Today was kinda shitty...
Last night was blanket forts at Ice Cream's place with a bunch of peeps, we played mafia, watched movies all the cool sleep over stuff. That was fine, stuff started to suck when we all had to wake early to eat breakfast and do stuff for Food Not Bombs, I like Food not Bombs but not in the morning early as shit. On it's own that woulda been fine, but the weather was something like -15 according to TKJ (who told me later). This threw me off, I'm used to wearing less clothing than most people feel is appropriate for whatever weather is at hand (well 'cept summer), so I was in a tank top and sleeveless hoodie and a pair of shorts when I opened the door to leave.
For the first time I was dressed in less than even I felt I should have been. I still did everything I was supposed to all day, Food not Bombs, lunch at the Potato, more FnB, skipped parkour, sorry Frozen Monkeys, too cold and tired.
Cold, I've realized that I've developed more than a physical resiliency to the cold, I actually can't feel it that much, on the bike I didn't have any gloves, but as we moved I felt my hands get number and less coordinated but never really colder, I have to be careful with this. When I got inside it took a good 10-15 minutes to get my full coordination back into my hands (including my pinky, it took longer because it got frost bite last year when I trained with training crew).
I of course didn't take the time to think it was actually cold and pushed myself thinking that my cold tolerance was diminishing...
*sigh*
Ice Cream, I don't know what's going on with her. She wants to talk about what each of us wwant out of the friendship/relationship but we never got to it being a bit busy the whole day. I'm not sure what to think.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Be honest
I saw Pagoda today at the People's Potato, she was kinda in a rush to get to class so I told her quickly that I wasn't trying for anything exclusive or anything and she was okay with that. It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be to stay in this situation without hurting anyone, I'm glad everyone is alright with what's going on.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Ethics and Food
Today I ran into Ice Cream, Australia, Thief and Bum at the People's Potato. I took the opportunity to tell Ice Cream I'd probably be seeing someone else at the same time I was seeing her, she seemed alright with it *wipes sweat off brow* she wants to have good communication which I totally agree with.
Food Not Bombs is gonna be busy all week, we're cooking up veggie pate and making sandwiches and all kindsa stuff for a conference this coming weekend about mining and the environment. I was there until around 11.30 at night with TKJ, Australia, Ice Cream and some other peeps. Got some free tofu and also dumpstered some meat (hot dogs and BACON) and a bunch of yogurt (some of which I dropped at Kunoichi's place) on the way home.
I wanna see Pagoda, tell her that I'm seeing someone else at the same time, I don't feel it's wrong seeing more than one person at once, but I don't feel comfortable keep the people I'm seeing in the dark about each other. Pagoda lives in an awesome neighborhood, which apparently has a bunch of punks and has some history of squatting and a nice hop out spot, so I wanna hang out with her there a big and see what's up.
Weather has been ugly but a bunch of us want to return to Jimbo's (our awesome roof squat) and watch a movie, but we'll have to wait until weather permits.
Food Not Bombs is gonna be busy all week, we're cooking up veggie pate and making sandwiches and all kindsa stuff for a conference this coming weekend about mining and the environment. I was there until around 11.30 at night with TKJ, Australia, Ice Cream and some other peeps. Got some free tofu and also dumpstered some meat (hot dogs and BACON) and a bunch of yogurt (some of which I dropped at Kunoichi's place) on the way home.
I wanna see Pagoda, tell her that I'm seeing someone else at the same time, I don't feel it's wrong seeing more than one person at once, but I don't feel comfortable keep the people I'm seeing in the dark about each other. Pagoda lives in an awesome neighborhood, which apparently has a bunch of punks and has some history of squatting and a nice hop out spot, so I wanna hang out with her there a big and see what's up.
Weather has been ugly but a bunch of us want to return to Jimbo's (our awesome roof squat) and watch a movie, but we'll have to wait until weather permits.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Bonfire
I like hot weather.
Saturday was the first day of spring.
A while back I was talking to someone and I told them I'd make a fire on the first day of spring, that's just what I did. I even told people to come and enjoy it with me around 8ish.
V and Australia showed up first, I was dead tired when they arrived. Australia was supposed to bring wood but didn't, which made the night more fun in the long term. We napped for literally like 5 minutes then went outside and started the fire with cardboard and paper until I could add big wood that I had left over from the thanks giving fire. we sat around a bit, V went to go grab some marshmallows at a store and I dumpstered wood from across the street (through out the night I would dumpster wood to keep the fire up usually with Dreads). People started to trickle in as time went by, you have to walk down an alleyway to get to where the fire pit is so I left a note on the door (the alleyway is also where the back door to a club and a restaurant are). Everyone was here: Guts, Dread and his girlfriend and their Belgian friend, V, Australia and a friend of hers, Kunoichi and her whole house (four other girls), TKJ and three pals of his from outta town, Ice Cream, and a girl from the neighborhood that I don't hang out with too much.
