INT. OFFICE – DAY

The Mausoleum

I really like clockwork as a concept. Like, all the little bits and pieces working away in a super complicated teamwork for the sole purpose of showing you some numbers we’ve given arbitrary meaning to.

Here’s another poem I wrote for my Poetry class. It’s about time, sort of.

Read “The Mausoleum“

VidCon?

Guys, guys, I so want to go to VidCon.

VidCon is a yearly Online Video Conference (Convention?) organized by Hank and John Green. There’s music and games and hanging out and nerf gun fights and cool YouTube people and general fun to be had and I really really really want to go.
But I probably won’t.

Firstly is the issue of money. I could afford to go, but I’m not really sure I ought to afford to go. Much in the same way that I more or less could give all my friends $100, but I really ought not to. Plus there’s this other thing coming up that’s going to drain a lot of coin, and realistically I should give that priority; more on that much later.

Secondly, I’d be going by myself. I don’t want to go by myself. I’m terrible by myself. I need a second opinion. I need someone to play off of. I need someone to sanity check my stupid ideas. Like, I don’t really know how to do that many things, you know what I mean? Booking a flight, setting a budget, going from point A to point B; I don’t know how to do any of that.

I realize that I could solve these problems by one) working more and two) convincing one of you guys to go as well, but both of those are really unlikely. And I really wanted to go, too. The reason I want to go so badly (and why the thought even crossed my mind) is an entirely separate psychological can of worms that I’d gladly pop open, but would rather not do so in this particular post.

Suffice it to say, as things stand now, I won’t be going.

Next year, I guess.

Anyone want to hang out or something this week?

Heart Day

Happy Valentines Day, everyone!

Would you be my Valentine?

To all of you out there who’ve got someone, that’s great! Here’s something adorable.

And to those that don’t, I’m right there with you. [Puppies]

Meanwhile…

These last couple weeks have been pretty busy. Well, not so much busy as much as I got scheduled for closing shifts three days in a row for three consecutive weeks.

So, a quick recap of what’s been going on.
On February 1st, the day after the Vancouver stop of John Green’s book tour, I went to a geocache they’d hidden and picked up a souvenir pin. Isn’t it neat?

The following week, I had two poems due in Poetry class for Wednesday and a two page dialogue due for Screenwriting class for Tuesday. All three were well received and will be posted up here soon. Just one of the poems, though. The other is already up.

Also that week I began listening to the audiobook of the first in the Hunger Games series. (I really enjoyed it, and now I’m looking forward to the movie.) When I finished it, I was set to move on to the audiobooks of the second and third, and was super bummed when I found out they didn’t exist. “Well,” I said. “I guess I have to buy the books now.”

Yesterday on Sunday was when Shalom was supposed to have a Leadership Team Team Building Bonding Activity Thing. However, no one had planed anything, and we’d be missing one or two people, so there was much waffling back and fourth about weather we’d actually do it. It was eventually decided that we’d have a proper planning meeting first, and then do the Team Building thing afterward. At the last meeting we had decided we would have the Team Bonding thing instead of a planning meeting and I was a bit miffed at the contradiction. Regardless, I went prepared with a bunch of movies I had bought relatively recently. In case we didn’t come up with anything, we could just watch a movie on the church projector as our Team Bonding.

I had spent the weeks before preparing for the meeting by watching all the movie options we had put forward for the upcoming movie night (so I would know what I was voting for when the time came). I polished off the last one when I woke up early on the morning of. I was sort of bummed when we still didn’t come to a decision, and even more bummed when everyone was too tired for Team Bonding and wanted to go home.

I decided to walk to the mall in the rain. (Full disclosure: I walked to the bus stop in the rain, got on the bus, took it to the mall, and THEN walked to the mall in the rain.) When I’m sad, I try to buy a book, if at all possible. That day I bought a box set. The three Hunger Games books. When I put it in my backpack it had to compete for space with all the DVDs I had brought with me. Then, I took the bus home and had a sandwich.

I almost didn’t have enough on me for the box set, but luckily I had a gift card the church had given me for serving as part of the Shalom Leadership Team. It’s funny how the universe works out.

And now we’re all caught up to Reading Break! I had wanted to start it off with a bang with the Team Bonding thing, but, alas it was not meant to be. Instead, I blew up spaceships and pushed trolls down a well. And isn’t that just as good?