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Name: Steph
Country: Canada
State: Alberta
Birthday: 1/11/1981
Interests: Warcraft - ToB, Enfos
World of Warcraft
Hockey
Expertise: Mocking Chairmans...
Doing absolutely nothing all summer except having fun.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Legal
Message: message me
Member Since:
8/10/2004
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| Okay, since I have a little time before classes, I thought I should just bite the bullet and post something. I'm sure that Mac will give me lots of hell for not posting forever, but He loves me and I'm sure He will forgive me. I can see that Mandy and Gary have been slack as well, so perhaps with this post I can start calling them out.
Last semester has flown by, and I might as well just skip over that because there's not much point in trying to catch up. Let's just say there was a lot of school, a lot of reading and no sleep.
Mac has always bugs me to describe my houseboating trip in August, and I will leave him with the 2 themes of the trip:
"Super Soaka Rum an' Coke-a" and "Mangina".
James has seen some of the pics and was not amused with the mangina or the game "Cock or Balls". Also, the big acheivement of the trip is that the whole houseboat finished a Texas Mickey of Crown Royal in one hour. After that, we learned the hard way not to let such participants swim in Lake Schushwap. If you guys want more details, I'd be happy to send pictures.
For James, I put up this Currently Watching because it was the best movie EVER, and he was totally justified in insisting I watch it (the first 100 times he bugged me were fine, but not the second hundred :P)
My Christmas was spent partly at home, Vancouver and Portland. I have officially an alien for a boyfriend. I helped him move to Portland to start school, and it's a pretty nice place down there. It was wet and rainy at that time, and reminded me unfavourably of Vancouver but it seemed small and pretty decent. We didn't get to see the Trailblazers play the Heat like we planned which was also disappointing. He's coming up at the end of March so I better start stocking up the booze now. Mac, I'm all yours until then.
I've come to the conclusion that Mac will never return to Canada, because: 1) he's lazy 2) All his girlfriends are Korean or are in Korea and 3) He thinks he's such the ladies man out there.
I don't think I know any other guys that actually want to 'just' have dinner with chicks. For the fun of going out to dinner. It's just not possible for members of your race. You always have hidden motives for that sort of thing. Devious, deceitful people.
*** Upcoming Rant Warning ***
I ran into this classic argument today: That women SHOULD earn 25% less for the same job just because we can have children. And that's CAN not WILL. Apparently we just cost so much money to our employers and lose so much business when we take maternity leave, that we just deserve to get less pay. Oh, and also not get promoted to upper management for the same reasons. I suggested that not all women take a year off, some only take a month or two. I was given a surprised look and told "that's just ridicious" because that would be just so horrible for the kid. So if we take too little time off, we're horrible mothers, but if we take more than a couple months off, we're horrible workers.
I argued that it was not fair to assume that women will have children. I'm not. Do I deserve less money for my whole life because other women have kids? Apparently I don't, but if I want fair pay, I have to tell my employer as early as I can about my childless plans. Doesn't that seem fucked up? "Hey boss, just to uh... let you know.. I'm not having kids ever, so please don't dock my pay and pass me up for promotions...well, see ya tomorrow!". Why don't I just sign a contract to my boss saying i'll get Spayed or something? Oh wait, isn't there human rights?
From Day One at a job, we should earn less apparently, for the future contingency that we will probably have kids. Not that we should get docked pay after that first kid, but before. Before we ever would lose the company "so much money" we should be penalized. Right. Apparently there are only mothers in this world, and no fathers. Because fathers can still work hard and never quit work and never leave early to do "parent" stuff. So they deserve to be CEOs and partners and not women. Only mothers take care of kids, and suck at their jobs.
It seriously made me hate all men, in those 10 minutes I was listening to this stuff. Hope can you not when they come up with this "logical" bullshit they concoct. I've heard this whole thing many times before, admittedly from a lot of guys born in small towns but makes me wonder if ALL guys think that secretly inside their heads. That they are more deserving of being rich and powerful and successful because they can pawn off all family duties to their meeker wives. I stated that there are more househusbands and paternity leaves, so should the wives who don't sacrifice the job still make less money? Well the answer to that, is apparently, no self-respecting guy would be a househusband (wow, why didn't they just say "fag") and paternity leaves at a firm would get him fired.
God, males make me so angry! It seems that they're running out of arguments to justify their waning dominance in the workplace, so they have to come up with these CRAP excuses to justify keeping their pay and positions. Are men really so threatened by a woman boss, and a wife that makes more than them? Go fuck yourselves.
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| Well, I finally goaded him
into it. James has entered the building. But he assures me
he won't post anything. Only to write (ass)biting comments to
whatever I write. Such a good friend, isn't he? But my
payment for such abuse is apparently a novella about how good of a
friend I am to him. I just hope it doesn't take him too long to
write it because I've got fans to please over here.
Well, I am the Posting Queen now that i've posted for 3 days straight
with no competition. Does this mean I get a gold medal?? :D
Hmm, I'd rather get some of those foamy beat sticks and bop Gary and
Mac around for my reward.