We all hung around and I brought out the snacks: mini cookies, some pastries, a bag pretzels, candy canes and of course a bucket of frosting to top off whatever you're eating.
Everyone brought some awesomeness to the the fire that night. Some of the more visible awesome took place as follows;
Kunoichi fire span with her hula hoop to acoustic music from one of her roomies on the guitar, it was impressive.
Dreads juggled flaming pins despite being a bit tipsy, his ending was awesome, he vanished into the dark by swinging the flames out.
Three people brought guitars and those rotated between Kunoichi's house, TKJ's crew, Guts and Dreads and his girlfriend, needless to say vocals were switched off and combined through out as well.
V tap danced on some dumpstered wood but I missed it because I was showing someone where the bathroom was, but I heard it was good.
We all hung around the fire talking, Ice Cream tried to gain back some of the time I slept on her shoulder by doing the same time me, but I moved a lot, while talking and gesturing and tending to the fire :-/ At around midnight I get a text asking for the address but it was sent at around 10 so I feel bad and answer without knowing who it is, a bit later my neighbor arrives with a friend and they chill with us.
The night moseyed on and some people peeled off and some people got drunker from passing around tallboys and 40s. Two of TKJ's friends, the two girls were pretty drunk and they started drumming on the back door of a club next door to see if they could get in, we were all still around the fire when we see a bouncer stick his head out the door after they bang hard for a bit and he tells them something then slams the door. They tell us they wanna go clubbing and run out the alley to who knows where.
We keep the fire going, chilling and talking and laughing and making music, when the two girls come back, I thought they danced in the club so I give them high fives for being drunk and awesome and not caring. Turns out coat check is $5 and cover is another $5 so they dropped off their coats and headed off, I wanted to go with as did TKJ and the third friend, I made sure people were watching the fire (Australia and Ice Cream). We walked around the block to a club, and watched as the bouncer turned TKJ's friends down despite their lack of coats. "we're too poor and ugly to get in",
Nah, "fuck that club!"
"yea fuck it!"
We all went back to the fire in a good mood. Wood had just run out when my neighbor Kouka-mono came out and chilled for a bit, he had a dead chair made of wood that he brought out to burn. Ice Cream was tired and wanted to crash the living room, but there weren't any covers so I told her take the bed I'll be up later and stayed out a bit longer with Kouka-mono because people were trickling out slowly until it was just us. Tired from a ridiculous week and an awesome night I decided it was time to bounce and hit the hay. Kouka-mono brought a bucket of water and poured the flames out. A huge cloud of steam appeared and we left quickly so we wouldn't be around if it caught people's attention.
Inside I felt the excitement of the night fade but it didn't disappear altogether. I undressed, got into pajamas and joined Ice Cream in bed. She was freezing so we unzipped the sleeping bag and used it as a second blanket, then lay down and talked and cuddled. I really felt like kissing Ice Cream at one point but she beat me to it; as I was about to turn her head turned around and planted one on my lips! I was really happy with that and we kissed and cuddled until we fell asleep...
Saturday was the first day of spring.
A while back I was talking to someone and I told them I'd make a fire on the first day of spring, that's just what I did. I even told people to come and enjoy it with me around 8ish.
V and Australia showed up first, I was dead tired when they arrived. Australia was supposed to bring wood but didn't, which made the night more fun in the long term. We napped for literally like 5 minutes then went outside and started the fire with cardboard and paper until I could add big wood that I had left over from the thanks giving fire. we sat around a bit, V went to go grab some marshmallows at a store and I dumpstered wood from across the street (through out the night I would dumpster wood to keep the fire up usually with Dreads). People started to trickle in as time went by, you have to walk down an alleyway to get to where the fire pit is so I left a note on the door (the alleyway is also where the back door to a club and a restaurant are). Everyone was here: Guts, Dread and his girlfriend and their Belgian friend, V, Australia and a friend of hers, Kunoichi and her whole house (four other girls), TKJ and three pals of his from outta town, Ice Cream, and a girl from the neighborhood that I don't hang out with too much.
We all hung around and I brought out the snacks: mini cookies, some pastries, a bag pretzels, candy canes and of course a bucket of frosting to top off whatever you're eating.
Everyone brought some awesomeness to the the fire that night. Some of the more visible awesome took place as follows;
Kunoichi fire span with her hula hoop to acoustic music from one of her roomies on the guitar, it was impressive.
