ok, I will go chronologically because otherwise I will forget everything.
9:58 wake up and curse myself for having not set my alarm in an attempt to go without a safety net to see if I could just wake up. I rolled over and checked my schedule and saw that I was missing a lab that had started at 8:30 AM. I was pissed for a few seconds until I realized that that lab spot had been shifted to mondays at 6:30 and I had already had that lab! yay! Back to bed!
I snoozed until 11 ish when i had to get ready for my class at 11:30.
I caught the 11:15 bus to campus. I sat at the back of the class with my buddy Ian Hogan. It was a heat transfer class.
Heat transfer is somewhere between thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Anywho, the class dragged on for eight years and then finally I was freed at 12:20.
When we began walking home we both decided that it was ideal frolf weather.
We agreed to meet at their place for frolf at 2:30 PM.
By "frolf" I mean frisbee golf. We play it all over campus! The campus has these safety blue light poles all over that have a little intercom on them and a blue light at the top of course. We play from pole to pole all over campus! They advertise that you can see a blue light from anywhere on campus and that suits us just great! It provides us with these great long/short challenging courses! You can freestyle it all over campus just picking the next pole as you go or you can repeat a certain path.
My buddies that I go frolfing with are HILARIOUS. I cannot stress their hilarity enough. Sometimes the foot traffic is just too heavy (like when we are playing during class changes) and we have to let er rip despite certain pedestrian obstacles. We holler out gentlemanly 'FOOOORRRE!!'s of course.
I drove my friend sandy to school in her car (I have keys/rights to drive it all I want anytime I want!!) and then I went over to mike frenke/ian hogan/bizarro me/vorbeek's house for our tee off time.
We had a round of 9 holes or so, I think I won surprisingly. Ian nailed the first pole from more than 50 feet out, it was amazing. I normally lose because I am way inconsistent. Either with my drives or with putting out. It's really hard to nail a pole with a frisbee sometimes. Alot of the time you have to arc your shot so it swoops around a corner of a building, often playing right off the building/cars. In fact! today two of us nailed this same office window with our frisbess as we were trying to round a bend. The lady working in there came out and told us to be careful where we were throwing.
We played out way back towards their place and then parted ways, it was a pleasant round on the links.
Get this, when I got back to the car I got there just in time to see Officer Dickwad giving me a ticket for illegal parking. I was in a legal spot - one that is legal until 3PM, it was 3:15 PM then.
I said "Oh no! no... Great!" to the officer and he said nothing. We exchanged a look. Fucking cops.
I saw him when I was driving around doing some errands afterwards and I was SO close to splashing him with a puddle/running him down.
I was a little afraid of what my head may make me do by accident.
I drove out to Derrick's house to pick him up for a shred.
Earlier in the day I had ran into Maral, my housemate, on campus. We chitchatted and she informed me that she was going to American Apparel to try on short-shorts and asked if I wanted to come. I agreed to meet her there at 4:30, though I sorta regretted it later becasue it cut into my planned shred time.
I picked up Derrick and we drove downtown to the store to meet maral. We were spot on time at 4:30.
American Apparel is a really cool store. They have real simple, yet well cut and robust clothing that isn't all covered in labels. I love it. The other reason they are really cool is that they are very proud of the fact that they pay their workers good wages and they work in nice clean good spaces in downtown LA. It's basically fair trade clothing.
I walked in with Derrick and we wandered around, eventually finding some gym-style short shorts. They were available in alot of nice colours. I was checking some shorts out when a real pretty girl asked me if I needed any help. I said I was ok and then kinda regretted it, but all was well because she offered me help in finding shorts.
She showed me various different ones and then eventually we found some that I really liked. They were dark blue with baby blue edge trim, sorta like daisy dukes. haha. she asked if I wanted to try them on and of course I obliged.
I went back to the changeroom and put them on over my short short-shorts I already had on. They are juuust slightly larger than my short short-shorts which is good because some people call those ones 'pushin it'.
