Lemmings on the Run

Evenin', you.

So I'm back home from Bramladesh, the Anime convention, and all the fun in between. It was SUCH a good weekend! For your enjoyment, I'll list out the highlights and low.. lights. Here they are in no particular order *viewer discretion is advised.. I suppose*:

:( Friday was the longest day of my life thus far. Heidi and I were up and out of the house by 8am and were on buses and subways 'til I'd say 12:30pm. I was exhausted the entire day until I got to go to bed at 10:30 that night. I had only gotten a couple hours of sleep the night before and yeah, long story short, a very very very long day.

:) Heidi, Megan, and I went to Playdium for a couple hours that afternoon and it was SO fun! We did some DDR, raced like we've never raced before, used a broken Jurassic Park machine.. twice. I got the third highest score on this crazy scootering game (it's a lot more fun than it sounds), and Heidi and I got THE TOP SCORE on this rafting game of insanity! WE'RE THE BEST VIDEO-RAFTERS OUT THERE! WOOOOO!

:) That evening, we went to the con and saw all the costumeness and these great music videos taken from different animes. I was super impressed. (I'm becoming a nerd.. so sue me)

(don't actually sue me, please)

:) I went to sleep at 10:30pm and didn't wake up 'til 8:30 the next morning. It felt so good to sleep. Athena (who has also slept on that wonky orange sofa) and I have decided that it has sleeping drugs in it, because you fall asleep very quickly at the Ludwig residence.

:) We did a bunch of different things on Saturday: watched anime improv, watched and played a little DDR. 'Twas a fine afternoon.

:) Heidi and I bought some AMAZING art from this artist Amanda Ronayne. She bought a picture of some guy with eyes in the background and I bought one of this elf dude with nice abs. It's, like, the best drawing ever and I love it. More than chocolate.

:( We went to the yearly masquerade where they have little skits and people show off their costumes. The costumes were really gorgeous. Some of the skits were okay. But the biggest problem with this skit, besides the fact it was THREE HOURS LONG *dies*, is that the announcer was TERRIBLE! He was this Scottish guy who was so full of himself that he had to tell like five jokes in between every skit. There were 84 skits. I died three or four times.

:( Later I saw him walking in the hall and held myself back from tripping him. Damnit.

:) Sunday, Megan and I entered a DDR tournament and it was so fun!! I mean I didn't do as well as I'd hoped, but it was a new dance game and they were metal pads and the people in the tourny were so amazing, so I'm not sad. Megan made it to the fourth or fifth round, so I'm gonna live vicariously through her. Okay? Done. Done.

:) Heidi's family took us out for japanese and it was so yummbly!

:( Then Leanne picked me up, and the Jam returned to Summers Castle.

Well that's my weekend! Tomorrow I have a date and I'm throwing up cause I'm so nervous. Well, not literally cause.. ew.

--Rambly Jambly

Prickly Pear Café

I hope this happens to me next time I ask for directions:

Click Here! NOW!

--Jam the Alto

Bottoms Up

Howdy, my loyal fans!

So I know I've been taking a sort of hiatus, but I'm back! I was working on a recap post on the last magnificent year of Jam's Blog, but I'm a lazy bastard and it's not going to happen for a while.

So what's been going on with me, you're asking? (I know you're asking. I can feel it in my blood!.. well, not IN my blood, that would be gross.) I've been doing a lot of.. well, nothing. I've done a crapload of applications for jobs this summmer and I have a couple of leads. I had an interview at Blockbuster today and I imagine that I got that job. My experience from EB Games (aka Hell-on-Earth) along with my Jammy charm (you all know you love it) should get me the job no problemo.

I've been talking to a new guy and don't really wanna jinx it, but wow. A really great guy (that looks good in green, eh Leanne?) and we're meeting next week. I'm already so nervous that I could barf (I'll hold myself back Nat).

CARRIE WON! Yaaaaay! I love Carrie Underwood so much! Have my babies!... well don't literally, because you're kind of a woman, but yay she won! She is one of the best singers I have ever heard and I can't wait for her album to be released! I'm definitely hooked on Idol and I can't wait for Canadian Idol to start! I'm gonna be right in there voting OFF the Kalan Porters and Ryan Malcolms! Serves ya right, you doodieheads! Tee hee.

