things you are stoked on

[sebastian toombs]

did you get muffins at "market on yates"?  an "empress square" from rogers chocolates?  german crusty buns at the "rheingold" bakery?   book hunting at "russells books"?  hit willows beach for a jog on the sand?


i may visit victoria for a monday-to-friday's worth of research in the first week of december, when the cherry trees will be in bloom.  im soooo looking forward to it, i just lurve victoria.  itd be nice to teach at uvic one day

[dtrigiani]

stoked on university

my frosh week ended today. It was a solid 4 days of crawling through mud, thundersludge, purple dye, and grabbing a tam off the top of a goalpost. I've been drunk every night, and I've got some good friends here that I'm hanging out with every night.

I started drinking last night around 7 with floormates, then a friend called up to go skate. I was pretty tipsy, but went anyway. I was pretty garbage due to my inebriation, but I did a few okay tricks. snapped my board switch fs 180ing a 3 set. wasn't stoked on that, but i got my parents to bring me up a new deck when they dropped off a fridge and my dad gave me his old laptop.

I've got a solid 34 hours of class a week, which is a lot compared to the 20 i had in high school. Last semester I drove to school and arrived half an hour late at 8:30, and was out by noon. This is going to be intense, but I'm a little excited for that, too.

[sebastian toombs]

fully immersed in queen's homoerotic male bonding rituals, eh?

[dtrigiani]

i know from the outside it looks like the gayest shit ever, but it's honestly so much fun. On move-in day, the only thing I thought was, "engineers are so fucking weird," but I really love it now.

giving people in other faculties shit is a reward in itself.

[sebastian toombs]

i know from the outside it looks like the gayest shit ever, but it's honestly so much fun. On move-in day, the only thing I thought was, "engineers are so fucking weird," but I really love it now.

giving people in other faculties shit is a reward in itself.

a reward for what?

[Pelican]

everything is meh, but good music is playing and i have a belly full of pasta.

[sven thorkel]

my fucking awesome weekend at vic

i just had a good week in vic

[cold budweisers]

what is frosh? is that the canadian equivalent of american frats' pledge week?

[marty.]

Got the next two days off work, can't remember the last time I had two off in a row.
Weather was perfect today, hopefully it'll stay like that, planning on spending most of tomorrow and the next day skating.

Also stoked on 25 dollar cartons of chinese marlboros.

[sebastian toombs]

what is frosh? is that the canadian equivalent of american frats' pledge week?

i guess so...   not many canadian campuses have fraternities.  under the guise of "building school / faculty / student spirit," the university condones days or weeks of outrageous drunkeness, hazing of varying intensity, inculcation of "group think," abusive and contemptuous behavior towards non-students, a tolerable amount of rape, and, in queens case, light rioting.  they do this because the expectation is that today's incoming undergrad students will fondly recall "i was SOOOO fucking drunk; it was the best fucking time of my LIIIIIFE! WOOOOO!" once they have graduated and become gainfully employed alumni, and will therefore donate moneys back to the school.  this is especially effective with the applied sciences and the business and professional schools (such as engineering and computing science), which have deeply ingrained cultures of sexism, paternalism, reactionary individualism, and professional cronyism.  it is no coincidence that the schools and faculties whose students make the most money cling to and reproduce these so-called traditions most tenaciously.

it is also a way of getting students to believe in a facade of teamwork within small groups or their faculty / field, while at the same time they are ruthlessly competing against each other for the best grades, the best letters of recommendation, and the best future jobs.

dtrigiani, out of curiosity, did either of your parents go to queens?

[Blue Fescue]

We have that here too, but it is clubs of all kinds.  I forget what the week is called though.  awful

[artichoke]

Tell us how you really feel Toombs, ha.  Last weekend was pretty much the first weekend with all of the college kids back here in Boston, and when I was walking home from work on Saturday night I was reminded how much I hate college kids sometimes.

Anyway, stoked on Alton Brown, his travel/food documentaries, and travel in general.

[guy le douche]

getting my first cell phone ever today

[crackrazor]

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what is frosh? is that the canadian equivalent of american frats' pledge week?

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i guess so...   not many canadian campuses have fraternities.  under the guise of "building school / faculty / student spirit," the university condones days or weeks of outrageous drunkeness, hazing of varying intensity, inculcation of "group think," abusive and contemptuous behavior towards non-students, a tolerable amount of rape, and, in queens case, light rioting.  they do this because the expectation is that today's incoming undergrad students will fondly recall "i was SOOOO fucking drunk; it was the best fucking time of my LIIIIIFE! WOOOOO!" once they have graduated and become gainfully employed alumni, and will therefore donate moneys back to the school.  this is especially effective with the applied sciences and the business and professional schools (such as engineering and computing science), which have deeply ingrained cultures of sexism, paternalism, reactionary individualism, and professional cronyism.  it is no coincidence that the schools and faculties whose students make the most money cling to and reproduce these so-called traditions most tenaciously.

it is also a way of getting students to believe in a facade of teamwork within small groups or their faculty / field, while at the same time they are ruthlessly competing against each other for the best grades, the best letters of recommendation, and the best future jobs.

dtrigiani, out of curiosity, did either of your parents go to queens?

toombs, are you from kingston? If so, high five on living in the same place.

[sebastian toombs]

i have a place to stay there, but spend most of my time in toronto...   are you just starting there too?  what are you studying?

thanks for reminding me to book a train for this evening!

[crackrazor]

i have a place to stay there, but spend most of my time in toronto...   are you just starting there too?  what are you studying?

thanks for reminding me to book a train for this evening!

No, I just grew up there. The campus got a rather extensive makeover this past summer and is better than ever. Let me know if you want to skate sometime.

[frisco]

as much as i feel djokovich, this guys just way too sick, hes always been fucking awesome, thats 13 slams now

[sebastian toombs]

stoked on my hot, smart housemates bringing their hot, smart friends over for "movie night."  stoked on talking about graduate studies with two hot, smart girls wearing sun dresses while i sit on my bed...

[vicky]

schools awesome, i have my own studio, i kind of started being social again, skitchin

[sebastian toombs]

schools awesome, i have my own studio, i kind of started being social again, skitchin

sweet, is your studio on campus ...?

[baxty]

David Bowie could take my soul and I wouldn't even care.

[vicky]

yea right above the floor with all the presses and exposure units etc. siked to finally have space, been waiting for 3 years for it

[EastCoastLove]

getting to skate boston today

eggs has the best granite ledges ever

killer spot

[Guile]

knowing my friends are gnarlier than all those cali amrailer scum.

[Universal Remonster]

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my fucking awesome weekend at vic

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i just had a good week in vic

skate at all?

[MFS]

did you get muffins at "market on yates"?  an "empress square" from rogers chocolates?  german crusty buns at the "rheingold" bakery?   book hunting at "russells books"?  hit willows beach for a jog on the sand?


i may visit victoria for a monday-to-friday's worth of research in the first week of december, when the cherry trees will be in bloom.  im soooo looking forward to it, i just lurve victoria.  itd be nice to teach at uvic one day

Dont be a stranger if you make it over here. Do you golf? If so im thinking tee time for sure.

[duck lake]

i can walk

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trying to pic up photography again so bought me a nikon d60 now i just have
 to figure out what all those buttons do

[artichoke]

I don't give a shit about Kim Jong Il either way, but the headline made me laugh.

[cheep]

diamond is hooking up a new set of aces since i broke the hanger on the ones i had.