So the other day in Kamloops, some totally random buddy on the bus called me
'a four eyed b!tch'.
Now Three things.
1) it was honestly unprovoked, which isn't always the case when people start hurling names at me.
2) I was more confused then offended. (I've been called worse and it won't be the first or last time that someone calls me a 'b!tch')
3) I wasn't wearing my glasses-glasses (surprise) I was wearing my sunglasses.
So here's my question.
Does the slanderous remark 'Four Eyes' apply to sunglasses? Maybe prescription sunglasses I could understand, but just regular shades?
If 'Four Eyes' is meant as a derogatory term then it implies that wearing glasses is an unpopular choice. Now for me, wearing glasses is an unpopular choice, just because it is. But that dislike only applies to my prescription glasses not my Sunglasses. I like wearing my sunglasses. I feel kind of gangster. Perhaps I'm wrong (I doubt it) but I thought it was sort of universally accepted that sunglasses are cool. So; if wearing sunglasses is a popular choice then why would it be insulting to comment on the fact?
Any thoughts?
The punk's lack of logic is bugging me. If you're going to insult me, at least make sense when you do so. Unless his ultimate goal was to annoy the crap out of me, then mission accomplished.
Later folks
Cmax
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Friday, 22 July 2011
enough already
This cabin fever is simply too much. I'm blowing this popsicle stand. Let someone else hold the fort while I'm away.
k. That's all the clever structural associations I could make. Thought there'd be more.
In case I haven't been clear about my current predicament. I'm bored.
enough already.
I'm getting out of town for a couple of days before I go batty.
If I show up on your doorstep... please entertain me.
Peace All
Cmax
k. That's all the clever structural associations I could make. Thought there'd be more.
In case I haven't been clear about my current predicament. I'm bored.
enough already.
I'm getting out of town for a couple of days before I go batty.
If I show up on your doorstep... please entertain me.
Peace All
Cmax
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
going loopy
So yet another cancelled show tonight.
Not that I mind a night off, but I'm officially bored.
I have plenty of things I could do.
-clean my house
-scan photos (first have to figure out why my scanner doesn't work)
-laundry
-play with psycho cat
-go for a run
-put screen up in the windows
-mow the lawn
-work on play development
-work on fall applications.....
I've settled on streaming old episodes of law and order.
I don't feel like doing anything really. I wish I could just hang out with my friends and relax, but I can't. I have colleagues in this town, but not friends per say. I do have a roommate but she is busy and has a life and children and actually I haven't seen her in days.
Normally I am a pretty introverted person; so it doesn't bother me, but I do actually feel people deprived.
Its making me a little loopy.
Stupid town.
Less than 3 months left. Soon I will be back in my own bed, living my own life, playing nintendo with my friends till I'm dizzy. I can hardly wait.
Now back to Law and Order.
I'll get cleaning in a bit...
Not that I mind a night off, but I'm officially bored.
I have plenty of things I could do.
-clean my house
-scan photos (first have to figure out why my scanner doesn't work)
-laundry
-play with psycho cat
-go for a run
-put screen up in the windows
-mow the lawn
-work on play development
-work on fall applications.....
I've settled on streaming old episodes of law and order.
I don't feel like doing anything really. I wish I could just hang out with my friends and relax, but I can't. I have colleagues in this town, but not friends per say. I do have a roommate but she is busy and has a life and children and actually I haven't seen her in days.
Normally I am a pretty introverted person; so it doesn't bother me, but I do actually feel people deprived.
Its making me a little loopy.
Stupid town.
Less than 3 months left. Soon I will be back in my own bed, living my own life, playing nintendo with my friends till I'm dizzy. I can hardly wait.
Now back to Law and Order.
I'll get cleaning in a bit...
Monday, 18 July 2011
nocturnal lament
So its the middle of the night and I'm up, restless and sleepless.
Common circumstance as of late.
I think I might actually be nocturnal. I seem to come home after the show, exhausted, thinking I'll write my reports and head straight to bed. It never really works out that way though. I sit in front of my computer for a bit, get myself ready for bed, and then all of a sudden I'm wide awake.
Maybe I'm missing some crucial window to get myself to bed, or perhaps turning on my computer is somehow revving up my brain and messing with my sleep cues.
I think I've tried every reasonable means to adjust my sleep habits and nothing has really had much impact.