So I formally declare summer as the season of spiders. We are overrun with arachnids and I arach-hate-them. Today Athena and I spent practically an hour searching for this fast demon spider from hell as it leapt to my desk and up the wall and yikes! Creepy arachdamn arachthings. So to run away from Summers Web of Doom, I'm going to Brampton to visit Heidi! We're checking out an anime convention and going to playdium and fun shtuff! Now, before you think I'm a huge loser massivo, I'm going to the anime con because it's gonna have *drumroll* DDR! YAAAY! Well, hopefully. We thought it was going to be a tournament, but it may just be there recreationally instead. In any case, I gotta strut my stuff! Cause that stuff is just crying to be seen! CRYIN I TELLS YA! ..wow, bedtime soon lol.

The finalé of LOST is on tomorrow and I can't wait. The best show of the year is coming to a close. It's a bittersweet event, but I can't wait to find out about the creepy Others. (If you don't watch the show, don't ask me what the Others are, because I will respond that I have no idea in regards to this TV show, and to watch the Nicole Kidman movie and get back to me.)

My bestest buddy Loretta bought me a gift recently just for being Jam! (You should do that too. I do deserve it you know. It's not easy being this great!) She bought me a chess set.. with SHOTGLASS PIECES! *screeches* So freaking exciting! I can't wait to use it and get totally smashed! I'm such a geek and I love it! LOVE! IT! !!

Lastly, some Homestar to fill your minds with funny thingies.


After afterdinnermints.

Bug Swallow! Bug Swallow!

Well, bedtime for this kool kat. Night dawgs!

--Jammerific

My hero of the day: HEATHER! I MISS YOU HUNNY BUNCHES OF OATS! *MUAH*

Coming Soon
Movie Review: Crash
Rant: Experience and Openness

PS: The only reason the title is "Bottoms Up" is because I have a shot glass with that on it. That's it. No relation to the blog. Haaa, suckers. Trying to get a meaning out of it. What a sucker.

We All Fall Down

Hey people,

Sorry for not posting in the last little while. I'm currently working hard on a one-year lookback on Jam's Blog, so sit tight while I do that.

So I have an excuse, but it seems like everyone else's blogs have just sort of stopped? I guess everyone has stuff to be doin'.

Got a job interview at 6.30 so I'm gonna go pretty myself up.

--Jam

Joy, Joyce, Jobs, and The Beach

Evenin'.

Joy
First of all, I gotta say that I've been in a super great mood all day and pretty much all week. While I've been sort of alone because my roomies are busy or being anti-social or not here, I just feel so empowered to do a million things. I think it partially has to do with the weather, but it also has to do with the fact that I'm going to find a job, I'm getting involved at school (see Jobs), and I'm just so happy that summer's here!

The other reason I'm joyful today is because it is my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of writing in Jam's blog! It's been a whole year! In a couple days I'm going to do a look back on all the best posts (in my opinion) for your browsing convenience.

Joyce and Uchenna
Another reason I'm so happy is because a terrific couple, Uchenna and Joyce, won The Amazing Race! Now while my team came in 4th and I'm still very bitter about it, Uchenna and Joyce were my next favourite. They are such a wonderful loving pair of people and they deserve that money. WOOO!.. I think there should be a Meredith and Gretchen fan club. Hmmm *ponders*.

Jobs
I applied for a bunch of different office jobs today. Ones with Habitat for Humanity and Family and Child Services. Gustav made a good point and said that they sound like good ones because they're rewarding, and I have to say I hadn't thought of them that way before. He gets bonus points. I also volunteered for a super awesome fundraiser with the Lung Association. I collect donations and then on May 29th, ten members of BUSAC get tied to a fire engine and we have to pull it! LOL!! Now I know what you're thinking. I am a little man. BUT it'll still be SO much fun (as long as we get it to move). YAY!

The Beach
Tomorrow I'm going to the beach with Chrissy and Nat and my new roomie Andrea and I'm so excited about that TOO! (I know, lots of excitement in the Jam tonight. Must be the excessive amounts of cocaine.) I haven't been to a beach since last summer with Athena, so this'll be a chance to relax, show off my new fat belly, and enjoy the summer sun!

I LOVE SUMMER! GAH! BLOOAH! YIBBYDAH!

*The above was a paid freakout by cocaine. Cocaine: your friend and mine.*

*The above was a joke and was not intended to be taken literally unless you are extremely gullible. In that case, gullible is not in the dictionary. Go look it up. Jam does not promote the use of any drugs besides cat tranquilizers.*

--Disclaimer Jam

Listen to: Caught Up by Usher

My hero of the day: LINDSAY! HAPPY 21st BDAY!

Movie Review: Kingdom of Heaven

I believe the last word of the title is a typo. It should be "Kingdom of Hell", because that's where I felt like I was.



Synopsis
Balian, a blacksmith, is visited by his father who is a powerful baron in something or other. His father takes him in, then dies, leaving his legacy and land to his son. Then he somehow ends up leading armies and fighting the Muslims.. I don't really know.

