Ethnocentrism is blah!

So i'm sitting in philosophy and basically the philosopher we're studying, who the teacher seems to agree with, suggests that western art is better then eastern. His idea's are much more complex then that but I am sick and tired of the massive amounts of ethnocentrism in our society. Its lame, go look at some foreign stuff its beautiful... mind you I'm at risk of becoming a Xenocentrist (like all cultures but my own) so I am a bit biased, but still people need to open their eyes and change their perceptions

Almost like the Borg

One thing that frustrates me about university is the similarities between everyone. Here I am living in one of the most diverse places I've ever lived where everyone is seeking new knowledge questioning what they know looking at new ideas, and yet.... its all the same. We all write exams at the same time. we all get stressed at the same time. We are all aspiring to bigger and better things. We all value education. I mean we all have very different ideas and are studying very very different subjects but we are essentially all the same; we are all students. No one here is just wanting to work a simple job that will just get them what they need. So even though Everyone is very different here we are all very much the same, we have been assimilated... at least until we get our degrees

Midterms and stuff

so its been a while since i posted last... i need to get regular again, anyways its midterms now, i'm taking a study break, this week 3 midterms and an essay, going to a sushi buffet later today so thats good, hmmm what else is ther to say, well i've started gaming again, i decided that i miss being a geek and i think i can game healthily again, i'm also making an effort to start making art again, i mean i spent 8 months in a fine arts program no sense putting those skills to waste. and thats alll for now, peace

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

Remember back when you first got internet?

Remember back when you first got internet? The paranoia? "Don't ever put your real name online" and "be careful who you talk to" and also things like "never eat of drink by the computer"... well as I sit eatiing soup above my keyboard I got thinking, things have really changed, I now practically live online, there are all sorta of people i know online but not in the real world, my email has my full name in it, .... so why this change?,.... well I'm older for one, don't have to worry so much about crazy people stalking me I can better take care of myself as an adult, internet isn't such a new scarey thing, we're used to it, and of course technology is cheaper now so we can afford to buy a new keyboard if we spill soup on the keys

visiting people!

I'm excited, visiting pple i havn't seen in months for new years, and then the next weekend visiting some other friends... I'm excited, I love friends I should visit more people mor often... or maybe just actually hang out with my friends here more...hmmm that could work, lol.... peace

I love making stuff, anything, it feels so great, you start with nothing and end up with cool stuff... spent the morning making stuff (can't say what cuz they're gifts) and then did some writting later on... i'm not really a writer but it just happened and some cool poetic stuff resulted, anyways this is just random rambling so i'll leave you be

New Look

ok, so I'm trying to be a bit more my age as of late, still be the crazy hyper random me, and never actually grow up (I'm sorta like Petere Pan I guess) , actually all this means is that I am trying to make stuff look a bit less tacky (but not my clothing), but my blog has a nice new look, my email address is now just my name and is not longer at hotmail,... you know move away from all the remenants of pre-teen me... my words are being butchered, o well, its not like people expect me to be coherant all the time- if you do you don't rteally know me, lol.... anyways enjoy the new skin on the blog (note: if it looks like I copied the skin off your blog *cough*clambo*cough* I did, this template is nice)

I really should post about how christmas went, but I'm not

I really should post about how christmas went seeing as I went on and on about how graet it is..... but I'm not, it was great as always and I think pple are tired of christmas stuff by now and I wanna write on other stuff- Life is amazing, seriously look around you how amazing everything is designed, how water flows, and how air feels when it moves, its amazing, God created a cool world, I Love everything, I am happy

Santa wears a black suit and has a big grey beard today

Solomon, an older Amish neighbour of mine came by today bearing gifts. He's a cool guy, one of the nicest men you'll ever meet, anyways he brought two boxes full of baking! different things were labelled from different Amish families. (they're baking is sooooooo good), we get goodies from them every year, but this is alot more than usual. I love the Amish, they're all so nice and really great neighbours.

