my tummy hurts

So today all of the bloggers (except for 2.... or 3? it's all a blur) got together and ate supper at meal hall. I ate a lot, and was stuffed when I left, I then went to see "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" at film society, that movie, is really a downer, and it didn't help the food settle. So hence the name of my post.

Well I promised that I'd talk about my courses this semester this week, but I'm mad at all of them right now, even though only two are really causing me grief (read: grief in that something is due, and is not at all unreasonable for them to have things to pass in, I just simply don't want to do them). So maybe later I'll tell you about my classes. Maybe.

Instead, enjoy this story

Throughout last semester, me, Alicia and Mike (and sometimes others) would go on little photo adventures. Towards the end of November, we decided to go on "one more adventure." We met at the photo lab at 1:30 ish and then proceeded to walk towards my house, with the purpose of making our way towards the train station. We were immediately struck by the fact that it was really warm out. We we arrived to the end of campus by York Street, Mike and Alicia decided to climb a tree. I took pictures.









We then wandered down Landsdowne and eventually ended up at my house, where we elected to leave our winter coats, as it was much too warm for them. Instead of doing the normal act of using roads to make our way to the train station, following Mike's lead we walked across a field, and then ended up in this rather cool spot, where I had fun taking pictures of a sewer exit thingy. As I was changing film in my cameras and taking pictures, Mike and Alicia wandered off and ended up laying about in the tall grass. I took some pictures here, and once you see them I'm sure you'll wish you were laying about on a warm late November day in some tall grass in Sackville.





After that we went over to the train station, and sat in the grass yard of in the sketchy abandoned house next to George's Fabulous Roadhouse. Once we started to get cold (as it was about 4 or so) we walked back home.

It was indeed, a fabulous adventure,

Here is my radio show for the past week:



So while looking for a video to post on my blog I went to www.youtube.com and the top featured video was by Two Hours Traffic. My reaction went like this: "woah"

Here it is.



PS they are a maritime band and play in Sackville 2 or times a year.

Well that's all for this week, thanks for reading and see you next week!

As always, if you have any questions, email me at:
jzstrsf@mta.ca


Sup

Holiday! (is over )

Before I go on, any picture I post here, you can click on to see a larger version.

So last time I posted I did a recap of my classes, I thought it was a good idea, and in fact a few people let me know that it was. Neat. I had intentions of writing a blog over break, but I was so busy doing hardly anything productive that in fact I just couldn't seem to get around to it. So lets see, what can I talk about in this blog?

How about I

• Tell you about my holidays
• Talk to you about some music
• Show you some pictures I've taken
• Show you some pictures that will make you laugh
• Talk to you about my upcoming semester

So my holidays hmmmm? I went home to New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. I finished exams on the 18th, and was initially supposed to go home on the 19th, but instead ended up going home on the 20th at night. Here's why, Amy was coming home with me to visit for a few days, but she and Rory were working on a project together and needed to present it prior to leaving, due to this delay, Rory offered to drive us back to New Glasgow (as my dad was supposed to get me on the 19th). The drive back was fun, as Mary came along with us (she works at the Owens art gallery) as she was going home to Pictou county as well. The ride home was fun, and the few days Amy and I spent together were filled with sleeping, watching The Office, playing Scrabble (only once though) and eating food. After Amy left, my sister Gaby arrived, and she was in New Glasgow for the duration of my time home. On January 1st I left home and came back to New Glasgow, then I caught a train to Caraquet (that's in Northern New Brunswick) and hung out with Sylvain and Tia for a few days. The main point to this trip to Caraquet was to get a bunch of work done on the Wub Tour DVD. You see this past summer 7 of us went on a road trip around Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to skateboard, although initially I had no intention of making a video out of it, my mind changed. That video is on Google video, and it's LONG so I won't post it here, because I doubt very many of you will want to watch a horrible compressed 40 minute skate video. Tangent aside Sylvain and I got a whole bunch done in those few days I was in Caraquet (1st to 5th). On the 5th we drove up to Riverview to skate at the indoor skatepark. After a long day of physical activity, I got back to Sackville and literally went to sleep as soon as I got in the door, 11:00, and got out of bed at 1PM on Sunday, I guess I was tired!

So music, hmmmm, while on the train, to Caraquet I decided to take up the daunting task of sorting through my music library and figuring out stuff I don't need to have in iTunes and on my iPod, the plan is, once I figure out what I want gone, I'll put it on my external hard drive, so if for some reason I need it, I can get at it, but essentially I will clear up a huge amount of space. In other music related news, I had my first radio show of the new year on Monday and it had an "electronica" influence. I use quotation marks because the music wasn't outright electronica, as it still had ties to the alternative/indie stuff I play on my show.

Show 10



OH YEAH!

Some time in the last two months I got the idea (from a webforum I frequent) to try to see if I could make a playlist out of 18 songs that I would feel happy listening to for the rest of my life. Although the task was daunting I managed, and I am really happy with the result, as I listen to that playlist a lot now.


On to photos!

Hart Hall on a wonderful sunny day after a heavy snowfall.



The post office


Hanna at the cafe


JJ's shoulder... the first in a series?


The standard way I look at and photograph trees


Snow angel



Here are a few funny internet pictures.






Contrary to the list I posted at the beginning of my blog, I will NOT talk about my upcoming semester, instead, I'll do that next week!

yah!

Closing video for this post - Charlie Bit Me.