Ramblings-of-a-Swimmer

2006-11-13T19:39:00.000-06:00

I feel sort of like writing, so that's what I shall do. Wow, when I first typed that sentence with one hand while eating, I typed "I feel sort pf like reading". I can understand the "pf" as a typo for "of", but reading instead of writing? (edit: I just noticed that's the second entry I've started with that line, "so that's what I shall do"; I did not intend to seem repetitive).

Maybe I do feel like reading (I typed writing there first! why am I getting those mixed up?), oh wait, not really. I'm reading this book on the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic, and I really am quite interested, but I barely have the time to read it, and it's also 2 weeks over-due at the KPL. Uh oh, I'm almost at the $1.75 mark in fines, maybe I should either read it, or accept that I'm too busy and will never finish it so just get it back to the library where it'll sit on the shelf for who knows how long again.

My first swim meet is this Thursday! I'm psyched, and nervous. There's a really long story here, maybe I shouldn't get into it. Basically, there's a lot of time, energy, and preparation going into this season that adds a whole lot more pressure. But thankfully I have a much better idea of what exactly it is I'm doing this time around. I know, anyone reading has absolutly no idea what I'm talking about. I'd explain but that would take an entire entry unto itself, and I'm sure as dramatic as it may be, most of you wouldn't read it (you jerks).

I just really, really want to tear it up and swim fast. There, I'm done talking about swimming. OK?

The Democrats pwned the Republicans. Lol.

I'm not going to call these "random" points because I now hate that stupid word. Stop using it out of context, EVERYONE.

I think I'm going to start posting my timed writing from Writer's Craft class. Although it's hard to get the exact humour of it across sometimes, you'd just have to see exactly how I wrote something by hand. So maybe I won't start posing things. Either way, I just really want to swim really fast (I added that because I KNOW nobody is reading anymore at this point).

2006-11-03T19:25:00.000-06:00

At last, I have returned to the blog that only 2 people I know of read. So I'm back by popular demand!

So, uh, wussup...............

See, I can't write these things anymore. I just don't care.

Highschool life's so overly mellow-dramatic. Fuck highschool politics. I've seen the light, and I'm on my way. Stop complaining it's just another part of your adolesence. Just wait until University. And then LIFE.

Adrian has this poster up in his dorm room. It's pretty entertaining I think.

2006-10-11T19:55:00.000-05:00

I feel like writing an entry, so that is what I shall do. Regardless of whether or not I have a topic (I hardly ever do anyways).

Well other than the VP conflict, what else can I write about? Insane-o friday? Hmm, that was an interesting friday. Met and talked with Datlton McGuinty, wondered for hours with Oleg et. al searching for stuff to do (those there know what I mean), and POLKA!

Seems like every paragraph is getting longer, this is good. But I still need to write something that people may actually want to read........HA! Like people actually read this..........shopping by yourself, is very unrewarding and not entertaining in the least bit. I like goulash, and cevapi (pronounced "chevapi", I don't know how to put accents on c's with a keyboard). This should really be more like my timed writing from writers craft, as in funny and interesting, but it's not. Sorry about that, theoretical audience.

WHERE THE F*** IS MY YEARBOOK?

OH, I still have this huge desire to go polka dancing at some sort of Oktoberfest function. Preferably with a female friend, because, uh, polka dancing with a guy, though humorous, just isn't quite the same.

OMG! WTF is that black dot in the top left corner? The spirit of Oktoberfest? Angry Nazi ghosts? Blot on the camera lense from crap flying in the air? What I ask! What?!

2006-10-03T19:07:00.000-05:00

As Jason has already talked about in his blog, there indeed is an ongoing conflict in the Victoria Park region of Kitchener-Waterloo.

For years there was an un-easy, tense atmosphere exisiting between the various ethnic factions within the geese community. Eventually these tensions erupted into a full-scale conflict between two opposing sides within this community. Again as Jason mentioned, the upscale residential geese (URG) are in an ongoing war against the downtown geese (DTG), in what is essentially a land dispute. The main gazebo on the centre island has been under seige from both sides, and has been the site of near constant shelling for close to 3 years now.