A "LIFE IS AMAZING!" and "I LOVE CHRISTMAS!" entry

(sorry Katy, but I'm too much of an optimist to not write about how much life rocks)

so today another cow was born in the barn, i didn't see this birth but i saw the baby right after the mom had licked it clean, Man, God is amazing, how he designed new life to grow in and eventually squeeze out of old life, and then when you see the baby it looks so frail, taking its first steps and falling flat on its face, and then the mother standing over it, a huge gigantic beast watching over it soo intently, and knowing that the baby will one day be as strong and powerful as the mother, its just so cool.

now an "I love christmas" post:

was listening to the radio (i only do this at christmas cuz usually i can't find much i like,.... plus i get headaches from radios)... anyways there was a song about how during the first world war they stoppeed fighting on christmas and played soccer between the two trenches, the song was going on about how christmas brings out the good in people and how it should continue to happen today.... well it does, we have all those sweet charities helping people out and more pple seem to give to them at thios time of year, I wish pple would act the same way they do at christmas all year... everyone is so nice at this time of year, and pple seem to care about the rest of humanity, i love it

its begginning to look alot like christmas

pics of christmas decorations, my favorites: (sorry bout the quality... forgot excellerator on

-stocking I painted when i was 3 (ok my mom dipped my figers in paint and drew the sceme with my little hands)

-our crazy nice nativity set

-the tree, i love real christmas trees

- mary, joseph and jesus flight to egypt figures, some cheesy european looking figures that used to be my Oma's, i like them cuz christmas decoratiojns normally quit at the stable, this one goes further

O Tannenbaum

we got our tree today, I love those cut yer own places.... its a blue spruce (so my mom is happy) and is an overall good tree.... I tried to talk my mom into buying more lights and covering the tree completely so that no green could be seen... we compromised on just using all the mini-lights we have... I'll take a pic of it when i'm done decorating it and post it.... merry almost christmas everyone

monster returns, stop why not I? It dies in a flood.

cape

i guess i should post a pic of the cape i sewed to be one of my winter coats... it took forever and the fabric costed me a bundle.... but it was worth it... sorry the pic is so washed out.... did the lightening really quick, ... oh, the mural behind me is one my mom and I did a few yaers back.... peace

End of Geekdom!

as i am cutting things down and out of my life i am realizing i ma losing touch with geek culture..... could an end of my geekyness be near?.... NEVER! but i'm on a bit of a vacation.... not gunna be so hardcore must knowing everything about every area of geekdom ... for that is really tough on the brain... no wonder so many geeks become socially inept.... anyways thats just a random thought for today

work

just to clarify about my job:

I milk cows, monday to firday in the evenings and saturday early in the morn

each shift is 2.5 hours, in that time I milk approx 75 cows... no i do not do it by hand... that would take forever, I use machines, that way i can milk 5 at once.... ya farming uses tecnology.... you'de be surprised at how many people think i do it all by hand into a bucket, lol.... anyways thought i'd clarify that all up

p.s. milking is one of the easiest jobs ever once you get the hang of it, requiress no brain activity... though you smell funky afterwards

still up

its 20 to 2 in the morn... mom don't kill me when you read this... my brain clicked into random information collection mode... did you know that pope john paul II is an honorary harlem globe trotter? and that girraffs can go longer without water than camels... oh man... i should go to bed.... but my brain is too active.... ahhhhhh

GREEK

so i should be in bed right now.... but i'm not

i was on msn, chatting as usual, and then a friend came on.... cramming for a greek exam tommorrow... well he started typing out what he was studying as a way to put it in his memory... i couldn't leave... this stuff is far too interesting, though i dun remember any of the greek words the kazzillion diff forms for everything is interesting.... oh great, now i wanna take a greek course (thanx alot clambo).... I'm tired, dunno why is only 12:15, and i shouldn't complain, my friend who is studying is 5 hours ahead so its its much later there... or earlier since its technically morning..... note to self- if you ever take a second language (which you most likely will) don't wait till the night b4 the exam to learn it

B-live done

so bethlehem live is done yet again.... this should be my last year playing joseph, yet if I come home from wherever i move to next year i will most likely get conned into it again, I don't really mind .... had a fun snowball fight with some of the other teens/ young adults and kids afterwards... much fun... but i did cut open a kids lip with a chunk of ice in one.... oops.... luckily his parents are cool with it (i wouldn't have had a snow ball fight with him if they weren't cool)... but ya i have "josephs song" stuck in my head now... twas my big dramatic scene in the play... really good song though, makes you think about josephs take on the nativity.... but its sooo slow and its driving me crazy! AHHHHHH!, lol not that crazy... anyways peace

6 weird things

I got tagged by my sister. So now I am supposed to post 6 weird things about myself..... Who am I gunna tag? anyone that reads this.... fwahahaha! now you have to post 6 weird things about yerself on yer blog!

