Awkward giraffes, happy llamas, cotton camels.

Cotton camel toe socks aka. Tabi. Introduced to me honestly about 5 minutes ago. And one moment in my life that I said “This is going in my blog”.

My deLuxembourger friend on my floor has one greatest pet peeve about me. I like to wear socks and flip flops. And if I didn’t just lose all my dignity admitting that, I will have you know that you will only EVER catch me in this ghetup if you ever see me on my actual floor. I will never go outside this hallway in socks and flip flops. Even I have my limits, but for bumming around wth the girls, why yes I do believe I should be comfy and in style. What style? This is my own brand.

False. There’s actally about guestimate 6 girls on the floor who also rock this trend. It’s coming back I tell ya.

Tabi. Perhaps not new to you, but new to me, are traditional Japanese footwear (socks) with a separation between the big toe and the rest of the toes. These are like 10x better than toe socks. Because let’s get real – why would every single toe need to be separate? Am I the only person who thinks this is an amazing invention and that my life (or at least sock wearing days) has been utterly pointless up until now. Obviously exaggerated but still. I can actually live now with sock freedom. Man, I sound desperate. Seriously, Ned? Socks are turning you on right now? No wonder I am here in my dorm room at home on a Saturday night. Oh, geeze.

Immediately I have been searching this site:
Tabi

As if my flip flop sock dreams have been answered. Honestly, it’s crazy how there is a market for this. And it dates back to the Japanese! Of course they would, what do the Japanese not have…

At the same time, are these not the most awkward item of clothing in the world. As if there was not enough erm /grossness in the term “camel toe” alone. Ugh cue mild shudder.

On the other note of weird animals. The “awkward” giraffe is my new favourite “awkward-moment-gesture”. You know when there’s an awkward silence? Some people do the awkward turtle. I am trying to find a picture but there is none that is working.

Instructions for awkward giraffe: 1. With your right hand press your middle finger and ring finger to your thumb.
2. Lift your index and pinky finger. 3. Using your left hand motion the Yellow Pages logo, like a man walking with your fingers. 4. Put your left hand at your right elbow. I hope you can see the giraffe.

As for the happy llama. Well there’s this great little jingle about a “happy llama, sad llama, super llama, drama llama, big fat mama llama. Camel”
I’ll show you some other time if you ever bump into me.

Just thought I’d share. Goodbye the rest of my night. Hello eBay.

Spaceman Spiff would be proud.

Besides the fact that I love Calvin and Hobbes, just wanted to share that my boots came in a few weeks ago and I’m still bragging modestly talking about them.

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce my space shoes. Silver Metallic Skerry Tretorn Boots.

They’re actually really comfy and totally awesome. Like I said it’s been a while now and I’m still raving about them. I am quite fond of attempting the moon walk while they are on my feet, so if you see some girl trying to bust out a little MJ while walking down University Blvd, you now can confidently assume it’s me.

Tretorn (I’ve heard) is a good brand name and a little cheaper than those boots that rhyme with Punter. This is just another little quirk about me, but I still manage to match my outfit even with silver boots. How do I do this? Well I happen to have a white/grey jacket with silver linging. Ohhhhh yeah.

Have you guys seen any awesome people with awesome rain boots around campus? Or what’s your favourite absurd Vancouver weather getup?

My friend (and fellow blogger ) has promised to make me a bubble helmet so I can join Buzzlight Year to infinity and beyond.

Even though we had the first snowfall on Friday I still feel as though this post is relevant. It’s only a few more days until the rain comes back. But let’s enjoy the snow and pump up those Christmas tunes. I know my iTunes already has All I Want For Christmas on repeat.

For those of you who don’t know Spaceman Spiff is an alter-ego of Calvin from the wonderful comic Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Darn I still don’t know how to completely work these links to other pages. As you can guess this post falls under the “drafts that have been sitting around” pile. Enjoy!

I want to be the Pagemaster.

Do you guys remember that movie? The Pagemaster?

