So today was cool, I had a Birthday Party at work, which is all I'll talk about since the rest of my day was mostly boring (despite selling books at the library).
So there were cupcakes, a shit load of people came, I had dinosaur birthday candles (not on purpose which makes it better), a lot more people than expected, I got lots of cash, I got to keep a cake, and cupcakes, there was wine, it was awesome, but now I have to go buy drinks before ye olde shabbath, PEACE!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Crazy Thursday
So still getting used to this day-after method of posting, but hey it's working.
So Thursday was a little bit crazy, but in a good way I suppose. Work itself was work, and it wasn't exciting, still worked on the application for grants.
After work I headed home and read some comics, fixed some grilled cheese with tomato, then played pool with Oren for a little while. I was a twop minutes late but he already got a table and a drink and was shooting so I passed on the drink and then got thirsty but didn't want to go downstairs, whatever. Then we went to meet Trez at the circus and saw a trapeze, acrobatics, thing, that was pretty cool. There were people doing crazy ass shit on a pretend boat, and it was also pretty funny in the beginning and end. Then we went off once more, and checked out this sound exhibit, that had some cool stuff. My favorite was room with three walls that were screens, and it had three cameras , the cameras recorded, and then played the recording at 30 second intervals, so it was kinda like a round, which is why I suggested singing row row row your boat, but Oren didn't grasp the concept of a round so didn't get it. Still it was cool, and we chilled with the dude who designed it. Then we headed over to the Fringe bar for some drinks, and to see Sarah selling raffle tickets for the Fringe's Chit-Chat lounge, which is essentially a talkshow about the Fringe bar. It was really funny, the host was American and hillarious, they did a bit where the audience shouted out random stuff and they had three drunk dudes writing jokes about them, so you can imagine how that turned out. Then they had a thing where people would send in texts to the host with funny slogans for the sponsor, Chit-Chats which are a New Zealand cookie, or "Biscuit." The strangest part was this one guest who was talking about his one-man-show, and he randomly just took his shirt off. Then the host, and the band took their shirts off, then he celo-taped his nose and face, and it just got stranger from there. Then it was late so I went home and to bed.
Oh also exciting news, I finished the outline for the first arc of the comic I'm writing for ScriptFrenzy which should be well over 100 pages of script.
So Thursday was a little bit crazy, but in a good way I suppose. Work itself was work, and it wasn't exciting, still worked on the application for grants.
After work I headed home and read some comics, fixed some grilled cheese with tomato, then played pool with Oren for a little while. I was a twop minutes late but he already got a table and a drink and was shooting so I passed on the drink and then got thirsty but didn't want to go downstairs, whatever. Then we went to meet Trez at the circus and saw a trapeze, acrobatics, thing, that was pretty cool. There were people doing crazy ass shit on a pretend boat, and it was also pretty funny in the beginning and end. Then we went off once more, and checked out this sound exhibit, that had some cool stuff. My favorite was room with three walls that were screens, and it had three cameras , the cameras recorded, and then played the recording at 30 second intervals, so it was kinda like a round, which is why I suggested singing row row row your boat, but Oren didn't grasp the concept of a round so didn't get it. Still it was cool, and we chilled with the dude who designed it. Then we headed over to the Fringe bar for some drinks, and to see Sarah selling raffle tickets for the Fringe's Chit-Chat lounge, which is essentially a talkshow about the Fringe bar. It was really funny, the host was American and hillarious, they did a bit where the audience shouted out random stuff and they had three drunk dudes writing jokes about them, so you can imagine how that turned out. Then they had a thing where people would send in texts to the host with funny slogans for the sponsor, Chit-Chats which are a New Zealand cookie, or "Biscuit." The strangest part was this one guest who was talking about his one-man-show, and he randomly just took his shirt off. Then the host, and the band took their shirts off, then he celo-taped his nose and face, and it just got stranger from there. Then it was late so I went home and to bed.
