today is my last day of school...

funny, no matter how many 'last days' you have (i think this is my 19th), they are so damn exciting. it's like you're a little kid and the bright sunny summer days of playing, swimming and riding your bike are stretching across the horizon, and you can't wait to experience them.

never mind the fact i still have no plans beyond next week or so. :) two weeks from today i will be in southern californina, celebrating my 30th birthday. on friday the 13th, no less.

good thing it's my lucky number.

gomez at the zooma tour...among other fantastic artists...

i love this band...finally, i hope, they will become more widely known. they're awesome...one of the few bands i listen to where i really enjoy ALL of the songs...they are all a little different, and all very fun. take a listen. and, hey, if you pre-0rder the CD, you get a signed copy. pretty sweet, me thinks. :)

AHA! an invention for those who don't like the television:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/755e/

turns off any tv, anytime, anyplace. funny, they advertise it on a geek site, but i would think that many wives/girlfriends would love to have one...

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."


in 3 weeks i am finished with school. my second degree...woo! (glad this one only took 9 months, though. :) ) i've been a bit apprehensive...maybe it's just because for me there always seems to be 'something' that won't allow me to fully relax. i couldn't figure out why school ending would cause so much worry.

then i thought back to what happened the last time i graduated, 6 years ago (holy shit, how was that 6 years ago? it just flew!)...i would always joke about that next year of my life, how it couldn't possibly get any crazier and now i could handle anything. (ha! who was i trying to fool?) graduate, move, new job, sister marries, buy house, mom passes away, get married, quit job, start business. all happened right after my graduation in spring of 99. though seeing as now i am divorced and am living in a new country waiting for immigration paperwork to process, who could've guessed where my life was going?

maybe i want something more stable and that is why the graduating scares me. i know i want 'the' job in outdoor education. though i've gotten to work some fantastic teaching placements in outdoor education, the biggest thing i've learned is how difficult those jobs are to get. there are many people in waterloo waiting for someone to die, retire or have a baby so a position opens up.

i'm sure many new excting doors will be flung open in the next few months...i just wish i wasn't so worried i'd be hit in the face by one! :)

bring ice cream back from the dead! (melt?)

ben and jerry's is going to bring back flavours from the flavour graveyard. go vote for your favourite:

http://www.benjerry.com/our_products/flavor_graveyard/raise_flavor.cfm

i am especially partial to 'chocolate raspberry truffle'. the best flavour combo ever. however, i also loved 'from russia with buzz' (white russian + coffee coffee buzz buzz buzz)....

mm. ice cream. i haven't had any in my freezer for over a week.

i think i'm having withdrawls or something.

Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night
are not really the dark trees at night,
it's only the golden eternity.
Jack Kerouac

thanks to anna, for this marvellous quote.

everything has been so good for so long...job i like, love the place i live, great friends, great significant other, dog is awesome, fantastic plans for the summer...

spring is always such a sweet time of year. :)