Yesterday To Tomorrow

In Edmonton weeeeeeee.

Arrived this morning in town, and I confess that I wasn't that serious until we were here. Three of us drove straight through the night, and after catching the 3pm ferry yesterday, we didn't stop until 8ish this morning.

We found a friend who loaned us his condo indefinitely, which is an amazing score. He left for Cuba for a few months today, and it's a pretty sweet setup here.

After we crashed for a few hours this morning, I took a walk around the neighbourhood to get familiar with bus stops and stuff. We're staying in a new area, but it's established enough to have some attractive walking destinations rather than dirt mounds that usually surround new construction. I hope I find a job that allows me to stay in this place, so I can have a somewhat enjoyable routine.

Tomorrow I get my H2S, then tuesday I start firing resumes out. I've emailed a ton out already with no results, but I'm optimistic. I'll find 1 of 3 different categorized jobs:
1. An oil sector related job that is nearby, so I can stay here in edmonton
2. An oil sector related job that forces me to relocate to a work camp somewhere
3. A non-oil sector related job nearby, so I can stay

1 or 2 is just fine with me. 2 is lucrative for the simple reason that I get living out pay.

Anyway, there's a computer here in the condo, so if I stay I'll post updates fairly often.

Sunshine ftw...

'It’s such a waste child, to live and die for the Dreams of our Fathers'

Mosquito Song

Ahhh.

I crushed my exam today. I was feeling ho hum last night, but I woke up and everything clicked. I found awesome flow when I sat down, and didn't stop writing for over two hours as I went out with style.

In other news, I had a great jam session with the boys tonight. We're really tightening up some details in a lot of our music, and it's actually starting to sound good, even in our kitchen. I'm obviously not taking my bass with me when I leave, and I'll miss playing it I'm sure. On the same topic of music, I rocked my paper on music. Annnd I'm really into QOTSA right now. I thought I'd share one of their gems.

What else have I got? I guess I've had nagging tasks to get done since early march, and this lack of stuff to do is kind of weird. I might stay up all night playing video games. Why not? I am busy wrecking call of duty 4 on hardened mode these days.

One last thing. The sun is out, but is it too much to ask for a little heat?

'Lose the halo, don't need to resist
A lick of the lips and a grip on your hips'

The End

No it isn't.

I wrapped up two more classes today, and my last exam is tomorrow morning. I have the question that the entire exam is based on, but I still don't feel great about it. If I were Blake, I'd be stoked to answer the question, because I would be in love with historiography. But I'm not, and I'm not.

I spent most of the day at school, and like last monday, I got so much done it's making my head spin to think about. I took a break midday-ish to try an infrared sauna. It was pretty neat, and I have never perspired (blogger said 'sweated' wasn't a word) like that in my life. Gross, yet very relaxing and almost refreshing.

The rest of my week is pretty straight forward. After I finish tomorrow, I have to focus on contacting employers around edmonton to try and set up a job to start next week. Which can totally happen. I have the names of several companies and employers up there, so I just need to get in touch with them.

Anyway, I'm really excited and anxious these days. I've had my semester come down to the last two weeks, and I think I crushed it. One more to go. One more to go.

'If it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave'

Soul Meets Body

Busy week.

A week ago I made my infinite list of things to do. Although I plowed through this week in sort of a trance, I didn't get it all done. I got thursday's and friday's assignment/task pushed back to this monday. Which is kind of lame, I was ready to rock and would have preferred it to be done by now. So I have monday, then my history exam on tuesday. I'm feeling pretty good about those three classes.

I leave for alberta next week. I've been applying to a bunch of jobs, and this is the one I'm aiming at:

Title: Floorhand - service rig
Terms of Employment: Permanent, Full Time, Overtime, Weekend, Day
Salary: $23.90 Hourly for 65 hours per week, Bonus, Other Benefits
Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
Location: Grande Prairie, Alberta (20 vacancies )
Experience: Will train

Sick. There's like 100 more vacancies like this all over in various spots all over the province. Three of us are going to Alberta, and hopefully we'll all get on together. If not, then I have no problem going on by myself. Should be a really good experience. I'm really not going for a positive experience, or for a sweet time with friends. I'm also not going so I can spend my weekends and time off having a good time. I'm going to make as much money as I possibly can. If I can sort of isolate myself, all the better.