Oh also exciting news, I finished the outline for the first arc of the comic I'm writing for ScriptFrenzy which should be well over 100 pages of script.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
A Prettu Boring Day
Wednesday was boring, there's really nothing else to say about it. I watched an episode of Chuck, and at work slacked off most of the time because funding applications make my soul hurt. I got new comics, a lot came out this week and it put me back more than I would like to admit. Still I love them so it doesn't matter. I also returned some comics I got from the library and ended up taking out six more trades, including Extremis which I'd been meaning to read for a while now also picked up some Fables for Oren, and one or two other titles. Lately though I have been reading a Bendis's run on Daredevil. Talia has the second hardcover of his run, so I was familiar with the background, and am now going through it and it's absolutely fantastic. It's Bendis though, so that's kind of expected at this point, I mean he writes great superhero comics, and I also enjoy just how over-the-top Jewish the whole thing is. For example when this one dude is about to be killed by Kingpin he realizes he's dead so starts talking shit to him and finishes with "L'chaim asshole" and then gets shot in the face. So yeah that was pretty much my day, also played some Zelda on my emulator which was fun, but all in all pretty quiet on the Western Front.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Sort of on time (let's not push it folks)
So new blog, about Tuesday. See I decided to do a post about the day on the next one during work, as I find myself rarely having the time or energy to do so at the apartment.
So Tuesday, big things afoot. At the office I was working on getting funding for some poetry books. It's pretty boring work, but on the same token if any of them are approved it's a pretty awesome thing to put on my resume "... is so awesome people trust his word with thousands of dollars" nice.
So after work I bought some groceries and got a phone call (at like the worst time possible) from Angela saying that Zach was moving out of the flat for several reasons (including not getting along with me, cause I'm such a huge asshole apparently) and asking if I could be there. Since it sounded important I said yes, even though I had already made two sets of plans for that evening and was already juggling, pool night, and an improv show loosely based on Harry Potter. But what could I do? So I went home and chillaxed for a bit, made myself a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich (with fresh tomatoes that were fucking amazing). Zach returned, then Angela, and it turned out I didn't actually have to be there at all, thank you Angela. So I hitched a ride with her, and made my way to the theater where the improv thing was happening. It was really funny, though half the show was deeply entrenched in New Zealand politics of which I know even less of than American politics, which I mostly don't give a crap about. Still I laughed, I cried I suggested a character have a crippling addiction to bunny rabbits, which they used and was quite amusing. Then the rest of the night was pretty chill, had a dart gun duel with Oren,read some Daredevil I picked up at the library, went to sleep. So yeah some big changes, don't know if/when we get a new roommate, hope if we do he's cool, if not, I'm only here for 20 days max fewer if I leave early to do travel stuff, which I really don't know if I want to.
So Tuesday, big things afoot. At the office I was working on getting funding for some poetry books. It's pretty boring work, but on the same token if any of them are approved it's a pretty awesome thing to put on my resume "... is so awesome people trust his word with thousands of dollars" nice.
So after work I bought some groceries and got a phone call (at like the worst time possible) from Angela saying that Zach was moving out of the flat for several reasons (including not getting along with me, cause I'm such a huge asshole apparently) and asking if I could be there. Since it sounded important I said yes, even though I had already made two sets of plans for that evening and was already juggling, pool night, and an improv show loosely based on Harry Potter. But what could I do? So I went home and chillaxed for a bit, made myself a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich (with fresh tomatoes that were fucking amazing). Zach returned, then Angela, and it turned out I didn't actually have to be there at all, thank you Angela. So I hitched a ride with her, and made my way to the theater where the improv thing was happening. It was really funny, though half the show was deeply entrenched in New Zealand politics of which I know even less of than American politics, which I mostly don't give a crap about. Still I laughed, I cried I suggested a character have a crippling addiction to bunny rabbits, which they used and was quite amusing. Then the rest of the night was pretty chill, had a dart gun duel with Oren,read some Daredevil I picked up at the library, went to sleep. So yeah some big changes, don't know if/when we get a new roommate, hope if we do he's cool, if not, I'm only here for 20 days max fewer if I leave early to do travel stuff, which I really don't know if I want to.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
More late stuff
So yeah it's been a while, mostly because I just have gotten out of the habit/have had zero time to update this thing and you know sleep.
