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.

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.

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.

A proper post this time

Hey so it's been quite some time since I did a proper post on this thing. I really did mean to do this regularly but the mix of going out all the time and then being lazy once I had the chance kinda got in the way. But hey, going out and having a life, these are good things, so at the very least there's that. Though I do want to do this thing regularly, and I also do want to be practicing guitar, and working on the outline of my script. The outline by the way, is almost finished in my head, on paper though I'm still trying to sort out what events go where, and yada yada. Still it's just an outline and I have a month and a half until I actually have to start writing this thing, so I've got a healthy start on that.
So anyways on to the events of my day. Last night was kinda crappy because Zach's fucking snoring kept me up for like an hour last night. So I let myself sleep an extra twenty minutes, got up, rushed out the door, and went to work. Work today was pretty fucking boring, I spent the entirety of it fixing little mistakes in the folk song book, so it wasn't all that stimulating. Also at lunch I had the saltiest french fries ever, it was disgusting. Also I found out at work that there was yet another book launch tonight, and I got peer pressured into going to it. So after work I headed over with people from work to a book store to launch Men Alone, Men Together which is about the lives of various men in different types of homosexual relationships. So the crowd wasn't quite my scene. There was also one really awkward/terrible moment, where my boss introduced me to this one old lady and there was a piece of the conversation that went like this
Lady 1: so you live in new york
Me: Yes
Lady 2: Oh that's nice.
Me: mhm
Lady 2 Everyone loves New York
Lady 1: Not everyone, the people who drove the planes for instance.
Me:......
I mean what the hell, how is that an exceptable thing to say to anyone let alone a New Yorker you have only just met? So I got out of there as fast as possible and made my way home. Got to the apartment, had a small dinner, and went out to pool night. We played four games, and the first three I did pretty terribly. The last though I was beasting, just doing really great. It came down to just me and Oren, one ball left each, and I lost. It was terrible, also there was a strange moment about a strange woman asking me what I wanted to get tattooed on my ass, but any attempt to tell that story would be infinitely less funny than leaving it open. So Zach and I are back in the apartment, Oren is out consoling Sarah, whose father is threatening to take her out of the New Zealand program and ship her back home. I shall work on the outline for a bit now, hopefully finish the plans for issue three, then watch some Torchwood.

GAH I know it's late

So I haven't posted since Thursday, very bad I know really, and since it's all so overwhelming, and I'm getting over a rather drunk spell, I'm going to condense the past five days into one super digestable post:
Thursday: Work, watched an episode of Chuck (discretely at work), then asked for the day off Friday. Then went back to the apartment, made some Grilled Cheese, then went out with Sarah, and Trez, we meant to see Dirty Dancing, but got lost in the Botanical Gardens and ended up playing on the playground. We got lost again and it took a while to get back. Then when we did, we watched some Firefly.
Friday: Woke up earlier than I'd like, tried going back to sleep but failed. Then just bummed around in the morning. Went out to the kosher deli got one or two things, came back, went out again for a while. Came back, chilled for a while, then Sarah and Trez and Alex came over and there was more hanging out.
Saturday: Pretty Chill, did nothing until the afternoon, then met with Laura (the girl from the Library), with Oren, just chilled for a while. Came back, Zach went out to his crazy party in the woods, Trez and Alex came to chill, Oren and I got drunk on wine, and watched Justice League.
Sunday: Just Chilled, until the evening, saw Pirates vs. Ninjas
Monday: Work, then book launch got kinda drunk.

Not too much to report.

So today was pretty par for course. Work, was kinda boring, I was holed up at the computer that is crammed in its own little box near the elevators working in photoshop for most of the day. Also listened to music for a good portion of that, though the boss was meddling a lot, and it was a bit frustrating. Otherwise you know nothing special. One good thing is that I've got my name on a lot of books so that's spifftastic.
After work I did some grocery shopping then went back to the apartment. I discovered I can make grilled cheese and this is good because my menu has now grown exponentially. Then after that Nathan came over, we jammed and talked about lots of Jew things.
Rest of the evening spent watching Justice League, so while it wasn't very "productive" it was certainly an enjoyable day.

Forgot Monday

Yeah, sorry about that folks, I literally just forgot to post.
So Monday, what happened, uhm not too much now that you ask. Went to work, got back, Oren was out, hanging with Trez and Sarah, then brought them over, we chilled.
So today there was work, kinda boring stuff. Angela came over at4:30ish to check up on me, told her shit was good. Went back to the apartment kinda early chilled, then went out to the bar, and had trivia night. I'm really tired so this is a short post, sorry bout that peeps.

