Dumping Ground of Thought

I don't really have a reason for my absence, nor will I bother to make excuses.

I'm starting rehearsals again soon. I'm hoping that it will help get my creative jucies flowing so to speak. I haven't written anything since the 24hour playwrighting competiton I did. And even that I've been meaning to get another look at and do some editing. Anyway, as always the future is full of potential...

So, I just got notice that my name has been drawn for entry into the ATP PlayRites 24 hour playwrights competition. This is great news, but at the same time frightening as it means I will now be expected to produce a new play in 24 hours or less and I'm not really sure at this point what the hell I'm going to write... Ah well, I'm sure I'll think of something...

So as I mentioned I played in a paintball tournament on the weekend. It was the MR Paintball Speedball Nationals. The team I was playing on was at the introductory level, which is good as most of us had played very little paintball in our time and I was the only member of the team to have met and played with all of the other members before the tournament. That being said it was alot of fun. We got beat pretty bad in our first few games, but we learned quickly and even managed to win a few, finishing ninth out of twelve in our division. That doesn't sound that great, but I think that it's about as good as could be expected and probably even better than some of us had hoped for.

Although, I will say one thing... I wish that I was fifteen and had rich parents!

I had a great week going to the International Animated Objects Festival with my girlfriend this past week, followed by a fun filled weekend playing in the MR Paintball Nationals with friends. I was having a great day today. After finishing our last game I headed off to go see the last show of the festival with me girl. It was a good show. After we parted ways, as I needed to go home to do Laundry... sigh. Anyway, I was riding the bus home and that was fine I wlaked from the stop to my house and then as soon as I came in I started to feel a little sad and I do not know why. This has me a little confused...

So I have two vacation options this year... One is to go to Ireland with my Mom and my two sisters. Ireland is somewhere I've always wanted to go and I get along very well with my family. The other is Oktoberfest with friends, a very tempting option, but for the camping involved (not really my style). I've already tentatively agreed to going to Munich which will probably be the cheaper of the trips and the shorter one so I can still take some time off as paid vacation at another time in the year... Still Ireland would be wicked...

I wonder if there is some way to do both?

So the pilot light went out on my furnace on the weekend and it simply didn't want to light. It would light no problem, but it wouldn't stay that way...

Long story short though, a furnace guy finally came and had to replace the thermal couple. Good timing too since it's supposed to get down to -37C tonight.

So last year I was supposed to get married and eighteen days before the wedding my ex-fiance called it off. That was six months ago...

On Jan. 31st I got a call to inform me that my Mom had left my dad and they were going to be ending a marriage of 33 years in divorice.

Needless to say my faith in marriage is very shaken.

I don't really know how to expalin it, but the truth of the matter is I'm okay. I'm worried about my parents of course, but somehow I feel that this is for the best.

As for my own aborted marriage. I KNOW that was for the best. I'm already seeing a very nice girl.

Anyway, just feeling contemplative and felt like typing. Thought I'd share...

When I get out of the shower in my new place I can see the door in the mirror. For the past little while I've gotten out of the shower and seen a naked figure standing at the door through the mist. After a seconds panic I recognize said figure as my girlfriend's towel (which is vaguely skin coloured) hanging on the hook on the back of the door. As panic subsides my brian thinks sweet. My girlfriend is naked and waiting for me to get out of the shower, this is a great morning! But of course I then quickly recall that I've already identified the "naked figure" as just a towel. It's all very frustrating and makes me wish that my brain didn't have the hiccups of logic. I suppose it wouldn't bother me so much if it had been a one time occurrence, but no, it has happened four or five mornings in a row.

Stolen from a friend.

