It's My Life

SEMESTER ONE IS OVER!

Me: Fred, you're not even lighting the end of it.
Fred: It's her wobbly lips.

Ah, a classic comment by Fred there, while we were outside of Rivers after closing time at 2 a.m. I couldn't stop laughing after that one. Neither could Mike. Fred was lighting up a cigarette for a girl in need of a lighter.

Considering it was the end of semester journalism get-together there wasn't that many of us. While there was a good showing of J-school students at Heroes, which included past graduate Tara Copeland, and Jason Hewlett, who's currently with the Daily News and returning next year, the number representing J-school students decreased as the day went on. After Rock Trivia at Heroes, we went to the Fox and Hounds, where there was less of us, then we finished things off at Rivers. At this point, the only journalism students left were myself, Mike, Fred, Scott, Chris, Auren, Melissa, Kenga, Danielle, Jen and Heather.

Ernie just had to rub it in that we lost at Rock Trivia for the second week in a row. We did have too large a team for Rock Trivia though, evident when I told a few people next to me that the name of Godmack's song they played was "Awake", and Dale, sitting at the other table, said it was "I Am Alive." It woudn't have made a difference. Our single round record was also broken.

At the Fox and Hounds my table got two warnings for being too loud. I guess it was the loud conversations about women that everybody overheard. I'll admit at this point I was pretty drunk. By Rivers though, I wasn't as bad, and I just began getting tired, like everybody else. I did prove to Mike and Jen that I can in fact chug. I thought I slammed back that mug of Canadian quickly.

No seriously though. That was solid.

By the way Meghan, that really was a good one.

Meghan: Hey Al, quit playing with your balls.

Ah yes, a great comment there. I was actually just playing with a pool ball.......... No seriously I was. It's Meghan's sick mind, she's sick. Damn her! Oh well, I'm fine really.

James: This is cheap entertainment.

Yes that it was. That what was you ask? Me and some guys were out on the balcony off residence watching cars try getting up a snowy McGill street towards the the intersection of Dalhoussie and McGill yesterday evening. It was hilarious. It's amazing how doing something like that can be funny. When you're the one driving, it's different because it's your own life at risk, but this was funny. The cars would pull complete U-turns and go back downhill, some would stop completely with tires moving rapidly in motion and hold up traffic, and the big trucks with winter tires would just rip up the road like they've been driving in this sort of weather all summer. And so much snow, wow was there a lot. It snowed steady from 3 p.m. yesterday overnight. Oh, how I want to go snowboarding now. Our eyes were attached on the traffic even while the Canucks game was on, which they won 5-4 in overtime. My Leafs lost last night in overtime, to CALGARY! Ouch. That is painful. What else hurts is getting a flat tire on your car, which happened to me? The worst part is with all this snow I can't take that thing out with a spare tire on it. No way Jose! Add to that all the assignments I've got to hand in, and my limited amount of cash (come on Student Loan, get here soon), and Al is a little stressed out over a few things. I know it isn't necessary to post this, but oh well too late. I'm out. I've got work to do.

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Only Three Weeks Left of the First Semester!

Ah yes, another week has come to an end. Only another three left of school, I can't believe it. Of all the terms I have had in university this one has gone by the fastest by far. I think it's the amount of hanging out with friends and social events outside of school that I've done. I mean, man it's gone by fast. Sometimes I wish I could just get the time to stop because I don't feel like I have enough time to do anything, it's insane, or I do but not enough to balance the fun with the work. Anyways, this past week definetely had it's ups and downs.

The Omega this week was solid, and I don't think I've ever contributed so much to one issue. I had Neal impressed with my student of the week, idea for a cover photo (women's soccer- great picture by Mike), and basketball photos, stories and soccer story. At school, I finished my final digital digest, and finally got the loan thing figured out.....well sort of. I know how much I'm getting and when I'm getting it. I'm getting some money the last week of this month, and although it may come after the date that tuition must be paid, it'll be some money for Christmas shopping and some spending money since it's looking more and more like I may be spending my month off school in PG. Which wouldn't be all bad. I mean, since I first moved down to Kamloops I haven't spent longer than about 10 days there so a full month would be nice, although I have no clue at this point what I'll be spending New Year's doing.

I MISSED OUT ON COLLEGE NIGHT AT HEROES, BUT NOT THE MARTINI MADNESS

Walking up sick on Thursday morning wasn't my plan, and I ended up spending the rest of the day sitting around. I had the flu for the whole day pretty much, which sucked, so I had to miss out on a night at Heroes, however I wasn't going to miss out on the Martini's at Meghan and Melissa's place. But prior to that, I went to Heroes for Rock Trivia.

Me: Who sung that, come on guys. Rockin' the Suburbs.......who sings that?
Chris (after much hesitation): It's a solo group. Ben Folds Five!

Yes, it was in fact Ben Folds Five, and I knew the year was 2001. So we got the triple score on our way to winning the Rock Trivia. I wasn't a huge fan of the team My Cousin Strawberry! I mean come on, what is that? But we won, and missed the year on a couple songs by just one. Damn Fire Escape from 1998, I could have sworn it was '97. Ernie was lying, he's lying. Damn him.....Anyways, we won so it's all good.

Bill and I got a ride to Meghan and Melissa's with Mike and yes I was one of the first people at the party, and would be one of the last. I was still recovering from the flu so therefore I had to look after myself. I'm glad I did because there was a few people, like Fred especially, who were in rough shape by the end of the night.

After I got there we dipped into some martini's and began playing a game 99, a game involving no skill really, mainly luck unless you throw down a certain card by mistake that some of us did. I ended up winning after Bill called 99 with nothing equalling 99. I had a pretty sweet hand, and did for most of the night, which caught me by surprise because when it comes to games with luck, I usually don't have any of it. I did have the best first move of the game though, using my 9 to start a reverse. That was pretty solid I have to say.

I recall a funny conversation I had with Fred out on the balcony while we were having a smoke. He starting ranting on about cougars and how they're the best girls to have because they'll hook up with anybody and this and that. Mike and Meghan were both having a few laughs from that conversation, but it was really Fred making everybody laugh all night. He was the life of the party on this night.

I met Danielle's boyfriend Joe this weekend which was pretty cool. He's a funny guy, and it was cool that they came to the party on Friday, which also included Carlos, Ernie, Aiden (his GF), Lisa, Delanie, Sarah, Chris, Orne, Lorne, Dale, and his GF, and some others. There was 20-25 people throughout the night. It was evident the party was dying down when the hosts became less social (Meghan was passing out, Melissa was on the phone with Nick), nobody was dancing, the drinks were out, and basically the people left were having one-on-one conversations, in other words, we weren't communicating or doing anything much as a group. But aren't you glad you could experience the party second hand from up in Peace River Nick?

Some funny moments I recall from the night:

- Fred talking about cougars, doing summersaults, dancing, falling over, knocking shelves over, slamming his drinks, and basically everything he did that night.
- Mike breaking his glass
- this Miles guy and the references he made about Sarah on the ride home
- my elbow knocking over Melissa's glass, and then hitting the light switch on the way back from refilling my drink, or something like that.

There were other funny moments, but I can't recall them all. Even I had my share of drinks.