So I am actually having a hard time what happened to me since last time, before Saturday. So I'll start there. Saturday I went to Beit Knesset since I was invited over to lunch. It was a nice enough service, and there was a talk afterward mostly about Amelek, Nazis and all the usual stuff you associate with both of those, from a visiting professor from Israel. So I went to lunch with this dude, and another kid who's at Victoria University. It was very nice, he has two cute kids, a cool house, and a very nice wife. There was good discussion, and some okay food, but it was pretty minimalistic, so after lunch I went home and ate me some potato chips. Then I napped for two hours and when I awoke I had the apartment all to myself. So I read some comic books and stuff. Then Oren came back around seven and we chilled, and he heated some pasta for me. Then I downed a bottle of beer, and headed off to Megillah reading. I got there like ten minutes late and they were already at the fourth Perek. The dude was mad fast, we were done in like another fifteen minutes, then said Havdallah, and danced around a little. So then after that I headed out with some other of the people from Beit Knesset for some Purim partying, one of whom was from the Chicago studying here for a little bit, the kid from lunch and this other crazy dude. So we drove over to the Chicago kid's apartment for a small pregame, singing loudly on the way over, and holding tightly to the chair due to some interesting driving. After two glasses of whiskey and some talking we headed off. Dropped off the car, and went to this bar that the Jewish community had rented out for a portion of the evening. It's on Courtney, and they had amazing music. Some of the tunes from the evening included "My Generation", "Sweet Home Alabama", and my favorite "Fat Bottomed Girls". So once there was some more alcohol, including an amazing little drink called The Godfather which is as good as its name. So we sang, toasted, danced, and I met a bunch of cool people. So we left after that minus the crazy dude, and plus this visiting Swedish Jew, and headed over to J.J. Murphy's. We ran into Zach, Sarah, and Katey, and said hi. Then stumbled, I mean walked, over to J.J.'s to pick up the dude we lost. We waited around for him to finish up his drink, and started belting out Purim songs, to the questioning stares of those around us, (I also stole some of my friends' beers which was not smart). So we went out, and joined a game of Hackey Sac for some reason, but it was fun. I suck when I'm sober, and I can't say that alcohol really helped my game. But hey who cares, so we went out once more into the night and headed over to a dance club. I'm not a danceclub kinda guy, but it wasn't too bad, I stayed for a little while then headed home sometime after two but before three, and even chatted with some random girls on the way back.
Sunday I woke up far too early, and lay comatose in bed for a few hours, missed the second megilah reading, and went to the purim Barbecue. I had some hotdogs, spoke to people, socialized a little, then went to the internet cafe to try and download Chuck season 2. It was a monster of a file, so I gave up after a little, went home rested for a bit, then went out with Trez to the Botanical Gardens. It was a lot of fun we walked, saw ducks, took pictures, got a little lost on the way back. I met her two "new" roommates as we went back to her place to pick up ingredients, then headed back to my flat where she made delicious stir-fry that Oren and I partook in and watched some Firefly (the last two episodes which she hadn't seen).
Then today has been pretty slow, but work's been exciting as I have been designing a cover for a book of poems that I think is going well. After work I shall meet with Oren for cookies, and from there hopefully just have a chill evening.
