I canoe, can you?

A brief update. I am going canoeing next weekend with some friends to Bane Lake, and there shall be a video blog made of the adventure! It's been a few months since I produced a good video, hasn't it? I'm looking forward to it.

Check out the route we'll be taking!

Also, check out some previous canoeing videos of past adventures!

Listening to 'under my umbrella' in acoustic and studying, in Starbucks.

Listening to 'under my umbrella' in acoustic and studying, in Starbucks.
Originally uploaded by Michael Tyas

I've got a 10 page essay due next week. The fringe is beginning in Winnipeg and my social life is fluttering upwards. Will I even get it finished?!

Lively and Life's a journey

This is an experimental 3D chat room I've created to compliment this blog. I decorated this space to be conducive towards group chat and intimate platonic moments. If you've never used a 3D chat room before, you should give this a try! Perhaps I'll be in!

Good Friends

This evening I went with my friend Matt to watch some movies with one of Matt's friend, whom he had not really seen for a couple of years. There were a few more people present than he was expecting, and MAN were they assholes! They lived dirty in a dirty apartment. They made fun of a girl who was present with rude comments and disrespectful actions. Matt and I were both shocked by it and left early.

I'm glad I have good friends.

Play

I've been to the beach twice this summer. The first was a visit to Beaconia, a beautiful nude beach on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. I'd never been to a nude beach before. I went with some friends. It wasn't as liberating nor was it as awkward as I assumed it would be. When you're surrounded by 15 or so naked bodies, it certainly seems weird to be the only one wearing clothes.

The second beach trip was organized by the beautiful and multi talented Amanda R. to Grand Beach, one of Canada's most beautiful beaches. It was a rather cold and windy day, but we explored and fortuninously found a rather bizarr geographical feature: a sand dune bowl. The wind wasn't much of a problem and the sun actually heated up the sand, which made us feel way more comfortable. It was large enough to play frizbee with 10 people. I hope to go to the beach again this summer.

Work

I am working full time in social services. I work Monday to Friday during the days. This is the first time in my entire life that I've not had to work weekends or evenings. I am digging it.

Settling

I was at a Jimmy Eat World concert with Derek P. this evening, enjoying the free tickets that my roommate left for any takers in the 11th hour. The show was held in the Burton Cummings Theatre. It's the first time that I've been there, and I was impressed with the acoustics and the fancy molding adorning the walls. I think that people don't make beautiful buildings like this any more because the Molders and Michelangelos wised up and began to charge outrageously high prices, but they instead priced themselves out of the market and became travel agents.

I was in the concert, thinking about my life as of late and it's documentation on this blog. Lots of stuff has been going on. Lots of great stuff, new and exciting. Stuff I'm sure that you'd be interested in reading about; that I'd like to remember when I re-view myself from a future date.

It's been hard to care, lately. My eye isn't on the prize. I'm living in the moment.

It's weird, when I step out of the moment and think back.

To put it like Pilgrim's Progress, this would be the part where I found a beautiful valley of abundance and settled down to learn a trade, rest my body, and plant a garden. I'm not where I'm supposed to be yet, I don't think. There's not exactly an X on the map, you see, but I do sometimes look to further horizons. I'm just so darned content here where I am right now.

I think I'll post date a bunch of activities I've been involved in lately, and they'll publish like cold molasses.