Its almost 4am.
I'm tired of feeling so tired all the time and yet so sleepless when I should be sleeping.
I'm up every morning between 8:30- 9:30am. Not super early, but pretty good by my standards. I get plenty of exercise and fresh air, my caffeine habit is under control and I have a strong grasp of the importance of good sleep hygiene. I have even done an online CBT course for insomnia through the Harvard Medical Centre (after much urging from my GP) to no avail. *stupid-know-it-all-Harvard-Doctors telling me I probably fall asleep much earlier than I think I do and that I'm not really still awake at 5 or 6am.*
I am still awake.
sleep typing perhaps? Is that a thing? Useless.
Has anyone out there ever dealt with persistent or chronic insomnia? How did you get to sleep? I'm open to suggestions.
ugh.
alright time to turn this machine off.
Nite all
Cmax
Common circumstance as of late.
I think I might actually be nocturnal. I seem to come home after the show, exhausted, thinking I'll write my reports and head straight to bed. It never really works out that way though. I sit in front of my computer for a bit, get myself ready for bed, and then all of a sudden I'm wide awake.
Maybe I'm missing some crucial window to get myself to bed, or perhaps turning on my computer is somehow revving up my brain and messing with my sleep cues.
I think I've tried every reasonable means to adjust my sleep habits and nothing has really had much impact.
Its almost 4am.
I'm tired of feeling so tired all the time and yet so sleepless when I should be sleeping.
I'm up every morning between 8:30- 9:30am. Not super early, but pretty good by my standards. I get plenty of exercise and fresh air, my caffeine habit is under control and I have a strong grasp of the importance of good sleep hygiene. I have even done an online CBT course for insomnia through the Harvard Medical Centre (after much urging from my GP) to no avail. *stupid-know-it-all-Harvard-Doctors telling me I probably fall asleep much earlier than I think I do and that I'm not really still awake at 5 or 6am.*
I am still awake.
sleep typing perhaps? Is that a thing? Useless.
Has anyone out there ever dealt with persistent or chronic insomnia? How did you get to sleep? I'm open to suggestions.
ugh.
alright time to turn this machine off.
Nite all
Cmax
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
coach christie
Well folks, this month is turning out to be pretty vanilla.
Not a lot of drama and a fair number of cancelled shows due to late trains and low attendance.
So how to spend my time?
I'm trying to get some play development work done and starting to plan for the fall when I return to my beloved home, but that work is feeling a bit tedious at the moment.
What am I loving is my new found motivation for exercise. I'm trying to work up to running the track at the park near our house. The path is better suited for walking or biking though as it's paved and a bit hard on the joints to go for a run. I am walking it at the moment, along with two exercise buddies whom have taken to calling me Coach Christie. giggle. (I wear my Cmax t-shirt to heighten the effect). The track is 3.1Km for the large loop; so we do a couple of those intercepted by sets at the hydraulic circuit stations. (Yes those are part of the park, very cool). Not a bad work out. I have taken to topping off the morning with a bit of P90, just to get the endorphins flowing.
I am also looking into acquiring a mini tramp. Apparently they are a very good low impact work out for runners. That and I love trampolines.
I had one when I was younger and bounced on it for hours on end. We affectionately called it 'The steak'. Ha! I don't remember where that came from, I think it was code for something, 'trampoline', perhaps.
Well that's all I suppose. I need to get my butt to the theatre. Hope this finds you all well. Write again soon
peace
CMax
Not a lot of drama and a fair number of cancelled shows due to late trains and low attendance.
So how to spend my time?
I'm trying to get some play development work done and starting to plan for the fall when I return to my beloved home, but that work is feeling a bit tedious at the moment.
What am I loving is my new found motivation for exercise. I'm trying to work up to running the track at the park near our house. The path is better suited for walking or biking though as it's paved and a bit hard on the joints to go for a run. I am walking it at the moment, along with two exercise buddies whom have taken to calling me Coach Christie. giggle. (I wear my Cmax t-shirt to heighten the effect). The track is 3.1Km for the large loop; so we do a couple of those intercepted by sets at the hydraulic circuit stations. (Yes those are part of the park, very cool). Not a bad work out. I have taken to topping off the morning with a bit of P90, just to get the endorphins flowing.