So I am actually having a hard time what happened to me since last time, before Saturday. So I'll start there. Saturday I went to Beit Knesset since I was invited over to lunch. It was a nice enough service, and there was a talk afterward mostly about Amelek, Nazis and all the usual stuff you associate with both of those, from a visiting professor from Israel. So I went to lunch with this dude, and another kid who's at Victoria University. It was very nice, he has two cute kids, a cool house, and a very nice wife. There was good discussion, and some okay food, but it was pretty minimalistic, so after lunch I went home and ate me some potato chips. Then I napped for two hours and when I awoke I had the apartment all to myself. So I read some comic books and stuff. Then Oren came back around seven and we chilled, and he heated some pasta for me. Then I downed a bottle of beer, and headed off to Megillah reading. I got there like ten minutes late and they were already at the fourth Perek. The dude was mad fast, we were done in like another fifteen minutes, then said Havdallah, and danced around a little. So then after that I headed out with some other of the people from Beit Knesset for some Purim partying, one of whom was from the Chicago studying here for a little bit, the kid from lunch and this other crazy dude. So we drove over to the Chicago kid's apartment for a small pregame, singing loudly on the way over, and holding tightly to the chair due to some interesting driving. After two glasses of whiskey and some talking we headed off. Dropped off the car, and went to this bar that the Jewish community had rented out for a portion of the evening. It's on Courtney, and they had amazing music. Some of the tunes from the evening included "My Generation", "Sweet Home Alabama", and my favorite "Fat Bottomed Girls". So once there was some more alcohol, including an amazing little drink called The Godfather which is as good as its name. So we sang, toasted, danced, and I met a bunch of cool people. So we left after that minus the crazy dude, and plus this visiting Swedish Jew, and headed over to J.J. Murphy's. We ran into Zach, Sarah, and Katey, and said hi. Then stumbled, I mean walked, over to J.J.'s to pick up the dude we lost. We waited around for him to finish up his drink, and started belting out Purim songs, to the questioning stares of those around us, (I also stole some of my friends' beers which was not smart). So we went out, and joined a game of Hackey Sac for some reason, but it was fun. I suck when I'm sober, and I can't say that alcohol really helped my game. But hey who cares, so we went out once more into the night and headed over to a dance club. I'm not a danceclub kinda guy, but it wasn't too bad, I stayed for a little while then headed home sometime after two but before three, and even chatted with some random girls on the way back.
Sunday I woke up far too early, and lay comatose in bed for a few hours, missed the second megilah reading, and went to the purim Barbecue. I had some hotdogs, spoke to people, socialized a little, then went to the internet cafe to try and download Chuck season 2. It was a monster of a file, so I gave up after a little, went home rested for a bit, then went out with Trez to the Botanical Gardens. It was a lot of fun we walked, saw ducks, took pictures, got a little lost on the way back. I met her two "new" roommates as we went back to her place to pick up ingredients, then headed back to my flat where she made delicious stir-fry that Oren and I partook in and watched some Firefly (the last two episodes which she hadn't seen).
Then today has been pretty slow, but work's been exciting as I have been designing a cover for a book of poems that I think is going well. After work I shall meet with Oren for cookies, and from there hopefully just have a chill evening.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Late Again
but not as late so I guess that's okay?
Besides nothing of major note happened on Tuesday, work, home (was locked out for a little bit), pool-night, Chuck.
Today though, was pretty cool. So work was work, I spent a fair amount of time today doing absolutely nothing, which I don't mind too much. Then after work my boss took me to parliament to see his friend's husband getting sworn in to the Green Part, which unlike Israel, is about environmental change, hugging baby seals, and bringing the establishment (because the status is not quo). It was cool, the building was a few minutes walk from where I work, and was absolutely magnificent. The dude spoke well, and it was all very nice. Afterwards I got to meet the speaker of the house (NZ's nancy pelosi as my boss was so eager to point out), and some other parliament dudes which was cool. We went through a series of passageways through parliament which lead to a building called "The Beehive" then to this other building for the reception. There was great beer, a lot of folksinging, some speeches maori and delicious food. I spoke to some publishers, met this cool kid who's in university and thinking of going into politics afterwards got only a little buzzed and headed home. Then I waited around a little til eventually Trez and Oren (who was out) came over and watched even more Chuck. So fun times.
