You're a homosexual, not a homohugual

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Breaking the cycle of 6-day posts this time. =] My life will soon change a lot, so I want to document the stages of such an abrupt process. I am graduating in less than a month, moving out in less than two, and probably having my parents visiting before I am ready to show independence. Will I find a better job? Will I have to work at Ontario Place? Will you marry me? Stay tuned for the next episode.

Friday I left school earlier [)))))] because my EAC class was cancelled. I was going to work on some assignments at school, but I decided to come back downtown since Zulema wanted to go eat out at some place. She called me around 5pm saying she was leaving, so I went to the Eaton Centre to meet her and Lilian. I took my vegetarian booklet with me and we decided on a place to go eat. After walking in that cold cold day, we realized the place we chose was a breakfast place =P Lilian wanted something "dinnier", so we went to our second choice on Dundas and University. This restaurant right by the TVA is really interesting and looks more expensive than it is. We had this funny server who made their special dish of the day sound like the ninth wonder of the world (because the eight is me). I ate the suggested meal, and it was indeed very good! I also had dessert, which was chocolate tofu ice cream (I didn't say what the main course was because I have no idea). After eating we froze our asses walking to Dundas Square again because Zulema had lost her metropass. Lilian and her went to watch a dyke movie, and I went home since Rauf ditched me right when I was at his door. I wasted my time online until mister Taurus #8 called me asking to do something. I told him to come to my place so we could gossip about his Jane/Finch date. He snacked Patrick's food while I heard his stories, and we left way too late to go somewhere. Instead of wasting time before last-call taking the subway, we went to one of the straight pubs in my neighbourhood. We stayed there until the servers kicked us out, and then I came home =]

Saturday I woke up at 11am to get Rauf off his bed, but he went back to sleep right after speaking with me on the phone. Since he was much later than I wanted him to be, I went to this organic food store called Noah to buy Oli's birthday present while I waited for him. When he finally came, it was already too late to go see the apartment we had planned to see. We went to Bloor and Ossington anyway, and after being creeped out by the atmosphere, we decided to take a look at the other place on Davisville. The rental office was temporarily closed when we got there, and when it finally opened there was a bunch of other people interested in seeing the apartments. The Russian lady who was taking care of the business dealt with us in a very polite manner (obviously), and we were told to run to one of their units before visiting hours was over. We managed to see a very nice 2-bedroom apartment there, but it's way too expensive for our poor little wallets. We came back downtown with our tails recoiled, and we parted and left as we had some time for house chores before Earth Hour. Oli told us to be at Dundas Square no later than 8pm, but he didn't obey his own wish. I enjoyed the turning off of the lights with Rauf, and then we went to Spring Rolls to eat something since we were both starving. I had a nice noodle on bean sauce with tofu and vegetables, and Rauf went back to his carnivore instincts. We went to the Biggest Bookstore and I bought my French magazine that I haven't been buying for a while =] Then we spent a long time at BMV before we took our ways home.

I forced Oli to come visit me on his birthday, so I could give him the organic pesto and the tandoori chicken sauce I bought for him. We had old grannies tea time eating fancy cheese and crackers, and I convinced him to come to meditation with me. We met Zulema there and had a fun session releasing the negative energy that revolves around us every day. It was rainy when we left there, so we parted and left as it usually happens on days of bad luck.

Today was an odd day. I spent my time in between classes to get an appointment for me to file my taxes, and after calling hundreds of organizations I finally managed to find a space (at the 519 =/). After DBS I had to hang out a little bit because I wouldn't have time to go home before having to go to Nenham for my scholarship reception event. I worked a little bit on my INT4 project since I didn't have anyone else to do (ha). I took the Steeles bus to Finch, then the Finch bus to Seneca and I was almost late. I was starving, so I devoured the snacks they had before the awards began. I saw Siji there, and it surprised me to realize she won the scholarship that I didn't, although I know she is as qualified as I am (if not more). I was the very first "awardee" of the evening, and I clapped for all the others. There were a couple of cute faces =] I took a picture to record the moment and took the bus back home to make it in time for my OOP meeting. I nearly made it, which means Murphy made it a very irrelevant meeting (at least He didn't cancel it). After the work was done I decided to watch one of the silly movies I downloaded yesterday. I might have mentioned before that every time I buy Tetu, I get tons of title of movies I want to download and watch. Tonight I watched Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat, and if I remember well enough, this one was a little better than the previous two. I don't mean it's good, though - it's as stupid as the latest anti-Global Warming logo. Now I'm here waiting for a call... Please be fast!

