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What I ‘ment to say.

I’m never good with speeches. So tonight, when I won the award for excellence in instruction I was pretty tongue tied. I would like to ask the vfs class of dd02 to disregard the garbled thing that I said and replace it with the following:

First of all, thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to teach you guys (and ladies). To be honest though, instructors can’t really do much without the students. Students have to contribute and contribute you did. That being said, thank you for being such a great bunch of students. You all have taught me so much and I’ve always been in awe of what you guys are capable of.

Next, its quite an honour to be in the presence of each and everyone of my collegues. Its true that when you’re surrounded by greatness you get pushed to be great yourself. So thank you to all my collegues. I mean that. I really do.

8:18 pm 1 Comment

Christmas shopping

Yes folks, I’ve been shopping for my Christmas presents (or the materials for them at least). In my search, I’ve been frequenting the malls and it has been hell. So I’d like to post my rant about shopping for presents in malls.

First of all, what is up with stupid kids and the uncontrollable urge to pull fire alarms. In the 4 hours that I was in the mall, I heard the fire alarm set off at least 5 times, each one declared false. A small message to those kids: Chill out, it’s not as funny to everyone as it is to your retarded little brains. Fire fighters need the authority to sever children’s hands with the jaws of life. That would make me extremely happy.

Next, I know it’s the holiday season, with the snow and the romantic holiday thingy. You don’t have to use the mall hallways to declare your undying and immortal love for each other but if you decide you do, here are a few tips. Don’t be all smoochy faced with your partner in the crowded walkways blocking incoming and ongoing traffic. This holds true especially when you have a pissed off Filipino carrying at least 5 heavy bags of holiday cheer. Take your smooching to the movies, your bedroom, your parents bedroom, the bondage room in the 4 seasons or better yet DON’T DO IT!

To the Asian ladies who almost trampled me in the process of fighting for $30 dollar toaster ovens in Zellers: $30 dollar toasters isn’t worth trampling me for. Thanks.

Next year, I’m doing all my shopping off the Internet.

6:39 pm 0 Comments

Shoe shopping and babies

This past weekend I went shoe shopping. Yes, I’m talking about shoe shopping. I’ve officially run out of things to talk about and in the process I’ve set the notion of blogs back a few years. I might as well talk about what I had for dinner last night… McChicken meal with fries and a diet coke. Yummy in my tummy.

Anyway, I digress.

Shoe shopping is always an interesting experience to me. As most of my students/readers know, I’m pretty much color blind when coordinating the different elements of my wardrobe. I still live in the dark ages when geeks and nerds wear button up short sleeved collar shirts, complete with neon green matching pocket protector. Unless Ashton Kutcher (responsible for making the trucker hat famous and fashionable) decides that pocket protectors and thick-rimmed glasses are in style, then I’m pretty much a lost-cause. Damn it! I digressed again.

Needless to say that I rely on the people around me when I try to coordinate my outfits. Usually this daunting task falls on the girlfriend, but in some cases it also translates to sales people. Unless you were the sales person we had helping us this weekend:

Me: *trying on a pair* So yea, this looks fine right? I think it’ll go well with pretty much anything.

Cheryl: I think so, it’s going to be your work shoes right? I’ve never actually heard of that brand name before though.

Me: Yea, me neither but then again. I’ve never heard of any of the styles here in this store.

Pregnant sales person: Those are, like, really nice shoes, the good thing is they go with pretty much anything even the stuff you have on. (read: dress shirt and pocket protector)

Cheryl: I think they look good, I’ve never heard of the brand name before though.

Psp: Humm, yea actually me neither. But you know, this store only carries brand name shoes.

Cheryl: …

Me: …

Psp: Please buy these shoes so I don’t have to sell my baby on e-bay!

1:56 pm 0 Comments

2004 Retrospect

It still feels like I wrote last year’s retrospect just yesterday. I set some pretty aggressive goals for myself that resulted in a very work-filled year. Although I did accomplish a lot, looking back there wasn’t really that much of a balance. Work filled the year, nothing much done for a social life.

Now don’t get me wrong, It was a great year with many things to look back on. I bought a car for one; I never thought i would be capable of buying a new car (READ: too cheap and scared of debt). But there it is, sitting in the parking lot outside. I started a new job at Vancouver Film School and left Bodwell. This caused a lot of stress; good stress mind you, but stress nonetheless. I got moved up the corporate ladder, I’m now a super lemming which means, less coding and more leading. I’m really starting to get a feel for yelling the phrase: “You! Go get me a latte!!” I also started to get a feel for managing my business. I learned a lot about writing mean and nasty emails that quote deadlines and other scary figures that end with the phrase: “I don’t care how you get it done, just get it done!” Oh yea, I also bought an Ibook, an Ipod, a Clio, a new cellphone …. the list goes on and on.

So what are my plans for next year? I don’t know. I’m sitting here trying to put together my 2005 year goals and I’m drawing a blank right now. Oh well, I’ll come up with something… or nothing. See ya next year kiddies. Be safe!

10:31 am

Granny bait

I’ve officially turned into the office jail bait… Well no not really, it all started when I bought my new phone a few weeks ago. I decided to sell my old phone to get some cash back for the new one. My old phone, as everyone probably knows, was hacked all to heck. Instead of the regular Rogers AT&T banner on the screen’s top, it said “ritchie rocks!”

No biggie right? I thought to myself, “I could switch it to any text the person wants anyway.”

Well, she was buying the phone for her mother and said that she’ll check with me to which text her mother would want. Considering that this lady buying my phone is at least probably twice my age, her mother would have to be in her late 80’s… at the very least! Her mother apprently got back to her today and said that she wanted to keep it because she wants everyone to think that she has a boyfriend.

ewww!

2:16 pm 0 Comments