Besides nothing of major note happened on Tuesday, work, home (was locked out for a little bit), pool-night, Chuck.
Today though, was pretty cool. So work was work, I spent a fair amount of time today doing absolutely nothing, which I don't mind too much. Then after work my boss took me to parliament to see his friend's husband getting sworn in to the Green Part, which unlike Israel, is about environmental change, hugging baby seals, and bringing the establishment (because the status is not quo). It was cool, the building was a few minutes walk from where I work, and was absolutely magnificent. The dude spoke well, and it was all very nice. Afterwards I got to meet the speaker of the house (NZ's nancy pelosi as my boss was so eager to point out), and some other parliament dudes which was cool. We went through a series of passageways through parliament which lead to a building called "The Beehive" then to this other building for the reception. There was great beer, a lot of folksinging, some speeches maori and delicious food. I spoke to some publishers, met this cool kid who's in university and thinking of going into politics afterwards got only a little buzzed and headed home. Then I waited around a little til eventually Trez and Oren (who was out) came over and watched even more Chuck. So fun times.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
SUPER LATE AGAIN!
Okay so once more I'm super late with a post, because the past weekend has just been super hectic and super draining, but also quite fun (for the most part, and despite the lack of sleep). This time though I'm going to make an actual substantial post to document the shenanigans that happened.
Friday:
Friday I woke up and went out to work as always. The actual work day was rather light. Made a whole bunch more edits on Songs of a Young Country which is the New Zealand folksong book. Also did some photoshopping for people in my spare time. Also did a good amount of just slacking off, since I haven't been getting a lot of sleep and find it hard to actually motivate myself all that much. After work I wasn't in too huge of a rush to get back to the apartment. So I went to the comic book shop and picked up Rogue Wars a Geoff Johns Flash comic, in honor of his recent promotion of course. It's an awesome read, I've also been keeping a steady flow of comics coming from the local library, and have read some great stuff. Fraction's Uncanny X-Men Lovelorn was fantastic, OMAC Project was pretty good, some other things here and there, generally sating my comic hunger. So I got back to the apartment and hung around for a few minutes until Sarah and Trez came in to say to Oren, who got sick (aparently they heard of this before I did which is a little bit scary to tell the truth). Whilst over we decided that we had to rent some movies, so we headed down to the library, and picked up Chuck season one, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Wedding Crashers and Knocked Up. Then we went to Sarah's apartment (she moved int the place with Will and a lot of the sketch people). It was absolutely disgustingly dirty. There was a water bottle with brown liquid, it used to be water I assume the brown came from the numerous cigarettes sitting inside it. So Trez and I cleaned up some of the dishes and pots, then she made pasta and veggies, it was delicious. trez Alex, Sarah, and I watched Wedding Crashers, which was a lot of fun, but then around midnight I headed home since I wanted to be up for Synagogue the next day.
Saturday:
Woke up at around 8:25 showered, got ready, and headed off to Beit Kneset. Oren was still sick so I went on my ownsome. Services were nice, and afterward I talked with Paul, a nice dude who invited me for Shabbat lunch next week, which I am greatly looking forward to. Then I made my way back home, and just chilled for most of the afternoon. Until Katie (one of the Americans from the other apartment you probably forgot since this was the first time I saw her in like three weeks) came over to get away from her place. She complained about a boy, meh. Then she and Zach went out, Oren and I chilled and then went out to play pool at J.J. Murphy's it was a lot of fun. I beat Oren twice in one game (he sank the eight ball, then I got all of mine in before his since we had already payed for it. There was awesome music, and then Alex and Trez came over. We played some more pool then went back to our pad, and watched Chuck for a while.