Damn Shiny

Today was damn shiny. Mind you it didn't quite start out that way, but in the end I must say it was pretty sweet.
So last night we went out to the crazy party that was Courtney Place, still for the sevens, and we met two guys that we saw at Synagogue and we hit up some bars. They left came a little late, and left pretty early but they're not too bad so it was cool. We also met up with most of the other Americans primarily Zach, Oren, Will, Kawe, Sarah, and Trez (Robin and Eliza made an appearance but little more). Still it was mostly fail since, Sarah was drunk, Will and Kawe were trying to get in her pants, Oren wanted to dance, Trez wanted to go wander then fall asleep, and I don't know exactly what I wanted to do, but wanted to chill with cool people. So we kept goint back and forth and around and about, Oren ended up at a dance club, Sarah, Will, Kawe, and Zach went somewhere, and I just walked around with Trez for a bit. Then went home, and Oren came back a few minutes later, so we watched some Justice League, which was pretty great.
Then this morning the plan was to go to the picnic for the synagogue with Oren. We got a little confused about directions so wandered for a little while, and then got there. Now we thought that they'd you know be having food, maybe even meat food if we were lucky, but we weren't. So Oren really needed to eat, because if he doesn't have food for a while he gets sick, so we just ditched before even saying high to people, which is unfortunate, but health comes first every time, and Oren's a solid dude. I also felt bad cause I was the one who really wanted to go, since the prospect of Kosher food was quite tempting. So we wandered around looking for food, he got a burger, I got fish, we shared some chips so it worked out in the end.
Then we went ot the community center to get information about possibly going to Rotarua for the weekend, since I've heard it's gorgeous and has all manner of awesome sports there. One such thing is Zorbing, if you don't know what it is, it's where they put you in a giant hamster ball, and roll you down a hill! So there are some cheap hostels in the area, the bus is like $40 but it's also seven hours to get there, which sounds like such a bitch, especially since I hate long periods being couped up. But still that was just research we might find better ways of going there, and we'll look into it some more.
Then we got to the library. Oren had to drop off some books, and then we checked out the graphic novel section so I could suggest some more shit for him. So we're looking for Fables and talking about it, and this very attractive girl randomly says, "Oh, you guys like Fables?" To which I of course respond that we do indeed, like Fables, and so we start talking comic books. She's not as obsessed as I am but the girl knows her shit. So she introduced herself (Laura was her name-o), and we introduced ourselves I recommended I Kill Giants and we got talking about, well pretty much everything. Buffy, Serenity, movies, America, jobs, New Zealand. The three of us just talked for over an hour, until the library closed which was early due to it being Sunday. So we got her number and are definitely going to hang out more which is great because she is like the coolest kiwi I have met yet, and she's gonna introduce us to her friends, and it'll be very nice.
So the rest of the day was spent watching Dr. Who, Funny People and the like. Did some laundry, it was all in all good. Also for your viewing pleasure, here is a link to a blog that Oren writes http://www.nero12111.blogspot.com/

Jewing it Up

So I finally got to Synagogue! it was actually pretty cool. Although weird story (and totally true) when I woke up this morning the one thing I remembered about my dreams was that I was being interrogated and for some reason had to name the ten commandments. Okay a little weird, but dreams are like that, the crazy part is that this weeks Torah portion was Yitro which if you didn't know is the one where God gives the ten commandments, it was weird but kinda cool. So Oren went with me, we met lots of nice people, I got an Aliyah, it was cool. We got invited out to lunch, tomorrow we might be going to a picnic, though Oren took out his cellphone in the middle of the kiddush, and it's an orthodox synagogue, so it was kinda awkward. Besides that it was all good times.
So then we went back home, had lunch and set off again. We went out to a playground that had a freakin' zipline, and played on that for a while. Then we climbed mount victoria and read comic books on the top and listened to the One Love concert that was going on. Also we could see the planes taking off from the airport which was cool. It was a little tiring getting up the mountain but it was damn beautiful.
Oh btw last night, I forgot to divulge, it was cool. We met two new interns who are staying over at a hostel, Sarah, and Trez, they're both pretty awesome people, we ended up chilling with them walking around Wellington, went on a super giant slide, just chilling, lots of fun.
The rest of the day was pretty chill, tonight we're going out again, gonna chill with other house, maybe meet up with one of the guys we met at synagogue, all in all should be pretty good.

Crazy Ass Friday

Today was kinda crazy. So I went to work today, that was normal. The first truly odd thing was lunch. See this weekend is the Sevens as I already stated yesterday. So I was eating on the harbor and everyone was dressed up and in bars. So people are drunk, and in costume so they have the good idea to start jumping into the water. There were super-heroes, and whores, diving into the drink, oh yeah and one guy went in butt naked (in front of hundreds of people mind you), it was weird. Work itself was pretty boring, I had to write up the back cover blurb for a poetry book and my boss couldn't decide what the fuck he wanted, so I ended up not finishing. I also heard him utter the words "A photograph of a black man fisting a white man." So that was horrifying. Funny typo though, I was writing a letter for the boss, and it started Hello! dear sir, or something like that instead it read Hell! dead sir, I cracked up.
So after work I met up with Oren at the library, we chilled there for a bit and then bought groceries, and headed home. I'll head out for a little bit tonight, and going to synagogue tomorrow, unless some mighty force stops me.