Maral called to me to come out in my short shorts to show them off. I came out and pranced about for them.
Since I was there with Derrick of the KFM footbag was bound to happen. I started doing some toe stalls in my socks. I was in the back end of the store near a nice big mirror and on smooth sick hardwood floor. it had such nice grip. I insist people come jam with me there sometime.
OK, here is where it goes fucking insane.
The store girl bounded over and called out "YOU PLAY FOOTBAG!!".
She said footbag!
"I just started learning!"
This is the part where I explode.
I can not explain how excited this made me. I was shaking, I was jumping and laughing and smiling so hard.
I am having trouble finding the right words. It was amazing.
Right away her and I clicked SO well!
She is spectacular. Such fucking incredible style and a smile I have needed to see for so long. She was as excited as I was!
She wants to play footbag!! Get this!!
SHE
IS
COMING
TO
GLASS
!!!!!!!
I asked her "Hey! are you busy this weekend??"
"No."
"well.. I am kinda throwing a footbag tournament in toronto, want to come?"
"Yeah!"
So um.. You all get to meet her!
Her name is (get ready for this)
VIDA THE SHREDITA.
(I added the shredita part)
Her name is Vida and she is amazing. More amazing than amazing. I don't even know what to think right now.
I am seriously so excited that she existed all the sudden. She was stoked on footbag on her own terms.
Remember how Greg Raymond (abstract from BC) was supposed to ride with me down to Chilly Philly? Well he didn't because he was at a party with Vida!
hah!
I made her a footbag tonight. It is so nice. It goes white/dark purple/white/lighter purple. It took me like.. 30 minutes to make it from raw. That felt so cool.
Well, anyways I finally decided to get the shorts, they were $30! I havn't spent that much on shorts in.. ever. Wow. That is the price you pay to *actually* pay people what they deserve I guess.
I was shaking as I changed out of the shorts, I couldn't believe this was happening.
As I was waiting in line to pay her and I kept making eye contact and smiling SO big like we were both totally in on something amazing that only her and I knew.
Derrick and I headed to campus in Sandy's car and went to the cafeteria to get fueled up for the shred. I have a meal plan so I can go in but I have to sneak derrick in. To do that I swipe in and get past the old caf ladies and grab two trays and two sets of cutlery (they are on the side precediing the ladies) and then headed out to the 'exit only' doors and push them open, unlocking them so derrick can sneak in. whee! I have to get my monies worth, these meal plans are damned expensive.
We ate a ton and then headed to shred.
We went to the gym on campus to shred. You have to show your student card on the way in so I went in the regular way and then let derrick in a back door again, We are very efficient, We have great methods for cheating the system and getting stuff we want.
We went to the squash court area to find a place to shred. I decided to walk along the squash spectator walkway that is a story up and with squash courts down to either side. We got to the end of the walkway and found that there was an AWESOME shred spot there!!!
It opened up a bit and there were two massive foam mats for gymnastics.
We shredded for an hour and a half or so.
I hit a new triple (for me) pixie tapping whirl! I was almost on it on my other side.
I also think I hit a new triple dex trick. Like.. new as in new to the world.
I hit alpha toe swirling pixie butterfly.
It is sorta hard to describe with other parts (symp toe swirling stepping/pxie?) but I can describe it in jobs.
I THINK I invented this set, I sure hope I did. I know Moir hadn't hit it last I talked to him and it is really only his turf.
OK, It goes:
toe>symp op back to front>op in>>op out>op clip>toss to hand> freak out
I think I am right in guessing that it is new, if the set really is new I would formally like it to be called "Moshing" set. I have always wanted to invent a set and call it that.
I hit two moshing butterflies today VERY clean. I can get the set pretty high too, I know this shit was legit, you can even ask my witness!
You can think of it like Jordens symp quantum quantum set but with the first symp mirage being done behind your leg and as a horizontal swirl motion not a mirage.
haahha, that is soo helpful.
I think that beta frantic quantum is possible.