Sunday:
Woke up late, parents were upset that I hadn't called them, so I did. Found out UofC wrote to ask if I were coming, so then I went online and filled out the housing application. Then Laura called. She wanted to chill so we took a train to Johnsonville to see her. The train was really cool, went up through the mountains, and was just pretty durn awesome, I brought a camera. We met up chilled at Starbucks then her place, then went back to ours, then Trez came over we were going to watch Chuck, but Laura is epilleptic and had a seizure recently so couldn't watch. So we chilled it was a little awkward. Laura left at like eleven thirty I went to sleep kinda late, but it's okay.
Monday:
Woke up today went to work, made an awesome Chuck playlist you can listen to here http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Chuck+Playlist/25417981 . Seriously work was slow as hell. Came back home the gang came over more Chuck. It was a fun day I suppose.
And that's that, see you folks tomorrow.
Friday:
Friday I woke up and went out to work as always. The actual work day was rather light. Made a whole bunch more edits on Songs of a Young Country which is the New Zealand folksong book. Also did some photoshopping for people in my spare time. Also did a good amount of just slacking off, since I haven't been getting a lot of sleep and find it hard to actually motivate myself all that much. After work I wasn't in too huge of a rush to get back to the apartment. So I went to the comic book shop and picked up Rogue Wars a Geoff Johns Flash comic, in honor of his recent promotion of course. It's an awesome read, I've also been keeping a steady flow of comics coming from the local library, and have read some great stuff. Fraction's Uncanny X-Men Lovelorn was fantastic, OMAC Project was pretty good, some other things here and there, generally sating my comic hunger. So I got back to the apartment and hung around for a few minutes until Sarah and Trez came in to say to Oren, who got sick (aparently they heard of this before I did which is a little bit scary to tell the truth). Whilst over we decided that we had to rent some movies, so we headed down to the library, and picked up Chuck season one, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Wedding Crashers and Knocked Up. Then we went to Sarah's apartment (she moved int the place with Will and a lot of the sketch people). It was absolutely disgustingly dirty. There was a water bottle with brown liquid, it used to be water I assume the brown came from the numerous cigarettes sitting inside it. So Trez and I cleaned up some of the dishes and pots, then she made pasta and veggies, it was delicious. trez Alex, Sarah, and I watched Wedding Crashers, which was a lot of fun, but then around midnight I headed home since I wanted to be up for Synagogue the next day.
Saturday:
Woke up at around 8:25 showered, got ready, and headed off to Beit Kneset. Oren was still sick so I went on my ownsome. Services were nice, and afterward I talked with Paul, a nice dude who invited me for Shabbat lunch next week, which I am greatly looking forward to. Then I made my way back home, and just chilled for most of the afternoon. Until Katie (one of the Americans from the other apartment you probably forgot since this was the first time I saw her in like three weeks) came over to get away from her place. She complained about a boy, meh. Then she and Zach went out, Oren and I chilled and then went out to play pool at J.J. Murphy's it was a lot of fun. I beat Oren twice in one game (he sank the eight ball, then I got all of mine in before his since we had already payed for it. There was awesome music, and then Alex and Trez came over. We played some more pool then went back to our pad, and watched Chuck for a while.
Sunday:
Woke up late, parents were upset that I hadn't called them, so I did. Found out UofC wrote to ask if I were coming, so then I went online and filled out the housing application. Then Laura called. She wanted to chill so we took a train to Johnsonville to see her. The train was really cool, went up through the mountains, and was just pretty durn awesome, I brought a camera. We met up chilled at Starbucks then her place, then went back to ours, then Trez came over we were going to watch Chuck, but Laura is epilleptic and had a seizure recently so couldn't watch. So we chilled it was a little awkward. Laura left at like eleven thirty I went to sleep kinda late, but it's okay.
Monday:
Woke up today went to work, made an awesome Chuck playlist you can listen to here http://listen.grooveshark.com/
And that's that, see you folks tomorrow.
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