SeeYa,
Feliploko, back in sixty-nine eleven.

I very much like you

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I think I'll skip Sunday and Monday because when I was making my little post plan I realized I just stayed home and/or went to class, with nothing else worth mentioning those days...

So starting with Friday, which was the day I went to Oli's surprise birthday party... I waited until it was 8pm to go meet Rauf at his place and be bored until he finished getting ready (which takes forever). Mimi (his cat) got her fur all over my coat, so I had to pick it up the whole night =P We finally went to Shaz's place and Aamer was there with a bunch of other people that we've seen a few times already. People started drinking and dancing, and I talked with some folks in the room. There was a creepy guy that was in love with me and wanted me to be a model for some weird shooting he's making, so I tried to avoid him most of the time. He asked for my number, so I had to lie about not knowing my new "wind number" x.x Oli came and was really surprised to see we threw him that party =] We sang happy birthday for him and ate a cake. When it was almost 1am, people decided to go to the Barn, so I left them and came home. No partying-hard for me these days...

Saturday there was another birthday party for me to go. I waited for Rauf to call me, and did part of my JAC assignment in the meantime. Around 5pm I took a shower and got ready to go. I stopped by Rauf's and we walked to Rusty's place. We got there at the right time: the food was about to be served =P I talked with some of the many east asians that are part of Rusty's social circle, and again people were drinking and dancing. This time they left earlier to a nightclub (around 11pm), but still I decided not to go. I came home and recovered my energies =]

Tuesday I had an INT4 test that pissed me off =[ I expected to do much better on it, but I couldn't do one of the questions and I made a mistake on the other. I'm afraid I'm even further from an A now =/ I rushed downtown to get some workshop materials with Keli at METRAC and then go to Express. We had someone from Jane's Walk coming this week to talk about the project. I might help some new people organize a different walk this year =] After the meeting, I went for a coffee at Second Cup with Rauf and David. We did the sex survey from the Fab Magazine out loud, and then parted and left =P

Wednesday I couldn't get off the bed to go to class in the morning >.< I wondered what I would be missing if I skipped them, and ended up not going. I woke up later to have breakfast and prepare myself for the workshops I would be doing in the afternoon. I left home extra early not to be late, and ended up getting at the school one hour before I needed to. It was actually a good thing, because then I had lunch there and had a better idea of what the conference was about. The workshops went fine, although the group was smaller than I thought it would be. After the second workshop I said goodbye to Ice and rushed to the subway so I could get to Bathurst station on time. Once there I took the streetcar to College, and found Kathy's office somewhere near Grace street. She is exactly how I thought she would be: organized and professional. I talked with her for some time and hopefully she will be a good choice =] After that I walked around the city a little bit... Christie Pits Park, Bay and Bloor area, Yorkville, and finally my own neighbourhood. Patrick said he would try to spend the night elsewhere so I would have the place for myself, but it wasn't until 11pm that he finally left. I came home and had lots of fun (if that's clear enough >]) until I got tired and decided to sleep.

The next day I had to leave in a hurry because Patrick told me way too late that he was on his way here. I walked to Bay and Bloor just to realize that I actually had to go to the Eaton Centre to use my Fido dollars. I walked down to Dundas, and while waiting for the store to open I had some croissants from Richmond Tree Cafe. When the store opened, I went to talk to a salesperson and they told me I cannot get a bluetooth with my Fido dollars, which pissed me off >.> I felt bad about losing this $30 credit the rest of the day... I then took the subway back to Bay and Bloor, and finally went to Wind to switch my service provider. I got a new phone that is not too bad, and I started setting it up as soon as I left the store. I walked around a little bit and Oli texted me saying he was downtown. I went to meet him after he finished having his hair cut, and we went to BMV for him to buy a book to a friend of his. We parted and left after that because I wanted to go to school for my INT4 class. However, when I got home and finished doing everything I needed to do before leaving, I didn't feel like going anymore. I skipped class for the second time in the week, and slept after solving some things here and there. I woke up around 7pm, and I was doing something on my new phone when Rauf started chatting with me on Facebook. He was pissed off at some guy he was supposed to meet, and he felt like getting out of his place to feel less annoyed by that =P I suggested that we went for sushi, and he was up for it. I went to the village, and we were at Sushi Sky until around 10pm, when the servers started looking at us weirdly. I then came home and here I am posting a lot of things.

SeeYa,
Feliploko, because knitting needles are only permitted if accompanied by a yarn

Do you need me?