I hit a few wonton quantum sets today but wasn't sure what to do with them.
I wasn't stringing too strong today, I did have one string with bsos clip DLO's and bsos Barflies, that felt good.
Man, I can't wait to show you guys my moshing set, it is crazy.
OH! Also, I came online today all flying high after all the great things that had just happened and then Johnny came online. Matt Cross told me yesterday "Don't tell johnny about the set you're working on, because he will just hit it." I had that on my mind but it all came scarily true when I began chatting with Johnny. I told him I was excited that I had hit a new set. He told me he had made a new one too.
I excitedly asked him what his was.
He replied: "symp swirling stepping, I hit it yesterday"
FUUUUUUUUUUCCCK!
'ucking dammit'. I thought. I told him "You just ruined my day".
He quickly patched the wound when he caught on that I was slightly mislead. He had invented a DIFFERENT new set! He purposely didn't try the toe one just because he knew I was working on it!
Awwwww.!! I don't know if his set is secret or not, but it is a DIFFERENT symposium smiling variation. I like where this stuff is going.
Johnny is really a great guy. I am excited for everyone to get to meet him. Firstly, he will blow your fucking mind at footbag, then you will notcie how nice and humble he is, then you will compliment him on the choice 32s he makes and want to spend more time talking to him. I swear.
Oh! also, if my moshing butterfly is new. (hahahah, like how I am already using the name I just made up for a trick I don't even know has been hit before?) then I want to call it
CRIPWALK
think about it, both the word C RIPWALK and my symposium toe swirling ripwalk have "something before the ripwalk".
If people don't know, Crips are a big gang in north america, they have a silly walk they do, I guess, I have never seen it in real life. But I know it is a real word and that is what counts.
So do I get to name it?
It's a 6 too! whee!
OK, I am going to go to bed.
I is 3 AM and I have a BIG day tomorrow.
Oh my golly.
I guess I better give a bit of a prequel since I won't have much time to type tomorrow.
I have class in the morning, then I am getting my haircut, then I have a jib sesh with the Urban Snowboard Club for a little while until I have to head out to Toronto in order to be home in time to pick up Dan Feary from Pearson Airport at 9PM!
Originally I was going to be stressed out waiting on the T-shirts to get finished in time for me to leave but Sandy had a great idea tonight. She suggested I have Ryan Seath and company pick them up from Kingston on Friday on their way through when they are picking up Jared/Derrick/Vida.
Oh, and one more thing, I totally didn't even mention any of my skating with Liane. We skated, she is fun and nice, she has a guy. I had vowed yesterday to steal her from that dude (remember how I have always wanted to hate him?) but now I don't seem to care since Vida exists.
Vida exists.
I had been thinking earlier in the day some unawesome thoughts about Liane. I don't know why, I felt bad for it because she hadn't warranted it at all. Just things like.. I wanted her smile to be all bright and shining like the girl in Garden State and it wasn't. It was a diferent happy when she smiled. But oh man, does Vida ever light me up when she smiles!
I can't stop thinking about her.
Also, it somehow came up that I had this blog when skating with Liane. She asked for the address and i felt kinda wierd.. because like.. there is alot of talk about her. I don't think I would feel comfortable giving it to her anymore.
hahahahahha hahhh
I mean the address, not "giving it to her", I could still handle that.
OK.. I think this post may be absurdly long enough now.
I don't thionk anyone else writes as much inane thought in their blog as I do.
Oh, shit, final thing. I made A MILLION pins tonight with sandy for selling at GLASS!
It was alot of work getting all the designs and stuff made up and then you have to print them out and cut the circles out with a special cutter and then make the actual pin. It was so fun!
I have some AMAZING looking pins now!
Sandy and I are both very very poor, her and I made these pins as a fund raiser for our poor asses. This is a part time thing she does to rack up some money, sandy is the hardest working person I know. I really think you will all be very happy with the pins and you should bu lots to make us not starve. I love you all.
ok, I really am gone.... NOW!
