Ok I'm resigned to the fact that I'm spending the holidays alone and i can deal with that. My truck is fixed, much cheaper than I thought as well. Just a problem with a spark plug falling onto a fan. My phone is fixed, I have contact with the outside world. And one more exam on Wednesday and the semester will be over. THANK GOD. That's all I have to say. Oh... and I love lamp.

I don't know exactly what I did to deserve the shit hitting the fan the way it has recently. To be perfectly honest I am so out of sorts i hardly recognize myself. Where do I start, well I guess the best place is with school since it is the thing which dominates my life on a day to day basis. Exams have started, in fact, I have one in about an hour. I'm prepared and after todays exam I still have a 5 and 9 days respectively to study and brush up on my other 2 finals. But nonetheless, as i do every time excams come around, I'm stressing out like its going out of style.

 

My phone is out of service at the moment which makes life a hell of alot more difficult than I'd have ever thought. Nobody can get ahold of me, and I can get ahold of nobody. Quite a predicament for somebody with as many responsibilities as myself. And things just keep getting better. Work posted the holiday schedule yesterday and because most of the staff had booked holidays long in advance and I'm relatively new i get the dubious honor of working EVERY day over the holidays, with the exception of Christmas Day of course since we aren't in fact open. This means that I won't be able to see my Dad and step-mom and brother and grandma at all over the holidays. On the bright side (at least i thought) being only 2 hours away from Calgary, it wouldn't be hard to at least get home for Christmas dinner and to drop off some gifts to the family. That was however until on my way home from work yesterday, my truck crapped out on me. I haven't any idea what's wrong with it, nor do I have the foggiest idea what its going to cost but I'm sure knowing my luck it won't be cheap. So now it appears as though I'll be spending Christmas alone in Lethbridge, unless of course I can scrounge up enough money to fix my truck, in which case I will still likely stay here alone because i can't go home for Christmas and not have any presents for anybody. I just don't work that way.

 

I thought writing this down would help but seeing everything all fucked up just depresses me more so I'm gonna stop writing for the day, go take this bloody test, and then crawl into a corner where nobody can find me so that nothing else can go wrong.

What a weekend. Aside for the frantic search for a date which ended very, very interestingly, to say the least. I guess before I go into details and now that I'vew peeked your interest, I'd better go into more detail. So Colin and his girlfriend had organized a date for me fairly last minute, unfortunately she was unable to get out of a prior commitment (which happened to be a sex toy party she was hosting). So I was once again dateless, Ryan decided that I should take one of his co-workers but let me be perfectly honest, as much as she was very attractive, she may have been the stupiddest choice for a date for me in history. She doesn't drink, she may have said 8 words all evening and when she did, I literally had to pry them out of her, she had to work at 8am and thus couldn't stay out very late, and when I asked Ryan before hand if it would bother him if I asked her out on a second date (this was before I met her) he said it would make him uncomfortable because he'd considered dating her, and she didn't want to go to the afterparty dressed formally so she skipped the limo ride, which I had already paid for might I add, and all together it was a lkarge waste of my time and money having her there.

 

HOWEVER, when we got to Fire I met a fraternity brother's date and it turned out they were roommates, not actually dating. He suggested that I spend some time with her because she was attracted to me. We spent the bulk of the evening togeher and at the nights conclusion we left together. Here is where the story really twists my head around. We all know that from time to time, a person will have a meaningful VERY short term relationship, something commonly referred to as a one night stand. I can honestly say this wouldn't even qualify, be cause I woke up and there was a note on the wall saying "Sorry for everything, I went to Cyd's." Here's the kicker, it was her fucking house. Waking up in a stranger's bed has happened before but Jesus, never alone at least not that I can remember.

 

Anyway, back to the evening's festivities. Saturday was without a doubt one of the longest days ever. Up at 6 to get dressed (remind you that I worked until 2am the night prior). Meet and greet at the University at 8 am. 40 of us were initiated throughout the day starting at 8:30 am and continuing on through until 4:30pm at which time we had a mock chapter meeting. From there we went to the gym and then to the Student Union Ballroom for group photographs, after which most of us parted ways in ordewr to do any last minute chores before the dinner (ie shit, shower, shave, pick up dates, change, etc.)

 

Dinner began at 6:45 and was nopthing less than fantastic. It was served buffet style and the menu consisted of Prime Rib, Chick Cordon Bleu, various salads, mized vegetables, baby potatoes, breads and other such courses. I ate like a horse with just enough room for dessert and I might add that without a doubt it was the most spectacular cheesecake that I have ever tasted, bar none. I would have gone back for more but by the time I finished praising it, I'd been overheard one too many times and it was gone.

 

Guest speakers included fraternity executives from Virginia, as well as alumni from Thompson River (Kamploops) and the UofC and UofA, and our very own President of the UofL Bill Cade who also happens to be a Kappa Sig. An award was presented as well as our charter and all of our certificates.

 

Off we went again, this time for an hour long limo tour of the city with one stop at the liquor store. the ride was awesome, our limo included Ryan MacRae, Colin White, Kevin Chim, Max Grosssenbacher, Mike Johnson, myself and the escorts and was a drunken riot, much enjoyment was had by all. Especially by Mr Johnson and Mr Grossenbacher whose asses made it out of the window a few times.

