June – July 2010
- I graduated high school! Yeah, I’m not a complete failure.
- Started learning how to drive with my insane driving instructor, she is nice, and then not nice! All at once! And speaks bad English. Driving isn’t hard but it is kind of scary, and it’s making me well aware of how fucked we pedestrians are.
- My friends and I have been going out and doing shit! We’ve been hiking, traversing through dirty rivers, hiking down cliffs, climbing up cliffs, boldy going into small dirty caves. (I went first!) I also went to my first all ages rave! Avoiding all the drugs and half naked underage girls isn’t that hard, and then comes the gross sweaty dance fest! Loved it! Going and wandering is the greatest thing ever, I need to be outdoors before cast into the theatre world for 4 years. My last year of high school was pretty stressful, and doing theatre shit at the school was great, but it was a lot of work. I went out sometimes, and saw my friends occasionally. We’ve also all been stressed out about our convention, and so I took my days of relaxation, and now I want to adventure!
- Two cranes! God I still can’t believe I am doing that. A year ago I swear I heard myself saying “I will never do a crane, that is dangerous and stupid and scary!” I still hold the exact same belief, except without the whole “never” part. It IS still scary! It is completely dangerous! And yet it’s a thrill I can’t really compare to anything else. You have to work pretty hard to get on top of one, and what we learned last night is that there is always the chance that you just won’t get on it. (We climbed about 55 stories worth of stairs, only to hear workers upstairs! Who the hell is working on the building at 11:30pm? Has to be illegal.) So we climbed down a few floors, took a few shots, and then left quietly. The 3 boys we were with were tired, so my female partner in crime and I went for another crane, a shorter one. (We figured we were already FILTHY, so..) When we finally get into the building, after being bugged by some old crazy lady, we realized the crane wasn’t ON the building, the building was merely built around it. What does that mean? That means going all the way up the crane tower, straight up, from the ground. Sort of painful on the knees and toes, but thankfully we both had gloves.(By the way, ow ow ow, my body hurts.)
This one was nice, not too tall, but the scary “oshit!” moment was the helicopter that flew right at us, flew alongside the crane, and then landed on the building next to us. Partner was inside this sort of hidden part of the crane, the first ladder down is surrounded by the metal part that turns the crane. I was just above that ducking down, praying they didn’t shine their lights on us. Helicopters are loud! We quickly descended in full view and got the fuck out of there. Hah! Adrenaline!
The previous one this month was a tallish crane, 45 stories, with a good view of the city since it was east of the downtown core. That one was easy to get in, but the actual crane was stupidly dangerous because the guide wires on the arm of the crane were just slack airport cable. Hah! If it was windy we could have been blown off.
Both of those nights were long nights, but last night was just a long, long day as I am working on a show this week. (Thankfully my call got pushed forward today, because 9am would not have happened after getting home at 2am.)
- Summer of fun! Later in August I’m going to Montreal, and I just got back my friend’s cottage. Summer of doing shit! Fun!
- Aiding me in doing all this fun stuff is my new Macbook Pro. 13″ of glory, I love it. What is more entertaining is my iPod Touch. I set my Macbook to be a wi-fi hub and then I sit in the kitchen and play on the internet. Or get recipes. Or do other crazy shit. For somebody who doesn’t get to play with new electronic type things, getting both of these is like “woah, future!”
- Other shit! I don’t know, I’ve just been trying to figure myself out and all that crap. I’m supremely excited to go to school and be social and meet people and all that fancy jazz.
Eventually more. As always, pictures of the above are on my Flickr