frig

so i read the exam schedual wrong, the exam i thought was next monday is tommorrow, that gave me 12h to study and sleep, crap, i g2g read

broken glass

people in glass houses should not throw stones, but they do.... perhaps this is due to a denile of their own glass existence, people talk about opeople too much and cause way too many problems, people need to think more about the effects of their words on others, everyone has flaws and issues they have to deal with, there are appropriate times when people may need to be made aware of issues, but if they are aware of the issue and are trying to improve it then pointing it out will only make it worse, peopel need to smarten up, me included, we don't need rto speculate on who has a thing for who and who has problems with what, we need to pull out the duct tape and strategically shut the mouths of our minds so that we don't continue this stupid trend... and that is my rant for today

well i havn't posted in a long time

heres a summary of my life, i'm gunna start blogging again but i'm not really gunna try to fill in everything from the past few months other than this list
-i dropped outta art school
-moved to portcredit
-did my dts
-fed people cuz thats what i do
-went to india
-came back
-moved to waterloo
-studying anthroplogy

INDIA!

Wow I havn't posted since I came to YWAM, i guess thats what happens when i don't have internet in my room and gain a social life.... leaving for india June 10th for 2 months... thats a week and a half! sooo excited

Busier than the Season Finale of a Sitcom

thats my life right now, sooooo busy, crazy stuff going on, heres a sample:

This past weekend my sister was in a car accident while driving my bros truck, rolled it, lucky to be alive, then 10 pple staying in my house all weekend, did a performance painting at church, then 2 days at beal to finish up everything, dropped out yesterday, got 4 days to pack, gotta put together a slide show and prepare a interview for this sunday at church, then pack the car while my mom is at drama practice, then go to TO and unpack.....

oh and somewhere in there b4 sunday i gotta finsih 5 or 6 art pieces, so yes I'm generally moving quicker than a squirrel on expresso been busy putting software on my sisters labtop she lent me as well, and ya busy busy, (sorry lucanites but there is no way i can swing attending that fundraiser tomorrow night), well a bit more sensless relaxing internet surfing more me then bed and then back to business, peace

Lasts

today was very much a last day, heres all the things I finished today:

-being officially a highschool student
-riding the short bus
-riding yellow school buses everyday
-going to art school
-milking cows

i'll have alot more "lasts" in the next fewe days and then a whole load of starts... its gunna be great, but at the same time kinda sad to be finishing almost everything in the meantime

just for fun.... yer on jury duty

ok, so while milking cows today I was thinking (surprise surprise)... btu what else do you do while doing such routine manual labour? .. anyways as my mind surfed through a multitude of thoughts I came up with a random game for you all to play. your on jury duty. The laws in this court are slightly different though, everyone gets tried as an adult and your verdict doesn't have to reflect any of our laws, you just have to give a guilty or not guilty (however if you want to explain your answer or give an idea for punishment go ahead)... just post your verdict as a comment to this entry. You have 3 cases.

case 1

Fred Smith is insane, he has created a man named Bob O'neil in his mind, Now Bob does not exist but to Fred he does.... one day Fred got mad at Bob and beat him to death with a baseball bat, As far as Fred knows He murdered a real person.... so is Fred guilty of murder?

case 2

Mr. Anderson had a dream last night. This was one of those dreams where you get to make decisions and at the time of the dream it is so real you think it is real. In the dream he choses to kill a man. He later wakes up to realize its a dream, but is he a murderer for choosing to kill the man?

Case 3

Charlie is a 10 year old boy with a vivid imagination. As most children do he creates world in his head for entertainment. He often becomes so absorbed in these worlds that they feel more real than the real world, however he is always aware deep down that they are not the real world even though he invests as much time in these alternate realities as the real world. He feels a closer connection to the characters in his fake world then to people in teh real world. One day in his imaginary kingdom he creates a new person and imediatley jumps on their shoulders and bites a few wholes in their juggular vein, killing them..... is he a murderer?


ok lets hear your opinions.