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Not a movie this time, but a series instead. Skins is totally absurd, and it features some things that I totally disapprove, but I still enjoy watching it sometimes. When I don't have the energy to watch something that makes me think, I just turn dumb and watch a few episodes of their new season.

So I didn't do much on Sunday before the evening. I was just home wasting my time on the computer instead of working on the many projects I have to do for school... When it was finally 6pm, I went for meditation, and this time it was Patrick to come with me. I finally got to finish my talk over text messages with Oli and we decided to meet at Bay station around 8pm. I found him at a Mexican place around there, and soon Rauf called to join us. We updated ourselves in our current lives, and we moved from Burrito Loco to Second Cup as I felt like drinking something sweet. I had a latte that I shouldn't have had because it messed up my sleep that night =[ At least I had a great time talking with the boys and planning our future together.

On Monday I went to school and when I came home I found some letters on the mailbox. The first one was an envelope from Brazil, and it was the birthday present that Suka had promised to send ages ago. She wrote such a cute letter, and full of positive energy. I was already happier when I finished reading it, but that was only the beginning of the good surprises. The second letter was a pay cheque from METRAC higher than ever before. I had forgotten I did so many workshops in such a short period of time =P That amount relieved me for at least two more weeks. And then finally I opened a letter from Seneca thinking it was the thousandth reminder that I have to pay for the summer semestre, but it was actually a notice. It said I won the student life achievement scholarship, and that I will receive it in a ceremony a couple weeks from now. I don't know how much it is yet, but it should be at least $300 =] Having had such a blast, I decided to write back to Suka right away, so I started drafting a letter to her. I couldn't finish writing it before I had to go get some food, so I had to give it a pause. I wanted to see Aamer for some time already, and on Monday he finally answered my text inviting me to join an event at UofT. I met him there, and we walked to Yonge and Wood after that. We were having our hot chocolates when we saw Rauf outside, and he came in to join us. We enjoyed our time talking, and then we parted and left. I finished Suka's letter when I got home, and I put it in the mail first thing in the morning.

Tuesday wasn't very special. I went to Express for a workshop on filing taxes that wasn't very helpful, and then a few of us went to Second Cup later (my third time in three days). On Sunday I decided that I will look into a 3-bedroom apartment for me, Rauf, and Oli. Tuesday I was thinking how great it would be if we got an apartment on the same building that Natalia, Zulema, and Lindsay get one. Let's see how this goes... I definitely need to know what will be my employment situation in the summer =/ Damn these people who don't call me back.

Wednesday was a good day. I went to Finch and Dufferin after school, and then I came home to drop my backpack here and grab a snack. Then I walked all the way to harbourfront, since the day was beautiful, and I spent some time there eating strawberries and looking at the lake. I talked to a guy from the Wind store and I am almost deciding to switch; I just need to know if I will have enough money to do so. Around 5pm I walked up Spadina Ave to go eat something at Kensington Market. I decided to go to Bhuda's Vegetarian again, and I had another wonderful meal at that place. I walked east again after that, and ended up at City Hall watching the city as its lights were being turned on. When I finally came home I was very happy for the day that helped me get rid of all my stress.

Yesterday I didn't have much to do besides go to my two classes, so I thought it would be a good idea to join York's celebration of Noruz with Minoo. It turned out to be not a wise thing to do, even though Minoo was a great company. I guess it's hard for me to explain why without breaking the rules that have been binding my posts for the last month or so. All I can say is that maybe I am trying too hard to be nice to someone that I don't really know if he needs me. At least I am not totally blind, so I know that I will not do anything that hurts me to keep the music going. I just wonder how much longer my unconditional niceness will last.

This Friday I have a birthday party to go. I hope it will be fun; I might edit this post later, or talk about it in the next one. Until then, passar bem. =]

SeeYa,
Feliploko, who has a new haircut.

Buddha's Vegetarian

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Every time I read the archive of my blog I feel like I was writing better than I am now. Not grammatically, obviously, but the content was much more interesting and entertaining. I laugh my ass out of some comments and expressions - sometimes because they are creative; sometimes because they are stupid. I try to believe I find it funny because I am now kind of stranger to who I was then, but I'm afraid I'm just becoming more boring... I will only find out when it's too late, so let's not worry about it.

This whole week was dead boring, lol. I was writing a post plan and every day was basically school and home. Since Monday, Thursday and Friday were all about that, I won't write anything specific about these days.

