All those expectations

Hello, world.  How are you?  I’m still here and I think I’m fine.  Fine of course, is relative, but that’s another thing altogether.  A brief summation of things I’ve done/seen/been in the past little while.

Still unemployed.  Still working on finding that brass ring of a job.  Had two jobs with the Toronto Film Festival Group fall through.  I got myself really worked up over the second one, because they’d called me back for a job I hadn’t even applied for, which is, y’know, generally a really good sign.  Very frustrated when I got the call that they’d “gone another way”.  It seems that everyone is going another way these days.  Props to Neil for helping me out with some work from home (database creation!  alright!  yeah!  okay.  whee.  fun?) so that eventually I’ll have some money.  And maybe more marketable skills that people can be impressed with (and then not hire me, because that seems to be what happens).

The band is still going well.  I’m still not sure what we’re called.  We were Sixes (after being Aim Low, Angel) and we might soon be Fire Engine Fire, which I guess is a name.  I’m done arguing with the rest of the guys, I just reserve the right to veto names.  We have a gig coming up which is a benefit for “below the waist” cancers.  Details are here.  Tickets are $15, but like I said – it’s a benefit for cancers, and there’s going to be a magician and a comedian and stuff too.  So that’ll be entertaining.  Oh, and it’s in Whitby, of all places.  Also, one of our guitarists (I hate to say lead guitarist, because both Paul and Paul play “lead” parts) is moving to Cambridge (specifically to Queenston Road – like three blocks from my high school) in September, so we’ll see how that bodes for the band.

I went and saw the Dark Knight on opening day (at three in the afternoon – I’m not that crazy) and it was phenomenal.  I think I promised a review to some people, but I’m going to leave it until after tomorrow – when I’m going to see it on IMAX.  Booyah.

I’ve got a few new albums recently, the real standout being Spiritualized’s Songs in A&E, which I listened to on repeat last night about six times in a row.  From about 10:30 pm to 3:45 am.  Why so long, you ask?  I was playing poker (on PokerStars) and had entered a $2.02 tournament.  The poker gods were smiling on me, because I ended up finishing in fifth place (out of 894) to win $142.75, which is a rather good turnaround, if you ask me.  Suffice to say, I was pretty exhausted by the end of it, and probably could have finished higher than I did, but made a bad move on the last hand.  Ah well.  I’m still quite happy with my showing.

I’m sure there’s more I should write, but it will come later.