Slides

tues march 13 2007

I just spent my evening looking through old slides with my amazingly cool grandparents, there was alot of slides of "brother with brother at such and such a church" which were interesting and cool, but the my favorite slides are always the ones from their years doing missions in tanganyka/tanzania, and there are always some really cool stories that go along with these, I love my grandparents, they are the greatest

regarding bathrooms

ok, so they say confession is good for the soul, well what about silly confessions? anyways heres a nice rant on my feelings on bathrooms that you prob don't know

so for starters, I hate using bathrooms at other people's houses, they're always so white, pastel and sterile... it makes me uncomfortable, being alone in that kinda environment in a persons house.. i dunno its just awkward, and the worst part: the shower. now not all showers bother me, just the ones with totally opaque doors/ curtains, it just bothers me when i'm using a persons bathroom and theres this big area thats right there that something could be in.... maybe i'm afraid frankenstein is gunna jump out or something, its weird, I just find it awkwardly threatning.... and then ther are shower doors that are mirrors, that way you can sit on the loo and see yourself, I mean whats up with that?! pple are strange... now most pple would rather use any bathroom over a puiblic bathroom, me on the otherhand, i find public washrooms much less awkward than that in other peoples houses, but they are still retarded, first of all I refuse to use urinals, mainly because you have no privacy with them, in many cases you have to stand with your shoulders touching the guy next to you to use them.... and that is just awkward, so i use the stalls, whoever designed the toilets in my schools washrooms should be shot, they are super shallow which means that whenever you take a dump water splashes up and hits you, such a bad design, oh and then another part of that design problem is that if the lid of the toilet is closed b4 you flush it water splashes up and hits the lid and pours onto the seat, and then when the next person comes in they don't know if its because of the toilet or if the person b4 them had bad aim, speaking of bad aim how is it possible that in nearly every public washroom you use some guy manages to miss the toilet by atleast 4 feet? i mean is it really that hard? if it is, please just sit down,... or even worse they get crap on the wall on the opposite side of the stall, sick ppel these days..... so basically to conclude I just hate washrooms in general

regardling the cutness and grossness of the events surrounding baby cows

tues march 13 2007

Man, there was this newborn baby jersey cow at work today ( i didn't see the birth, i think it was already a few hours old), but it was soooo cute, still wet from the mom licking it clean, nice dark redish brown with amazing eyes, underlined in black, it was sooo cute, i got right up close to it, like within inches of its face, then the mom say me superclose bend down next to the gate and started making angry grunting noises so i backed off, but i coulda touched it had i wanted too.... I think God made baby animals so cute just to protect them from us, there is no way anyone could butcher an animal that cute (but when they get old and fat and oh so scrumptious looking, well thats another story).... either that or the cutness is to counteract the after birth, that stuff is disgusting, so gross, just a big pile of gunk in sitting there in the stall, birthing is not a very pretty thing, especially when it goes wrong, like there is this other cow at work that gave birth a while back and when it delivered the baby it also delivered it whole uterus, the vet stuffed it back in, but now its got a stitch holding everything in..... its pretty gross looking, the kinda thing alot of artists would photograph just to shock people... anyways i'll leave you with that as a mental image

coffee house

to raise money for my missions trip, april 29, at catherine street hall in dorchester at 6:30... still needing more performeres so any musician friends of mine who are willing to donate some of yer talent contact me... more info to follow (p.s. I will be cutting off my braid at this event so you all better come ;) )

maple

sun march 11 2007

been collecting sap for 2 days now, start boiling it tomorrow, resulting in sugary goodness, now i'm actually not a fan of maple syrop but i like making it, makes me feel like a real canadian and a real country kid, also i like maple sugar and taffy, and maple tea made from the sap, mmmmmmm, can't wait to start boiling

The Evil White

mon march 5 2007

Oh white cloud of fury, quit this maddness of littering my world with your frozen waste, your unholy war with all that is green has gone on far too long


thats right, yet another snow day, i need the studio time, This is my last week! grrr, this time the bus came, picked me up, then turned around and dropped me back at home.... i hate winter... its too cold too

vroom vroom

thurs march 1 2007

So after 2 failed attempts to get my G2 I can now finally drive legally.... i guess third time is the charm... that or its cuz the London rout was sooooo much easier than tilsonburg.... anyways thats the main news of the day

