air, hot and thick.

A free night of folk festival courtesy of Mr. Adam Zendel. Hi Adam!

A sleeping hippie.


My friend is off to Saskatchewan and was saying he was looking forward to when you leave your home and you reflect on what you're leaving, and he was excited to see what he would think about.

I'm leaving Calgary after staying here for 12 days (which was a bit too long) and it's not quite the moment where I reflect on the city (I suspect this will happen more while I am at the airport and waiting to board) but right now I think I'll remember the air, hot and thick, and me being sick for what felt like forever, and watching so many movies, and how much I like driving late at night, mostly because there's no one around and I don't have to worry about looking like a shitty driver or crashing into anyone but a tree.

Man I can't wait to be in Vancouver.

#6

Oh man.

So I have finally just finished setting up my portfolio website with Indexhibit and I am so relieved. It took me a long time because I had no idea what I was doing, and even though the instructions were incredibly straightforward, I still ran into a whole bunch of problems (404's galore) and it was incredibly frustrating and disheartening because everyone else can do it and I am such a web retard.

But it's up. Nothing's on it though but I shall link it when it does.

So I am in Calgary and it is insanely cold, today I was only outside for maybe 15 minutes, and my toes went numb in a minute and I thought there was a great possibility that they could turn black.

I have kept true to my winter list agenda and have watched Planet Earth and wow it is so great. I am so fascinated by the camera crew and their ability to film all these elusive creatures doing such animal things. I just watched the one about the polar bears and it was depressing. It was so sad to watch the polar bear attack the walrus and be defeated and have to sit RIGHT next to them and slowly starve to death. Yes. I was talking to my friend Rachel Tomei (who is studying Primates at the University of Calgary):


(Rachel is on the right, Harrison Rampp, on the left)

And she thinks that the polar bears will for sure go extinct, and possibly within the next 5 years. I was kind of surprised by this because it's such a short amount of time, and I just can't imagine it happening, but I guess at this rate it will.

Well in another news.

I bought the new album from Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue (10 dollars!)



I've only listened to half of it, but I think the packaging for the cd is interesting. Instead of having a little booklet inside with lyrics, thanks yous, and pictures of the band and whatnot, there are 4, 3x3 inch pictures of Lewis and her band members in black and white with a white border. It was a surprise, a nice one, but as nice as it was, I didn't really get what she was trying to get at. Maybe it's nothing. Maybe I just need to actually listen to the album a bit harder.

My family and I went over to a family friend's house for a christmas dinner and we played a gift exchange game and we ended up with an ice fishing rod, a starbucks gift card, a sears gift card, and pickled peppers, onions, gum, and frero rochers. My brother absolutely loves the fishing rod, and at the end of the night, there was karaoke, and it was dominated by the filipinos there. They were very good singers and I sang along, which really annoyed my brother.

I think I will be sleeping in tomorrow and possibly going to the Glenbow Museum (a museum that I haven't been to since I was maybe 7, and all I can remember are exhibits about pioneers and Native Americans) to see a Marilyn Monroe exhibit.

habits.

I got this Lykke Li (Youth Novels LP) album in the used section in Zulu Records. I feel incredibly happy when I find cds that I want to buy in the used section. I guess anyone does. There's other times where I wonder why people give up such good cds, I know it's that they don't like it for some reason, but I really wonder what the reason is, most of the time I just think that they bought the cd impetuously and realized it was shitty and returned it. But sometimes things need a bit of sticking out.

These are the books that I am currently 'reading' at the moment. Whenever I go to the library, I always go to the graphic novel section and find books that I haven't read yet. allllwwaaays. You can count on that.

I visited UBC farm and I thought this was the most fascinating thing there (aside from chickens and nice plants and whatnot). PIPECLEANER BUGS!



The movies I have seen so far at the VIFF. They were somewhat enjoyable.

I was talking to Andy today about how exhausted and busy I have been lately. And he asked why and I told him about my days and it kind of felt like he didn't believe me. And I was also telling a teacher how busy I felt and she just sort of nodded and smiled. And I thought about it, and I realized that whenever someone else tells me that they've been busy, I kind of only half believe them. I always thought you're never really 'busy' and you can make a choice to make time for stuff. And with these past few weeks, I realize I was a sort of an unsympathetic non-understanding jerk and that people do get busy because they take on things that they really want to do and there's just not enough time to do all the things you want to do when you want to do it. And I guess that's when values come into play, you have to really know what you want to do so that you don't spend time on things that are just well, a waste of time.

This week I have decided has been a big jumble. And I know that parts of it have been great, but I want to remember weeks more than as a jumble.

Oh and friends visited from Calgary, AB and we sat at Tim Hortons and played Dutch Blitz and it was a nice way to start the day. My friend was saying how another friend is absolutely 'bonkers' for his new girlfriend. And for some reason that sentence just stuck in my head the whole day. I haven't heard the word 'bonkers' in a sentence in...forever, or ever. I thought it was endearing and so...goofy.

I hope you have a good start/end of the day.