There was a freakin' parade

So today had some cool stuff happen.
What wasn't cool was waking up around seven to the sounds of construction. Seriously for a city that shuts down after five pm what the hell are construction workers doing using jackhammers at seven in the morning? So anyways I woke up and headed off to work as per usual. Thing I love about Thursdays, (which for those of you not keeping score at home was this past day in NZ) is that the big bossman spends the morning with his mokopuna (granddaughter in maori) which means that I can screw around and not work so damn hard. So that was nice, though he did pop in for a bit at like 10 with his granddaughter who was very cute, but very shy.
So it was an okay morning, then I left for lunch. As I am buying my fish'n'chips I hear an odd sound, drums. I look outside and notice that there is a parade. See there's this Rugby tournament called the sevens. Rugby is usually played with fifteen players on each side, the sevens is a seven person per team rugby game, and this was a traveling tournament with sevens players from all over the world. So each country's team was riding a float with music, and dancers, and people giving out free shit following each float. It was awesome, there were Fijan singers, people dressed up as the Blues Brothers, free mini rugby balls, Bagpipe players. It was great, lots of fun.
So I came back from work, and then did stuff for most of the afternoon. Though at around three my boss sat down with me and we discussed work/my travel plans for seeing New Zealand. It was nice that he was interested in the well-being of my trip. Then he left for the hospital and I listened to music at my desk.
So then after work I stopped off at the library, and I dropped off a comic, and picked up four more, which is cool. Then I went back home, Oren was out with peeps from the other apartment, Zach was high off his ass. The rest of the evening was boring, watching The Fountain, which was maybe the weirdest movie I have ever seen, then played some guitar, yeah and that's about it. Tomorrow is friday, whoo!

Odin's Day

So today wasn't necessarily uneventful but it weren't none too exciting either. I woke up at eight, reluctantly. Got ready for the day same as any, except I left mad late. I missed the bus, the next one wasn't coming for another fifteen minutes so walking was faster. Got to work, and spent the entire day working on the mining book. Still I left work pretty early, around three in the afternoon.
Reason for this was because I needed to buy clothing. So I left work headed for the comic book shop, bought a bunch of titles, then met Oren. We went to a few places, one called the Paper Bag PRincess (after the Robert Munch book) and got some cool stuff. Then we mosied on back to the apartment. The evening was pretty boring, watched Chaplin, Glee, Serenity. That's about it, sorry for the short post, but not too much to report folks. Hope all is well, cheers!

I have a really good excuse

See I didn't get to post yesterday but for a really good reason.
Yesterday was not what you'd call a great day. I woke up, and I knew that things were not going to go smooth. It was raining and I was groggy generally not too happy. So I went out, it was cold, really really cold, like 40s-50s farenheit. Bleh. Work was also not great, and lunch I had the worst Quesodilla I ever had. So that wasn't too great. I went back to the apartment chilled, Oren left to chill with Robin and the other apartment, Zach turned on Chaplin. The stove wasn't working, so Zach was fiddling with shit. I put my semi-wet clothing back into the drier, and all of a sudden the power for the entire apartment went off. This was not good, so we called Angela. She came by over half an hour late, and then when she was there she did absolutely nothing. She didn't call an electrician, didn't try finding out the problem, she said she'd try in the morning when most people would be open for business, and then was all "well this isn't America so we don't have electricians who can come by at eight". Then she knocked on the neighbors door and asked them if we could put shit in their fridge which was stupid since that would mean us opening ours and compromising everything else (which we told her). She troubles me, she is not competent and she is essentially the person who is supposed to be able to help me on this side of the planet.
So Zach decided he would chill with the other apartment, but I had not eaten yet, and going there would mean I don't eat for the rest of the evening. That being the case I went down to Cuba st. I was chilling there for a little while, looking for an open food joint, got some fallafel. About an hour later I call up Oren see where he is, he was eating at KFC then we met up on Cuba and chilled for a while. Got some ice cream walked around and just chilled it was pretty cool. We got back to apartment, which was near pitch black, and did more chilling just with Zach as well and we all went off to bed.
Today was considerably better, I couldn't eat breakfast here without milk available so I got myself a croissant and some weird chocolate milky thing at the French bakery on the way to work. Got there, did some good work today. Worked a spell on the Festschrift, started work on a book on New Zealand Mining. Also doing work on a few other poetry things, in general getting my name on lots of different things, doing some cool stuff. Also I got an invitation from "Her Worship the Mayor of Wellington" for a book launch in thirteen days that I'm going to, which was pretty cool. On the way back from work I stopped by the library, dropped off the last comic I took out, and picked up the first volume of Hellboy. Then afterwards Zach called asked if we were going out for pool, I said we would after watching an episode of Firefly, and eating. Came to the apartment, chilled with Oren till we finished food and The Message. We called Zach but he was busy getting high and drunk so Oren and I went to JJ Murphy's just the two of us. Oh yeah, and we suited up. It was really awesome. We came back and finished Firefly, and are now watching Serenity. Tomorrow I leave work early so I can go shopping, I'm bringing Oren along because I suck at shopping and he knows a thing or two about a thing or two. Also new comics should come whoo! (By the way the power is back)