A Day in the Life of Ben

Went to a kegger last night. I was having a really good time until I stupidly decided to walk down the street with Mike and Erica holding a cup of beer (Erica had beer too). Out of nowhere these two cops on bikes rode up and asked us if we were drinking alcohol (it was kinda obvious). Long story short - Erica and I both got $130 tickets. We decided to walk back to the party where we met the same two police officers crashing it and threatening big fines. A bunch of us went to the Silver Spur (a western style kareoke bar - yes, it's ok to laugh), had more to drink there then walked home in the rain. Overall I had a lot of fun, but I'm not looking forward to going to the court office tomorrow to get my fine reduced - after all I am a poor student.

I registered for a SCUBA course last week which was going to be taught at the UW PAC on Wednesday nights, but it was cancelled at the last minute because there were only 6 registrations (they needed 8 to run the course), I'm pretty dissapointed it because I have equipment that's going to go unused for a while. There are a lot of other places to take SCUBA courses but none for only $170, so I think I'll try my luck again next term - I'm not planning on doing any actual open water diving until May anyway.

Looking on the bright side, I got to go to the Bomber for the first time this term last night! It was kinda dead and there was no queue, I guess people didn't want to go because it was raining... I dunno. But I had a great time, I went with the Sci-Bus crew which is always fun.

I finally have a reliable internet connection after 3 weeks of calling Rogers - apparently they didn't beleive how slow our connection actually was - for example, my brother was coming over and he sent an email before he left - I started opening hotmail as soon as he sent it, and the email message still wasn't loaded by the time he walked over here. So I downloaded lots of music - some Stripes, Coldplay and David Gray.

Mike's coming to Waterloo tomorrow night, yay! And Momma-E is coming down from the T dot to the K dub it's starting to look like a great weekend.

OK, I think I'm settled back into school now. I've been going to the gym pretty frequently and I'm feeling very healthy (see imood). I almost finished a paper and I have to get my resume done, there's graduate job postings already!

I spent Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning at Mike's parents' house in St. Thomas. We didn't really do much, but we watched "The Sweetest Thing" (with Christina Applegate, Cameron Diaz and Selma Blair) it was unrealistically funny.

I'm feeling extremely tired right now, I think that's enough.

Orthodontics suck! I had the pleasure of driving for an hour and a half from Waterloo to Markham to visit my Orthodontist yesterday. "OK, now bite... now open... OK bite... open... bite... open... bite."

I took the opportunity to visit some friends while I was in the GTA. I went to Kirk and Joey's apartment for dinner with Shaun. Joe was away in Halifax so it was just Kirk, Shaun and I. My God, that "pasta thing with the chicken" was sooo good! And it wasn't just because I was stoned. Later their friend Darren came over and we watched Paradise Hotel. I thought I'd give the show a second chance... um no, I still don't like it - there are some HOT guys on the show, but it's just too bitchy and gossipy to be enjoyable. I think I prefer reality TV shows where the contestants actually have to do something apart from just sitting around gabbing at each other. When's Survivor starting?!?!

I got home last night to find out that the construction workers had accidentally cut our phone line. Great, another visit from Bell, that's all I need.

I have the day off and I need to get that damn work report out of the way.

My night class last night was so boring. The class is Sci 423, it's basically all group work on two major assignments, so lectures are pretty much optional, except for the first one. The prof. went over a document that described how to write a report. Smack forehead with palm of hand! I mean everyone in the class is in 5th year, I think we should know how to do this by now. So he spent literally 2.5 hours reiterating and giving anecdotes... please tell me what a footnote is, how do I write a summary??

Lana flew over from Saskatoon on Sunday night - she had to attend the night class last night... it's a long story and I won't get into it now. Anyway, we went to the bomber last night after class with the Sci-Bus crew and drank beer from those huge 4 L pitchers. I realized that I was fortunate enough to have missed the entire Bomber being closed ordeal, it closed a month after I left Waterloo and reopened before I got back.

I drove Lana back to Hamilton Airport this morning, now I'm listening to David Gray - White Ladder. And I'm about to head out for lunch with Shawn Parry (who I haven't seen in about 4 months).

I've taken a long hiatus from writing in this thing, so I think I'm due for an entry.

I'm finally back in Waterloo and ready for school. My new place is awesome, I'm really close to campus, directly across the street from the gym and it's completely new inside. They ripped out the inside of the house and redid it this summer, so we have new appliances and everything. I'm looking forward to starting school tomorrow, I only have classes in the morning, so it shouldn't be too much of a shock after 8-months of working.

I had a very interesting night last night. My friend Matt asked if I wanted to go out in Toronto for the night, I didn't have to drive or anything so I went. Our first stop was at Montana's in Mississauga where Matt's friend Fred works. We had some drinks and chilled with the servers after they were done work. Afterwards Matt, Fred and I headed to Woody's for some more drinks. We didn't realize that it was the best legs contest that night, I thought it would be fun to watch. So after doing her usual drag show, Sofonda started picking people out of the audience to compete. I tried to hide behind people and avoid eye contact... it was going well until she had chosen 9 contestants. She pointed her finger right at me and said "you!" Well I'd had a couple of drinks and thought I might even have a chance of winning $150 so I thought to myself "fuck it, why not?" I got up on the stage, told Sofonda my name, where I was from and what I did and then infront of about 300 people I pulled down my jeans (thank God I was wearing good underwear). I turned around, bent over, the usual, but difficult with pants around my ankles. I put my clothes back on and got off the stage. After a few minutes all the contestants were called back onto the stage for the "elimination round". After eliminating 6 other contestants I was left on the stage with another young guy and two older guys (who had much better legs than mine I think). We all showed off again were told to "work it" - we did. To my surprise judging by the audience cheer-o-meter I won the contest and the $150 prize. I bought my friends a round of drinks. Then I started getting far more attention from people in the bar than I was comfortable with so we decided to leave and go to 5ive which was almost completely dead (at 1am). We left and headed over to Fly where I met Shaun, Lee, Neale, Chad, Patrick and Bryan... had a pretty good time but I was tired so I dragged Matt and Fred out so we could drive back to Waterloo.

I've spent most of today watching TV and avoiding doing any work on my work report. I guess I have all day on Tuesday and Thursday to finish it up.