Yeah, well neither do I much. For those of you who don’t let me fill you in on what I remember:

There was this movie that came out around 1994. It was about this young boy namd Richard Tyler. (Seriously? Two first names) played by none other than Macaulay Culkin(! Wait he made movies other than Home Alone?) who basically gets caught in a tremendous thunderstorm on his way to pick up some nails for his Dad. Lucky for Richy Rich, I mean um… Richard Tyler, our protagonist, he is able to take shelter in a library. And the movie continues…

Point of this story? Well a few days ago I made a short visit to UBC Bookstore to get as many of my textbooks as I could. This was on… Tuesday? If any of you are in Vancouver or just arrived you may be enjoying the lovely warm sunny day because on Tuesday there was a down pour. I was excited because I have yet to purchase some rain boots and got the chance to scope out the fashionable footwear on campus. But as I began looking for my books little did I know this would lead to an entire adventure. If only Fantasy, Adventure and Horror could have joined me.

I found some of my books in the bookstore, but as a future Arts One student there’s quite a few books on my list so I’m trying to save a buck or two. I knew that I wanted to check out the Discount Textbook store in the market. Located right above the McDonalds on 10th Ave. Walking distance off of campus. This place seems to be great for textbooks, but not so great for any miscellaneous literature and novels. I’d definitely look into selling my textbooks there and they seem to make a conscious effort to be cheaper than the UBC Bookstore, if you’re buying brand new. I’m going to try and sell my books near the end of the term.

Next, I was redirected to a second hand bookstore at 41st street & Dunbar St. This is where things got interesting my friends.

Lawrence Books. That’s the name. To set the scene again, let us remember two things: 1) It is raining, very hard. 2) My search for shelter at this point may be nearing the same level as my search for these books. Once I walked into this store though something else happened.

To be honest, I felt like Matilda, Belle and sure what’s his face Macaulay at the same time. It was like magic. The shelves were what I would call 12 feet tall. But then again my shorter stature really gives me no sense of vertical proportions or height. Everyone seems 6 feet to me. Stacks and stacks of books jam packed in rows and columns. Sure there was like dust everywhere, with a carpet that doesn’t look like it’s been vacuumed or cleaned since the 70’s. Actually that may be a lie, only because I wasn’t looking down at the floor. I was looking at the books.

I mentioned it before that I’m kind of nerdy like this, all into books and stuff (maybe just in my bio – And I totally understand if you didn’t make it that far…yet). I hope I meet somebody who likes discussing literature avec moi. But I most definitely think everyone or anyone who loves reading should check out this place and you’ll be amazed at what you find. There was books and books galore. Novels and non-fiction, all categorized. Plays and science fiction, mysteries and children stories. Ancient classics to geography. Even some National Geographic magazines as well. I felt as though it was the perfect quiet place to cuddle up on a rainy day. And the books are all second hand and around $5. Some are in fantastic state. Others are the same edition my Mom read in high school.

After having everyone in the book store help me (which basically included my two family members with me and the two other people who run the shop) I was lucky enough to find a few books. Now, as I hold the books in my hand I feel as though I am holding history. I know I have to go back and check out the first edition section. I’m pretty sure I saw the Holy Bible written on the spine of one of the books…

I know I’m a first year student and most first years don’t go into all this trouble of hunting down books but it’s fun. You get to see some new shops. And you save money. It’s a win-win. I know it might be a little late for most people buying textbooks now but I’m just saying there’s more than one option than textbook registration and I only know this because of my older sibs. Oh, there’s also Amazon.com if you have more time for shipping.

Random fact: My favourite public library I’ve been to is the Seattle Public Library downtown, if anybody is going across the line sometime soon, you should check it out. There’s lots of bright shiny neon lights if that attracts you too.

In other news, I think I have finally repacked all my [junk/crap/clothes] very very dearly beloved belongings. It’s funny because I swear I did all of this like two weeks ago when I was flying out here to BC. Hmmm… strange.

Final thoughts du jour:
Warm and gooey chocolate chip cookies with vanilla ice cream are amazing.
Question: does anyone know where to buy Tretorn boots?
One more sleep! Tomorrow I get to make a new category. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?