my life is fairly boring and moving nowhere fast right now. but don't get me wrong, i'm enjoying it overall. it's basically just my job situation that is causing me stress..
i graduated back in may--with a 4.0 because i'm a fuckin' champ--but now i have a diploma in computer programming & analysis (specialist titles: software developer; java internet developer) and there never seems to be any entry-leve/junior openings in the information technology field. certainly not in toronto, at least. and i don't really want to move to another town right now, for a few reasons. so right now i work at a call centre phoning people who have registered for vacation promotions and ask if they would like to register for the vacation package. i'm still looking for a real job (or anything else that will pay better and get me off the goddamn phone really..) but i doubt that i'll get much consideration for programming work while i'm stuck mostly applying for jobs that require three to five years of experience, if not more. i sure hope something comes around soon; otherwise, odds are, i'll be trying to find the money to go back to school for something completely different, in the fall (though i would still program some shit as a hobby--i'm about to start up a project of my own pretty soon, actually. i think).
i also still play guitar in a band. we're called the visit, in case i hadn't mentioned it before. if you want to hear a tune check out the ol'
myspace page and hit play. i think some of you might dig it. this weekend we're hitting the road to play shows in montreal (saturday) and ottawa (sunday). it should be a pretty damn wild event. two great things about montreal are: i) 99 cent cheese pizza slices at lots of different pizza joints, and ii) cheap 40 oz. bottles of molson export. we also have a gig coming up here in toronto, and it's a john lennon tribute show, so we're planning to play "i don't want to be a soldier," "give me some truth," and "well well well." and i must say, even though we have barely practised these songs at all yet, our renditions of them are already sounding pretty fuckin' stellar.
near the end of october i moved to a new apartment, considerably closer to the downtown toronto area. so now i live in greektown. it's a really cool neighbourhood. it seems to be a pretty popular area, though it totally doesn't have the attitude that some other areas of town sometimes have (for example, queen street west, not that you know where that is, eh). i like my new apartment. it is good. maybe i'll snap a few pictures later, but not until it's slightly more organized. i've been so damn lazy, since i absolutely hate packing and unpacking, so there are still a couple boxes that i have packed up sitting against a wall. i guess i don't actually need anything that is in them. and my furniture is still more or less in the places where i put it all the night that i moved in, in attempts to organize the place a little bit. but oh well, i'm sure my interior designs are terrible anyways, so it ought to do.
what else? oh, hockey has been back for a while, and i am still loving it.
