No Newsprint On My Untouchables...

So, I just went pee...but during my 4-6 class, I had not only been intently listening as usual, but I'd also been doing the crossword in the Gazette (Western's student newpaper), also, as usual...

Anyways, I go to the washroom...and decide that my hands, covered in newsprint and lead pencil-smudges, should be washed so as to not track anything onto my clothing...

In the washroom, there's a guy at the urinal already peeing...and like I said, I wanted to wash my dirty hands first before peeing...so he walks towards me while I proceed to the urinal, and he gives me a "what-the-hell-glance"...

He leaves as I pee...but outside, I hear him remark to what I can only imagine is someone else that, "some weird nutjob in there (the washroom) washes his hands before he pees (and not after, as I gather the implication was)...dirty fuck..."

Sad...

I then washed my hands again...

posted by Herb 6:00 PM

Training A Champion...

So, I was walking up UC hill after class towards soc. for my next class, when I look up and see a black lab on the hill...not so unusual...

However, this particular black lab had a baby doll in its mouth...now, a little weirder...the dog proceeded to run back to the top of the hill towards its approaching owner...

At this point, one may well assume (as I did) that mabye the dog found the baby doll in a bush or something and is then simply bringing it to its owner...in such a situation, one would expect the owner to act somewhat perplexed or at least surprised at its pet's unusual find...

Instead, she patted the dog on the head, took the baby from its mouth and threw it back down the hill...thus continuing their game of fetch...

Weird...some people are frikkin weird...

posted by Herb 4:00 PM

The Chronicles of Me...

That was a fairly harmless first day at the school...

Our contact in the school described the class that I'd be working with as "challenging" with some particularly challenging individuals...so uh, this should be an interesting experience...a bi-polar 5th grader or one with ADHD will NOT be fun...

We've gotta go get a police check before we can start our placement there though, so free Thursday mornings for at least a week, maybe 2...can't decide whether I should take the Thursday morning slot like we're supposed to, or if I should opt for the Friday afternoon...good side: I can sleep in on Thursdays mornings; bad news: I can't head home that early on weekends...so we'll see...

So this is what I'm going to do today...stop in from time to time with whatever I'm thinking about at the moment...

Or I'll just write random thoughts in class, and type them out later...considering I've gotta be awake doing sooooo much work/studying today, expect a slew of random stupidity all day...oh, the things that keep me amused...

posted by Herb 10:00 AM

Hot Coffee Burns The Tongue And The Crotch...

Today will be the longest day ever...how, how can school already be so busy...

These kids better not be little bastards and fire-starters, if so, then I shall be very upset, and drop this teaching class right away...

More on this later tonight when I get home...

Herbert sleepy...

posted by Herb 8:01 AM

Pumpernickel Is The Saddest Bread of All...

Why've I been think of 2 stupid names per post? that's inefficient use of thinkingness if I ever sawed inefficient use of thinkingness...from now on, only one stupid name each...wait, but then there isn't a point to that whole other section...and it'll no longer sum up anything...fine, I'll continue to use that space, but from now on, it'll serve its intended purpose...check and check...NEXT

I've got 3 midterms next week...boourns...they should have a rule where you can't have exams on the week leading up to, and the week following, your birthday...it should be a happy day, a happy day of extreme happy...an extreme day of happy where one should feel free to run around going wheeeee...

Dora said I can go to Japan for my birthday...I wanna, so I'm gonna to, cuz she said I could...(sad face...pouting...)

I think it makes me happy to watch Scrubs...I like that show, it is funny...funny things make me go "haha"...and "wheeeee"...like I am having fun...haha...

Wheeeeee

How many of you didn't see that one comin?

...Her name is Steph...I asked today...

posted by Herb 11:06 PM

Into the Morning Abyss of Madness...

After a brief period of constant blogging, there was nothing...now I'm back! with a vengeance...a bitter, deathly vengeance!!...without the death and bitterness...and not so much of a vengeance, per se...more so a sense of boredom...a horribly crippling sense of boredom...

Why then would a crippling sensation prompt me to type out a long and pointless entry then? why indeed...why indeed...

Wow...that was absolutely about nothing...why did I even subject you to that...a very good question...one I shall answer with yet another question...WHY are you still reading this?

...okay, enough retardedness...

