I know no one reads this anymore, but what the hell.

yeah I haven't written shit here for ages. Not going to make excuses, didn't have anything interesting to say, and I'm not sure that I do now, either, except that now I'm even more bored than I was before, so I'm hopeing that this might be useful for those times, once I am employed again, when you need to goof at your computer, or something like that anyway.

so anyway, I quite my job as a construction laborer and moved to Hudson Ohio to live with my grandparents. Yes, I know, HOW EXCITING. it's a really whitebread affluent community of protestant ex-CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies. In anycase, my grandparents are actually quite cool, if one can use that word to describe one's grandparents; they look and act about twenty years younger than they are, and they have a nice house on a nice property. They're keeping in line.

The rationale here was to move to ohio in advance of going to the University of Cincinnati for a four year co-op masters in architecture. I would move here in advance in order to get in state status, so that when I went to school, I would get my tuition halved, so unlike toronto, where I paid twice as much as everyone else, I'd be paying half as much. I figured since this degree is going to be on my shoulders to finance, might as well make it as cheap as possible--sorry mom and pops that I didn't work at that angle before, I guess I really am a selfish person... haha. in anycase, all of this is a bit in the clouds at the moment, I'm not sure I'll qualify for the instate status, I don't have a job yet, I haven't even taken my GREs, let alone applied to bloody schools, so you could say that i'm trying to act confident in order to make it happen, or whatever.

I remember when I was complaining about how something wasn't fun to my mom when I was little, she responded by saying, well wait until you're an adult, being an adult is about doing stuff you don't want to do all the time. I'm starting to think there might be more truth than sarcasm to that... but thats being melodramatic I suppose.

listening to sufjan stevens, rogue wave, bloc party. good stuff. miss the dance cave and the occaisonal house club, but that stuff is starting to feel old as well. last trip I made to toronto was expensive, exhausting and weird and I decided that I wasn't going to go back for a while. I think I'm going to hold to that, despite the fact that I live only 6 hours away now, instead of 9.

I've started to play world of warcraft to kill time in the evenings, although thats going to have to share time with GRE books now, which will be kinda lame but perhaps necsarry.

I'm reading smilla's sense of snow for the second time. it's by peter hoeg (e with umlaut) and it's very good.

I had a nightmarish two days of AV instalation with my grandfather, perhaps I'll expand on that in a nother post, because it's rather comical.

I got offered a job today: If I accepted I would get to sit in a garage behind a strip mall by myself, for 8-9 bucks an hour, and use a nail gun to put old shipping pallets back together. for eight hours. there would be no boss, and I could play music if I wanted to. but eight hours of wooden shipping pallets. and if productivity was good, he might give me a raise. I declined. Thanks, but no thanks. I might have to take something like that, but not yet, not just yet. I think of it as a House of Mirth situation. Lily Bart can't make herself marry for conveinince in the beginning, but she gets more and more desperate as she ages and becomes less attractive. So I figure when I hit the Lily Bart late twenties of my job search I'll start seriously thinking about working in coffee shops and jiffy lubes, but until then I'm going to pretend like there was a reason I went to University beyond having a checkmark on paper. HA!!!

this is a hilarious personal essay I found on Date.com or lavalife or something, it's gotta be a russian chick. she's pretty hot, but boy to deal with this grammar:

"I the young and nice woman. I love an active image of life. I like sports and rest on a nature. I want amicable and large family. I love children. I am able to prepare. The present men."

you could really read a lot into that. 'rest on a nature'? wow. at least she's honest, unilke all of the other phonies out there: she just likes the image of an active life, doesn't matter if it's really active.

To end on a light note: I saved a boatload on my car insurance! No really, and it wasn't with Gieco, just by moving 800 bucks dropped off my policy. I guess people drive like shit in MD or something. who knew!