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It Ain’t Over ’til it’s Over

But in this case it really is over.

Yesterday I took a long run (to put it mildly) around the Vancouver area. By a miracle, I finally met up with Anna. I had been trying to find the school where she was acting but had some poor directions. We decided to meet at Starbucks later that night.

Breaking up with Anna has been more strange than any of the other breakups I’ve ever been involved in. We still both seem to be very much in love but each have this understanding that it’s just not meant to be. There wasn’t any of the drama that someone might expect between two people that have been together for so long. We wandered around the mall for a bit and talked about what we’ve been up to lately and about how it was we arrived in our current situation. I would have gladly spent the whole evening with her, but I guess she had to prepare for her weekend in Victoria. Dragging it on probably would’ve only made things more difficult, especially for her. Though I am still sad, I’m actually pretty happy with the way things worked out.

In other news, U2 had another concert in Vancouver last night. I walked by GM Place on my way to the train, and just out of curiosity asked a scalper how much for 2 tickets. He said he only had 1 pair of tickets together and they were $400 each! For the most part it looked like the scalpers were having a hard time finding tickets to sell and because of that it wouldn’t surprise me if those $800 tickets sold easily.

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Greetings from Vancouver

Photo of The Uleth Group

This is a photo from Jason’s apartment in downtown Vancouver. I have been lucky enough to get a week long contract with a video game company here. It’s been a great experience.

I landed here on Friday and I fly out to Malaysia extremely early Sunday morning. Things couldn’t be working out more perfectly for me.

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My heart

In case you thought my heart was broken, you can listen for yourself.

For those of you asking why I put a sound file of my heartbeat on the Internet, I guess the answer lies somewhere between, “because I can” and “because I’ve never seen it done before”, and because it hurts.

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Blue and Gold Banquet

Every year the University of Lethbridge has an awards night for all the athletes on all of the sports teams. Last night was the awards night for the 2004/05 season – and a pretty crazy night. I have to say, the awards themselves were probably the most boring part of the evening.

We met at a pub for a pre-party swim team gathering where some of the girls gave out presents to the other swimmers. Brock and I got (in my opinion) the best presents. We each got a framed Speedo with our names engraved on the frame. It’s kind of hilarious because I would never wear such a small suit, but at the same time – technically it would fit me.

I guess a couple of the girls had a few shots of absinthe before they came and consequently they were very intoxicated. One of the girls was particularly drunk and as we left the pub she asked everyone in the room if she could get a “woo woo”. Then after high-fiving everyone in the bar twice we were finally able to leave.

Photo of Jeff at the Blue and Gold Banquet

We then headed to the University for a buffet and awards. I’d like to say the University splurged on the athletes and gave us a free meal, but then again I’d also like to say that the University isn’t anything more than a glorified money grabbing machine. (It is though, in case you never caught that).

After the ceremony was over we hung out at the Zoo (the University Pub) for a bit. That got old so I loaded up my Jeep with a bunch of party animals and headed to the Roadhouse – a bar on the Southside. I have to say, I normally don’t take that many people in the Jeep, but they were anxious to party and I was the only one able to drive.

On the way, while we were stopped at a traffic light we watched as an AMA tow-truck hit a pedestrian! We couldn’t believe our eyes. I wasn’t sure if he really had been hit or if he just fell over but when the tow-truck turned on its flashing lights and we pulled off the road to investigate, it turns out the guy really had been hit. He had a little bruising and some scraps but he was okay. I guess the saying that there are only two types of pedestrians may have some merit…. (ie. The quick and the dead). A ghost-car pulled up to the scene with lights flashing about two minutes later and seeing as everything was under control, we bolted. Besides, I didn’t want to get busted for not having enough seat belts.

Next we made a quick stop by my house so I could change into something less formal and to take a look for a gift certificate that I won a while ago. I never found the gift certificate but when I came back outside I did discover one very drunk girl running up the street sans shirt. Crazy. I’ve seen her a little drunk in the past but this was incredible.