Dreads juggled flaming pins despite being a bit tipsy, his ending was awesome, he vanished into the dark by swinging the flames out.
Three people brought guitars and those rotated between Kunoichi's house, TKJ's crew, Guts and Dreads and his girlfriend, needless to say vocals were switched off and combined through out as well.
V tap danced on some dumpstered wood but I missed it because I was showing someone where the bathroom was, but I heard it was good.
We all hung around the fire talking, Ice Cream tried to gain back some of the time I slept on her shoulder by doing the same time me, but I moved a lot, while talking and gesturing and tending to the fire :-/ At around midnight I get a text asking for the address but it was sent at around 10 so I feel bad and answer without knowing who it is, a bit later my neighbor arrives with a friend and they chill with us.
The night moseyed on and some people peeled off and some people got drunker from passing around tallboys and 40s. Two of TKJ's friends, the two girls were pretty drunk and they started drumming on the back door of a club next door to see if they could get in, we were all still around the fire when we see a bouncer stick his head out the door after they bang hard for a bit and he tells them something then slams the door. They tell us they wanna go clubbing and run out the alley to who knows where.
We keep the fire going, chilling and talking and laughing and making music, when the two girls come back, I thought they danced in the club so I give them high fives for being drunk and awesome and not caring. Turns out coat check is $5 and cover is another $5 so they dropped off their coats and headed off, I wanted to go with as did TKJ and the third friend, I made sure people were watching the fire (Australia and Ice Cream). We walked around the block to a club, and watched as the bouncer turned TKJ's friends down despite their lack of coats. "we're too poor and ugly to get in",
Nah, "fuck that club!"
"yea fuck it!"
We all went back to the fire in a good mood. Wood had just run out when my neighbor Kouka-mono came out and chilled for a bit, he had a dead chair made of wood that he brought out to burn. Ice Cream was tired and wanted to crash the living room, but there weren't any covers so I told her take the bed I'll be up later and stayed out a bit longer with Kouka-mono because people were trickling out slowly until it was just us. Tired from a ridiculous week and an awesome night I decided it was time to bounce and hit the hay. Kouka-mono brought a bucket of water and poured the flames out. A huge cloud of steam appeared and we left quickly so we wouldn't be around if it caught people's attention.
Inside I felt the excitement of the night fade but it didn't disappear altogether. I undressed, got into pajamas and joined Ice Cream in bed. She was freezing so we unzipped the sleeping bag and used it as a second blanket, then lay down and talked and cuddled. I really felt like kissing Ice Cream at one point but she beat me to it; as I was about to turn her head turned around and planted one on my lips! I was really happy with that and we kissed and cuddled until we fell asleep...
Friday March 19th
Couldn't think of a good title for this one...
This fun stuff started when I showed up to a neighborhood friend's house party. She moved into a new place and it was housewarming time so we socialized there and hung out a bit. At around 11-12ish a girl with a bike and a girl who was going to take the bus told me they were heading to a party called "Art Matters". After some debating I decided to go with them and see what was going on since it was free, (I'm the most broke I've ever been right now, I have less than $30 to my name in the bank at the moment, not that I usually spend any money on anything 'cept rent) I took my bike and headed out with the bike girl (she had a cool pagoda patch so we'll call her Pagoda). We pull up to Art Matters lock up, and just as we walk up to the door we notice the bus girl a block away so we wait for her and go in. Bus girl runs into her boyfriend right off the bat, so me and Pagoda walk around and see if we can find people we know. Pagoda runs into a pal and we talk to him for a bit but we get away quick and she tells me he's kinda a creeper lol. A bunch of people at the party are wearing paper animal masks (racoons, owls and foxes), and Pagoda wants one so I tell her she has to steal on before the night is out, which she does, I'm impressed :). We realized that the party is suck as soon as the music starts, it's a strange electronic band that doesn't sound too good. Everyone at the party is a hipster, no one is dancing and the atmosphere is pretty neutral despite the large number of people present. We decide to leave and head to a different party that her friend is at close to where I live.
We get there on bikes, lock up and go up. The party is really unusual, it's in an office and the DJ is playing strange sounds that aren't melodic enough for me. There are maybe five people dancing up front and about half as many chatting further back. We easily find Pagoda's friends but decide to leave after about two minutes, the vibe is kinda dead. Not sure what to do we end up standing on the corner.
There's a guy who Pagoda calls the "Electronic music guy", he has some sort of mixer/sound board/I don't know and he just makes strange music with it, he's really into it, does it in the street and people give him money. We sat down against a pole and watched him for a bit, just talking and chilling. He left after a bit and we went halfsies on some chow mein, ate that outside and decided to go dumpster on the bikes.
