they've come for our souls

on just about any given day, there are vultures circling around my office building

Vandalism win

I saw this amazing painting while out walking around today.

Al, you made my day

it's a madhouse

insane when you look at them all.

you've been posted

the sheer volume of office supplies given out to me is staggering.

nine weeks of excuses

i've changed desks three times at the office.

the firewall's rules have changed more times than that.

today is st. patrick's day. a day where we all pretend to be just a little bit irish so that we all have an excuse to drink green beer until we puke green barf. it's also an excuse for office people to wear green clothes, and then talk aboot said clothing.

one of the annoying douchebags in my office has a multitude of leather jackets - all of them appear to be the exact same style (although bear in mind that i am MALE and unable to tell the subtle differences in women's clothing - that's why i shop at Old Navy) - but they're all different colours. some days we get the red leather jacket, some days back, grey, navy blue. i'm sure that her leather jackets probably reflect the mood she's in on any given morning. heck, it could just be one leather jacket that changes colour like a mood ring.

today's mood is irish, ergo today's colour is green.

and i think that the only thing funnier than a green leather jacket is series of comments that come along with that jacket. other women approach douchie to say things like "oh wow, that's quite the colour! that looks really ... nice!" - i think that's politespeak for "holy crap, you look like what happened when my dog ate that bag of spinach last spring."

three weeks later

somehow being lazy in the office is paying off for me. i've discovered that in my current place of work that when you have the ability to take control of a client conference call (a skill which the bulk of sales people seem to lack) that you will gain the respect of your management. it has been rumoured that i will be nominated for employee of the quarter for my conference call abilities.

lesson learned: you can succeed by doing less than you think you should. especially in the corporate world.

almost next year, i want to take a picture

so i've got some ideas that revolve around the fact that i haven't done as much photography this year as i had intended to do. i love doing the photo developing at home, but it is quite time consuming and has certain temperature requirements (my makeshift film developing room is too cold right now).

so i'm gonna put out a call to everyone who has leftover rolls of film. at one point before the whole digital photography thing took over, people used to take pictures with real film in film-requiring cameras. some people are bound to still have some of this film sitting around in a box or a drawer somewhere - so this is directed to you.

if you have film sitting around at home that you've been meaning to use, but haven't bothered because you've got a digital camera and/or the cost of getting the film processed is less than awesome to you, let me know because i'd love to get my hands on it. the older, the better. i want to do some experimentation and sometimes the crappy old film gets the best results.

i prefer that the film be older than 6 months old (unless you really just want to get rid of it) - i'm kind of looking for stuff that's aged a bit.

if you're in the GTA, i may be able to come get it from you. if you're not in the Toronto area, drop me a line and maybe i'll work out some shipping details. hopefully i'll get a few responses, and i'll post the results of the old-film photography here.

keep in mind too that if you have friends or relatives that don't read this, you can pass the info along to them as well, just drop a comment here with how i can contact you for the film.

happy new year 'n shit eh!