Tuesday I had Express after class to break the ice a little bit. We had a loooong check-in for people to share their skiing experience, and then we just hung out. I couldn't take the crowd for coffee later because I had to finish my INT3's assignment. Luckily I finished and submitted it at 23:59. My mom and some other people were delaying me on msn, so I almost missed the deadline =P

Wednesday was a happy day =] After class I went to Finch & Dufferin and then took the TTC home. I stopped at Shoppers before coming here to buy some nuts and take a look at some fragrances. I was never a big fun of scents, but I do agree that they are nice and attractive. I came home and spent some quality time "with myself" having tea and stuff. I finally did my laundry so I wouldn't have to wear my swimsuit for the lack of underwear (lol), and Patrick unexpectedly came home in the afternoon, which wasn't very nice. I managed to ease the situation when he left, and then it was time to go meet Zulema at Bay station. I should've read my email before leaving because she canceled the last minute =[ I waited for about 15min, and then I went for a walk imagining that she would call if she was coming. I went to Rogers all the way to Rosedale station, and took a look at some of the DVDs they had for sale. I almost bought some movies I wanted to have, but I cannot spend money on that right now =[ I came back home around 21h, and then I did nothing until it was time to go to bed.

Yesterday was an interesting day too. I woke up around 11am to get ready for an interview in the afternoon. It took me longer than it should've taken to leave, so I ended up being late. The interview was at Ontario Place and I've never been there before, so it was a pain in the ass to find the right place to go. Add some crazy wind/rain storm to the endless walking and my mood was high in the mountains. I finally found the administration building and I lied about the time of my interview (I said it was 2:30 instead of 1:30). They got confused with their files and believed me, so I don't have to worry =P I filled out some papers and went in to answer the question they sent me weeks before: how would I entertain a line of kids waiting to go to an amusement park ride that was under maintenance for 5min? I said I would play the game that Keli taught me in one of the workshops, something involving charades and sculptures. They let me in for the final interview, and that was a meeting that was meant for a group of 10 applicants; they had only two, however. The other guy was nice and good looking, and his answers were not too bad. I hope we both get the job =] We left together because he was taking the streetcar too, but our conversation died when we got to the stop since he plugged in his earphones and I started texting Zulema. I wanted to go eat something, so I invited her to meet me at the Eaton Centre. We met at Indigo, and decided to go to Kensinton Market. It was still raining, and we realized we didn't know where to go once we got to Spadina and Dundas. We went towards Augusta Ave, and she remembered seeing a vegetarian place around there once. We headed there and found this place called Bhuda's Vegetarian. What a find! The food was amazing, and totally affordable. We ordered so much that we had to take some home, so after taking the streetcar back downtown we parted and left. Once I got home I found nothing else to do, so I wasted the rest of my day on the internet =/

I want my life to be in order again... It sucks so much to have a mess in many aspects of it. It sucks even more that I cannot fix what I want to fix, and I don't want to fix what I can. This spring will be one of the most important springs of my life, and still I am not running on 100% of enthusiasm. I guess that's it.

SeeYa,
Feliploko, who's boring.

whereis feliploko? he's @ ~

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Time has been wiped out of my life again >.< Last week was supposedly my study break, but my professors kept giving us stuff to do...

Tuesday I managed to get some rest, so I stayed home until it was time to go to SOY. I facilitated a workshop for Alphabet Soup that day, representing METRAC. =] It went well, and I'm starting to feel more comfortable with it. At Express, we had our weekly meeting, and then we went for a coffee. Our coffee meetings have been crowded again, new people are finally starting to stay in the group and join the after-fun.

Wednesday I worked on some of the projects that I needed to work on, and realized INT3's assignment was bigger than I thought. I don't remember if there was anything else worth mentioning.

Thursday I went all the way to Markham to interview one of the managers of IBM for my EAC project. Some not-so-smart people messed my plans making me have a hard time finding the place, so I got there really late. We had to change the interview time to 4pm, so Robin and I had to wait around there for about an hour. We then finally talked with Angus about Eclipse and how it's used at IBM, and he was really nice with us. He gave us a tour through the company afterward and even drove us to the subway station =] Once I got home I went back to working on my projects.

Friday I had a full day of workshops with Keli. We went to this high school at Eglinton and Bathurst and we had to talk about dating violence to 4 different classes. Most of them were ok, but the grade 12 boys intimidated me so much I almost didn't participate in the workshop. We finished the day around 4pm, and when I got home I had to participate in a meeting for the OOP project and be interviewed over the phone for one of the companies to which I applied for an internship. Hopefully I will hear something back from them soon. Nothing else for the rest of the day.

