Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Dedicated to all Swedes stuck in Russian exclaves

What has the mirro's dent in society been lately? Pretty sure it's been nothing, actually. Well I only say this because it's such a huge dent that I can't even remember it. I had a lovely weekend, which was already 3 days ago. I learned how to bake bread, learned the secret ingredient in hummus, ate a pickled egg at the Strat, and I learned that honesty will get me further than all the pickled eggs you could fit in your backpack.

Speaking of honesty, I'd like to talk about my education now. Business School. It seems like in every class, they either emphasize that money should be a top priority in everybody's lives and/or make fun of hippies. Yeah yeah hippy's are funny. Especially the dirty ones. Or better yet the hippies-turned accountants living in Kitsilano. But they did alot of cool stuff, I mean they wanted some kind of restructuring of our society, and went about via drugs and free love (I wasn't born then, I don't really remember.)
So far the people i've met who use hippies as the scapegoat for all societies ills have probably never eaten/smoked/snorted any drugs or loved freely (feel FREEEEE to define love however you want, I don't think it matters) so really, can I trust somebody who is afraid to live to teach me what I should value in my life? How do you spell "amy is skeptical"?

How do the miserable people who will have more money than they could ever spend fit into this equation? Is their an equation for this? If you value something, and then you fill your life with it, shouldn't it all come together?

Not to mention people who make money by exploiting people (dangerous working conditions, low-pay, etc) and the environment (dirty air and water for example) .. and then they donate (ie write-off/put a happy notch in the public relations belt) a bunch of cash (CASH IS KING- I learned that today) to some charity, which supports underfed deformed asthmatic children of single mom's whose dads died in industrial accidents.. How selfless..

I'm also frightened of those who have copious amounts of dough who have no fashion sense whatsoever. I may or may not be referring to my teacher.

I'd like to conclude by saying that I am greedy too, and I pollute several times a day at least (maybe more). I also have no fashion sense. But at least I'm honest.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Friends n' roomies in IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, it's that time of the year again. Time to get a sweater.

Or is it? Or would I? O. R. THEY? O.R. scrubs that is.

Well, in the last month or so, I don't really remember what has been going on.
But I know I've been pretty lucky. No rabbit feet, or Irish people. I haven't even been eating lucky charms. Mostly cause they're grose. So this luck must be.. .. .. I should really shut up about my luck. Maybe even "knock on wood". Cause this luck is free to expire at any given moment..

Our apartment is starting to feel like a "home", and I'm excited about my roomate and I as a unit again, and how we're gonna find our balance for the upcoming months.. or years.. who knows really? NOt me! Her health is normal today, which is quite refreshing.

I'm in school again too! I took two years away from the official studies to pursue other endeavors, like making money by sitting in front of a computer and bumming around other parts of the planet. I figure the majority of the world doesn't have the opportunity to learn to read, never mind go to such a prestigious Univeristy (HA HA AHAHAHAHA)

And if you consider the women who have this chance, the numbers are even smaller. So I'm lucky to be supported by my family, society and my government to pursue "higher education," Even if I don't give a rip about accounting or business statistics. Being in school means no working full-time. All I have to say about that is this:

"sign me up"

I realized once again that I have wonderful parents, who are supportive of my decisions concerning the colour of our bathroom. My mom is painting it as we speak. Overall, I'm excited about this, except the smell is making me want to wak wak. (wak wak is nepalese for barf) should have opted for the no VOC paint.

Also, Elliot Smith is amazing, in case anybody was like "Is Elliot Smith amazing" Yes. Yes he is. Maybe even cooler than Winston Churchill. Or Jackie Onassis. Not sure though. I suspect one of these wore more Chanel. And tweed. .. .. .. ..

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Church wins? (Church recently)


Kaliningrad
Originally uploaded by Budzdorova.
Here's the same church in Kaliningrad (under construction).. it's looking pretty good. Lenin has been replaced by some fancy concrete and pretty lights. Kaliningrad recently celebrated it's 750 yr. anniversary.

Lenin vs. God - (end of 2004)


Lenin vs. God
Originally uploaded by maladiets.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

down with the grey area

i've been trying to figure out what to write on this thing, but honestly i can't think of anything. ANYTHING. Okay, I thought of that sentence I just wrote.

There's even alot of stuff going on.. and all kinds of stuff. I mean, summer is saying goodbye to us. Alot of stuff's been changing. Like the weather (Yah FALL, AHH winter) , the price of petrol (who would have thought? It's gone up? good thing my bike doesn't need gas, or i'd be upset), the colour of my hair (who the hell cares?), my roomate situation ( I went from having no roomate to having a super cool one), New Orleans (is sinking now, I don't wanna swim), and speaking of swimming in New Orleans.. or Narleens as they say on tv, the way I exercise has also changed. My pool is closed. Yes, I owned a swimming pool. No, I don't, silly. I just went there. To Swim. Hard to believe, I know. They're doing "maintenance" whatever that means. Sounds fishy to me.. well, there's no fish in this pool, but there do seem to be alot of russians, and they do their whole russian banter. I could understand when they were swearing. I knew I went to Russia for a reason! Eavesdropping (holy cow, how do you even spell that?) on russian swearing chit chat.. I'm also almost done my job. a few more days..then i'm a student. wowza bowza. 2 years off and now I get my butt back on campus.. But then again, I am a student at the University of Life. And, rock bottom IS a college education, right? like I would know anything anyways, cause i didn't graduate! HA!