I also ordered in 2 dozen t-shirts to silk screen..... and I intend to attempt to get them all practically done in 3 days..... i gotta get moving.... mon tues wed next week i'll be a silk screening machine..... also, it is now march so I move to missasauga in less than a month... sooooo excited, life is getting busy, having to cram everything between now and then but its ok, i'm not stressed at all yet...

so I went to school today after my drivers test to discover that my bus had been cancelled... so i was at school on a day i didn't have to, but thats good cuz I need all the studio time i can get right now... hope my bus runs tomorrow... its really icey... anyways that was my day, peace

Thrift stores rock

today while I was browsing through the toys at Talize I found a small loom made of plastic.... and it was only $3, I bought it... gunna weave me some fabric... it'll be sweet

New blog address

yes this is me, Jordan... i hope everyone made the jump to the new address ok... good, so this is the new address... but still the good old blog... hmmm ya i have nothing to say... i'm a little bored... peace

bad sites, good beads and super excited!

tues feb 21 2007

University websites stink, I spent forever filling out a form... just for the site to loose it... i mean seriously you think with what tuition costs are the universities could hire top of the line programers... anyways they stink

but that doesn't matter cuz I am happy

I realized something today: I love beads, sewing beads onto my textiles project was so fun... i think i may sew beads onto a bunch of my clothing, its really relaxing and looks cool

and I am still sooo excited for YWAM, there only like 1 month left till i leave for training in missasauga!, wahoo! I'm a bit wired


.... then again the sudden burst of energy right now may have to do with it being quarter to one....but i am way to hyper to sleep,... anyways i have nothing more to write

Thrift store finds of today

well, it was Tallize, so its liquidation and thrift store finds

-2 metal cd cases
- a vest that is solid embroidery
-a cd called "world flutes"
- a few shirts
-VHS of "alien"
-VHS of old x-men cartoon
- super wide green and red suspenders


it was a good day

Finally settled, now time to leave

thurs feb 16 2007

When I moved home from braeside (camp) in september I didn't feel like I would ever be able to settle living at home and going to beal, well i'm finally at a point where I feel home at my parents house and have roots in my school... and its tiem to leave, a month and a bit till i move out... but its all ok... I've been wanting to go to this program since the end of summer, and I am sooo excited... just thought it was funny that It took me till now to feel totally settled and that i'm leaving so short after.... anyways don't really have anything to say... peace

Return of the Accordion

tues feb 13 2007

So i've started playing my accordion again... starting to break away from my internet life and start doing stuff in the real world again, its fun I love my accordion.... if any one ever sees a "I heart Accodion" T-shirt buy me one..... now i just need to practice and get good

"The last king of scotland"

sun feb 11 2007

I went and saw the movie "the last king of scotland" today, well made, very graphic.. its the story of the dictator of uganda in the 70s... almost liek a documentary... very well acted, lots of blood but thats kinda a given based on him being psychotic paranoid killer... and ya it was interesting and educational... but not a movie to watch when you want light entertainment

Felt

wed, Feb 7 , 2007

So today I made felt in textiles, gunna make a pounch, basically we cleaned wool, layed out a picture in colored wool on the white mat me got from cranking our wool through this spinning comb thing we cranked, then we sewed the wood between scraps of cotton... then poured boiling water on it and beat it like crazy for an hour (including running and jumping on it) and them we took off the cotton scraps and behold! we have felt.... kinda a fun process kinda tiring... but it was cool regardless

BOLLY WOOD

wed feb 7, 2007

So I guess I should post that I think I know where my YWAM DTS is going (nothing is confirmed or official yet).... but I'm probly going to Bollwood, India... India! thats amazing, heard this a few days ago, got me really excited, oh man I am so excited for the whole YWAM thing to start! now i just gotta start fundraising... oh and i gotta figure university junk, ahhhhh, life is busy, oh well

I HATE WINTER!

mon. Feb 05 2007


ITS STINKING TOO COLD!!!!!!