I am also looking into acquiring a mini tramp. Apparently they are a very good low impact work out for runners. That and I love trampolines.
I had one when I was younger and bounced on it for hours on end. We affectionately called it 'The steak'. Ha! I don't remember where that came from, I think it was code for something, 'trampoline', perhaps.
Well that's all I suppose. I need to get my butt to the theatre. Hope this finds you all well. Write again soon
peace
CMax
Thursday, 7 July 2011
3 months
So yesterday marked the 3 month mark of my Kamloops adventure! Yay! That means we're halfway folks!?!
That makes me deeply happy.
I can't quite see the finish line yet, but from now on I know that there will be more days behind me than in front of me.
In the spirit of celebration, my Kamloops roomie and I made our way to her mom's house (who is currently away on vacation and has a much nicer house than us).
We lounged in the back yard, enjoying some fresh air and drinking some Granville Island brew. FYI, The Granville Island brewery has come out with a really great summer ale ( 'False Creek Raspberry ale') and I highly recommend it. Advertisement over.
Once the sun was gone we moved indoors and watched our good old ws2002 tape. We've been trying to watch it for a while but hadn't found the time for it. I giggled. We all looked like babies in that video and our voices sounded full of hope and uncertainty. I get a bit sad when I watch that tape (which is why I hardly ever watch it). Sad cause I miss all those people like mad, even now, and also cause the sense of freedom that came with that experience has been hard to recreate in my life. I do have a very good life, and good people in my life, and WS was still somehow different. Hard to explain I guess.
We ended up spending the night. 1) cause we had been drinking but also 2) It was unG-dly hot in Kamloops yesterday and our house was unbearable.
I'm not a stranger to the okanagan summer heat, but somehow I can never quite get use to the stifling air or the restless sleeps.
I do remember having one summer like that in Vancouver. Ugh. The heat lasted for weeks and my roomie and I lived in the top level of an unshaded house. We sweltered.
So yesterday was quite lovely. Shade and beer and sundresses. That's what I call summer.
Keep well folks
only 3 months left to go. Whooohoooo!
That makes me deeply happy.
I can't quite see the finish line yet, but from now on I know that there will be more days behind me than in front of me.
In the spirit of celebration, my Kamloops roomie and I made our way to her mom's house (who is currently away on vacation and has a much nicer house than us).
We lounged in the back yard, enjoying some fresh air and drinking some Granville Island brew. FYI, The Granville Island brewery has come out with a really great summer ale ( 'False Creek Raspberry ale') and I highly recommend it. Advertisement over.
Once the sun was gone we moved indoors and watched our good old ws2002 tape. We've been trying to watch it for a while but hadn't found the time for it. I giggled. We all looked like babies in that video and our voices sounded full of hope and uncertainty. I get a bit sad when I watch that tape (which is why I hardly ever watch it). Sad cause I miss all those people like mad, even now, and also cause the sense of freedom that came with that experience has been hard to recreate in my life. I do have a very good life, and good people in my life, and WS was still somehow different. Hard to explain I guess.
We ended up spending the night. 1) cause we had been drinking but also 2) It was unG-dly hot in Kamloops yesterday and our house was unbearable.
I'm not a stranger to the okanagan summer heat, but somehow I can never quite get use to the stifling air or the restless sleeps.
I do remember having one summer like that in Vancouver. Ugh. The heat lasted for weeks and my roomie and I lived in the top level of an unshaded house. We sweltered.
So yesterday was quite lovely. Shade and beer and sundresses. That's what I call summer.
Keep well folks
only 3 months left to go. Whooohoooo!
Sunday, 3 July 2011
Whew!
Alright blog
it is time that you and I spent some quality time together!
So I've been busy, busy, busy. Traipsing around, visiting, working and now I'm in Kamloops, for a few weeks, just doing the show.
Over a week ago now, I went to Ellison Park in Vernon to watch some colleagues take on the Xterra triathlon. So amazing! It is mind boggling for me to watch athletes in their prime accomplish such terrific feats. Mountain biking, mountain running and swimming in ice cold waters, and all before noon. I was proud of myself just for getting up so early to watch them! I felt very inspired by the whole event and had a brief thought that I would try the Kelowna Xterra, but by the next day I had come to my senses and thought, no way in hell. I think I would need a whole year of training to prepare for something like that, and really this summer feels exhausting enough already.
