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I have been feeling very scattered lately, so this post might will likely be all over the place. Ended up going to the infamous White Fox again last night after my friend Kersten's party. The Yellowknife nightlife is so messed up and there is no way of avoiding it. I was upstairs playing foosball with my friend Tarik when this guy comes running up the stairs with blood gushing from his head and a bunch of people following him with paper towels. This sort of thing is the norm at the White Fox, I think i've meet three people who have gotten their ass beat there and had to be medivac'd down to Edmonton. Those people also instigated the fight so i guess they had it coming.
The weather here has all of a sudden become very beautiful. Each day it goes up to about 9 degrees without a cloud in the sky and all the snow has melted over the last 10 days. The melted snow has exposed both the beautiful Precambrian rock that makes up the landscape as well as all of the dogshit, garabage, beer cans etc that the snow had buried. It is also staying somewhat light until about 11pm which I have never been exposed to and it is only going to get brighter. I'm going to buy a bike and a basketball.
I'll be 25 in a couple weeks which some might say is a milestone. I'm not sure what to make of it. One thing is that I want to be cool but am not sure if you are allowed to want to be cool at 25. I'm sure i'd be feeling alot worse if I was turning 25 and still living with my parents, this could have easily happened too. There's alot of people my age who are doing the common law thing, buying 300,000 dollar trailers together and going to the community garden every Sunday. Do I want some of that? I think I do. The hard part is going to be meeting someone up here. All of the single guys constantly complain about how there are no girls and i've heard that single girls constantly complain there are no guys. I think both sides are paranoid of how much baggage the other one has. There is a shit load of personal baggage in Yellowknife. For example I found out last night that someone i've been hanging out with (His name is Mike but people call him Fondue for some reason) used to be married in Winnipeg but his wife became a junkie and has dropped off the face of the earth. There's a lot of stories similar to that here.
See Scattered.
I'm nervous about starting full time on Monday. It turns out I have to take first aid training in order to work at the mine sites which will have to sub for my Graduate School FH! Also my boss e-mailed me on friday saying the people I was working with from the government on the Mackenzie Pipeline Project really liked me and my work which put my mind to ease somewhat. I also get the feeling alot more work will comeout of that. Still, i'm paranoid about being fired already.
The weather here has all of a sudden become very beautiful. Each day it goes up to about 9 degrees without a cloud in the sky and all the snow has melted over the last 10 days. The melted snow has exposed both the beautiful Precambrian rock that makes up the landscape as well as all of the dogshit, garabage, beer cans etc that the snow had buried. It is also staying somewhat light until about 11pm which I have never been exposed to and it is only going to get brighter. I'm going to buy a bike and a basketball.
I'll be 25 in a couple weeks which some might say is a milestone. I'm not sure what to make of it. One thing is that I want to be cool but am not sure if you are allowed to want to be cool at 25. I'm sure i'd be feeling alot worse if I was turning 25 and still living with my parents, this could have easily happened too. There's alot of people my age who are doing the common law thing, buying 300,000 dollar trailers together and going to the community garden every Sunday. Do I want some of that? I think I do. The hard part is going to be meeting someone up here. All of the single guys constantly complain about how there are no girls and i've heard that single girls constantly complain there are no guys. I think both sides are paranoid of how much baggage the other one has. There is a shit load of personal baggage in Yellowknife. For example I found out last night that someone i've been hanging out with (His name is Mike but people call him Fondue for some reason) used to be married in Winnipeg but his wife became a junkie and has dropped off the face of the earth. There's a lot of stories similar to that here.
See Scattered.
I'm nervous about starting full time on Monday. It turns out I have to take first aid training in order to work at the mine sites which will have to sub for my Graduate School FH! Also my boss e-mailed me on friday saying the people I was working with from the government on the Mackenzie Pipeline Project really liked me and my work which put my mind to ease somewhat. I also get the feeling alot more work will comeout of that. Still, i'm paranoid about being fired already.