Kurrs' Digital Tapestry of Words

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Y'know, for such a tiny mug, I managed to make a rather epic spill. My desk, my keyboard, my keyboard tray, my pants, erin's funky ergonomic chair.... All in one spill, no slow leeky just SPLASH, wow....

I'm heading to bed, motor skills seem to be gone.

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Wow, I hope I'm not broken. I totally supressed my illness today, made it totally go away. Hopefully I won't suffer the consequences tomorrow and that I'm actually getting better. I was playing a sick character, but I swear I was repressing my out of character illness so I could roleplay better. Weeeeiiiirrrd.

It's weird, the missing of the rest of the quadro blog wasn't that significant. Which I'm REALLY happy about, I was worried the session was going to lose alot of umph, and I really didn't want to have a dud of a session now that it will be five weeks instead of four between this session and the next. Very pro, excellent foot to leave off on towards the split (uhhh, complicated, explain later for those that are unaware).

So, new player, by the name of Beth. Definately a success, she seems to take to the "character representation is why we're here" ideology, and seems to be into the more intense/immersive ideas too, so she should fit right in. Yes, I have to say I'm happy with the latest addition to the troupe.

Responsible Consumption Week is next week. So weird, it's actually happening. Hopefully I won't be too sick and my school doesn't take too much time so I can actually see some of it.

PS I cleaned your toilet in character Tim (sink and counter too, didn't get to the bath-tub), how's that for respect for site? :P

Posted by Kurrs at 11:04 PM | Permalink

Well, I'm proper sick, didn't even manage to get away from my house further than a block yesterday. Boooo. Coughing, sore lungs, sore throat, headaches. Bonafide illness. Don't think I'll be doing anything much for the next two days. Hopefully I'm better by Sunday for Werewolf.

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So, I went two days without hot water. I had cold and not cold. So I phoned the landlord about it and the many other plumbing problems the building has had. He actually got back to me pretty quick and said he'd be here today at 7am to fix it with a plumber. Well, it's 9am and my landlord's cellphone isn't on. Sigh.

To be fair, the hot water problem seems to ahve fixed itself, but I could be wrong, I haven't tried doing any extensive like have a shower or do dishes. And, really, I haven't really noticed a decline in my living standard. I still showered, I still did dishes. The "luxury" aspect that is nice warm water I didn't get, but if I only set it to "not-cold" I can tolorate it enough to get me and my dishes clean. I'm actually surprised by how little it's affected my life.

I mean, it would have been nice to finally get that irregularly leaking pipe in my bedroom fixed, as well as the tap to stop dripping, but hey.

Tonight I've got a meeting for the sprouts booth. I feel awful though, didn't get home until 11pm after the ST Guild meeting last night and woke up at 6:30am for a landlord not in attendance. I really don't want to get sick, but for all intensive purposes I already am. Must fight it off before Sunday, I refuse to be ill!

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I find I've gotten out of the habit of posting here because I don't like whining, or at least the idea behind it. I believe very strongly that those people, like us, lucky enough to live in the developped world, have it pretty sweet. In fact, there's no real reason to be truly unhappy where we are, in only by contrast to where we might have ended up due to the chance circumstances of our birth parents.

I think I may have swung a little irrationally when I thought that all I did was whine on my blog. I haven't been seeing Erin alot recently, because she's been trying to settle into her new place and it just doesn't work for me to spend much time there. The point being, that she mentioned she felt out of touch because not only do I not phone anyone, but now that I don't post in my blog, she wasn't really a sense of knowing what was going on in my life. And, shit, that's my girlfriend. She gets more of my time than anyone else. And if she feels excluded, I'm being a tad bit too hermitty.

So, responsible consumption week is coming up, happens next week on campus, you can read about the schedule here:

http://bb.occult.ca/viewtopic.php?t=2381

It's very much a "student event" but it's looking to be pretty good. We're bigger than Anti-Violence Week, for instance. A chance to attend some pretty cool movies and workshops, and see the Booths in the concourse. I'm excited, if not a little relieved I'm running out of things I need to do for it. We still need to get posters printed and posted up about campus, and that's running really behind because I wanted that done by Monday. *shrug* Whatever, so many things have gone wrong along the way, in many ways I'm just glad its happening.

I think I may be getting sick, I'm feeling throat-scratchy and worn-down. I remember how much I like Buckleys at times like this. The stuff tastes like getting punched in the face, throat, then gut, but its the only storebought medicine that I've ever had any success with. It works, that's the only thing that should matter with a medicine. Hopefully, between lots of sleep, food, and buckleys I can weasel my way out of actually getting sick for any length of time. Here's hoping.

Anyways, I hope everyone out there is doing ok, take it easy.

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"It's your language, I'm just using it."
- Celik Gorkem, upon learning that incredible doesn't mean "not credible"

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Salad
Broccoli Flowers (no stem, just the flowers, cut them small, don't cook them)
Halved Grapes (shown are south african black grapes, don't forget to de-seed them)
Dried Cranberries
Dressing
Half Olive Oil
Half Balsamic Vinegar

For lighter tastes, use green grapes and a lighter vinegar.

Shown salad is entirely organic.

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"Yet verily of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, ere it endeth; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song."
- JRR Tolkien, "The Grey Annals"

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Just cut myself on an opened aluminium can. Damn, those things bleed like crazy. Makes doing dishes... difficult to say the least..

Just to clarify on the whole Responsable Consumption Week thing: the week itself is still going on, just the "Vote With Your Dollar" fair that was going to include socially and environmentally businesses is finished. There's still going to be two booths in the SUB, one promoting Sprouts and the other promoting small changes in consumption to have positive effects. There's also going to be some workshops and film nights and lectures.

However, it really doesn't look like what I wanted originally. It's still a good deed, no question there, but the impact will be much less. C'est la vie, as I had said, next year is always there.

Posted by Kurrs at 11:01 AM | Permalink

So, I just got out of my Macro midterm. Unlike Micro, which I did abysmally on, I think I did quite well on this one. Smooth sailing.

However, it has come to my attention that, in one fell swoop, Responsable Consumption Week is dead. As the fucking dodo. Things were already going badly, and there was some backpeddling going on, and it was starting to look nothing like what I had envisioned, but because of the recent event of the AMS learning that the Bookstore wanted onboard, everything went to shit. I mean, the UBC Bookstore was, at the time of writing, our only company, and we were thinking of scaling back to one day, but with the Bookstore not being allowed to set up shop in the SUB (as it is "competition" and thus not welcome) we now have jack and shit. No companies, no booths, no NGOs, jack and shit.

There's a meeting tonight, at 6pm, with the two student booth people and the rez people. I'm super curious as to how this goes, given that we're telling them "Yeah, you know how things were shaky? Well, the boat sank". We might still do the student-run booths, but fuck, I'm not even sure about that anymore.

So much work, all for naught.

But I can't fucking care. I want to do well at school, I want to have Werewolf run smoothly, I want to finish my degree. I live ethically, and there's always next year for a responsable consumptin fair. I don't really care. I'm happy, it's sunny, I can go hakky-sacking, or chill, or do some work, or get some food. I live in the free world and I'm going to enjoy it damnit. The only real downer is I want to go home, but I'm stuck around to have a meeting at 6pm where we tell everyone the bad news. Not high on my list of fun.

Surprisingly, I seem to have reached a zen state of calm, despite the storm. Give thanks for food and the gift of life, if not the fault lies only in yourself.

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And I got a used hat from my bro

Actually, I got alot of stuff from my brother, he just moved out of the house him and his friends were sharing and, even trying to save stuff, they threw out sooooo much. Upsetting really.

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