Still very amazing to watch.
I did also hit up Vancouver again to visit friends and offer my well wishes to the now newly weds. Fun times. Congrats to my former husband and his new wife! I'm sure you will both be very happy together. I was sad to miss the actual day, but I was thinking of you and from what I can tell from the pictures, it looks like everything went smoothly
Then came the long weekend. Happy Birthday Canada! I headed down to Naramata with my Kamloops roomie to get in some more visits and spend some time at the beach. Too cold for swimming yet, at least for me, but beautiful and relaxing none the less. We also explored the the Penticton night life while we were there (lame) but I did get some pool action in; so it wasn't a total wash. I think I'm too old for clubs now. Or too cool, or sophisticated, or something. Sticky dance floors, monotonous and excessively loud house music, super drunk children and bad beer, really don't do anything for me at this point.
K, rant over. It was an experience and at least I was in good company.
We did get a chance to check out some of the other fun happenings around the city too. The lovely used bookstore, Gyro park and a bit of sushi. It was a fun day.
The highlight in Penticton though was most definitely Cirque du Soleil's Dralion on Saturday night. I've never seen one of their shows before and holy crap! have I been missing out. So amazing! Again, amazing athletes, dancing and performing acrobatics that completely boggled my mind. Pure entertainment and spectacle and so proudly canadian.
So now, I'm back and focused on the task at hand, getting through the last few months of our little show. We're getting close to the half way mark folks! Very exciting indeed.
I'm feeling a bit tired, but motivated and capable; so I'll make it though. I need to vamp up my physical activity and get more running in, but otherwise I'm feeling a bit more balanced here in Kamloops.
Alright. Gotta jet and get this show going for tonight. Keep well friends and I'll blog again soon.
Peace
Cmax
it is time that you and I spent some quality time together!
So I've been busy, busy, busy. Traipsing around, visiting, working and now I'm in Kamloops, for a few weeks, just doing the show.
Over a week ago now, I went to Ellison Park in Vernon to watch some colleagues take on the Xterra triathlon. So amazing! It is mind boggling for me to watch athletes in their prime accomplish such terrific feats. Mountain biking, mountain running and swimming in ice cold waters, and all before noon. I was proud of myself just for getting up so early to watch them! I felt very inspired by the whole event and had a brief thought that I would try the Kelowna Xterra, but by the next day I had come to my senses and thought, no way in hell. I think I would need a whole year of training to prepare for something like that, and really this summer feels exhausting enough already.
Still very amazing to watch.
I did also hit up Vancouver again to visit friends and offer my well wishes to the now newly weds. Fun times. Congrats to my former husband and his new wife! I'm sure you will both be very happy together. I was sad to miss the actual day, but I was thinking of you and from what I can tell from the pictures, it looks like everything went smoothly
Then came the long weekend. Happy Birthday Canada! I headed down to Naramata with my Kamloops roomie to get in some more visits and spend some time at the beach. Too cold for swimming yet, at least for me, but beautiful and relaxing none the less. We also explored the the Penticton night life while we were there (lame) but I did get some pool action in; so it wasn't a total wash. I think I'm too old for clubs now. Or too cool, or sophisticated, or something. Sticky dance floors, monotonous and excessively loud house music, super drunk children and bad beer, really don't do anything for me at this point.
K, rant over. It was an experience and at least I was in good company.
We did get a chance to check out some of the other fun happenings around the city too. The lovely used bookstore, Gyro park and a bit of sushi. It was a fun day.
The highlight in Penticton though was most definitely Cirque du Soleil's Dralion on Saturday night. I've never seen one of their shows before and holy crap! have I been missing out. So amazing! Again, amazing athletes, dancing and performing acrobatics that completely boggled my mind. Pure entertainment and spectacle and so proudly canadian.
So now, I'm back and focused on the task at hand, getting through the last few months of our little show. We're getting close to the half way mark folks! Very exciting indeed.
I'm feeling a bit tired, but motivated and capable; so I'll make it though. I need to vamp up my physical activity and get more running in, but otherwise I'm feeling a bit more balanced here in Kamloops.
Alright. Gotta jet and get this show going for tonight. Keep well friends and I'll blog again soon.
Peace
Cmax
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