Here are my six:

1. I have a huge fear of footballs... but not the actual ball... only its pattern of movement

2. I know more fake languages than real ones

3. my ear lobes are different shapes (on account of one being ripped off)

4. have you seen my hair?

5. I have had both scarlet fevor and whooping cough... yet I've never been to the tropics

6. there are too many to count, so i'm not gunna bother to list anymore... u all know them

I am becoming my mother, lol... last night before bethlehem live (the play i'm in) i was running around checking that everyone was ready and doing all this extra last minute stuff not expected of me.... then i realized, this is exactly what my mom always does.... not a bad thing, but it was funny that i just realized it

Schools closed

all schools in 4 counties are closed due to snow! police are telling pple not to use the streets unless its an emergency... this is crazy

Bethlehem live

whoah, last minute change with the christmas production our church is doing.... got bumped into being Joseph yet again, oh well i know the part this is my third year playing the part, its all good

oh by the way if you wanna come see me, its in dorchester on our church property between the 2 elementary schools (there are 3 in dorchester, its should be obvious which 2 i'm talking about though)... if you need directions email me.... its at 7pm, this friday, saturday, sunday (december 8,9,10) .... peace

Annoyed

so I found a school that has a program i'm really interested in in BC... prob is admission requirements are diff there than here... If your coming from Ontario you need to have graduated with at least 65%, no problem there... but they specify within your 6 4U or 4M courses that you should have 4 of them be from this list.... only 3 of mine are.... not totally my fault, of the 23 courses listed LDSS only offered 9, thats sad... i think i can still apply for the program and seeing as my marks are what they are i may be considered, i dunno... the whole university thing is just plain annoying, oh well, maybe i will be limited to schools in ontario in the end, whatever

Life is Good

hey everyone, just a reminder, Life is good, its all a matter of perspective, look past the not so good stuff and realize that yer life is actually quite great

Snow day

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
but the fight is so delightful,
and since theres no place to go,
let is snow, let it snow, let it snow

snow day! i love them... i wish i wasn't missing sculpture class but its alright, snow days are nice and relaxing... nice blanket of snow in time for christmas, finally winter, sigh.... not a fan of the cold... but if its gunna be cold might as well be white... christmas! i'm excited.... and then after that i guess i'll have to look forward to spring... life is good.... my hands are cold

How come all theological conversations seem to happen right as yer getting ready for bed?

A Phone Call?

so i come home from work and while my dad is driving me home says "some guy phoned for ya, sounded nice, prob in early twenties or something, maybe a friend from school"... in my head I'm like ????????? NO ONE has my number cuz i do everything online? whats going on?..... then i walk in the house and my brother tells me some guy phoned twice for me... then my mom tells me the same thing, and that he said hed call back in 10 min.... and i'm still thinking ????????????.... so anywasy it ended up being a guy from one of the schools i'm checking out for next year asking if i had any questions... really nice guy.... dun really think i'm gunna go to that school though, lol... anywasy having a phone call made my day.... even though i hate talking on the phone it was nice to get a call.... and funny to see how big a deal it was for my family as I never get calls....lol funny family

OCBD?

I don't got Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, I got Obsessive Compulsive Blogging Disorder... that is i check everyones blog like 5 times a day... wow, there really is no need for that as no one posts that often... wow, i need a life, lol

Free At Last

Free! Free! I'm free at last!
Thank God almighty I'm free at last!
Free! Free! I'm free at last!
Thank God almighty I'm free!

cuz I'm Free!
Free at last!
Free!
From my past!
and I'm free!
Free from sin!
Free!
And I'll never go back again!



had this song by DC TALK stuck in my head alot lately, I love the lyrics... the repeating tune is driving me crazy but the words bring such peace.......

on a side not I just realized how much i've been posting this weekend... wow, thats alot

Advent Calendar!!!!