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random. (in my case computer play list)
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarassing. (I'll give you the first 2 for some of them)
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
google is cheating

1.) "Sexy girl meet me in the bathroom. Sexy girl call me on the phone." - Sexy Results by Death From Above 1979 (Idnetified by SJK)
2.) "Before I lay my head down to sleep, I'm peeling out of my clothes."
3.) "When you're in you're little room and you're working on something good." - Litte Room by The White Stripes (Identified by SJK)
4.) "Don't move, don't speak, even whisper." - Don't Speak by Eagles of Deathmetal (Identified by SJK)
5.) "Driven by restrained desire, I want what I need." Temptation by The Tea Party (Identified by Deadly Toque)
6.) "The sun was coming up, soldiers alliance storming my brain." (Not 100% certain that's the correct words)
7.) "Hung up and bent on a stranger, just trying to hitch a full-time ride"
8.) "All you liars and judges in reading rooms this one goes out to you."
9.) "I had a feeling from the start of it, I had a joke on everyone."
10.) "You are the latest contender, you are the one to remember." Darts of Pleasure by Franz Ferdinand (Identified by Deadly Toque)
11.) "You let me know, how you have changed, I can't tell, in any way."
12.) "But now, but now, but now."
13.) "I don't wanna waste you're time, I don't wanna waste you're time."
14.) "Well it's time to begin as the summer sets in." - Gatekeeper by Fiest (Identified by SJK)
15.) "Water, water, on the seeds."
16.) "First time in the backyard, underneath the plastic sheet." - First Five Times by The Stars (Identified by SJK)
17.) "Trop pauvre pour les pilules, j'fais la putain pourtant j'suis nul"
18.) "Give me back my album."
19.) "I hit top speed, I smoke the dragon."
20.) "Green shadow water wait all o- all over me."
21.) "Why do I keep finding myself so suprised, the qualities you openly have advertised." - Lousy Reputation by We Are Scientists (Identified by SJK)
22.) "What gives you the right, to fuck with our lives."
23.) "Tuesday morining now, I've gotta have somewhere to go."
24.) "Can you guess, why I haven't called you back."
25.) "Oh you should see her, we still love her now."
26.) "Fall is here, hear the yell. Back to school, ring the bell."
27.) "I got up this morning, put on my shoes." - Grown So Ugly by The Black Keys (Identified by SJK)
28.) "On the ground floor, of the human tower."
29.) "Oh yes I got me some trouble Lord becasue I changed one woman's name."
30.) "Is it safe to look within, and erase all that's been." Walking Wounded by The Tea Party (Identified by Deadly Toque)

So there are quite a few doubled up artists on this list becasue I don't use my computer for listening to music all that often and thus the list is short, but have fun anyway.

My office is haunted. Not seriously haunted, but it is haunted. By a ghost, a real ghost. His name is Gerald. To be honest he isn’t a very good ghost. He doesn’t make the walls bleed, or levitate small objects, or even make eerie noises. In fact he is a rather boring ghost. All he does is collate. He spends eternity collecting documents from the copy room, bringing them to the coffee room and sorting them. That’s it.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, Gerald was rather dull in life as well. Oh yes, I knew him when he was alive, he worked in our office then too. Although I didn’t really talk to him much in those days. He always used to show up for work ten minutes early, get a coffee, go to his desk and sharpen his pencils. Once that task was finished he’d work steady until ten o’clock, take a break, go to work until lunch, come back from lunch and work until two, take another break and then work until quitting time. You could set your watch by the guy. He always did the same thing at the same time and rarely talked to anyone.

That’s why it was such a surprise the day he came in late. Everyone thought it a little odd when eight am rolled around and Gerald wasn’t there. No one knew him well enough to be worried, but around ten after eight our boss got a phone call that Gerald had been in a car accident and been killed. An announcement was made about the tragedy. Everyone was shocked, but no one cried. No one knew him well enough. About twenty minutes later Gerald came in though the door and sat down at his desk as if nothing had happened. There was blood dripping down his forehead and I could see through him.

I can only guess that Gerald saw the bright light white, but was so concerned that he’d be late for work he ignored it and kept going. He’s been at work every work day since, and I assume he will be here long after I’ve moved on.