O-Face

So b, my brother and I went to the O tonight. Twas nice, we danced despite my extreme sobriety, and b's extreme un-sobriety. in fact after half a bottle of wine and 3 doubles, he was more than a little drunk (it made for some confused dancing)

Oh, but I had fun. Apparently all the gays turned out tonight, a bunch of guys from the health conference i'm at (which i'll have to talk about tomorrow or something), C showed up eventually with a friend (a real charmer), a couple of daniels...

Anyway had a time, the conference is for gay men's health and leadership. It's really a great idea (and there's free lunch and tea), we learned aboot the history of gay liberation in vancouver and some statistics on HIV/AIDS (get tested everyone, at least once a year...). Then there was a safe sex talk from a nurse (all about everyone's fav sti's) remember don't have sex, because you will get clamydia and die. Finally a fellatio seminar where the intro was one guy going down on the other... well no, but almost, but they stopped at the underwear (which was still a nice show btw)

then everyone pass the banana (remember boys no teeth!)

Anyway, i'm just waiting up for my brother to show up, i'm tired tho so i'll write more eventually

Carry on

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...

Mary Wollstonecraft

Went to tea with T at Calhouns which is a fun little coffee place in vancouver (not a starbucks). Twas fun, we talked of our mutual admiration Anderson Cooper, politics, and general snobbery which I don't usually engage in... he confessed that he saw a Prada ski suit that he thought he would one day like to own, but i reminded him that he would be laughed off the mountain if he showed up in last year's style. He's fun to joke with.

I kid, he's a good time and one day I think he will be running some large denomination of people (like an MP not like a cult leader...) which is great because I trust him not just because he's part of the q, but because he's a fairly progressive person with a good blend of functional policy and middleclass charm.

Towards the end he told me how it was better to date someone more than just hot because looks fade, (a friend of mine is seeing someone who has a tendancy to say... joey-isms and geography gaffes worthy of Miss Teen Contestants)... T mentioned Mary WC which makes me all happy because he knows who MWC is. I wish him luck with that and on the way I hope he can get some fun with someone hot in the meantime... maybe a nice feminist boy who can tempt him to be a damn dirty socialist :P... I know a few of those, but I'm not a yenta so I'm not interfereing.

Unfortunately I had to cut tea short because my mouth was bothering me a lot, in fact I almost cried when I got home and hadn't taken any painkillers. B made dinner, i iced my face, drugged up, and ate ice cream :P feeling much better now...

Blood and Guts on V-Day

Back in the office today (boo!) but I had a good 3 days off (surprisingly) so I shouldn't complain really.

Weekend Update...

Went to see Wilco with Tashmo, Ashmo, her friend, and B, they were pretty good despite the rain. When we got to the Olympic LiveCity Yaletown thing there was a horrendous line and the whole time Default was playing... GAH, worst part of my weekend (worse than the wisdom teeth). Afterwards we went to the Morrissey, but the girls were wanting to trawl for men (and it was WAY too busy for me) so B and I went to get dinner and went home.

One thing about that night was that I was really happy, it may've been the t3's but the crowd was in a good mood and for once I was apart of it, I blame the rain, seriously. Vancouver rain is one of the things that I miss the most when I'm somewhere else (like Edmon-suck).

Anyway, Sunday was Valentine's day so we went to see the town, B wanted to check out some of the technology displays for the olympics he was super cute about it too... Like kid on xmas morning. However the pavilions were a tremendous let down, ACER had some netbooks which aren't released in Canada, Samsung had a line to get into their showroom (which was cramped and full of other lines) and Panasonic had a 3D TV display which wasn't worth it... B concurs, neither he nor I can for the life of us figure out why 3D tv is the next big thing.

Anyway, he got me a Teapot! Which is awesome (came with a cosy too... *sigh* he gets me :P

I got him a Quatchi doll, and because V was feeling left out we got him a little MukMuk. After the gift givery we went to see Valentine's day (Don't by the way) and was disappointed by the un-gay storyline, and the all too important point they made of making sure the straight guy retained his straight guy image (Jamie Foxx "I stand behind you, but not in that way" Booo).

Then the real valentine's day happened, we watched Saw 6. We'd watched the first three on previous valentine's days (I haven't seen the 4/5 installments but was pretty sure I could pick up the plot). It was fun, I miss fun :P