AngstJournal (original) (raw)
12:17pm 22/09/2011
No, LiveJournal, I haven't forgotten you're here. I should write what has happened over the years just to reflect and all that... But oh, who cares.I'll regret that when I can't remember my past.
09:04pm 18/07/2011
Hey everybody.No, I haven't forgotten about this. I've been in Holland since May, and at the end of May flew from Holland to Ottawa, where I have been ever since. Doing my summer job as a military musician! I have no computer here so updating is sort of a pain in the ass, plus I don't care too too much.What is important, though?I am single again, since I left basically, but not really until the end of May when I was about to go to Ottawa. Her name was Kim and it was a pretty good time. Great time. Still miss her, but life will go on as it does.Buying a marimba soon! 5 octaves! Lots of money! Been saving for three years! Hooray for foresight! Not sure when I will get it, most likely it will be the first week of September. That will be awesome!Goodbye for now. I hope this was enough suspense for you. Ask me questions - I'd like to answer them!
10:43am 14/03/2011
So... Been thinking of applying to grad school for September 2012... Just need to figure out where I want to do that...
01:01am 11/11/2010
Much too busy these days for LiveJournal... What to say, life is good, school is as expected. Been playing music and doing stuff but nothing too crazy noticable.I have a girlfriend now.
06:40pm 12/10/2010
I should update this ol' girl. But in short point form.Classes are going great. I wish I had fewer of them and I wish some of them weren't so ridiculous in how they are set up, but oh well. I am never swamped with work.RA job is sweet, and so is my job putting up posters around campus. And army band. All very lazy man jobs.I really never feel like updating LiveJournal anymore. It's not the same as when I was in high school, go figure. I'd much rather have real friends now, no offense to anyone. I like to read all the stuff on here and see what's going on in people's lives, but there's not too much that goes on in mine. I lied, there actually is, but it's not particularly interesting.What a crappy entry.
10:08am 31/08/2010
09:53am 31/08/2010
I'm back in Vancouver! At my place at UBC! Now I just need to organize all my stuff and then I will be good. Must decorate Decorate DECORATE!!!!
09:56pm 22/07/2010
Going to Montreal today! Coming back Monday! Then it will be less than a month until I come home! Exciting, no?!
Ottawa
02:52pm 09/07/2010
So I just spent three weeks in Halifax and now I am back in Ottawa! Halifax was fun but I don't feel like writing a whole shit ton about it... That just sucks, really. I was the cymbal player in the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo. There were three cymbal players but I was the best (loudest). I rocked that shit, there were so many musicians and definitely not enough cymbals. So I had to let it rip.Other than that, not too much going on. I have a few days off, including my birthday, but not the day after. Planet Smashers are playing tonight at Blues Fest so I am going to try to see them. They start at 915.
10:49am 17/06/2010
I leave for Halifax tomorrow for three weeks for the Nova Scotia International Tattoo. It will be three weeks of long days where I have to hurry up and wait. Thankfully this year seems to be a lot lighter in work-load than previous years, and then I get back and get a bunch of days off.Some destinations I have planned this summer:Montreal - July 23-26, to visit familyNiagra Falls - Probably August, just because it'd be good to see and who knows when I will be there again.Thunder Bay - Not sure when, my room mate knows a guy who is timpanist in the local orchestra and is selling a 5-octave marimba. I don't know how much it will cost,but new they are roughly 15,000new,soIamhopingfor15,000 new, so I am hoping for 15,000new,soIamhopingfor10,000 or so. Shipping it home should be a gong show... If any of you have seen my 'marimba' at home, that one is a piece of shit. This one looks like this:We'll see how it all pans out, but it should be cool to see, anyways. By the way, that marimba is over nine feet long and weighs about 250 pounds. Awesome.
11:36pm 05/06/2010
Today ended much better.I don't have much else to say. I leave for Halifax on June 18th and come back to Ottawa on July 9th. I have my birthday off. I don't think there's too much else happening... The long distance girlfriend-y thing is not ideal, but it's not like it's too big of a deal. The whole absence makes the heart grow fonder cliche.I showed people my silver shirt and they approved.
10:59am 05/06/2010
Feeling crappy today.Boo-urns.
06:22pm 31/05/2010
PS everyone, my phone number changed... So don't call that one anymore. Going to get a new number when I'm in Vancouver, too... Whee.
