Sleepless in Comox

So. It would seem that I just can't sleep in Comox. I really can't figure it out. I've tried everything from taking massive quantities of sleeping pills, to taking a long walk every day, to changing my bed around so my head is pointing in another direction. I swear to Gitche Manitou. You know shit's bad when you try something that lame... I suppose that not sleeping would be all good, but for the fact that it's starting to seriously damage my calm. I actually got in an argument with a teacher last week. It invovled the ENTIRE FECKING CLASS (she said, hanging her head in shame). Even worse than that, I've started to tell people what I really think. Not a good idea at the best of times, never mind when I'm perpetually cranky-assed from severe lack of sleep... I've had to apologize to several people in the last week... And on a bit of an aside, I think that maybe I've been spending too much time with twenty year olds (they're really nice kids for the most part) and that I've started to regress. Every day that passes I feel just a little bit less like the mostly functional adult that I know myself to be... So. Anyways... Guess that's it. I'm running on about four and half hours sleep right now, and I'm going to Tofino with some people from class today, so I should probably start getting my shit together... I'll try to take some tolerably o.k. pictures to post this time... As for this post's picture it's of the beach across from my place. Sorry it's not a better picture. Actually, in the spirit of saying what I really think, I'm not sorry. The picture sucks, and I don't really give a crap. If you don't like it just move along. Feel free to register a complaint.

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Cracked in the Head

Sometimes I feel like my brain is a hamster on speed... Like right now, for instance. I've been awake for the last 20 hours, am still wide awake despite less than 5 hours sleep last night and the ingestion of more sleeping pills than can possibly be safe... Here I sit, brain running in circles, like a hamster in a squeaky wheel. This must be what going absolutely, totally fecking mad feels like...

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Giving Thanks

So. Thanksgiving. What to say, what to say. I suppose for starters, I went home for the weekend (and cut class to do so), spent an obscene amount of money on a digital SLR and a couple of lenses, and then spent most of the weekend running around trying to take care of all the crap that has piled up since I was last home, which I have to say is deeply unsatisfying when all I really wanted to do was see friends and family... One bright spot was my brother and his wife crapped out on work today, which meant that we actually had a Thanksgiving dinner of sorts, although no turkey for us. Oh no. Some weird sort of pot roast recipe, not that I'm complaining, it was delicious. And I didn't have to cook it, so it was twice as good. And of course pumpkin pie... My birthday usually falls on the holiday, weirdly enough not this year (on a bit of an aside if anyone I know is going to be in Comox next weekend please, please, please stop by and see me so I don't have to sit around by myself drinking tequila all alone on my birthday. I implore you), but the pie was for me (I always get pumpkin pie for a birthday cake. Always. Cause my mom apparently doesn't see the need to make two desserts. Never mind the fact that I was deeply traumatized by this when I was a child... try to imagine what a little kid feels like getting a pumpkin pie with a single solitary candle set in the middle... it's wrong I tell you, WRONG). And I even got a birthday gift from Mackenzie, a 1981 dime (which is worth like, 12 US cents). So all in all (if one ignores the massive debt incurred whilst shopping for camera shit) it was a winner of a weekend. I am still trying to figure out my new camera, and the battery in my little point and shoot is dead, so no pics for this post. The video is my nephew Mackenzie doing a little dance. I know it's sort of apropos of nothing, but I thought it was kind of funny. He's taking hip-hop dance lessons at the Y, although I don't know if that's where he picked up this move... And before you all complain about the fact that the video is sideways (what, you thought I hadn't noticed that myself?) I did try to fix it in windows movie maker (or whatever that dumbass program is called) but then youtube didn't recognize the file format, so I tried to fix it on my mac, and can't figure out how the feck imovie is supposed to work (whoever said macs are easier to work than pcs is full of s h i t) so anyways the upshot is the clip is sideways. So turn your head to the side, or turn your monitor sideways, or just don't watch it... Whatever, the choice is yours.

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