I don't think I'm ever going to figure it out

12:46 pm - "Fitter, Happier"

more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
sleeping well (no bad dreams)
no paranoia
careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)
keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
car wash (also on sundays)
no longer afraid of the dark
or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape
now self-employed
concerned (but powerless)
an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
a good memory
still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick
that's driven into
frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm
fitter, healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics

Radiohead

10:39 pm

Today is that day.

12:26 pm - One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

The Dr. Seuss Purity Test

I got 52% purity, with a weirdness factor of 19%.

02:16 pm

nataliedee.com

08:49 pm

I think it's time to give up my Greenpeace membership.

In a fit of treehuggerness last September, I joined Greenpeace. However, the last contract I worked on was logged by Abitibi Consolidated. Besides, treeplanters don't make good tree huggers, anyways.
________

Planting's over for the year, so now I'm doing layout for pesticide spraying. I'm sure I will write more about that later. However, the end of the planting season means I'll be updating my Treeplanter Lexicon. Much fun.

05:41 pm

I'm treeplanting now.

My entire body hurts, I could sleep for days, and I'm now always hungry. Again.

I guess I didn't really remember the cracking hands, trenchfoot, and blisters.

But it's still awesome.

04:58 pm - Travelling Poetry

I wrote a bunch of stuff while I was in Quebec, and I think I intended to post them on here while I was still there, to give you guys my impression of the place. I kind of forgot about them until now. Slightly delayed, here they are.

Tanaka for the Plains of Abraham (May 16, 2007)

Paix. The park today
Is tranquil but blustery
Boughs yeild to the air

Nearby, women do yoga.
They are grasshoppers in the wind.

Montcalm has an angel.
Where is the other guy?

( Continue... )

01:24 am

08:35 pm

How does your mouse work? Look through the magnifying glass.

12:02 am

Someone did what I did here, only better but with more research and statistics.

The Canadian Regional Treeplanter Vocabulary Survey

Current Mood: fucking bored stiff

12:38 am

I'm back home, for now.

I still don't fit in here.

And they don't sell my brand of cigarettes.

11:17 pm

I am pretty stupid sometimes.

That is all.

Current Mood: idiotic

10:18 am

OH SHIT.

Oh, and I'm in Quebec City. It's pretty cool here, but I was going to bus back. And how am I going to get to PG? I believe the correct term for someone in my position is "royally fucked".

Current Mood: worried

04:18 pm - I am beginning to get stoked...

This is a video starring treeplanters, those crazy bastids.



So far, my plans for the summer include:

-Going to MONTREAL.
-Going to QUEBEC CITY.
-Driving three quarters of the way across the country.
-Being back in Prince George in time for summer plant.
In fact, I'm leaving for step number one in three days.

Current Mood: excited

11:37 pm - Looks like somebody failed health class.

04:46 pm

I have what feels like almost boundless free time (even though it's not), and I think I'm going a little stir crazy. Every day for the last week and a bit now, I get up around noon, study for a few hours, and have nothing else to do for the rest of the day. I can see how this could get expensive very quickly.
Right now, I'm craving some externally-induced structure, or at the very least, something to do. Going for walks doesn't count.

But, it is less than a week until I'm in Montreal. Funny how that trip still seems to be somewhere in the far-off future.

04:03 pm

Because even though they feed us all that bullshit about being one of the best schools in the country, the student body is still full of idiots:

Overheard At UBC

Current Mood: studious

02:48 am

The Impossible Quiz

I dare you.

06:16 pm

Five Minutes To Kill (Yourself)

01:13 am

Allow me to introduce you to Mr. Diety.