So I went swimming last Friday! it felt great, it's odd how much I miss it...I know, you're saying that this entry sounds awfully familiar...it's cuz I went swimming last year around this time, and swore it'd become a weekly thing, and it'd be oh so great and whatnot...and then, I never went again, til last Friday...haha...when I went and swam 2km (80 laps), I was DEAD frikkin tired...and it was right after my 9-11 too...so then I went home and napped...for 5 hrs...haha

But yeah, this year'll be different, I'm soooo gonna go again (this Friday, no less)...cuz I've got a swimming buddy! Me and Matthew are gonna go a-swimmin...it'll be super major fun...hoozah!

The more I stick around this place ('this place' being school), the more I realize I'm gonna miss it alot when it's time to leave, come April...alot has happened the past couple years, and I'm sooo much better for having gone here specifically...I don't think I could have learned and truly lived out such an exciting time in my life anywhere else...

I know I've taken my life here for granted at times...and I've been downright miserable here at times too (see: everything I wrote last year)...but in terms of being in school, I wouldn't have rather spent the past 3 years anywhere else...

Now, why's it so great, you ask? Come up with Cammie on the 23rd of Oct and FIND OUT!!

Wheeeee...hooray for Londonia!

I hung up my Naruto wall-scroll over the weekend, haha...it's awesome...on opposite sides of my bed, I have John Lennon and Kakashi watching me sleep, haha...

One day soon, I'll start writing posts of substance...one day...mebbe tomorrow? mebbe the day after? cuz it certainly wasn't today...

posted by Herb 2:43 AM

The Blue Ones Taste Better Than The Red Ones...

Been pretty busy the past couple days...not really with school, but not really with anything else...just taken the time to run around and get a couple things outta the way, and just doin a buncha small assignments...ah school, so funtastical...

I really don't have much to say...everything is settling once again into familiarity...I go to class, I see people around school, I bum around at home...I can't say that it's a bad thing though, we all need a sense of routine in our daily lives, or we'd go crazy...it's that everyday sameness that regulates the weirder aspects of our lives, and makes what we know just a little better than what we don't...

...I don't know what I'm on about...I really don't have much to say...

Ooh, girls...haha...there's a cute girl who's in at least 2 of my psych classes this year...we've chatted a couple times, but I still don't know her name...she seems really friendly, and she's kind of a 'unique-pretty'...but whatever, at least it'll be another person to hang out with in classes, hoorah!

This has to be one of the most boring posts ever...I'm going to stop now, before you vow never to return...

Peace out mah peepees...

posted by Herb 3:09 AM

The Wagons are a'circlin...

What's it mean when you have lots of dreams of going bald and losing your teeth?? I don't believe in the majority of that dream interpretation stuff...can't it simply reflect a genuine fear of losing my hair and teeth??

I like my hair...it's soft and silky...and I like my teeth, they're straight and fairly white...hmm, this is rather disconcerting...not that this is the first time it's happened...but still, rather disconcerting indeed...

Can it lend to a fear of growing old? Alot of people do seem to be moving onto new phases in their lives...and maybe I'm just not quite ready to do that...sigh...

Is it a fear of meeting new people? that my dashing good looks aren't enough to mask the not-so-deeply rooted insecurities that still dwell inside me?

Or are they just the random firings of neurons in an ever-so-confused head...trying to get out random thoughts that don't seem to have enough time to escape during the day?

...or am I simply too tired from having slept 3 hrs before a 9am class?

Ah, the mysteries of life...what secrets will you reveal to me next?...that doesn't make sense...why would mysteries reveal secrets to me? wouldn't they be secretive and hide things from me...Mysterious things, as it were?...

Puzzling...puzzling indeed...

Toodles Noodles!

hehe...rhyming is fun...(whoa...sounds like Ry Ming is fun...creepy...)

posted by Herb 11:23 AM

Spontaneous Human Combustion Is Scary...

I'm going to miss hockey...

I miss going out with people...stupid 9am classes are NOT ideal for having a social life, but alot of people do it...take lil Jaclyn down the hall, I dunno how that kid goes to 8am class after having danced the night away all of 4 hrs prior...but she still does it...

So whatever...school's important now, seeing as how it'll soon end...but just cuz I recognize that fact, doesn't mean I can't bitch and whine bout it...

