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Miscellaneous

#046: Drinking before three, what?

Currently listening to: “I Fought the Law” – Dead Kennedys

These few days have brought way too many entertaining anecdotes. First sandwich man, now this romping troupe of jokers I ran into at approximately 3 p.m. a jolly Tuesday afternoon…and more stories to come in the next couple of days, I don’t want to reveal them all now!

So I was out shooting downtown by the Vancouver Public Library when I found myself accosted by abovementioned persons- all thoroughly inebriated at 2.50ish in the afternoon. Now I would usually find that thoroughly amusing from a good distance, and maybe even a tad bit bohemian in the whole “Rene Descartes not doing anything productive all day” manner. However, when the scene is obscured by prancing 30-year-olds (probably football-watching, one of them had a Man U jersey) dudes who probably ought to be doing something aside from straggling down the street in the middle of the afternoon, ruddy-faced, taking up most of the space in my viewfinder, and saying things like “hey luv, what time is it?” before cracking up, evidently finding themselves specimens of sparkling wit…well, then it’s really a tad sad. Besides…there’s just something terribly suspect about being intoxicated before 3 p.m., wouldn’t you agree?

And please, for the love of all that is good, DON’T wear sweatpants with a football jersey. It just looks bad.

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And also omg omg omg everyone, I’m geeking out here, guess what I found!

the POLITICAL SPECTRUM QUIZ

I’ve always been a social democrat, but here, this is a lot of fun if you’re not sure exactly where you fall on the political spectrum. And for those who do, it’s still a lot of fun :D And you get a nifty diagram of where you fall on the political spectrum (in this case, made in the form of a grid)!

I am a left social libertarian
Left: 5.64, Libertarian: 4.55

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Commuting

#045: Vegetable Sandwich Man

Currently listening to: “Democracy” – Leonard Cohen

The one-and-a-half hour bus ride to UBC from North Vancouver can be absolutely ghastly sometimes, but it is days and situations like this that make me – dare I say it? – downright fond of busing.

So this whole fiasco started when my friend texts me all panicky, ranting on his new pet peeve – people who eat their lunches and have their juiceboxes on the early 7-ish a.m. bus. Honestly, he said, what do they eat for their lunch? Dinner? I chuckle to myself; he continues to rant: it is downright silly, there is a man who eats a vegetable sandwich every single day on the early morning bus, and has a similar sandwich every time he’s on the bus, etcetera. I am positively howling with laughter at this point. I vow that I must seek out this character, this veritable specimen of sandwich-munching –

and yesterday, the busing gods granted my bus ride proper amusement of the highest order.

You wouldn’t even think it could be him- the dear little man was dressed in a dark blue trenchcoat, and had on these little square-framed glasses, all professional and proper as can be, briefcase on lap, staring straight ahead like it was all so normal and all so delightful being on this splendid bus chewing on a vegetable sandwich. He would chew, lower his sandwich back into its Tupperware box, swallow, glance around, take another bite, repeat process, shifty glance, etc. As he finished his sandwich, I was trying my hardest not to stare/laugh/say something awfully inappropriate and loud on the bus – and as I thought I was succeeding, he proceeded to
whip out an entire loaf of bread from his briefcase and eat the sliced bread piece by piece.

At this point, I tried my darndest to think proper thoughts, such as ~*~INAUGURATION~*~, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, etc, but it obviously failed. I think I must have passed the entire ride with a ridiculously large grin on my face as I tried in vain not to look so bloody amused at the whole thing.

Seriously. That’s amazing. I mean,
a veggie sandwich, and a freaking loaf of bread.
Win.

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Miscellaneous

#044: I believe, I believe, I believe…oh I believe.

Currently listening to: “My Junk” – Spring Awakening OBCR

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Academic

#043: John Stuart Mill, of his own free will…

Currently listening to: “Bruce’s Philosophers Song” – Monty Python

In celebration of getting to 1000 words for my Arts One paper (yay, 1000 more to go!), I bring you the ~*~singalong version~*~ of the PHILOSOPHERS SONG, by the very brilliant Monty Python.

Oh, Millsy.

Did I ever mention my lack of an attention span? Well, now you know.

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Miscellaneous

#042: More adventures in photography

Currently listening to: “Oxford Comma” – Vampire Weekend

So, I’ve finally got the first roll of Kodak Elitechrome 200 cross-processed and developed, and here are the results. (Yes, I managed to get all my prints back from Shoppers’. About time, too.)

(Shot with Canon Prima AF-8)

The greenish cast is definitely a sharp (and surprisingly pleasant) contrast to the reddish-purplish cast that cross-processing Fuji Sensia 100 gives:

(taken with fisheye lens)

As Eloise would say,
“Oooooooo I simply love photography.”

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