Only in Alberta....

"You know what people have always told me? That I'm a trier, not a doer," pouted Therien. "That and 'Next time remember your skates.'"

I always appreciate it when friends email me links to put up on my blog. This link is courtesy of one 'Gallum' MacKendrick and it is from mcsweeneys.net which you may remember from such posts as, An Open Letter to Shrink-Wrap, Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber, and Baseball Knowledge Will Not Help You Pick Up Girls. The link is to The Philadelphia Flyers Have a Time Machine, By Dave Johnston, but they are all very funny. However, if you are not procrastinating like me, or you are The Duke with limited time to screw about on the internet from your cushy job, I personally enjoyed the 4th installment the most and recommend you start there.

So the Oilers lost tonight (in the game ending shootout so Dallas won 6-5). I know it is a team sport but I'm blaming it on Conklin. And Reasoner. The crowd wasn't really into it for some reason...maybe it was the 2 Dallas goals in the first minute of play? (The 'music dude' working for the Oilers decided to use U2 songs when the teams take to the ice (All Because of You, Vertigo) and then played Beautiful Day and New Years Day between plays!!) Oh and does anybody know what the penalty is if the goalie plays the puck outside the allotted area behind the goal? This happened tonight but the referee did not do anything about it and that confused me. Shouldn't they whistle down the play and face off?

The Fish also lost this afternoon (7-17 against the Jets), as did the Smos! It's Black Sunday ladies and Gents, Black Sunday indeed. At least the Bears football team put one in the win column (3 TDs in 59 seconds during the 3rd quarter!) for fucks sakes.

On our way home form the game The Dude and I were coming up the escalator in the University LRT station and he made a glib comment (quoting Mulroney) about how, ""[The Meech Lake Accord was] the sweetest deal ever known to man and it was thrown away." We both giggled but the gentleman just ahead of us on the escalator turned around and shot us a rather mean looking glare. This may have been because he was native, or not a Mulroney fan, we are not sure, but The Dude hastily added, "quote, unquote." Am I the only one who finds this fall down funny? So I guess I have a word to the wise: don't quote Mulroney in public.

Song Du Jour: All Because of you ~ U2

"honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk...."

Car alarms are really annoying. I think that if one goes off we should be able to shoot at the car with our guns until it goes off.

I am taking Philosophy 120 and I find it rather worrisome that I have absolutely no idea what the hell the prof is talking about in class. I sit there trying to pick out the words I know, but it is like he has strung them together in sentences that are bass ackwards. I have no idea how to take notes. My notes consist of a few hastily scribbled Venn diagrams and the words:

"What the hell?"
"I have no idea what to write down."
"Oh My GOD!"

Song Du Jour: The Gift ~Annie Lennox

"The Return of the Jackass"

So Smith emails me to tell me of his return to blogging and asks me if I will advertise this momentous occasion to you, the masses. Yay...everybody do a cartwheel. What Smith you want a medal? So far his return has been rather unexciting and his topics mostly centre on the U.S. Supreme Court. Although I do not care for the topic he is, as always, hilariously funny and is taking jabs at old councillors which is always entertaining.

I have returned to school (my last year!!) and in my first week I managed to be sober once. Friday was a very difficult day because my hangover seemed matched by the pathetic weather. We went to watch the Esks game in the cold, damp weather and the Esks played like shite. Maybe they were hungover too?

My time has been basically spent going to and from from school, getting hijacked by friends I haven't seen all summer to go and have a few beers, and watching sporting events (you'll notice the general lack of things like studying, buying books, or reviewing notes, which is what I should have been doing). Last night I worked at the Oilers Rookie game Versus the Golden Bears. The Bears won 5-4 in sudden death overtime. It was a good game and the press was all over the place. It was cool to see all the old school Oilers like Lowe, Mac T, Huddy, Simpson, etc.... I was a goal judge which basically meant I had to press a button. I pressed my button 4 times. It's all very complicated as you can well imagine, but I figure this is good practice for when I finally get on Jeopardy and win big money.

Also entertaining are all the new first year students on campus. I call them Grade Niners. I was approached in V-Wing by one very confused grade niner on my first day and she asked me if I knew where 'vwing' was. At first I was like, "vwing?" I thought I heard her wrong but no...I contained my giggles until later but I think she's on to something...V-wing shall now be called vwing, rhymes with swing, until they knock it down.

Song Du Jour: Wake Me Up When September Ends ~ Green Day

"You don't get a lot of Rifraffs down der..." Auntie Maryss

My Auntie Maryss and my Uncle Rick went to Jasper for the weekend. They had a few drinks and hung out by the Athabasca River and had some down time. Wish I was there....