Internet reality!

Sun. Feb.04 2007

woah, havn't posted in a bit, anyways I went up to Simco to meet some of my online buddies in real life and to see some of my braeside pals at the same time, it rocked, definetly all cool guys, though I have to admit there was a bit of an awkward pause when I arrived at the house I was staying at the first night and drew a blank for the names of my internet buddies when their dad answered the door (I could only remember screen names)... but ya that was soooooo fun. We all had a nighter, I was the sock wrestling champ (I actually won an event requiring physical ability!), mighty fun

Last Exam!

tues January 30 2007

I WROTE MY LAST EXAM!!!... for highschool anyways, there'll be more in my future schooling, but ya, since i'm dropping out of Beal before the end of the year today was my last highschool exam, which is kinda cool

I SET A RECORD!

Monday Jan 29 2007

I set a record in something other than a video game!.... this is a rare thing as I have no athletic ability and am not very motivated for alot of things.....I get sidetracked with other projects.... anyways the record I set isn't really anything special, I've spent the most money on material for a foundations sculpture class.... $62, wow thats alot... but then i did use every matierial we had except sheets of steel that require welding, that $62 got me to use: Clear resin casting, graphite resin casting, alabaster carving, masonite for relief sculptures, copper sheets, brasing wire, plexi-glass, korean silver and sterling sliver.... wow i was a busy kid these past 8 weeks

A New Favorite Movie!

fri Jan 26 2007

"End of the Spear" has gotta be one of the best movies ever! such a great story, and so well made, I love it, Go watch it! plus its a true story which makes it even cooler, ah man, so good

YWAM!

Jan 26 2007

so my appliction finally got processed, Going to be attending their Justice arts media Discipleship training school in TO in march, and then who knows where... I am so excited

Rubber Cement

mon Jan 22 2007

I hate rubber cement, it doesn't like me, it always destroys my projects, dun know why i'm incapable of getting good results.... plus it stinks and gives me headaches..... gotta be careful not to get high on the fumes.... anyways, its back to gluesticks for me, even if they do cause paper to buckle

I love VIM

January 21 2007

Lesson of the day:
When using india ink and msn at the same time be VERY careful

I have spilled india ink several times this weekend, the latest being on the floor by the computer, just missed the keyboard.... i'm a bit clumbsy, anyways idia ink is much fun and Vim does wonders to get it off.... my hands are white again! lol, they've been various shades of skin color and black all weekend

Monks are cool

January 21 2007

Man I love medieval monks. I did a cross hatched picture of one for drawing class and decided to write a scripture above it in gothic caligraphy... all this with a fountain pen of course. Doing the text was so tedious, I have SO much more respect for the medieval monks that wrote out the entire Bible like this, like wow that is alot of work and alot of dedication. There should be like a monk appreciation day or something.

Fancy Dinner and Cheese

Fri Jan 19 2007

So for my brothers birthday we went out for a fancy dinner. Usually we don't go to the really expensive facy places but this place had a special celbration thing, everything was their original prices form the 70s so we went (I think we booked reservations a year in advance)... anyways it was interesting seeing how us kids reacted.... my brother especially, I think he used every utensil he was given for every course, anyways it was quite funny

Another story from today:

So I was making this giant fake piece of cheese for a drama at church this sunday, it was almost done, carved out of foam and looked all pretty, and then me being my regular forgetful self left it at school, so I just had to whip one up with good old paper mache, hadn't used the stuff in a few years... kinda fun, makes me feel like I'm 6 again... anyways i gotta milk early tommorrow sp I'm quitting here

sore eyes, new tooth, cheap books and crunch time

Jan 18 2007

Ouch my eyes hurt. Today I had sculpture class and while I was working in the ventilation booth, there were several people melding behind me. With no room to set up a screen I figured I was ok since my back was turned.... apparently something was reflective in my booth though cuz now my eyes hurt

On a more positive note, I got a temporary cap put on my broken tooth, so now I don't look like simple simon anymore. Also I got some cool books for cheap, a whole stack of christian lit for 15 bucks, dated but still good, found a whole section in the back of a used books store downtown, I'm excited, I've been needing more books.