 

Finally to Fire and Ice where drinks were plentiful and the night wound down, Mike Liddle and Elijah Castro De Guzman were the only pukers as far as I'm aware, but both were able to rally and finish the evening. I'm proud of you boys. All in all it was a night to remember, in fact it was a nighty I know I'll never forget. the culminationb of our hard work and dedication. And to all of my brothers;

Alpha Epsilon Kappa Delta Beta

 

Omicron Xi til' we die.

 

Finally tonight will be the first official meeting of the Omicron Xi CHAPTER of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of Lethbridge, and elections will be held for several positions. Our President and Vice President are stepping down to usher in a new era of Kappa Sigma at the UofL, and I myself have been nominated to become the new Social Chairman, the man in charge of promoting brotherhood through social interaction, and of course the great challenge of throwing the best damn parties in Lethbridge. I have my fingers crossed and I'll be sure to let you all know how it goes.

 

Well class time, last week of the semester, crunch time if you know what I mean.

Until next time.

So Saturday is going to be a really big day for myself as well as all of my fraternity brothers. December 2nd will mark our installation as a Chapter. No longer will we be the "Lethbridge colony" (which sounds to me more like a group of hutterites than a fraternity) but our group of gentlemen will be known as the Omicron Xi Chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Lethbridge. Something that has taken a ton of work and a great investment of time from a lot of people. As of Saturday, we will all be able to reap the fruits of our labors.

 

All very exciting right. Except that I feel like I should be able to bask in the glory of the moment when the unfortunate truth is that I have NO DATE! 4 days to find a date to a formal event, like black tie mandatory style. The pressure is ridiculous. I've never had a problem finding a date before but it seems that the one event when I need one, my world implodes and nothing seems to work. Please dear God let me meet somebody tonight at Karaoke or desperate measures are going to be required. I'd rather let sleeping dogs lie then drum up old feelings by asking my ex of years and its getting close to that point.

In other news, I was nominated today to be our Chapter's first Social Chairman, a great honor to say the least. God willing, I will win the election and it sounds like in all likelihood I will. But win or lose, it's a tremendous honor that any of my brothers would recognize me amongst 50 others as their choice to ensure a sense of brotherhood amongst the men for the next few years.

That's all for now, I'll keep you posted.

I don't know where I left it but its gone.

 

So I went to Vancouver for the weekend to see the Riders get absolutely beaten senseless in the Western Conference Final. Although this would have made Newfie a very happy camper, for me it was not so much a happy event. The visit with the ex however went very pleasantly, in fact, although it was shorter than I would have liked, it definitely made the trip worthwhile.

 

This morning I spent the better part of 2 hours catching up with a very dear friend of mine from Calgary. I've been informed that Heather and Kurt and baby Logie are finally gonna be an official family because Kurt popped the question. They aren't rushing a date yet but it will be in the next year or so. Another wedding... you know as much as it brings a smile to my face knowing that one of my very best friends and in fact, I would go so far as to say the best girl friend that I have in the world, is happy and excited and her dreams are coming true, it sort of brings that seed into the back of my mind thats asking me why am I wasting so much time. It makes me feel like the world is just passing me by. I get to wondering should I just settle for going to Vegas and marrying a stripper. Hey maybe that's what I'm supposed to do in the long run. Who knows?

 

Anyway I don't mean to bore anybody with my ramblings on about feelings and fears and such. Today is going to be a good day, I will not accept anything less. Period.

 

Congratulations Heather and Kurt and Baby Logan (who is getting so darn big)

 

Oh and Mac if you read this, you know how I know you're gay?

So tonight is the night the boys and I have been waiting for. A month+ of planning and the shit show to end all shit shows is nigh. Tickets are sold out and the phone still hasn't stopped ringing. Our 460 person venue will be at capacity by 8pm and I don't foresee it ending until the wee hours of the morning. A last minute costume change has me going out as Harry Potter this evening rather than my initial plans of Rick James and a hutterite. I did mack the hutterite costume at school for 2 days though and to the Halloween pre-event on Saturday at Essie's (pictures will be forthcoming). This shaker may go down in both history and infamy, I can't wait to see what happens.

 

What else is new? Oh this story is so amazing I don't think it could possibly be made up, Yesterday the great bald hope and I went on amongst the greatest benders in history, going 16 straight hours intoxicated out of our gourds before passing out at 2am. along the way we were drunk in class, drunk at the ticket table, drunk at the campus bar, drunk at pledge education and our fraternity meeting, and drunk at the backstreet. Oh and then there was drunk at the Duke where the most amazing yet horrifying thing I've ever seen occurred. Along for a brief binge ride with us were our fraternity brothers Matt, Sandy, and Keenan. around 7 pm Keenan was past the point of no return and when he suddenly made a trip to the bathroom, suspicions were raised and I was quick to run in and make sure there was no vomitting in progress. There was in fact, no vomitting occurence. In order to prove this to me, Keenan opened the stall door and identified the shit nugget that had missed the toilet and was lying on the floor. That is correct, Keenan dropped a deuce on the floor in the bar. I promptly removed my self from the washroom, cackling all the way back to the table where I informed the remaining drinkers that "Keenan pooped on the floor." After much inspection it was confirmed that indeed, Keenan had shit on the floor in public. He returned to the table briefly only to be removed from the bar, not for the poop I might add. Because after a brief game of "1, 2, 3, not it..." it was determined that Sandy would go clean up the shit on said floor before it became apparent to the staff what had occurred. But because after all the aforementioned hoopla, he did end up puking... right on the damned table.

 

Anyway, I have important matters to attend to in the party animal department but look forward to the pictures from the Halloween festivities in the near future.