Military Musings of a Musician
03:05am 29/05/2010
What a crazy week. So I missed my flight to Ottawa. Apparently it was on the 24th of May and not the 25th, which was the original travel day. Instead I got to pay 750toflyoutonthemorningofthe25th.Fuck.Thatmorningmylaptopgotrunoverbyourtruck.Mymomputmymalletbagandlaptopbehindthetruckandmydaddecidedthatheneededtobackthetrucktothefrontdoortosaveusthe15feetdistancethatthetruckis.Wellitgotcrushed.NowIhavealaptopthatworks,exceptthescreenistotallyfucked.Ipickedupanewmonitoratagaragesaletodayfor750 to fly out on the morning of the 25th. Fuck.That morning my laptop got run over by our truck. My mom put my mallet bag and laptop behind the truck and my dad decided that he needed to back the truck to the front door to save us the 15 feet distance that the truck is. Well it got crushed. Now I have a laptop that works, except the screen is totally fucked. I picked up a new monitor at a garage sale today for 750toflyoutonthemorningofthe25th.Fuck.Thatmorningmylaptopgotrunoverbyourtruck.Mymomputmymalletbagandlaptopbehindthetruckandmydaddecidedthatheneededtobackthetrucktothefrontdoortosaveusthe15feetdistancethatthetruckis.Wellitgotcrushed.NowIhavealaptopthatworks,exceptthescreenistotallyfucked.Ipickedupanewmonitoratagaragesaletodayfor1.Other than that, the army is crappy, no surprise, but I am enjoying my time. I have a good room mate who I get along with and there is a good batch of people here. I've been thinking lately about what I want to do in regards to this whole music thing. I was originally thinking of it as a career choice but lately I have been swaying from that. It basically comes down to the competition. Music is all about networking and being ridiculously good... A lot like sports in a way, which is one of the reasons I wouldn't want to be a professional athlete. I was talking to another percussionist here who is probably around 30, and he was talking about when he made the decision to make music into a hobby rather than a career. He spoke of how he suddenly was able to enjoy everything he was doing so much more because there is not nearly as much pressure to perform. Don't get me wrong, I would still perform and do all the things that I do, but I just don't know how I could make a living doing that. There's military bands, but the military is just so ridiculous that I wouldn't want to stick with that in any serious career-related way. Being a reserve and doing the once-a-week rehearsal thing is fine with me.We'll see, I guess, but the amount of trouble that I'd have to go through to make it a viable career option is just ridiculous. Wonder what else I would do for the rest of my life, though... Like I said, I would definitely like to keep music around, but I just can't imagine what crazy amounts of practicing and networking I would have to do to not starve to death.
Ottawa Tomorrow
09:51pm 24/05/2010
Tomorrow I leave for three months. Bye Vancouver!I had a good time camping over May long weekend. Such a good time and ate way too many things, including a hot dog wrapped in bacon as well as a grilled sandwich with peanut butter, marshmallow, and frosted flakes. Next thing on the list of things to is to fly away tomorrow morning and hand over my soul to the army. When I get back I will go train to be a residence adviser. Sometime in September I'll throw a house-warming party.
10:30pm 16/05/2010
So here are my next few months:Saturday go camping, get back Monday afternoonLeave Tuesday morning for Ottawa.Get back August 25th at noon.Leave the next morning for the Okanagan for a week.Come back to UBC for second half of RA training, then school starts.I forgot to leave time to move in to my new place. Oopsy!Other than that, everything is going swimmingly.
05:20pm 10/05/2010
got me a new hard drive in mr. computer! hooray! no capitals in this post so far, yay! I need to research a bit about Windows 7 so I can get it all hooked up properly but other than that it is nice. I will probably play a shit ton of video games tonight because that's what you do when you upgrade. But I also need to download a bunch of programs again (Guitar Pro, a Torrent program, etc).I leave for Ottawa on the 25th.I have a party with Marc on the 14th.I don't know what I'll do all next week but I sure need to start organizing my stuff.Also, I did well at school. Yay! One more year to go.
11:31pm 25/03/2010
Rats, my phone fell out of my pocket... I think I know where it is, though.
01:02am 23/03/2010
My bike seat got stolen.So did countless others...But dammit. That's okay, this just means I am going to get a new bike and get wheel/seat locks on it. My current bike is a piece of poo, it's all rusty and needs an alignment... Saturday I shall perhaps look for a new bike, but we shall see.
It's Me!
12:40am 03/03/2010