great location (roughly a minute walk away from campus), and i’m just happy to be done apartment hunting. i also cannot wait to move in once may comes around, not that i’m wishing away this semester, but it will just be pretty interesting to have my own place.
exams went well, although studying kicked my ass because i had to balance that an a busy work schedule. on top of that, i also pulled in some work at the al whittle theatre doing tech stuff, so that took up a considerable amount of my time for a bit. around the same time that i was getting my ducks in a row for christmas break, my car temporarily ate the shit-biscuit. my fuel pump went out, so the anticipated $600 or $700 that i would have to pay by the end of the month to have the damned thing inspected turned into a little over $1000. it goes into the shop tomorrow to have a front hub assembly done, as well as new brake pads put on, then after that i just have to fix a sil and i’m good to go.
things are working out nicely though, so i can’t complain. my work schedule is pretty decent for this week, and i went to a party at tubski’s last friday which ended up being really good aside from some randoms showing up and acting like turds. whatever, it’s a party, that kind of stuff happens.
jade isn’t coming down at the end of the month anymore. her visit is now rescheduled for sometime in february i do believe due to plane tickets costing so damn much this time of year
everything has just been really hectic and weird, but at the same time i’ve been enjoying myself. a little bit of financial stress right now means that things will soon be looking up in that respect, and it’s not like i won’t get some money for christmas. albeit, i wish that i hadn’t had to cough up $260 out of my $340 paycheque to cover car repairs; i also wish that unicef hadn’t made their monthly withdrawl from my account after i had to basically clean out my bank account for car repairs.
i’m going to go to bed now, though. i have to drop my car off at the mechanic’s at 8 am.
oh. i turned twenty on the 14th. it was a quiet birthday, although friday night made up for it. that is all.
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it’s going to be a quiet night
decided to take an evening in… i’m expecting that work will call me tomorrow morning to ask me to work because the snow has been so nasty, so i’m just chilling out and working on stuff tonight (chaperone manual, term papers, etc.)
the past two days at work have been long, but it’s alright because that just means some extra money in my pocket next payday… hell, i have car repairs to pay for so that it can get inspected
jade is coming down at the end of december and i’m excited as hell… more updates soon
this post is so damn choppy
i’m going to go work on this manual a little bit more.
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little update
my apologies, first of all, because “tomorrow” turned into a few days
i’ve decided to stay in wolfville instead of going to halifax to take theatre at dalhousie next year; i have realized that there are going to be better opportunities for me here in wolfville. it was a bit of a tough decision for me, but i am sure i’ve made the right now… with that in mind, i’m also apartment hunting and room mate hunting as well; plans/talks with people have ended up not working out, but i’m sure it’ll come around soon
classes are crazy… final exams are soon.
conference preparation is going well; it’s all going down next weekend
i should go. more later.
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