All in all it was a fairly fun night. I guess I should probably get out more, but rarely going out makes nights like last night all the more memorable.

Photo of Speedo Swimsuit that is framed
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Anna’s Moving

On Wednesday morning Anna-Maria finished packing up her stuff and moved to Vancouver.

Seems pretty sudden? It was. It just started to really hit me today how serious this situation is. While it was happening I think I was suffering from a major case of denial. It’s going to be okay though, we’ll see each other soon enough.

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Moraine Lake

After finishing my four week stint as a New Media Movie Making Camp instructor at the University of Lethbridge, I’ve been keeping myself busy helping Anna-Maria with various odd jobs at her work and spending the weekend at Banff. We stopped at Lake Louise and Lake Moraine. The thing about those lakes, besides the fact that Lake Moraine used to be featured on the back of the Canadian $20 bill, is that they are both a very rich and almost unnatural shade of blue-green.

Notice the rich but almost unnatural blue-green tone.

The trip was a lot of fun with very little out of the ordinary happening. After a sad goodbye at the airport Anna-Maria and I headed back to Lethbridge and now she is in charge of another group from Japan and the fun activities get to start all over again.

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T I Double Geh Errrrrr

Tigger hugging flowers

There is a mother that is suing a Walt Disney World worker accused of groping her 13-year-old daughter while dressed as Tigger.

I asked Anna-Maria what she thought about the possibility it was an accident since she has actually tried on some of the Disney costumes.

She says that, “[While wearing the costume] your vision is greatly, greatly reduced. Furthermore, the suit is not just one layer. You have, generally, an under layer of padding followed up by a fur costume with large mittens on your hands that are often three times your regular hand size.

I tried out many costumes. One was a cat costume, the cat from Pinochio and the sleeves go almost all the way to the ground on them so your hands are covered.

Your feet are the same, you have shoes on followed up with a big fur boot, or depending on the costume a giant rubber shoe or boot.

Also it’s so hot in there you don’t function properly. You’re biggest concern is getting enough oxygen. Definitely not groping someone — although I could be wrong. But I don’t think you could even think about that in that costume. It’s like a pure mental exercise just to stand wearing the costume.

If it was one of the face characters, Santa Claus, Aladdin I could see it. But those other costumes are just unbearable.

I danced for half an hour in one and I was gasping for oxygen. Even when I just tried it on I began to sweat and breath heavily as if I had just run a marathon completely untrained.”

So when I asked her one more time if she thought the accused was truly innocent she replied, “Do you think a fat kid with asthma being chased by a pack of wild dogs could think about that? Because that’s what it’s like being in one of those costumes with parents and kids trying to run you down. You are in survival mode.”

About a second after publishing this post I discovered this AP News Story. It turns out “Tigger” was acquitted earlier today.

The acquittal came less than an hour following a three-day trial during which the defense attorney for Michael Chartrand donned a Tigger costume in an effort to show jurors how difficult it is to maneuver and see in the outfit.

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Chartrand’s defense attorney has contended that the girl’s mother was merely after money and planned to sue Disney. The mother also claimed Tigger touched her breast during the visit to Disney World last February, although no criminal charges followed her allegation.

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Gmail Invites

The invites from the contest have been sent. Sorry it took me so long. I’ve been busy travelling to Medicine Hat for Father’s Day and tonight I finally did the taxes. Looks like I’m even getting a refund.

Despite the money and the quality limericks (thanks guys), my head aches. I’m going to bed.

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The Roommate Situation – Part 2

Last time on Jeff Milner’s Roommate Situation:

“…it turns out that when a NSF cheque bounces, they mail it to you — which means I have to wait until I get it in the mail before he will pay me back.”

Now the exciting conclusion!

When I received the bounced cheque in the mail I called him up and later that night he returned me my cash.

The End.

(I love happy endings.)

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