Between now and then I have a pile of stuff to take care of. I'll be coming home the day before my graduation ceremony, which is June 3rd. I figure I'll spend 5 weeks in Alberta, and if I'm somewhat successful, I'll go for 5 or 6 more weeks when in June/June.

It seems like life is happening in a hurry. I feel really fortunate to be in a situation where I can do what I want. A different setup and I could see myself being pressured into looking a little broader than just looking out for myself.

Totally changing the subject, I wanted to mention a few small highlights from my week. My presentation at the undergrad research symposium was really successful and the observers were really intrigued with my work. Also, props to my buddy blake for running fairly hot at online poker recently. I haven't been playing much, but I do enjoy watching him play deep into tournaments. After logging hundreds of hours last year at online poker, I can appreciate the thrill of running hot. I hope he keeps it up.

Lastly, I got ditched last night and wanted to just mention the circumstances. I was sort of confused, and maybe writing it out will provide some clarity. My buddy wanted to go out and drink last night. I didn't want to, nor do I have any money to. He offered to basically bankroll me for the night if I would wingman. So I did, and we went a few places, and I pretty much defined wingman the whole night. He appreciated it though, and kept the drinks coming. Then he randomly gets up and announces he has to leave, and takes off outside. I follow, and he gets in a random car with random people, and they take off. Ok. I was just kind of confused about why, but I suppose the guy is just running free. Which is fine.

have a good weekend...

'I’m on my feet
I’m on the floor
I’m good to go'

Spirit Voices

I've been listening to a bunch of this guy lately. It's good for you.

Finished two courses today. I wrote my nutrition exam and my online Olympics exam this afternoon. Kinda nice to clear two classes in one afternoon. 4 down, three courses left to wrap up. I have one wrap on friday, one on monday, and I finish tuesday with my Holocaust exam.

I went to parksville on a whim tonight for dinner at a buds house. It was nice to relax. I ate well, wound up drinking well, and generally wound down. Tomorrow is back to the millstone to crank stuff out, but I enjoyed tonight. Saturday night will be good too. Friends are coming over for a little house thing. If I don't invite you, don't feel let down. Just come.

For some reason I go on weird trends in listening to music. I might go a few months listening to hard metal, grunge and prog rock, and ignore entire genres for long periods of time. Right now I am on a real slow kick, and I can't seem to shake it. While I'm really enjoying it all, I'm finding that my variance is limited these days, and I wish I could enjoy tool again like I like snow patrol. I am used to a different school atmosphere at this time of year, so that might explain it. I'm usually stressed like crazy this time of year, and maybe that mindset is creating my musical taste du jour. Or de l'année.

Good luck on exams, or whatever it is you need luck on.

'She lies and says shes in love with him, cant find a better man'

Busted Stuff

I saw the end of an era tonight.

After my busy day at school, which came after my busy night in front of my computer, I did something enjoyable. And I didn't think it was going to be enjoyable. I went to my athletic banquet, which I haven't really enjoyed in a few years. I enjoyed it not because I actually won a few awards for the first time ever, I think it was more to do with the teammates I was there with. Although only 9 of us showed up, it was nice to spend time with the guys I like, even if it's just one more (/last) time.

After the dinner and awards thing, a bunch of us piled over to some lame-o club (spice) that I'd never been too, and hadn't planned on going to. Inside were a bunch of people from the same program as me. As more people showed up and the place filled up, I realized how many people I knew. While there must have been like 300+ people, I would say I knew 80% of them. It was really strange, and then I started thinking about how many of them I would never see again. It was kind of a weird feeling, but at the same time I recognized it and managed to have a great time.

Home time was kind of tough, but I had a better time than I've had in a long time, so at least I can sleep knowing I went out with a good time.

A bunch of friends were dancing, and I don't really like that sort of thing unless I'm drinking, so I eventually decided to drink, although by this time it was still only like 11pm. By 1230 a good friend of mine and I decided to give it a whirl out on the dancefloor with friends. Given that hour and a half to get the state of mind/ balls to get out there and look silly, I had a good time.

I really wanted to have a good time, and I did. The whole 'no regerets' motto is kind of cheese to me, but I made it happen.

I hope this hangover doesn't come. Pleeeeeease one time.

'I can't change what I am right now/ but I'll be fine in the next life

All These Things That I've Done

Stats time. Because I can.

Pages - 58

Words - 10,574

First ever document with a table of contents - [x]

A+ material - [_]

Date Started - February 5, 2008

Date Finished - April 14, 2008

Songs played during todays marathon - 159

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