Well, it's barely noon, but this morning I finished "Peasant's Quest", and "Leaven of Malice". Additionally, I found out the German word for "team" is, "Mannschaft" (or so I'm told), and that there's a show on now, like Judge Judy called "Texas Justice". I'd like to see that, if it wasn't all small claims. Even if they were misdemeanors, that could get pretty intense.

In addition to all these things, Q-107 has been playing some really good stuff this morning. The rest of the day is looking good.

Yup. Terry instructed us to "do it right; do it white" today. That was pretty funny. Additionally, there is a general concensus, from workers of all races, that the Asian customers are intolerable. I'm kind of feeling sick today, so I'm glad I was able to take it easy, and work and at home.

So, big news of the day is playing soccer at Thompson park. Unfortunately, I didn't get to stay for very long, due to work, but it was fun playing and seeing everyone again. Plus, there was this other guy called, I think his name was Hamun or something, and apparently he was on the Iranian under 12 national team. Cool.

Also, I am currently listening to that freak Finkleman on CBC Radio One, and now I have changed the channel. A few minutes ago, I sent off my third e-mail to CBC speaking out against Finkleman, and am prepared to keep doing so. If anyone would be interested in putting together a petition, let me know. 

So, we went down and paid my fees for university. No getting out now.

Also, I went to a barbeque etc. at UTSC today around 7pm. I hung out with Alex Stein, and Dong-Yi, and other Woburnites I did not expect to see there. There was live music, which was pretty good, and a dance group, and a breaking group, which were not, really. The "big picture" (ha) was Pirates of the Carribean, which was a pleasant diversion, although the sound set up was rather bad and produced long echoes. On the way out, I won a UTSC t-shirt and hat, so now I am set to represent my alma mater, whether I like it or not.

Not a bad day, although I froze biking home.

But I'll talk to you later.

Now then, yesterday was cool. We saw "Harold and Koooomuuar something something", and for coming from the makers of the movie we didn't see, it wasn't too bad. Afterwards, Boston Pizza, and I stayed over at Alan's.

Now, the big news there is that he has a very small, extrememly cute brown kitten. It is named "Opie", although the spelling may actually be "O.P", as it seems to have either/both the Autobots, and/or  the Mephisto shoes logo on it's head. it's very cute.

Anyways, I'm done typing fo now. Out.

Well, I got new shoes today. I really needed them, as my others are, at best, in very poor repair. I don't really want to talk more about shoes.

I was telling someone today about the gifted program, and I said "I was in the gifted program in high school." Wow. That was weird. That part of my life is over.

Also, a certain person at work was complaining that he had to work on Carabana day, and Terry snapped. He told him that if he wanted to dance around in a bird costume, he needed to "get the hell out of my store right now, you primate." And on and on. That was cool. It's especially funny because the guy couldn't really say or do anything about it, because he was completely cowed by Terry's assault, so he just smiled nervously and muttered.

Carabana really does suck. What's the headcount on that event now? I'll take "Picnic Day" anytime.

I think I had something else to write, but, maybe later.

Well, we decided quite late last night to wait until the morning to go home. Not that that mattered at all. Well, my arms seriously hurt from water skiing et al, and I have to work today, so that's unfortunate. It is nice, though, that I will be getting holiday pay through my union today, as well as getting double-time pay for working on a holiday. Too bad it's only 5 hours today, 'cause I could seriously sweep up. Speaking of holidays, what is "The Civic Holiday"? (No car jokes please. Unless that is actually what it is, although you'd have a hard time getting me to believe that.) My calendar informs me that August 2nd is "Bank Holiday" in Eire, Scotland as well as the cabbalistically acronymed NSW (New South Wales) and ACT (God Only Knows) territories of Australia. Here's the kicker. In NT (Northern Territories) of Australia, it's not "Bank Holiday", but the curiously antiquated "Picnic Day", strongly reminiscent of Period pieces on PBS and CBC in it's dowdier moments. These guys must be like Saskatchewan for us, eschewing Daylight Savings Time in order to gain some obscure economic advantage. Or maybe they fought a war over it, in which case, I won't call them on it. Anyways, that's it for now. I want to talk to some people later, so look for me on MSN after 7:00. Assuming this damnable virus doesn't preclude me from using the computer, see you then. Oh yeah, check this out. It's pretty good. Daily Dinosaur Comics

Okay. I'm out of here for the weekend. I'll be back late Sunday.

Phew. I needed a day off, in a matter of speaking. I was, in fact, working today. It was alright though. Steve is driving me further off the eastbound collecters of sanity into the oncoming Civics of madness, but we got out on time, so it's cool.

I just chilled, that all.

I've been postively murdering that Workplace Jeopardy on Q107, but I haven't actually been able to get through to play, and I'm not even sure if I'd be eligible to play.

Tomorrow's Friday, so maybe this calls for a trip to the beach? We'll see, I suppose, although I do have to be up early on Saturday. (Going to the cottage for the weekend.) Well, I guess that didn't stop me last week. Matt and I got about 3 hours of sleep.