Bear "culture" has officially jumped the shark

Seriously. Bear Cookin'? Fuck you. What a load of shit.

In other news tomorrow is a PAID holiday! I get paid for sleeping till 9:30. Or something. I'm excited. I spent all of Sunday changing my room around. That was very hard and so far pretty worth it. Room feels more open and "roomy"ier.

Also, I don't have to go to the Bank Ops Center on Thursday. I go for "orientation" from 8 - 3:30. w00t. So yah. That's about it.

Charles Self.

1931-2007.


I knew something was going to happen today/yesterday. I woke up feeling it yesterday. At work I kept checking my phone to see if I'd gotten any calls. I called to check with my mom after work.

She called me about 45 minutes ago.

It doesn't seem possible that the man I saw to be my grandfather could be gone. He was such a robust man. Up to about a year or so ago, he was still making cabinets. He redid his neighbor's kitchen. I think that was on of his last projects before he started selling his woodworking tools.

There's not much for me to do, but I'm not sure that I'll be able to go back to bed. I may try.

Thank you to everyone that expressed empathy/sympathy.

This isn't the blog entry you're looking for. But it's a swift update as I feel like crap. I know my body, and my body is saying "shaky, sweaty, sleepy" kind of things. That's not my normal processes. So...I'm not sure if I'm actually really sick, or what...but it's not fun.

Oh, also in the category of fun bodily things, I broke my pinky toe Wednesday night at Aikido. Ouch. At the begging of class no less. Doing rolls for warm ups, I was about two mats from the end. The mats tend to slide apart now and then as they're not really secured to anything. So there was a slight gap in-between two mats that caught my pinky toe on my right foot...and bing. I'm not 100% sure it's broken, but it's bruised and hurts like a fucker. So that's fun. bleh. I think i'm going back to bed.

Alright. So I went to a concert last night. Not a live band in the sense that it included two guitars, a bass, and drums. No, this was a concert like I used to play. A large ensemble of instruments playing pieces of composed music.

( Informative rant )
That's it. Small amount of information. Think of this more as a reminder to consider those around you than a rant.

Justin to Bryan explaining what Bryan sounds like when Justin is working on music:

"Justin, make it sound more like a hippo, and less like a kleenex."

Had to get up early today to get my eyes checked. Since I wear contacts a lot, and have to get new ones every 6 months or so, they make you come in to check up on it.

It's a good thing I did, cause they changed my vision just a bit. Both of by eyeballs got better by 0.5 things (diopter?). Which is crazy to me because ever since I started wearing glasses, my eyes have gotten worse. They rarely get better. Maybe not reading music for 5-8 hours a day makes a difference? Who knows.

Anyhoo, that's cool. My eyes are healthy, and now I'm awake and feel like i gotta do stuff.