The Problem
Everything. Everything was a problem.

1. Orlando Bloom is being type-casted. His soulful looks, his wavy har, and his bad acting need to stop. Maybe he would be good in a dramatic comedy, or in a modern action flick.. or maybe not. He was horrible in this, just as he was horrible in Troy, and in most of his films.

2. The plot was irradic. I had no idea what was going on half the time. Unfortunately for me, I did not read a couple text books on the Crusades before I watched this film. What was I thinking? Of course I should have to do research before watching a film! Who was I to think they would give me background information or fill in the holes for me? Not only did the producers of this film forgot to inform properly, they also seemed to leave out bits and pieces of the story. Thanks Ridley.

3. The script was simple and appealed to the slightly retarded. The phrases were predictable, the word choice was sixth grade, and the poetic nature that a film like this should have just didn't exist. It reminded me of the script of masterpieces such as "The Chronicles of Riddick" or "Gone in 60 Seconds".

4-100. Think of any problem a movie could have; this film has each and every one. Some honourable mentions are the lack of realism, the extreme length (even though it was only 2.5 hours, it seems like 2.5 days), and the overall lack of anything interesting.


That's safe Orlando. I would run around a battle with thousands of enemies with my helmet off too. I mean, why wreck your hair when all you have to wreck is your skull?

On the + Side
I liked the arabian music. The last fight scene, although unbearably long, was well thoughtout and had cool graphics.

Overall
A bomb, covered in cow maneure, sprayed by a skunk, and then flushed down the toilet. If you like epics, this one is at the bottom of the barrel, and covered with slimey barrel water. Ew.

The Official Kingdom of Heaven Website

2/10 - The worst movie I have seen this year.

The Future

I live in an orange zone...

--Jam

(click the picture, silly)

Summer Bore

Afternoon, you hot tomales!

I'm SO BORED! At first the only woe of not getting a job was lack of money. Now I have that, as well as the greatest boredom I have ever experienced! What should I do? I've done everything! I need a job, FAST!

I actually wanna go back to school for the summer, but I don't have the cash. I'm definitely going to try to get classes for the summer next year, because otherwise I'll die. I'll just implode from too much boredom, like I'm going to this summer, and that'll be a big mess that Natalie will have to clean up! We don't wanna make Natalie clean up my muck, so let's all be nice and find me a job. Like, now. Please.

I think my mom has forgotten that I exist. I talk to her about once every two weeks and she never has much to say and she's always in a hurry to get off the phone. Oh well, I suppose one less person I have to worry about. She has Jeff, and the dog and the cat (if they remember that my cat still lives in that house), so I'm not too worried about her mental health. Except the other day she asked the owner of the factory she works at if he had just started. My mom's a champ. (now you know where I get my doziness from)

Well, I'm going to bus it up to the mall with my $270 bus pass and pick up my pants that are being hemmed. Maybe while I'm at the mall, a hot millionaire in his early 20's will approach me and we'll go travel South America for the summer. ...it could happen.

--Jam

Word of the Day: Claque: A hired group of fans or followers. So like if I hired you guys to be my fans, you would be my claque. Thankfully I'm so great you follow me without payment! Radical.

The New

Afternoon, all you cutie patooties!

So I'm trying to get my summer/year in gear and am starting a bunch of things anew!

First of all, I rearranged my room. Every six months or so I think everyone should just pick up your bed and throw it across the room! Yep, just like that. It's weird for the first couple of days when you wake up and can't realize where the hell you are, but afterwards it's a nice feeling that things are a little different.

Next, I put up some pictures in our den! I've had these kitty pictures sitting in my room forever with frames and everything, and I finally got around to putting them up! They add so much to the room, and I think I'm going to add more to it, just so that my roomies and I don't feel like we live in an unfinished house.

I've also been seeing a guy for the last week or so, and it's really refreshing to be out there in the scene again. Even though I'm not sure where him and I will end up, this has really alleviated a large portion of myself that was going "unfulfilled". It was actually just a state of mind, as I am now not unhappy being single as I had been in the past. I'm realizing I'm a very complete person as it is, and as I experience more and excel in life, I'll excellerate my breath!.. wait, no. I'll realize it. Damn gum commercials.

I still haven't found a job, but I know I'll find one soon. It shouldn't take long, I don't imagine, once I get my ass in gear and go down to the Job Gym and apply downtown.

I'm in such a good mood! I'm gonna go have a shower, make some fish and chips, and listen to some music like it's 1999!