I BOUGHT ONE TODAY!!!!! its ninja turtles... i couldn't find the traditional christmasy ones in walmart... found them as i was leaving the store... but who cares, count down to christmas! and I got to eat 3 chocolates today! wahoo! I'm excited for christmas

I love my church

At times I wish I went to a different church, one where I was more anonymous, I have been going to my church for as long as I can remember, but my church has a special place in my heart.

I love my church, I love how everyone knows everyone, how we welcome everyone in, and how we don't seem to get caught up in tradition

now i won't lie and say its a perfect church, no church is, perfect church is an oxymorons as the church is people, and people sure aren't perfect, no one is... but I love my church

today our pastor randomly decided to serve cookies at the beggining of the service... as he got up to speak he produced a margaine container full of cookies (donated for the christmas production this coming weekend) and instructed everyone they could take one as he passed them around, it was cool, and was really different.... now this action combined with the conversing across the church during announcements that happens every week made me realize, we really are like a big group of friends, a family in christ... as the pastor makes announcements he frequently jokes with the congragation who joke back speaking back to him comfortably... this i suppose is a benefit of a small church... but it is cool.... during the message PJ (our pastor) randomly called a guy up to help with an object lesson (he had the guy demonstrate a golf swing that he produces from the pulpit, that he never stands behind, and comparred it to how the club was a totally different thing in the hands of the golfer vs. my pastor's hands)... it was cool, I love how loose our church is on stuff like that
some people wear suits to our church, others wear sweat-shirts, the people range from living in trailer parks to really fancy homes, and yet everyone is equal... during communion our pastor gets off the stage, kneels in a chair and prays, he is one of us, he is not above us... i've seen too many pastors put up a stiff image, not showing any sign of humanity, its nice to see that a pastor is just another member of the congregation

I could go on about this stuff for hours... but the house is cold, no fire was made while we were at church, my fingers are cold... and typing is being made harder... so I will end there, peace

language?

my mom did this sign language solo/dance thing at church today, a song played and she signed it, really cool... while this was going on I really realized how cool unconventional worship is... in this case sign language as a form of singing, it is singing, its an actual language, one my mom is fluent in, but since "music" is a concept for hearing people deaf "music" is more like dance... while this was going on I was listening to the music behind the singer on the track that was playing... there was some tabla drumming (i think, i could be wrong on this), the thing about tabla drumming is that it is almost a language, in certain areas of India kids begin tabla drumming before they really start speaking... it very much a musical language... anyways point is: we need to think beyond the spoken languages when it comes to worship, while not everyone is bilingual in spoken tongues, i think everyone deep down has another form of communication that to them is a language, to me it is shape and color, to others it can be music, others dance, and even others it can be something they see in science... I don't really know... I guess what I'm really trying to say is that anything doen to glorify God is worship, people often get caught up in what is worship, I think as long as your heart in in worship what you are doing becomes worship

(I don't know how well those thoughts all flow together but I think you'll get the gist of what I'm trying to say)

Carniferous Accordionist

We got meat today, 700lbs of beef (one cow), MMMMMMMM I've been missing steak we ran out a few months ago, and since our freezer is barely able to shut I'll be eating more meat than normal for a bit, YUM! I love meat, being around vegans alot (as a very high percentage of art pple are vegan) I havn't been able to express my love for meat... chomp! chomp! mmmmmm lol, I wouldn't be able to be a rabbit... I'm a good old sharp tooth, lol

Started messing around with my accordion, learning very basic christmas tunes... playing with alteration tabs... gives some funny noises, lol... i'm pretty bad right now, i need to practice more, i'll get around to it eventually, anyways thats all for now, peace

FLYING COWS!!!!