(it's really convenient, ever since I found the black bag at the police protest and customized it to work for parkour, I've been able to carry a ton of useful stuff with me everywhere, it's great. Needless to say I had a flashlight on me when we went dumpstering)
We stopped at home for me to pick up a bag and went out and found a few things, not too much, nothing worth noting really except a BUCKET OF FROSTING, which was amazing. We headed back home after everything and ate pastries with frosting on them! It was a bit late at this point and I asked Pagoda if she was good at cuddling, she told me she was so I told her she could crash her if she wanted to, she thought about it and agreed.
We changed and went to bed. Spooning led to caressing (the funnest thing ever, just trace some lines and draw patterns everywhere on the other person) led to kissing led to falling asleep. First night sleeping in my bed since I started sleeping outside on Tuesday and it was great.
This fun stuff started when I showed up to a neighborhood friend's house party. She moved into a new place and it was housewarming time so we socialized there and hung out a bit. At around 11-12ish a girl with a bike and a girl who was going to take the bus told me they were heading to a party called "Art Matters". After some debating I decided to go with them and see what was going on since it was free, (I'm the most broke I've ever been right now, I have less than $30 to my name in the bank at the moment, not that I usually spend any money on anything 'cept rent) I took my bike and headed out with the bike girl (she had a cool pagoda patch so we'll call her Pagoda). We pull up to Art Matters lock up, and just as we walk up to the door we notice the bus girl a block away so we wait for her and go in. Bus girl runs into her boyfriend right off the bat, so me and Pagoda walk around and see if we can find people we know. Pagoda runs into a pal and we talk to him for a bit but we get away quick and she tells me he's kinda a creeper lol. A bunch of people at the party are wearing paper animal masks (racoons, owls and foxes), and Pagoda wants one so I tell her she has to steal on before the night is out, which she does, I'm impressed :). We realized that the party is suck as soon as the music starts, it's a strange electronic band that doesn't sound too good. Everyone at the party is a hipster, no one is dancing and the atmosphere is pretty neutral despite the large number of people present. We decide to leave and head to a different party that her friend is at close to where I live.
We get there on bikes, lock up and go up. The party is really unusual, it's in an office and the DJ is playing strange sounds that aren't melodic enough for me. There are maybe five people dancing up front and about half as many chatting further back. We easily find Pagoda's friends but decide to leave after about two minutes, the vibe is kinda dead. Not sure what to do we end up standing on the corner.
There's a guy who Pagoda calls the "Electronic music guy", he has some sort of mixer/sound board/I don't know and he just makes strange music with it, he's really into it, does it in the street and people give him money. We sat down against a pole and watched him for a bit, just talking and chilling. He left after a bit and we went halfsies on some chow mein, ate that outside and decided to go dumpster on the bikes.
(it's really convenient, ever since I found the black bag at the police protest and customized it to work for parkour, I've been able to carry a ton of useful stuff with me everywhere, it's great. Needless to say I had a flashlight on me when we went dumpstering)
We stopped at home for me to pick up a bag and went out and found a few things, not too much, nothing worth noting really except a BUCKET OF FROSTING, which was amazing. We headed back home after everything and ate pastries with frosting on them! It was a bit late at this point and I asked Pagoda if she was good at cuddling, she told me she was so I told her she could crash her if she wanted to, she thought about it and agreed.
We changed and went to bed. Spooning led to caressing (the funnest thing ever, just trace some lines and draw patterns everywhere on the other person) led to kissing led to falling asleep. First night sleeping in my bed since I started sleeping outside on Tuesday and it was great.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Return to Jimbo's and three boots
Last night me and TKJ went back to the same roof to sleep, we dumpstered everywhere and found nothing, we tabled dived a tiny bit of French fries and went up to the roof. We found some storage shack full chairs, we took four and brought them near our sleep spot. We also discovered that there are about 12 electrical outlets out on the roof right next to the chairs and the sleep spot so the next time we sleep up there we'll probably bring the portable DVD player we found in Australia's building's trash. We walked around a bit, ate some chips we had stashed from last time and then went to sleep.