Anyways, I'll keep this short because it's late, but I wanted to post
before I left for my houseboating trip followed by my LA trip. Ha
ha. Life is so horrible for a jobless loser like me. Mac,
don't hate me cuz I'm beautiful.
I've also now decided that Decatheletes are pretty hot as well.
And that Andrew is a loser because he says "Bo Sox" all the time
now. Also for being extra superstitious about wearing his "Bo
Sox" Cap everytime they have a game. Apparently they have
never lost when he's performed this particular ritual. I think
this kind of devotion should only be displayed for hockey, so he's
being totally sacreligious. His playoff beard was what GOT us to
the Stanley Cup Final ;)
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| Today was a cold, wet
day. It was a Vancouver day. But I live in Calgary, where
it should be dry dry dry and warm. I know, I can't live with the
discrepancy either.
So anyways, on Friday I went to a backyard hot tub party. Yes, I
admit I was looking forward to the drunken hedonism, especially since
it's been awhile for me, and I was going with just the girls.
Statistics show that 'Girls' Night Out' is positively correlated
to wild craziness. Well, anyways the theme of the night should
have been "It's a Small World". That six degrees of separation
thing is bullshit, it should be three degrees. I was invited by
my friend Laina who was a longtime friend the host (Troy) of the
party. Halfway through I found out that Troy is on the B Sharps,
an ultimate team that my friend Neil captains. So therefore the
team was there and I hadn't ran into any of them, so it was cool to see
Roman who i played D&D with (Ouch, i know i'm a geek) and is a B
Sharp. I had co-introduced Neil to my friend Rachel and they've
been going out for almost a year (I had to put that in there cuz it's
my only successful matchmaking). I also ran into an old
elementary friend there; and this is where you come in, Mac. Jess
Peterson knows Rachel from Junior High and they both were friends with
a certain Mac Brodie. Mac, you must have been a ladies' man in
Jr. High cuz all the ladies seem to remember you ;) Jess says Hi,
but wouldn't tell me any embarrassing stories to bug you with.
Crazy, eh? It's always so fucking weird when you find all the
little connections between people when you thought they were all
seperate, distinct friend groups. Also, I actually had been
invited to "two" hot tub parties that night, but the other invitation
was actually made to Court cuz she's on a different ultimate team who
played the B Sharps, so lo and behold, two became one. Ouch, and
I thought i was going to be popular that weekend.
Anyways, the whole thing was pretty fun, but on a scale of 1 to 10, i
would say it rated a 7. That's because no actually nekkidness
occured. Sad, but true. You all know how I love to watch
the guys get nekkid ;) Also, Danielle wasn't there to mock, and i
miss her pathetic attempts to make centre-stage her large, fake breasts
while trying to convince everyone of the illusion that they're real.
After leaving the party to get a ride in some guy Eric's car for the
goodness of 3am Denny's, the party was winding down because Court kept
dwelling on her moth-blowing incident and the breaking of her one beer
bottle (which almost led to a fight - retarded). Covered and
Smothered hashbrowns is the yummy yummy greasy goodness that makes you
realize that the world is a good good place. If you have a thing
for gravy, i suggest you try it the next time you go to the late night
wonder. Anyways nothing much else to note but that Eric reminded
me of James with his dry, biting humour but obviously Eric is more
witty and charming than James ;) (start your blog!)
Andrew and I went to a Hindu Wedding on Saturday which was a new
experience. It was pretty cool to see the different costumes, but
i think the experience would have been more profound if all the words
weren't said in Hindi? Urdu? Also maybe if we hadn't capped off the
night by going to the Speakeasy and seeing a stripper as short as myself.
Speaking of Andrew, he has developed an unhealthy obesession with the
Red Sox in the last month or so. This is causing quite a strain
in our relationship since Baseball on TV is a constant reminder that
the antichrist is coming. So imagine my chagrin when the dumbass
is constantly rearranging our life around Sox games. Picture me
running running around Market Mall with 15 minutes to close because he
just HAS to have a Red Sox cap that day, and every store doesn't have
the right size for his big head. Argh. He's apparently a
huge fan of the 'Man-Ram'. That has enough homo connotations to
vie with Top Gun for the top spot.
Anyways, this is enough of a post for now to please everyone for a
bit. Apparently my lust for Mac took over last night and everyone
is a little overwhelmed. I'm not apologetic, pretty much around 4
people read this so it doesn't matter, and Gary and Mac shouldn't count
anyways, cuz they're sub-humans.
I've decided that today, my favourite olympic guy body is Divers followed by Kayakers. Just wanted to let you know.
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| Well, an Update Time it is...
There was a void in my life, and that void's name was Sports
Television. Ever since Hockey was finished, there was no purpose
to my life, no fire. Hockey was my life for 8 months, and then it
decided to leave me a Dear John letter. I went day to day channel
surfing, being disgusted with my choices of Basketball (Bad), and
Baseball (Worse). It was getting to the point that I would
seriously pray that some Billiards or World
Championships of Poker would be on. But now, that void has been
filled, with the OLYMPICS! yay! (actually I do like the Games).