Worst of all, recently evidence has surfaced of ethnic cleansing. It is uncertain at this point which side is guilty (it is assmued both sides are). But the real victims of the conflict are no doubt the ducks and the squirrels.

(a patrol of URG troops return from a reconnassaince mission around the edges of the centre island; unquestionably with new intel. on shelling positions, but what else could they have been up to? Notice the absence of any squirrels?)

A UN/NATO peace keeping force made up mostly of see-gulls has been an installation in the area since the out-break of war, though they generally have done very little. The NATO force occasionally sends out fighter jets for precision strikes on goose strongholds, however they evidentally are having little effect on the situation. They sat by and watched as a company of URG geese soldiers marched large group of squirrels out of the centre island, and into a ditch near the south end of the park. Since then these squirrels have not been seen, and are feared dead. The really sad fact is that no one knows yet how common of an occurance this is.

(Just one of an unimaginable number of victims in this conflict. It reminds us all that the first casualty of war is innocence.)

This is just a slightly detailed account of the tragic war currently taking place that many of you may not be aware of. As you read this now numerous ducks and squirrels suffer as they're anscetoral homeland is meticulously destroyed by artillery coming from both sides of the conflict. Join the fight to reach a peace agreement that the UN seemingly is incapable of accomplishing. The international community can not simply sit by and watch yet another ethnic war in this world claim more innocent victims. Don't wait until it's over to indict the war criminals!

2006-09-28T21:37:00.000-05:00

So, I just found out Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia is a pretty amazing school :S. They have this rediculous swimming facility. Strange though, that I didn't even know this place existed. Dalhousie. Hmm. I like the sound of that! But I think I've technically been promised to Laurier. Well, either way.

Speaking of, there's a swim meet this Saturday I'm going to watch between Laurier and Western (I'll probably be the only specator there :P, ah well I'm used to it). It's also going on during the time when I'd normally be swimming in the same pool. I really just need to do something fun before I go to work for 8 hours.

I hate the very concept of drive-thru. F*** drive thru, f*** people who use it. If you can't get your ass out of your car to get a goddamn coffee or donut, you need to stop eating fast food and take a look at your friggin' life, to see where exactly you went wrong. Seriously. And when you consciously drive up to a large line, don't be surprised when you actually have to WAIT for a few minutes to get your stupid order.

I have a renewed dislike of Bluevale. 42-0 tonight in the Battle of Waterloo versus WCI. Ok. We get it. You're the a friggin' NFL team (although oddly enough they lost last week to Preston? by some really low score on both sides). You don't need to always totally humiliate your opponents. And they're like that in other sports too. I know it's not fair to generalize, and there must be plently of ok people there, but the people that represent the school sure make them seem like arrogant jerks.

2006-09-20T16:58:00.000-05:00

So Jason and Mike suggested to me today that I should get a blogspot. I already have one but never use it, so I decided I'd start a new one. And hey, I'm all for a place to rant and ramble!

I'll try not to ramble on and on non-sensically. But I probably will still write about swimming of course. I tend to put a lot of effort into my entries rather than post everyday about mundane crap no one cares about. So I like to get comments, but I'm not naive enough to get my hopes up about that sort of thing (lazy jerks :P).

Hmm, well, what to write about. I'm struggling here to find anything profound to say. Well there is the whole bizarre feeling of taking a fifth year of highschool that I'm sure someone else besides me must be going through. It's having a really bizarre psychological effect on me. See, I had all these great reasons to come back, so many things to do, so many loose ends to still tie up. I've yet to do much, and I'm getting this progressively worse feeling of not belonging where I am right now (generally as a rule I avoid posting about emotional stuff, but this has been on my mind since the first day back).

So I end up just feeling like I'm in this horrible state of limbo. And I've felt like this since the end of last year for a certain reason which I'd rather not get into. But it really sucks. Not knowing if I'm happy or not, I just know I'm really uncertain about pretty much everything going on right now. Ah well, things do seem like they're getting better at an incredibly slow pace. I try to stay fairly optimisic.