One week and one day till exams and then my studios switch... and we all know what that means.... crunch time... I'm saying crunch vs cram because in an art program you don't really ever cram information, you just actually work in the time alotted vs procrastinating.... finally finishing some projects.... I'm actually gunna have homework this weekend.... maybe i was too ambitious with my projects.... oh well its all good, textiles and ceramics start after exams, sorta excited there, means when I travel I will be able to tell the diff between tourist quality stuff and the good stuff.... anyways it is midnight and I should go to bed, peace

ICE

Freezing rain, it lots of fun, got me a day off school, so now i get to just chill all day.... slept for 10.5 hours, such a waste of half a day but makes up for me only getting 3 hours the night b4, oh well, man i love having a tv set up in the computer room, watching the league of extraordinary gentle men right now, great movie, some of the greatest books combined... though really not a fan of the graphic novel (don't read it)... anyways nothing more to say, peace

GREEK!

So as of today I am learning Greek. Been wanting to for a while but wanted to learn Swahili first. Unfortunatly my software that teaches Swahili is missing... so I finally gave in and skipped to Greek. My eventual goal is to be able to read from the Greek Bible if I wish, I'm a far cry from there though.... just getting the alphabet down now

resin

smell bad, polymer resin does, like toxic chemical hurting your brain....... man i hate filing

Why am I retarded?

I take forevere to finally make decisions on things and then as soon as I start to take action I want to back out, grrrrrrr... oh well, I got the ball moving enough that I can't back out now which is good cuz i don't want to, even though my stupid self is trying to back out

Bothersome stuff

Its kinda crazy how stuff can bother you, Liek something will bother you for a long time, and then when you get so you can live with it, it bothers you that it has the potential to bother you.... grrr.... contrary feelings stink as well

Fur Be Gone

I shaved off my side burns.... kinda weird now, Used to looking in the mirror and looking different... its strange, and I definetly look a bit younger and geekier now (a good thing with the geekiness), but I may grow them back... depends on how lazy I am

"Trip of crazy coolness"- (I'm going to start posting my titles down here so that the date of each post is more visible)

So I went down to Essex and Leamington to visit some freidns. A five day trip, and I've gotta say, It was great.I love everyone, Its so nice to have such cool friends I had a blast, ... only problem is that now my sleeping schedual is messed up so i'm gunna have trouble waking in the morning, oh well, what will be will be. peace

Lazyness, Forgetfulness and Procrastination are all terrible things

The Deeper Side of Wasted Talent

So I give God my all, but is my all the best I have to give? If I give all my talents to him but don't ever develop them I'm not giving him my best. Although I may not be the most awesome person out there, I want to give God the best I can, That means effort on my part, I can't just drift through life anymore

I Waste Talent

I've been realizing as of late that I am wasting talent. I have been given the gift of being able to create, yet instead of developing these skills and creating the best I can, I tend to use my talents as a crutch, slapping work together in short periods of time. Its not that the art I've made hasn't been good, its just that I have rarely used the full extent of my talents in my art. So this can be a belated new years resolution I guess- Make better art that requires more effort- (how this will relate to actual school assignments I don't know, i may stay less dedicated to them then i could be, this is mainly just for my personal art that I make because I want to)

New Years

spent new years eve in Lucan, visiting friends, did an all nighter with their church's youth group, much fun..... i love all nighters, and it was cool to hang out with a youth group again, spent the whole night hanging out in the church.... and of course with me accident prone i got injured (surprise, surprise) ... first I gored up my leg a bit while playing hide and seek in the dark... got it stuck under the metal railing around the stairs... stabbed it in a few places, some blood and bruising but not too bad.... then later playing dodge ball with frisbies i took one to the mouth and broke the cap off one of my front teeth (yes, again) so now i'm gunna have to get that re-capped, anyways it was a really good night, went to bed at 8am, got 4h of sleep, and i am wired! I love life, so nice to see pple again