Because Eventually I Have To Die, Maybe
Planning and Plotting
Elections – #245
Feb 22nd
Let’s just say for Reflection Friday that I was sedated yesterday for the first time in my life and a picture is to follow sooner or later.
This is just a quick hit to say on March 3rd I will be working the Alberta Provincial elections, which will satisfy #245 – work in a federal or provincial election. Pretty sweet. I go for my training this Thursday and then March 3rd I totally get to cross something off of my list.
Life in Lethbridge/Calgary
Feb 16th
Alright, so I have been living in Lethbridge since September and not done much in the way of exploring here. I have found some rockin’ food establishments and a good place to drink, but I don’t think I have experienced the full potential of Lethbridge.
So I am making a quick list of things I want to do before I move away in April
1. Go to the Red Dog Diner
2. Go down to the river
3. Spend a day hiking along the coulees
4. Go to the Japanese Garden
5. Walk around Henderson Lake
6. Go to Head-Smashed in Buffalo Jump
7. Go to Fort Whoop Up
8. Take a trip to Waterton Park
9. Visit the Galt Museum
10. Visit Picture Butte because of the name
11. Go to Taber and see the Giant Woman and Giant Corn Stalks
12. Go to Pincher Creek and see the Giant Pinchers
13. See the giant wind gauge in Lethbridge
So there’s my Mini-List
Am I Willing To Get Arrested?
Feb 13th
Alright, so number 152 on my list is to party like a rockstar in Dubai.
Well, that’s all fine and dandy except for this:
British tourist Keith Brown was sentenced to four years in prison after Dubai customs officers found a 0.003g trace of cannabis stuck to his shoe.
and
In one of the most extreme cases, it reported a man being held after poppy seeds from a bread roll were found on his clothes.
I’m not willing to go to jail for four years for stepping on a poppy seed or someone else’s drugs.
I’m debating removing it, both out of fear for myself and out of protest for what I consider to be way too extreme drug laws. Yeah, keep pot and heroin out of your country, but FOUR poppy seeds? Opium galore! I get zero tolerance and all, but zero tolerance must come with some reasoning abilities.
I’ll have to think on it. I don’t like removing things from my list, it feels like cheating, but at the same time, I don’t know if I’m willing to get arrested for this item in particular.
I added another thing to the list though. To go to the Icelandic Phallological Museum. It’s number 318. Trying to make it to 500 this year!
The Boring Life I Yearn to Avoid
Jan 5th
These past few days have been nothing short of mind-numbingly boring. It is the only term to put to how I have felt. Thursday I went to my classes. My Medieval Violence looks to be good, but I ended up dropped the British History due to the fact I already took it at the University of Calgary. I have taken up a Anthropology of Gender course, which Adam kindly agreed to take with me. The only problem is that I lack the pre-requesites for the class and am still awaiting a reply to the email I sent her over a day ago. I have yet to take my History of Women course, which I know I will love, and my history of Napoleonic France.
Other than that, I have had nothing to do at all. I walked to Safeway yesterday and bought some more yams (see inset – yes I took a picture of the yams I just bought…). I cooked with yams for the first time on Thursday
. Made a yam casserole of sorts (brown sugar, milk, honey, mashed with boiled yams and baked with pecans on top), and it was really good. I actually went to Safeway for margarine and cheese, but decided yams were worth buying more of.
Adam came over yesterday as well, for a little. We watched Home and Garden Television. We were planning on going to a movie, but couldn’t find anything worth going to see, sadly. We debated for a while, but soon the smooth house-hunting skills of Kristie and Phil on Relocation, Relocation took over, and we were laying around watching that. Such is life. He went home, and I went to bed, but woke up around 1am feeling naseous, dizzy, faint-y, and, oh lucky me, was hallucinating. So I gave Adam a ring and he came over and spent the night with me to make sure I didn’t die or anything drastic. I kept hallucinating about Dani Gore, and only thing morning did I find out who she was with the help of google. What a weird thing to hallucinate about. Jeepers.
Oh, I did start working on my passport application yesterday, which is the beginnings of #60 on The List and part of my 2008 Resolutions. I will hopefully be able to throw that in the mail by the end of this week so I can get on to travelling!
Night out dancing
Dec 30th
Had a good time last night.
Went back to Milestones with Sarah and Gwen and spent a lot of time chatting. Milestones is pretty good, at least in Calgary on Stephen Ave, really good Long Island Ice teas (which I tried for the first time last night!…so maybe I can’t judge them yet…) and blended margaritas. Then we cruised around Calgary looking for somewhere fun to just dance, and ended up at Bamboo. Great place! A little too indie-scene and crowded for me, but any where with no cover and no drink minimum where you can just dance is fine by me. Pretty decent music as well. Oh, and my gin and tonic was almost entirely gin, which rocked!!!
I miss being back in Calgary where I can have something of a life. Sarah and Gwen have promised to come visit me in Lethbridge though, and we’re going to get a limo (#212) and go out for the evening! They better keep up their end of the bargain, that’s all I can say.