Ok, its not exactly a twister yet... no cows flying by my window, nor witches on bikes... but a cold wind is blowing... freezing rain supposed to be on its way... and the temp is supposed to drop... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! winter is moving its front towards us! quick sound the alarm, get out the blankets, pull out the thick coats, prepare the end is near!,of warmer weather that is, lol... I dun like winter but without it we wouldn't appreciate the warmness of summer so much... brrrrrrrrr... looking forward to spring

This is school?

sculpture class... its all fun and games, honestly i feel like all I do is play in that course, but making some cool stuff, we had a critique today, which basically means we sat around and talked about our art for over an hour while drinking hot chocolate... hmmm this part of the art world is ok... I might even miss it one day, lol

Bunch of stuff

today is november 30th... and i havn't bought my choc. advent calendar yet :( thats sad.... i guess i'll just need to eat lots of choc chips in the morn... then eat extra calendar squares when i get one to make up the days i miss.... hmmm december, its close enough to christmas now! I'm gunna try to learn some carols on my accordion... it'll be great.... well now off the topic of christmas

I lost my fur... I finally gave in and let mom cut off my shag, and then I actually shaved my face... gunna have to do that more now cuz it looks bad to have the scruff going with shorter hair... trimmed down my sideburns now, I no longer resemble mr.Tumness in that respect... if I grow goat legs that'll be scarey....

wow I am rambling... it is after 12am, but i had lights out by 12 yesterday and slept in an extra 15min so I'm wired! still I should log off and go to bed, moms getting a bit ticked at my not really sleeping (shes afraid i'll fall asleep in 3D and lose a limb... yeah right, like they'de trust ME with power tools, lol, actually none of my current projects require such heavy machinery so I'm safe) anyways i think i'll log off now ... but first I'm gunna add color to this post to brighten everyones day, Peace

Christmas

i was just listening to my favorite christmas song... its a recording of Carol of the Bells but done by chickens and other farm animals, quite an interesting track... it breaks part way for a baby cry... its really cool, we use it for the birthing scene in our church christmas production.. I love it... speaking of church christmas production (Bethlehem Live) I managed to remove myself from th role of joseph this year... first year there was costuming problems and i sorta fell into the role.. second year they said I wasn't allowed to do another position cuz i did it too well... well this year they're using a real baby so they got the kids dad... and so I am Gabriel... a nice smaller part for a change.. lol nayways g2g peace

boring history class

My art history teachers switched a few weeks ago... I now have my home room and future textiles teacher for art history... SHE HAS NO IDEA WHATY SHES TALKING ABOUT!!! the other day she was showing us a slide of a Gothic church and telling us how its Romanesque... to top it off shes boring... anyways cuz of this i was sorta draeding art history today... it turned out to be alright... my old history teacher came in with a bunch of prints from the Northern renaissance... they were cool, then i just a read a book and pretendied i was taking notes... then the fire alarm went off and i just got to chill outside... apparently the sprinklers went off in the ceramics hall and it got flooded and sprayed with charcoal... luckily i wasn't there... they got wet... and ya that was my afternoon... pretty sweet actually

twisted thought patterns

i have a twisted mind, you all know that, I come up with weird situations and ask myself questions about them in my head... tis a strange habit... anyways i thought I'd share the twistedness

so being an online person I have many friend I only talk to online, I meet them in mosh pits, and in crowds and also through friends on online forums and msn... well i got thinking... I don't know where they live, and i don't know most of their full names, so... what if something happened- say one of them came online and said they were bleeding to death, what could i do? a very unlikely situation i know... but thats just what my mind does... anyways i found this a funny concept- how i can know pple so well yet not have any actual connection to their lives... funny how that works

The Role Of Art

lol, so art, yeah... good stuff, I love it... been making it as long as i can remember, going to school for it at the moment, really fun stuff... What I had planned to do with my life.... but the role of art has changing in my life.... let me explain... but to do so we have to go back in time a bit... to the end of last year:

I wanted to study art at university, but also had intertests in anthropology, not wanting to be one of those students that pays first year tuition and then switches programs to repay first year tuition I applied to a specialized art program through a highschool in London. Well I got in, and thats where I am... I had also gotten accepted at all the Universities I applied to, Windsor (my first choice) even offered me a pretty sweet entrance scholarship... but I decided to do this free art program for a year first... to get some practical skills and to make sure that this is what I wanted to do.... Good thing I did:

I do not want to make art my career

I never really did
but I wanted to do something art related- teach art at a highschool level- which would be a cool job... but things have changed as of late... starting with this summer

towards the end of the summer I began feeling called to do a missions trip
within the first 2 weeks of attending my current art school I was saying "This school is awesome, but its not where I am supposed to be"
being 2 and a half months into this school I am now saying "I do not want to continue studying art after this year"

I am not liking the art world: They are sex obsessed and have a twisted sense of reality... and they are far to liberal for my tastes... I already knew this of course... but has hit me alot harder with being in art school- also I want to do something useful with my life... making things for aesthetics is probably one of the most useless things you can do... I want to help people

and so I have decided not to study art any further, I will always do art, but this is my last time taking it as my full time studies... I am thinking of applying to some sort of cross cultural studies in the coming year, after of course dropping out of thsi school after 3rd quarter to do a missions trip (still waiting on acceptance of my application).. and ya that is basically whats been going on... I was still playing with persuing art next year until recently... but no, i am done with formalized full time art schooling, I want to do art as a side part of whatever else I do- I do not want it to be the major part of what I do... basically that is what has been going on in my head as of late

peace, life is tubular: no matter what is going on

so i'm taking this survey thingy off my sisiters blog... figured it could be interesting with my collection of music

It's a muscial life story survey. Here's the soundtrack of my life, based on the following rules: 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button 6. Don't lie ---
Opening Credits: supermario theme song
Waking Up: some classical oboe piece
First Day At School: helpless automation- men at work
Falling In Love: yoshi story theme song
Fight Song: kuma etcha (some israeli piece- really happy sounding)
Breaking Up: Shut me out- Kutless
Prom: horse race - surprises on a chinese violin
Life: phantom of the opera- surprises on a chinese violin (funny cuz it has synthesizers going at the same time aas a chinese violin)
Mental Breakdown: Jesus- Jason upton
Flashback: Nap pulls kip -napoleon dynamite soundtrack
Getting Back Together: another classical oboe piece
Wedding: Yoshi beatbox (a techno remix of yoshi's theme)
Birth of Child: Can you hear me- Raze
Final Battle: Coulda,shoulda, woulda- petra
Death Scene: What God says- The Kry
Funeral Song: Visions reprise [doxology]- petra
End Credits: Granny ATV- Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack

Haha, wow some of those are random and totally unfitting, especially that Israeli song for the fight... its a very very happy sounding song, lol... wow glancing up at the list i realize how random my music is (almost anything that would be classified as normal is on my comp cuz I stole it off a friends comp... my Cds are pretty random)

balance

balance... hmmmm... ya.... not really a word to describe me.... i go from obsession to obsession, I've decided to try to create balance.... cut out all my obsessions... and now am slowly reintroducing them... starting to play nintendo abit more again- but not too much, started reading agian-but not too much, and am slowly cutting down on my internet time

crowd surfing!

i went to see audio adrenelin last night in TO, they were amazing, one of the best concerts i've ever been to--- had met my friend chris is TO earlier that day, he picked me up during the concert and sent me surfing- SO MUCH FUN! i wasn't up for that long and then got dropped... my shoulder hurts now- neck too headbanging does that i guess- still it is soooo worth it... man i had the most amazing weekend

i am soooooo excited

haha! i'm going to TO this weekend, and i get to see Chris! haha this will be a rockin saturday, seriously... i am going to see audio adrenelin too! wow i am sooooo excited....lol, well better go to school now

Apparently I cursed myself

so according to my sculpture teacher i am being cursed by a stone.... i spent the afternoon sawing through this amazingly beautiful piece of alabastor... ya apparently your never supposed to saw such a nice piece in two.... he says i've brough an artists curse to myself... that the stone won't work out for me... hog wash, first peice that broke off broke perfectly into the shape of what i was carving.... thus proving that curses and superstitions are crap

life is good

life is good, school is fun, work is easy, and to top it off people are great... I have some of the strngest yet coolest friends ever... lol... but yes life is amazing, and to top it off I'm going to an audio adrenelin concert on saturday with my friend chris who i havn't seen in a while.... man life is swell