The next day we hit the people's potato and ate some lunch. I helped TKJ pick up some friends from outta town then went home to rest before Frozen Monkeys. We met up at McGill and trained there a bit, it was Thief, his friend Bum, and this guy with a parkour/ninjutsu sweatshirt who we'll call Red. After a bit Kusa met up with us and we all trained various things. We found a huge thick pole and we swinging around it trying to go full circle and landing on a ledge when I bailed hardcore in the sand falling backwards, I saved my head with a back roll but my legs still took a bit more impact than I would have liked. After a bit we got kicked out by security, we moved to Square Victoria on Red's recommendation which turned out to be an awesome area. We got kicked outta two more places but overall it's a great place to train, lots of variety and challenge for every level there. Just got in, TKJ and his pals might dumpster and sleep out tonight and I have to attend a house party so I'll see how the weekend unfolds.
The next day we hit the people's potato and ate some lunch. I helped TKJ pick up some friends from outta town then went home to rest before Frozen Monkeys. We met up at McGill and trained there a bit, it was Thief, his friend Bum, and this guy with a parkour/ninjutsu sweatshirt who we'll call Red. After a bit Kusa met up with us and we all trained various things. We found a huge thick pole and we swinging around it trying to go full circle and landing on a ledge when I bailed hardcore in the sand falling backwards, I saved my head with a back roll but my legs still took a bit more impact than I would have liked. After a bit we got kicked out by security, we moved to Square Victoria on Red's recommendation which turned out to be an awesome area. We got kicked outta two more places but overall it's a great place to train, lots of variety and challenge for every level there. Just got in, TKJ and his pals might dumpster and sleep out tonight and I have to attend a house party so I'll see how the weekend unfolds.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
St Patrick's Day
Had a great St Patricks day! Original plan was to spend it sleeping out at Concordia to raise money for a different homeless shelter or some organization that helps out homeless youth. When I got there I tipped over my bike and unloaded a crate full of (dumpstered) expensive chocolate and some chips and hung with a friend that I met at a party, but overall the feel was boring and had much less of a community feel than the people at McGill had.
When TKJ and Australia got there we put our stuff down and decided to walk around and enjoy the St Patrick's day atmosphere since we were right near a street that is full of clubs and bars. We walked around a bit and I took them up onto one of the roofs that I explored Pines last year.
We decided to sleep there instead of with the Concordia camp. We went back to where everyone was, took back a bit of chocolate and a bag of chips and left (but not without getting annoyed by some guy who clearly didn't need another bag of chips in his body). We got back to the alley and I climbed onto the roof, TKJ and Australia passed me all their stuff and then climbed up after it. We stashed it all under some vents and headed back to street level.
we spent the best time walking around, finding hats (each of us had a ridiculous St Patrick's day hat before the night was over), table diving (lots of poutine), dumpstering (croissants and pretzels) and tree chillin as one drunk person called it.
After a while we started getting tired and headed back towards the roof. We grabbed some cardboard from a nearby dumpster and set up in between a bunch of tall vent structures where the sun would wake us as it rose. We set up a nice camp, complete with cardboard and a pantry. We fell asleep talking anarchist politics and the world.
Australia left around 7 or 8 to go on her bike trip with Dreads but me and TKJ went back to sleep and slept until 11.30 and then got free lunch and samosas at the people's potato and from the people doing Muslim awareness week.
If you're ever on a roof where "EVERYWHERE IS A PLAYGROUND Everywhere is a bed" is written on the vent, go left pull out the card board and chips and have a great night, just don't get caught sneaking back down the next morning.
When TKJ and Australia got there we put our stuff down and decided to walk around and enjoy the St Patrick's day atmosphere since we were right near a street that is full of clubs and bars. We walked around a bit and I took them up onto one of the roofs that I explored Pines last year.
We decided to sleep there instead of with the Concordia camp. We went back to where everyone was, took back a bit of chocolate and a bag of chips and left (but not without getting annoyed by some guy who clearly didn't need another bag of chips in his body). We got back to the alley and I climbed onto the roof, TKJ and Australia passed me all their stuff and then climbed up after it. We stashed it all under some vents and headed back to street level.
we spent the best time walking around, finding hats (each of us had a ridiculous St Patrick's day hat before the night was over), table diving (lots of poutine), dumpstering (croissants and pretzels) and tree chillin as one drunk person called it.
After a while we started getting tired and headed back towards the roof. We grabbed some cardboard from a nearby dumpster and set up in between a bunch of tall vent structures where the sun would wake us as it rose. We set up a nice camp, complete with cardboard and a pantry. We fell asleep talking anarchist politics and the world.
Australia left around 7 or 8 to go on her bike trip with Dreads but me and TKJ went back to sleep and slept until 11.30 and then got free lunch and samosas at the people's potato and from the people doing Muslim awareness week.
If you're ever on a roof where "EVERYWHERE IS A PLAYGROUND Everywhere is a bed" is written on the vent, go left pull out the card board and chips and have a great night, just don't get caught sneaking back down the next morning.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