Bah well...ya do what ya gotta do, right?...somethings may not be ideal for your current mindset or situation...but you've gotta play the game and get good at it, in order to beat it...

It's when you beat the game, that all those hours spent practising make it all worthwhile...

I...don't know if I'm talking about life or video games anymore...

sigh...to bed...

hooray for 9am class! whoopee!...

(who actually says whoopee...no one...you've got your yeah!ers...and your hoorah-people...but nobody is a whoopee!-guy...perhaps it's time to change that, mwahahahahaha)

whoopee!

um...perhaps not...

posted by Herb 1:59 AM

Ding...Dong...The Witch Is Dead...

So, things have totally gone into full swing around here...I haven't missed any classes, I'm doing readings...I get assigned my psych teaching practicum this Thursday and start next week...been seein people in and around school...

School Life is totally back...and I'm kinda happy bout it...I miss just being here with only a single thing in mind: getting the grades to graduate...there's something oddly comforting about knowing what you want and knowing that you have to do it...

Things in general have just been...really odd lately...I find myself looking into things and believing in things that I haven't thought about in years...and everything just keeps on keeping on...it's kinda crazy...I've ignored certain parts of me for a very long time now, but wonderful things are happening to so many people that I know...things that they wanted...things that they needed...and, I guess...it's made me rethink some things...and it's made me believe again in some other things...good things do happen to good people...

Life...Is...Good...

I've been reading through Zach Braff's blog (linked conveniently on the left-hand side) that he started to promote Garden State, and it's great...he's really funny, haha...but rather introspective and insightful when he wants to be...it's just a good healthy mix of being who he is...and if you've seen Scrubs, I think could imagine what he's like in real-life...

That picture update I promised won't be coming as soon as I'd anticipated...cuz I'm kinda lazy, and it'll kinda take effort...so mebbe little gallery updates left n'right...haha

So just...keep on keeping on...and watch your step on the way outt...

posted by Herb 1:08 AM

It has been brought to my attention recently that I need to update this thing more...this however, is not an update...this is useless bantering before I have to go to class in 30 mins...

Things this summer have just come and gone at an abnormally fast pace, considering I was completely unemployed...I literally spent the entire thing travelling and bumming around various places with friends...it had to have been one of my most unproductive summers in the past several years...but y'know what? it was amaxing (haha...Ry)...I had such a great time, and aside from being extremely poor and taking out loans from the Bank of Parents, I wouldn't have wanted it to go down any other way...

Which is sad...cuz I'm so incredibly poor right now...

Point is: I had the bestest summer...and that's basically why I haven't written much of anything...I've spent so much time with people talking (and eating, cough-cough), that any thoughts I've needed to write about or gain perspective on have been talked out and discussed to no end...

So while this blog has died down considerably, I'm likely mentally-healthier than I've been in quite a long time...

But...now that school's started, expect my usual frequent updates very soon, haha...

Oh, and check back in a couple days for a HUGE picture update...man, I haven't upped pics in forever...

Alright...that's it...more on mental health, school, the summer, and randomness later...off to class! peace people, and watch your step on the way outt...

posted by Herb 6:25 PM

Too much going on right now to delve into my life...there's sooo much to do, and so little time to do it in...going back on Wednesday is gonna suck, but at the same time, I kinda feel like it's time...

But more on that later...in a couple days, I'll have all the time in the world to dissect the past 4 months...

So for now...the purpose of this post:

"Got a minute to talk to reporters, Brett?'' Hull was asked in a corridor outside the dressing room.
"What would I have to talk about?'' he replied.
"Fans want to know how you're doing,'' said the reporter.
"I don't give a (deleted) about the fans anymore,'' said Hull.

That's just not right...

I understand he's pissed as hell about being benched last game (and as it stands, for the quarter-final on Tuesday)...but still, that's ridiculous...

These people have stood behind you and looked up to you as a hockey hero for their country...is it their fault your team plays better without you? As a celebrity, athlete, or just anyone that people look up to, I think you've got a duty to act in a decent and respectable manner...to firstly justify their respect and admiration for you, and to secondly to live up to that image of you...to show that you're indeed worthy of that level of attention...cuz without these people paying attention to you, you ain't got much...

So, good job dumbass...I'm glad you won't play for our country...

posted by Herb 5:03 AM