God is good

man, it became clear to me today how many blessings we overlook.. for example: It rained all morning... except that there was a break right at the same time I had to leave for work, the rain ceased right before i finished my shift... hence i did not have to ride in the rain... people get too caught in looking for big things that they overlook the simple daily things like this... sure you can call it a coincidence, but i don't think life really has randomness to it... even the most random of events fits into a plan... but ya, God is great

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so, the evil cow has been sent to become burgers... and i learned why you wait before removing the filter from the milk pipeline... if you open the seal too early.. a few liters of milk comes hurling in your direction (luckily i hadn't completely pulled out the seal yet... so the milk hit the handle and went spraying 2meters in either direction)

secondly, sculpture class is amazing... soo much fun... basically all the techniques we use are sorta like what kids do when they play, put yer hands in goop, build stuff with plasticine, etc... only of course... you don't give this stuff to kids cuz they would be likely to cut their arm off or something.... but ya it is very very fun

evil cow and my school is trying to kill me

so... apparently the evil cow at work (not the one that used to kick me... think of it when yer at McDonalds) but the new, bigger one doesn't just hate me... it kicks the other part time too... so it may sent to the chop shop one day too... unless it smartens up

so i started sculpture class today... i can basically work with any medium i choose... but all include risk of: burns, cuts, getting caught in rotating blades, getting hit by ricochet, etc. etc. they secretly wanna kill us off, but thats ok... i seem to escape any serious injuries... and then injure myself doing mundane things like opening jars.. lol.... well thats all for now

ah, yes the return of dead lines

so after the crazy busy end of school last year i though I would never want to see another due date.... turns out you miss them after a while... first term drove me crazy cuz my program is soooooo relaxed.... but i'm in commercial art now, which has due dates, and keeps you busy and constantly at work.... ah its good to feel like i'm at school again

I love socially awkward people

so me and my family went roller skating tonight, it was great, unfortunatley the rink is being closed for 9 months now due to renovations :( , but thats ok we always only end up going once a year anyways, but ya funny story with tonight:
so they have this speed meeting stupid thing where pple are supposed to get in partners with someone of the opposite gender, then when they blow the whistle the guys switch to the next girls skating (sorta like a spoof on speed dating, really stupid), but anyways as i was getting off the rink I this random girl grabbs my arm, pulls me over to the thing.... i'm thinking "ok, cool random person metting"... ya well she doesn't say anything... i evenetually get her name (which i forget of course), then right b4 it is about to start she runs away, ya sorta strange.... well later on, I'm skating with my mom and she comes along side me, doesn't say anything, but loops a finger on my pocket, and I'm thinking "ok this is kinda strange and unnormal, but who am i to speak of normality, actually this girl is kinda interesting" well when i processed this and turned to say something she ran away again (back to her group of friends).... now I love these kinds of pple, those who don't communicate in normal ways (such as talking), i get intrigued by them (which is probably due to my own urges to communicate in non-linguistic manners).... but ya my mom thinks she had a crush on me, as if this was a form of flirting or hitting on me, or whatever.... I didn't get this vibe, I think it was more a case of interest, of wanting to be near a person to observe them and make a sorta "friendship connection" by proximity.... yes it is strange, but I find this kinda thing totally cool, and I can see where these urges come from.... I'd like to hear peoples opinions on this and whether they meet people who are socially abnormal or whether i just attract them

I still have it in me

so having not written any essays this year, and taking a break from reading all that classic literature, I feared I had lost the ability to write... Especially since I was off by a week and had to write a 3 page essay on surrealism in one night (which started at 9 cuz i was tutoring after school and then off to milking) anyways, i wasted alot of time on msn while writting it, went to bed at like 1 or 1:30 (as I had other stuff to do as well), and get it back today 92%... well thats easier marking then in a 4U history or english class... but still good considering I haven't wrote anything for a very looooong time... apparently I still have that academic side in me.... somewhere... lol

I guess I do work for my money

i got kicked in the knee by a cow again today... I seem to have a resilliance to cow kicks... its was really painful but the limp only lasted 5-10 min... anyways thats all for now