Naked Tea for Two

I feel naked. How's that for attention grabbing? I'll explain in a moment.

Ugh another clusterfrack this weekend... why didn't I do any studying/writing in the last two weeks? Midterm tomorrow in concrete, should be okay, I know my shit (5 courses into concrete and I should hope so anyway). Thurs I have my first draft of my group project, I haven't even gotten my group's emails yet so a first draft? Good luck with that... Friday I can almost breathe because I only have two homework assignments. I suppose I should start, but I made the executive decision to scrap the March Bqqr garden. Mostly because of this week being so busy and some other politics which have been grinding my gears.

Anyway I got to work this morning and was going to msg B with the usual nauseating text when I found that my phone wasn't in my pocket. Anyway, phone is missing so I had to scramble and find a way to contact the three people I was supposed to meet today. Unfortunately my mind is as good as Nabokov against team Canada sometimes so I don't know most people's numbers. I know my old home phone number, those of my three best friends, some select relatives, but that is it. Seriously, my phone disappears and I am Jack on the island with the heavy breathing looking for Kate (read: useless and SOL). Anyway, how sad is it that I don't even know b's phone number? I think it has a 3, 7, 4, 9 in it, and the area code... so odds are that I won't remember it. Bad boyfriend? Hardly, I blame society :P. So yes I feel vulnerable and useless, but c'est la vie, kinda wish I had stayed in bed this morning, then I could be nekkid, or I could throw on some house pants and play with my kitty. Instead I'm wearing far too many clothes for a person who showered in his bathroom sink, and my kitty is playing with my phone (that poor phone) I'll have to post a pic of him (Vivi and not my phone) soon, but I'm at work.

I stole this pic from a blog I started reading, Craig from One in Eleven, he's british but I won't hold that against him, provided he has me over for tea sometime (his comments aren't working for some reason though maybe I should call him... oh no wait...).

OH another fun occurence yesterday. Ran out to UBC (read: took the bus) to drop off some documents and ran into Wanker's little sister. After a brief exchange expressing our distaste for the music selection at the closing ceremonies I bid her adeiu and walked into someone else smiling at me waiting for an audience. Another nice girl, we talked for about 15 minutes about this and that, how I was, how she was, what she was up to lately. Except I had NO IDEA WHO THIS PERSON WAS!

At first I thought it was someone I worked with at the restaurant (but she didn't complain about the restaurant so it couldn't be), then I thought it was Wanker's new gf (but I called him and he said he was with her, he laughed at me), and so perhaps it's someone i've met over my tenure at UBC, but there aren't very many girls in engineering and I'd remember this one. I'm tempted to conclude that she doesn't know me and that she thought I was someone else, I'm okay with this.

Oh shite, speaking of Wanker, he wrote his LSAT and got some ridiculously good score (top 5 percentile or something). So he is well on his way to being Marshall from How I Met Your Mother. He's pressuring me to apply for grad school for architecture (so I can be his Ted, who is my LEAST favourite character on that show btw), but like I said I'm taking at least one year off to pay down my debt and regain my sanity. After that architecture may be fun, but I think I'll probably be professionally gay (activist/counsellor/poor) and take an interdisciplinary degree in poli sci, history, law, women's studies, critical studies in sexuality, psychology, and sociology. A real melting pot of useless/interesting :P.

Carry on...

Clusterfrak

So this week is going to be a bit of a clusterfrak (bsg anyone?)

Monday
Tomorrow I've got a dentist appointment first thing, which is just a consultation for getting my wisdom teeth out so nbd. Then I've gotta run to class, cast some concrete samples (which is huge stress because its apart of a project worth 75% of my grade). The problem is that we don't really have a project but since concrete needs 28 days to cure to the strength we need to test... ugh i spend the better part of the last 3 years talking concrete, it's the bane of my existance.

After that, fly (figuratively) to Marine Drive to oversee an art install (some big statues), which is not really that critical because there are other more important people involved on site. But I still have to put in like 5 hours tomorrow at work. I (usually) work in an office where the dynamics are pretty unusual and in the next month or so we've got to change our location and I get to spearhead the filing (a system I inherited and only vaguely understand) and moving. So boo...

Then its back to school because it's Outweek! That means its the gay week on campus and I helped to organise two events. The first is a tea and coffee/wine and cheese where i figured out all the food/drink, unfortunately I won't be able to make the flag raising/tea and coffee, and will be just in time to help w/ the schmoozing at the wine and cheese. Hopefully I'll be charming and everything will go smoothly.

Then home to relax and see the Vivi (ma kitty) who is currently resting his head on my keyboard... its cute.

Tuesday
Another art install at work. This one is all on me, as the upper up's won't be on site. So I get to save the public from themselves (sigh, its shocking how much they can endanger themselves). Then more moving logistics probably, and some minor projects for the art.

Wednesday
Work again... then I have to run to a concrete plant for a field trip with school (boooo), then some other random project work for school.

Thurs
Wisdom teeth out! I'm going to be IV sedated which is a good time, but I'm taking the next 2-3 days off because of the pain. On the plus side I'm going to be high as a kite for the morning.
Unfortunately that's the night of the Bash which is the other event I've got to deal with for Outweek. It's a dinner dance for all the gays like a prom or something. Unfortunately I've still got to line up the sound system and lights so it will need to be done before hand (ie before i get my teeth out).

Friday is a rightoff because of the pain. But its the opening ceremonies for the olympics (frak) and so I'm basically going to need to be in hibernation mode anyway (its gonna be a huge pain getting anywhere). I'll probably end up writing an entire post about the olympics later.

In the meantime, my kitty is being ridiculously cute and it's time I made some tea so i'm going to enjoy the finer things...

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