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I’m floating right now. And how my post title not been figured out more than 12 hours ago I would name this post “Floating.”

I just got back from probably the most excellent in concert goings one person can get in one day. Small intimate Sonic Session (yes I know some people hate Sonic and all that they do, I personally am muchly appreciative for what they’ve done to the city’s music amountage and such.

Anyways…Sonic Session (which, THANK YOU X PROFUSENESS to Tyson!!!!!) Stars (whole band) + like 24 other people + some media…. fantastical mind blowing overwhelmed-ness.

I’m going to bed….to float and sing self to bed with lovely music of good times and love and such.

I didn’t go to work last night, to which I am not at all complaining about. I felt way too sick all day long. And most of you know why. I will leave the others to figure it out or ask on their own.

Last night we had our Heroes party (perhaps TM should go here?) and while some parts of the episode were kind of dissapointing, overall I was very happy with it. I’m ridiculously saddened by the fact that this strike by the WGA (which I full heartedly am in support of, I think they have a very good argument) is going to affect TV shows so soon. The Office is done, Lost may or may not come back, Heroes will be done December 2nd. There’s a few other shows that I normally care about, but now I’m not so concerned with them. I’ll watch them if they’re on, but as I’m collecting books I’m not too worried about having a show to watch every night. Plus….I can catch up on other things…knitting, reading, living. Not being sick

I’m working in a few hours now, so I suppose I should shower, get ready for work, get Damien ready for his ride to pick up Mike so that I can start at a reasonable hour. And hopefully there’s no stupid bus being late thing like the last time I tried to go into work early. Apparently buses were “half an hour late” because of traffic in the university area. Odd thing is, it wasn’t like it was a special day. The roads were clean, it wasn’t raining, there were no special events, and it was only like 4pm so I hardly HARDLY believe that it was insane amounts of rush hour traffic. Meh…so much for getting extra hours that day.

Its snowing….did I mention that?

So I know its NaBloPoMo….and I know I said I’d do it….but since I had this whole weekend off from work it felt kind of right (no…wait….justifiable) to take the weekend off from most everything except my family and friends and tangible things that matter and can matter back.

I have the undeniable urge to change things in my house, I’ve been fighting these urges for awhile, and I think today might be to the day to move couches and consider the placement of the  TV….and also to bring bookcases to main living area (its only a small one, but since I’m planning on reading umpteen books with this strike wrecking all my tv plans I want my books easily accessible) and figure out what goes where and when and with who.

Our living room is an odd shape, its long, but not entirely skinny. We have a fireplace at one end, which (to me) means a TV cannot go anywhere nearby. On another wall we have a giant set of windows, looking out onto the courtyard, which also means no TV, and if I had my way, no couch either, but then our room looks more like a bowling alley and thats not what I want to happen. If I had the money I would GLADLY have some wonderful designer come in (Sara and Tommy - Design Inc. ? - oh yes please!!!) and let them make my home livable but stylish and practical and beautiful and Damien friendly and adult friendly too. I’d let them do the entire main area, I’d let my kitchen be torn to shreds around me and just deal with the inconveniences to have the spaces they create.

I do not have that money though, nor will I probably ever.

If you have any designy suggestions, I won’t say no to them, and will probably thrive on the fact that it’ll almost be like having a desginer, but instead it’ll be me taking input from readers and seeing if that works.

Maybe pictures to come? I’m not sure how inventive or active I’m feeling currently.

feeling angry about the whole vancouver situation. not entirely sure of what i want to say or how i want to say it because i’m not entirely sure how i feel. i’m anti violence, but i’m anti being stupid with cops. i’m anti assuming people speak english, but i’m anti travelling without enough knowledge of native language of where you are to say “i need help!”.

i grew up being taught that no matter if you’re right or wrong you just go with what the cops say, the worst that can happen is making them understand once the weapons are put away. and now….gah.

i don’t know why people always assume certain things.

i don’t know why people always think the cops are bad

i don’t know why the bad cops get away with it

i don’t know why people don’t understand the “stop running, explain later” thing.

so many things i don’t understand…..i’d like to try and avoid the entire situation, i’d like to make all evidence of stupidity (on EVERYONE’s part) disappear. i’d like to be able to go up to every single person who has bashed the RCMP, who has bashed the man who died, who has bashed security, who has bashed the guy filming, everyone…..and tell them to wait. not to pass judgement, not to assume you know what happened, not to generalize. not to think that any polish person coming into canada will be treated the same way.

i’d also love some form of…time machine (or something?) to put them (the bashers) in the same situation as a multitude of people in the same room/area and see how they felt….see how scared they were, see how happy they were to see professional help show up. to see what it felt like to be in a cops position with this man who was yelling at you, who was acting completely whack…..everything.

i’m surprised i typed this much. no mas.