spoiled chinese girl

Anyways, to gently recap what has been going on with me, Ive finished my final exams and now am leisurely job hunting with half a mindset to say F*** you corporate world! and go back to school to follow in my cousins footsteps. Unfortunately with no money thats slightly difficult, and with my lack of purchasing lottery tickets, theres a very unlikely chance of me winning.

However, it feels sometimes like I do have a full time job, mostly helping Phil with his ModCon prints (see the big obnoxious box above) as well as his gallery opening. I helped design invitations while drunk from my self-imposed celebration at 1am, Ive used my educational skill-set to uncover a suitable printing facility for these invitations, Ive faked my way through getting wholesale priced promotional materials and lately Ive been packing and screwing to the best of my abilities. And Im not done yet either I swear once this is all over I need a break from the guy, because Im getting sick of seeing him.

Thursday I ran to pick up the invites, and rushed to Toronto to have Phil approve, grabbed unicycles, went to club, went to Phils, helped Badur rearrange furniture, drove to the apartment, packed the majority of my life into my car, home, unpacked, uploaded pictures of the uber-amazing BC wheel expert Jeff Groves, slept 4 hours, woke up, got interviews and rejection notices at the same time, drove to the gallery, unpacked exhibits, unscrewed screws, moved furniture, supervised the building and putty-ing of Phils frames. Then we raced to my apartment where I raced to unplug all electronic gadgets, pack up all odds and ends, tear posters from the walls and evacuate dust kangaroos from the premises. Finally at around 3am, parked outside Phils where I crashed for the night. Then at 7am Im awake in a hallucinating state, get out of bed at 7:30am and am out of the house before 8am. Helped people move from 9am-noon, sold my mini bar-fridge to someone, and drove home.

Im pooped beyond belief but I dont normally consume caffeine and drank a medium double-double this morning so Im also hyper and not willing to sleep. I may or may not call Phil after hes done work today to see if he wants more help at the gallery. Because I know what hes up against and if anything else it gives him someone to talk to even if I refuse to actually help with anything. Bah, Im going to go watch TV.

**UPDATE**: I also got my hair cut, it's loads shorter, and half the hair that was on my head ended up on the cutting room floor. I didn't get the exact haircut I wanted, but it's hard to describe “I want my hair to look like the rear end of a duck” without sounding insane and giggling like a 12 year old school girl. What I have now is good though. Because it's the perfect length for boys to grab the back of my head properly, even if they don't know how to do it.

What is the Segway HT? To the website, it is “a self-balancing, personal transportation device that’s designed to operate in any pedestrian environment.” To me, it’s a lazy man’s newest excuse to not walk to the corner store.

Under Social Benefits, “Most North Americans won’t walk for more than _ mile to and from transit. The Segway can serve as a transit-connector, potentially increasing use of public transportation” Does this mean the company and this organization will be demanding that these Segway devices are to be brought onto public transportation? Will this be another piece of equipment that will take up room, not allowing the person behind them to fit onto an overcrowded transit system? Bicycles and similar devices are already ruled to not be allowed onto the TTC during rush hour. Unicycles are often lumped into this ruling even though they are smaller than the average person and take literally no more room than a person’s backpack and definitely less room then this Segway device. What will be the use of the Segway when it is banned from public transportation during rush hour, when the company is pushing for it to be used to transport users to the nearest bus stop?

Also under Social Benefits, “Approximately 15% of Segway customers have a physical disability or a mobility challenge…” meaning that approximately 85% of Segway customers are perfectly fine and capable of walking on their own but choose not to, in order to utilize this over-hyped and overpriced portable escalator.

I am not exactly technologically minded, but I do enjoy fun gadgets now and again. But this Segway made its debut a few years ago to a very suspecting audience that was not impressed with the results. I’m sure there is a time and place for everything. I, myself, have sometimes complained about my feet hurting after hours of walking for no particular reason, such as at amusement parks or other wide-area spaces that are home to only pedestrian traffic with loads of space and room to work within.

But personally it is of my opinion that this is nothing more than a moped. It’s got two wheels and a motor. While many people are insulted at comparing this Segway to a bicycle, it’s nothing like a bicycle. Bikes are moved through human-power, while this is plugged into a wall at night. If bicycles and unicycles should be banned from city streets because they are either a danger or a nuisance, I see no reason to not ban Segway users to the same bike-paths that those with vehicles fueled by the rider’s lunch are banished to.

They’re shown to be no bigger than a human, can only move as fast as a human, and pose no safety or security threat. If they’re no bigger and no better than using your own two feet, why don’t you just promote the use of two feet with some comfortable shoes? All these different devices and gadgets are meant for making the life of humans easier, but I’m noticing a trend that it does nothing but make the life of humans shorter, through less and few methods of physical activity (walking) while promoting an ever increasing sedentary lifestyle (sitting/standing and being taken to exactly where you want to go.)

I like walking, especially in Toronto. I’m not the only one to walk for over an hour from one end of the city to another, (I would know, because I followed a person almost all the way home, and I turned while they continued so I don’t even know how far THEY were going) and I’m for sure against the idea of such devices “clogging” up the already packed sidewalks. I’m just hoping the government feels the same way I do.

On the 25th of April I finished writing my final exam. Of the year. And my university career. It sucked examwise, but overall it was quite good to walk out of there. We celebrated with a nice lunch afterwards about 3 hours late and were simply hanging out and discussing everything and their dog with regards to all of us (that were there anyways)

Sure I’m slightly worried about not having a job now that I’m finished all my exams, but I’ve still got a lot of promise, and it should be going well. I just need the backing of someone who will hire me.

I also ended up going out to celebrate with other friends. I became ineberiated quicker than I first realized but I was still able to hold my own and not be that bad. Designed a postcard/invite at the end of the party and slept the rest of the night away with strange dreams about my arms not working and people trying to peep into other people’s rooms. I would write a full entry but I honestly do not recall the details of these dreams.

I’m now gearing up for the next stage in my life, whenever that is.

Okay that's about all I really have to say. I'm at Badur & Phil's (sans Phil) and I'm drunk because I don't really drink, and I pounded back drinks faster than any normal person really should. But apparntly I can still type rather well which means that the entry in Tom's Drunk forum isn't all that interesting. I found out that I can unicycle while I'm drunk though, and was able to talk semi-coherently with one of the bread factory workers while I was unicycling who was amused either way with the fact that I was on one wheel.

Jen's here, and I got to talk to her while we were going in opposite directions.

Badur's yelling at me to eat dinner.

Oh, check out Phil's page for the modcon photo lottery pics from ModCon4. It's the most kickass one I've ever seen on IAM! Whoo! Go Phil!

What are you doing?
thinking about how decisions aren’t always life-changing, and that mistakes can be rectified

What do you feel?
tired & confused

What do you want?
the next 10 years

What do you avoid?
confrontation

What do you expect?
to retain only a part of my sanity