--Sunshine Jam

Don't forget to watch: Survivor and the Apprentice tonight! OH, and did you see Scott got voted off American Idol last night?! YES! FINALLY! *falls out of chair with delight*

The Old

Evenin'.

(Why is it that even though it is obviously night and not evening, I have to say good evening, because if I said good night I'd actually be saying goodbye? But, if I were to say good morning or good afternoon, that is not necessarily a goodbye... damn english)

So I practically cried today. My wonderful couple, Meredith and Gretchen, finally met their end on The Amazing Race tonight. I'm so deeply saddened that I could scream, and I wish that there was some way I could fix it, but I know there isn't. It's just so unfortunate that they didn't look for an earlier connecting flight, but oh well.

In a way Gretchen reminds me of my two grandmothers, and how much I miss them; one because she passed away in 2000 and one because she lives in Brantford and isn't the same as she used to be. She's gotten old and become rather senile and hard-to-handle. Gretchen, although she was whiney at times, encompassed everything that I revel in everytime I think of my grandmas. I wish there was some way I could experience the same feeling I used to get when I stayed over at my grandma's house or she baked me something or we went for walks or we built something.

I'm terrified of growing old. These feelings will become more and more foreign to me and eventually they won't exist. The elderly people in my life will pass away with my juvenescence, and I'll only be left with an array of different emotions, until those emotions and all others are no more.

If your grandma lives near you, go give her a hug or give her a flower or talk to her for an hour. They won't always be there, and neither will you.

--Jam

The Smartass

I'm a smartass? Yeah right! Who would have thunk it?

You are 71% Rational, 100% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, and 85% Arrogant.

You are the Smartass! You are rational, extroverted, brutal, and arrogant. You probably consider people who are emotional and gentle to be big pussies who are obviously in lesser stature than you. You have many flaws, despite your seeming intelligence and cool-headedness. For instance, you aren't very nice. In fact, you're probably an asshole. And you are conceited and self-centered. Not only that, but you are very loud and vocal about all this, seeing as how you are extroverted. There is no better way to describe you than as a "smartass", I'm afraid. Perhaps just "ass" would do, too. But that's a little less literary and descriptive. At any rate, your main personality defect is the fact that you are self-centered, mean, uncaring, and rather devoid of emotion.

To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.

Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Emo-kid.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Capitalist Pig, the Braggart and the Sociopath.

Take this quiz here.

Post and tell me what you scored as!

--Jamass

Independent Women

You scored as Charlies Angels. You are a kick ass girl! You and your friends are intimidating! Charlies Angels 100% The Notebook 83% Mean Girls 67% A Cinderella Story 42% Legally Blonde 8% What Chick Flick is just like Your Life? created with QuizFarm.com

Yay, I'm a kickass girl! Kickas... wait a minute.

--Jam

Hot and Cold

Evenin'.

So I haven't done a Jam post in a while; one just about me and what's going on with me. So I'm gonna, and there's nothin' you can do to stop me! Sucka!

Well the biggest thing on my mind these days is finding a job. It's imperative that I find one soon or I'm going to shrivel up from lack of funds and die. I need to start getting money to Loretta's parents to secure my spot on the trip to Barbados this winter, and I need money for the school year. Does anyone have any money seeds? Cause then I could grow a money tree and take some money shots. Ah, the money shots. ...yeah I'm not sure what I'm talking about either.

I'm kinda-sorta dating a new guy. He's really great and puts up with my insanities (and vice-versa). I'd like it to expand into more, but I'm taking it slow and steady. After all, that's how you win the race.

My first BUSAC meeting was today. After about five hours of listening to bickering and some pointless discussion, a splitting headache, some actual delegation of tasks, and putting up with one very annoying member of council, I left for my walk home. Don't get me wrong. I am going to enjoy working on BUSAC and Senate in the upcoming years, but I just wish that things were handled more efficiently and that certain people were not involved. Student government, as my experiences tell me, are full of liars and bizarre facades, and I'm becoming very frustrated with both. Maybe I'll get over it, maybe I won't. I guess we'll see.

On my walk home in the beautiful weather, I treated myself to some McD's and power-walked home. I was enjoying the excercise until the hurricane hit. Rain, hail, and severe winds hit for about half an hour of my walk home and it was very miserable. I had a bath when I got home and tried to warm myself up, but it didn't seem to work. The misery of that walk will stay with me always, reminding me that I need a car. Badly.

I still feel sort of cold. Maybe I could get the new guy to warm me up, or go to BUSAC and get heated. But if I got too heated I'd be hauled away to a mental ward. At least then I wouldn't have to find a job.

--Jam

Listen to: Home by Michael Bublé