Saturday I had to work for co-ed at Seneca, and it wasn't too hard to do the surveys. The lead guide (who wasn't really a good lead) had some disagreements with me, but I think it didn't escalate too much into a problem. I went to Finch station after work and bought some fruits at a little Korean market before wandering through the little streets around there; the weather was quite nice. I came back home around 2pm because Keli texted me saying the workshop we had at the west end would be probably canceled. I then called Linda to invite Anthony out, and we decided to go skating again. I picked him up and we went to Harbourfront, but the rink was 75% closed =[ We walked up to City Hall, and there they weren't renting skates anymore. That's when we decided to go watch a movie instead, so we went to AMC. We watched Percy Jackson, which was horrible - well, at least Anthony liked it and I liked the protagonist. I took my kid to his place after that and thought about going to Natalia's party, but I was too tired for that. I came home and crashed.

Sunday we went skiing \o/ I woke up really early to get there on time since there was no subway, and I ended up being really early. I helped Clare get the coffee from Starbucks, and we left SOY at almost 9am - Rauf was late, of course. We had many more people from Express this year, but most of them were beginners like I was last year. I didn't see them much because I wanted to explore the other cliffs with Rauf. We went to these really hard routes that made us fall and get our asses filled with snow. Once I was going down and my skis came out when I fell. I wasn't able to put them back on, so I had to walk all the way down to fix them =[ It was fun overall, and we came back stinking and exhausted. I took a shower and got myself ready to watch the Oscars at the Pour House. Brent and Natalia were coming with me, but they both canceled. I watched it by myself eating a pizza and drinking ginger ale =P I simply loved the speech of the woman who won best costume design. "This is for all the designers for films with boring costumes and low budget, but tonight I am taking it home". And that's it =]

SeeYa,
Feliploko, who has no time to menstruate.

jauneklīgs

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Gaaaah, I'm exhausted. =[ I never thought I was capable of doing so much in such a short time... Let's see what I can blog about.

Thursday I didn't go to INT3, but I had to go for the INT4 midterm. It was incredibly short and easy, so I managed to finish it and get the TTC to St Stephen's Centre for an interview. I applied to work at Ontario Place in the summer, just in case I don't get any IT-related job... It took me forever to fill out an application form there, and I had to wait for many other people to be interviewed before me. Ironically, the interview took about five minutes: they asked me the same customer-service question that was on the form, and since I had a good answer, they scheduled me for a second interview. They told me the next question already, but I'm not sure if I want to come up with something creative for that one. After that I came back home and went to bed.

Friday I went to write the JAC midterm, then I had a very boring EAC class, and finally a job interview for a new position at Seneca. Dead boring filing work, but I need the money for my metropasses. I believe they will call me back, but if they don't I won't get too upset. I worked a little bit on my OOP project after that, and then went to Finch and Dufferin to eat something at Druxy's. From there I came downtown and around 8:30pm I left for Lindsay's birthday party. I never thought Zulema was being so serious when she complains about her neighbourhood, but I found out that night that Queen and Sherbourne is totally sinister. I felt very uncomfortable walking around trying to find their place. I was one of the first guests to come, so I helped with the finishing touches and people started coming little by little. We had fun talking, eating, and even dancing; we were so into it that we decided to prolong the party until the subway started running (6am) - good old days in Belo Horizonte, eh? I took the streetcar with some of the queers, and crashed on my bed once I got here.

Saturday I could not do what I wanted to, so I stayed home doing nothing the whole day. I hope it wasn't such a loss, though; we'll see...

Sunday I watched a movie on my dvd, and didn't go for a walk as I was planning. Around 6pm I went to meditate, and this time Rauf came with me. We had good food, and Rauf got frustrated at someone's heterosexuality. We walked our way back, and I went out to see a friend and cash some money to pay the rest of March's rent. Then finally bedtime.

Today (Monday) I woke up really early, took a shower and went to have breakfast at a place on Bloor and Spadina. I thought it would be really good, but it was more expensive than it should. I then left to see Nisrine at the 519 and talk about some settlement stuff; she gave me some useful advice and sent me an email later. After that I went to Culture Link and talked to Rebecca (the new Carolina) about the same things. Again, a resourceful email was sent after that. I had some time in the afternoon, so I cut my hair and came back home to rest a little bit. Around 3pm I left again to see Jean at the Griffin Centre to finalize the settlement process of the day. On my way back I got some groceries, and now I'm home waiting for Zulema to call... That's it.

SeeYa,
Feliploko, who's changing his plans.