I believe the robots are our future.
Hey kids. I'm back.
Did you miss me?
(Does anybody read this anymore? Hello, friends? Spammers? Trolls?)
I suppose I must summarize whatever I've been up to since November, in case there's a reader...
1) I did not get fired from the day job. In fact, they decided to confuse me even more by giving me a raise. Will go into more detail in a filtered entry. Still looking for another job in the meantime, but no luck. Not a single interview. Not even a response.
2) Spent the Xmas holidays visiting my sister and her wife and doggies in rural Saskatchewan. Very low-key and relaxing. Played board games, watched movies, did a bit of sightseeing in Regina and Moose Jaw.
3) For the past several months, I've been co-writing a one-hour Second City revue (to be performed on the Mainstage itself) with my writing class, under Bruce Pirrie. Each of us will have at least a couple of sketches in the show (plus we're also briefly appearing in the opening scene, playing ourselves). If you're interested, it's next Sunday the 26th, 3:00 p.m., 51 Mercer Street, PWYC. If you want to go but can't make that day, there's also a short "work in progress" preview show this coming Sunday (the 19th), same venue, same time.
4) I'm also featuring at Storytelling at Caplansky's once again, also this coming Sunday, 8:00 p.m., 356 College Street, free. I'm memorizing my infamous Dickens parody for it, by request.
5) Am looking forward to the silly Oscars, even though I'd much rather see somebody edgier than Billy Crystal hosting. Liked several of the nominated movies -- Hugo, The Artist, Midnight in Paris -- but none of them really stands out as a great film for me. I'd most like to see Tree of Life win, although I think I need to see it again to fully get it.
6) If the finances hold up this year, I hope to do a metric crapload of travelling. Am finally getting around to going back to Italy, for the first week of April. (I'll have an Eat Pray Love experience, but without the praying or loving.) Then, back to NYC in May (poetry gig, plus seeing The Book of Mormon, and I ain't telling you what I paid for the ticket); then, Canada Day weekend in Washington DC (thank you, Aeroplan); and hopefully back to the U.K. sometime in the fall.
7) Still repelling the female gender like flies from cloves. (At least the sober ones, and the non-British ones.) I know I probably shouldn't care, because there's so much more to life than that and I can't change who I am. But some of the time, I get so fed up not only with being alone but with the way people get their kicks from making me feel as if I deserve to be alone.
8) I assume that I'm in better physical shape than I was nine months ago, because I can now swim two lengths across my building's pool without being completely winded. Also doing the gym thing a few times a week, but I'm not convinced it shows.
Did you miss me?
(Does anybody read this anymore? Hello, friends? Spammers? Trolls?)
I suppose I must summarize whatever I've been up to since November, in case there's a reader...
1) I did not get fired from the day job. In fact, they decided to confuse me even more by giving me a raise. Will go into more detail in a filtered entry. Still looking for another job in the meantime, but no luck. Not a single interview. Not even a response.
2) Spent the Xmas holidays visiting my sister and her wife and doggies in rural Saskatchewan. Very low-key and relaxing. Played board games, watched movies, did a bit of sightseeing in Regina and Moose Jaw.
3) For the past several months, I've been co-writing a one-hour Second City revue (to be performed on the Mainstage itself) with my writing class, under Bruce Pirrie. Each of us will have at least a couple of sketches in the show (plus we're also briefly appearing in the opening scene, playing ourselves). If you're interested, it's next Sunday the 26th, 3:00 p.m., 51 Mercer Street, PWYC. If you want to go but can't make that day, there's also a short "work in progress" preview show this coming Sunday (the 19th), same venue, same time.
4) I'm also featuring at Storytelling at Caplansky's once again, also this coming Sunday, 8:00 p.m., 356 College Street, free. I'm memorizing my infamous Dickens parody for it, by request.
5) Am looking forward to the silly Oscars, even though I'd much rather see somebody edgier than Billy Crystal hosting. Liked several of the nominated movies -- Hugo, The Artist, Midnight in Paris -- but none of them really stands out as a great film for me. I'd most like to see Tree of Life win, although I think I need to see it again to fully get it.
6) If the finances hold up this year, I hope to do a metric crapload of travelling. Am finally getting around to going back to Italy, for the first week of April. (I'll have an Eat Pray Love experience, but without the praying or loving.) Then, back to NYC in May (poetry gig, plus seeing The Book of Mormon, and I ain't telling you what I paid for the ticket); then, Canada Day weekend in Washington DC (thank you, Aeroplan); and hopefully back to the U.K. sometime in the fall.
7) Still repelling the female gender like flies from cloves. (At least the sober ones, and the non-British ones.) I know I probably shouldn't care, because there's so much more to life than that and I can't change who I am. But some of the time, I get so fed up not only with being alone but with the way people get their kicks from making me feel as if I deserve to be alone.
8) I assume that I'm in better physical shape than I was nine months ago, because I can now swim two lengths across my building's pool without being completely winded. Also doing the gym thing a few times a week, but I'm not convinced it shows.