I love any Olympic sport that I haven't seen a billion times. Why
is it so important for me to see every damn qualifying heat? And
the semis? Why don't they just show me the final? That's
the only one we're gonna remember in this attention-deficit
world. Why don't they fill that time with some offbeat
stuff? Like Trap Shooting, or Ping Pong. Stuff I will only
be able to see during the Olympics. I really don't want to see
the 50m Butterfly (quals, semi, final), then the 100m Butterfly (quals,
semi, final), then the 200m Butterfly (etc.). What is WITH this
superly inefficient stroke? WHY do people want to travel this
way? Enough with the swimming!
All I gotta say is... if it acts like a duck, looks like a duck and swims like a duck...
I'm talking about you, hubby and wifey. Don't fucking miss your
drug tests. And then don't concoct a story where you were in a
motorcycle accident (but there is nobody to confirm this), and then lay
up in the hospital for a week so it's "convienient" for you not to
retake the test. Oh yeah, and you apparently have a
"history" of missing drug tests. Oh yeah, and don't forget to
loudly withdraw afterwards and still proclaim your innocence. You
bunch of lying juicers. As if you weren't on the smack. If
nobody believed Britney (of the bewitching body), nobody's stupid
enough to believe you're "virgin"s either.
That goes double for you too, Marion Jones. Both your ex-husband
and boyfriend are caught? And then you suck ass at trials....
Honey, this is the era where people don't believe Janet about her boobs
either.
Actually, I do know two competing Olympians. So I want to give a
shout out to Jody Patrick and Bobby Milroy. They both competed in
Badminton. Those who don't know, I used to be a competitive Badminton
player. Went to provincials and nationals and everything! Jody is
from my old Club and we had the same coaches, etc. She's a total
nice person and I'm really happy someone I knew stuck with the whole
thing (Damn! if only i knew and kept with it and didn't think that
slacking with my friends in high school was better for me). Meh.
So i know it's been a long time since I've put in a blog. Mac's
been riding my ass everyday to get one up. Mac is a fine
person.
I guess I should mention that I saw Mandy and Karina and Siew last
Saturday for dinner. Mandy that globe-trotting wonder gave me a
really nice piece of her artwork which I am going to hang in my
apartment. Afterward I taught Karina how to boost the battery of
a car (yes, I was the dumbass who left the lights on, but Karina
doesn't even know where her hood latch is! Haha, now I've
deflected the attention away from me). Gary, you're an ass. I
tried to call your house, but you weren't home. Now supposedly
Mandy's in China and she's Mac's problem now. Heh. I
suspect some asspinching is making some rounds over there.
Well, it's super late now, so I'll continue this post tomorrow.
Mac is keenly interested in my hot tub tales of this weekend, so I
would like to make his salvatation last a little longer. But I do
want to underscore my requited love for Mac Brodie. My little
sweetie with the white ass pining away for me in BJ. His love of awful 80s music and movies only strengthens his charm. His honeyed words makes my pulse race and my groin ache. He is truly the People's Man.
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| So sometimes I wonder if I'm just as gullible as your average girl. Yesterday I took my car in to get a new muffler because the old one rusted and fell off during my road trip. Well apparently mufflers are under lifetime warranties (which is scary cuz I got this muffler less than 3 years ago - some lifetime  ). But they charged me 4.25 for the new clamps to put it in and 14.25 for what it says on the bill "Muffler Guarantee". I ask him what that means and he says "Service charge." So there I am standing there, wondering if I'm a typical girl who's getting screwed by her mechanic because he thinks she knows nothing about cars and how much things should cost. Cuz i'm thinking 15 minutes of work is not 14.25 in labour. Or IF I should be charged labour because the stupid thing was a lifetime warranty and their shoddy workmanship is probably the reason why the thing has rusted off in 3 years. Then I'm wondering if this is all a scam to get people to get charged 20 bucks every 3 years for their "lifetime mufflers". So, this troubles me all the way home cuz I don't want to be some typical ditz, I thought I was a more informed than that! More worldly! So I get home, and my dad asks me how much I paid.
Me: "Just over 20 bucks."
Him: "That's pretty good for labour."
Me: "Oh."
Sometimes I think I think too much.
Okay okay, I'll lay off Mandi for this post. And instead say something very nice. I'm super excited and happy for her because she got into Architecture. I know she'll be awesome at it cuz she's a great artist and I can't wait for her to give me her work to hang in my apartment.
James wonders if I will be able to keep this thing up. He doubts whether I have enough motivation. He's probably right, but I want to prove him wrong, as usual. So maybe I should just keep trashing him in my posts until he makes a weblog to get me back. THAT would create some motivation to last eons (we both just don't like to give up on that kind of stuff). James.... has bad grammar and can't spell well enough to hit the broad side of a barn! HA!
Mac thinks that I'm some sort of hideous alien creature because I have not seen Top Gun and I never want to. I'm sorry but it's so ridiciously macho and homo-erotic, and I don't know why people like it. I hate Tom Cruise movies and Military/War movies. All these things are in Top Gun. And I don't see the appeal in shouting lines from a movie that includes yelling "Goose!", "Iceman!" or "Maverick!". If that shit wasn't in the movie, you'd think calling each other that is silly too.
Today the World, Tomorrow the Zoo.
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