At least, that's what it felt like when I jumped and screamed in my seat.
Just saw "Life of Pi" at the Capitol Theatre and was blown away. Brought back all the memories of reading the novel a couple years ago and it did so with such beauty, my jaw dropped several times. The actor who played Pi did such an awesome job, I was so impressed. I can't imagine what it would have been like to pretend surviving a sunken ship accident with a few other animals! Unbelievable!
I would highly recommend watching it if you were a fan of the novel. Simply amazing. Definitely got teary eyed at the end.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Letter from Jean, 8 years old, to Jean, now.
Dear older me,The above was an assignment that I registered for with http://www.sketchbookproject.com
I hope you are still alive. I want to be a firefighter when I am older and I want to be doing that for a while, so it would be too bad if you were dead. But mommy and daddy say that is a risk of being a firefighter. They get to save people from fires and sometimes cats from trees. Why do cats climb trees, anyway? That seems silly. They should just stay up there. I like dogs better, anyway.
Are there any new Mario games now? What about Zelda games? I really love playing video games and wonder if you do, too. Mario is my favourite. I really love it when he rides the Yoshis. I especially love it when Yoshi eats the shiny turtles and he has all the powers like flying and fire breathing. The stomping is dumb though. I think they could have done something different with the yellow turtle.
Anyway, I really love pizza and hope you do too. I love hawaiian! Pineapples are the best. But the cheese is the best part! The doctor says I can’t have milk... I don’t know what he’s talking about. It tastes amazing!
Hope you are happy and have a nice family. Be good!
Kind of weird thinking of past me writing to now me. Boy, did I let him down on the firefighter front. Haha!
Thursday, November 1, 2012
I'm happy.
Haven't written in the blog for a while. Thought I would update to say that I am thoroughly enjoying life right now. I've recently become an Education Assistant with one of the schools here in the morning, still subbing whenever I can in the afternoon, and working at my favourite bar, The Black Knight Pub. Apart from gaining income, still playing volleyball, still working on the documentary, and soon to start rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast. Gonna be quite the busy life soon, but I can manage it.
Hope that your life, whoever is reading this, is moving ahead nicely as well.
Much love.
Hope that your life, whoever is reading this, is moving ahead nicely as well.
Much love.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Four jobs? Are you crazy?!
Well, yes and no.
I have been a substitute teacher for a month now (although not working every day) and it has been an exciting experience. I think what I enjoy about it the most is when I encounter a child for whom provides me the biggest challenge of the day and how I have to quickly react and think of a way to handle, divert, and diffuse the situation. Although I had always thought of myself as a patient individual, I am realizing there is still more patience that I can acquire as children are quite unpredictable. So amazing trying to analyze them, figure out how their minds work. Totally looking forward to attending school and learn about their psychology.
But alas, substitute teaching is not guaranteed every day, and although it feels a lot like playing roulette, which would be excited for a gambler, I would rather a little more stability if it can be attained. In the span of a week, I have applied on two jobs. One from which I have already been told my starting date, and an interview was attended for the other. I believe the outlook is good. It was my second formal job interview ever, as I would not necessarily count Walmart... It was nerve-wracking, but I seemed to be able to provide competent answers to the questions I was asked.
But yes, four jobs. Substitute teaching would count as two, in my opinion, as it is with two separate school boards. That is assuming the response from my interview is positive. Woohoo!
My only concern at this point is less time for writing and video editing. But one needs money to survive and attend school, so... priorities.
I have been a substitute teacher for a month now (although not working every day) and it has been an exciting experience. I think what I enjoy about it the most is when I encounter a child for whom provides me the biggest challenge of the day and how I have to quickly react and think of a way to handle, divert, and diffuse the situation. Although I had always thought of myself as a patient individual, I am realizing there is still more patience that I can acquire as children are quite unpredictable. So amazing trying to analyze them, figure out how their minds work. Totally looking forward to attending school and learn about their psychology.
But alas, substitute teaching is not guaranteed every day, and although it feels a lot like playing roulette, which would be excited for a gambler, I would rather a little more stability if it can be attained. In the span of a week, I have applied on two jobs. One from which I have already been told my starting date, and an interview was attended for the other. I believe the outlook is good. It was my second formal job interview ever, as I would not necessarily count Walmart... It was nerve-wracking, but I seemed to be able to provide competent answers to the questions I was asked.
But yes, four jobs. Substitute teaching would count as two, in my opinion, as it is with two separate school boards. That is assuming the response from my interview is positive. Woohoo!
My only concern at this point is less time for writing and video editing. But one needs money to survive and attend school, so... priorities.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Just Not Today
I have been quite the ambitious individual my whole life. From wanting to be a fireman to a paramedic, a novelist to a musical artist, I swear I have dreamt to achieve it all. Lately, however, my two largest ambitions seem the most realistic as well as being the most attainable. If you have been reading my blog up until now, you will know that I am pursuing an old goal of mine to become a teacher at the high school level. The other goal would be that of a storyteller.
The storyteller thing is not a new goal either, but one that has shape-shifted throughout the years. It is an even older goal than that of becoming a teacher. Ever since grade eight, which would bring us back to the year 2001, I have had this dream of telling stories. Back then, it was a desire to write a series of eight books, or some other ridiculous number for a thirteen year old. One series turned into two, then three, then some number variable replaced by x. These stories still might make it to a book format, but my desire for storytelling doesn't end there.
Novel writing then transformed into writing music with lyrics that told a story, with each track acting as a chapter of a book. And somehow in each piece, the story would go through a three-act structure only to pull you into the next song, which would make the most sense if you listened to the album in order, but each song could stand on its own. Then the realization came that I cannot write music nor play any instruments and all I would have is my voice, and if I could not do all the work myself, then I wasn't interested. Way to kill some ambition, but it's for the best.
Then came the art of filmmaking. Now this was a bit of a shocker to me. I had attended Vancouver Film School and left not wanting to make any sort of film whatsoever. I was certain of the fact that the only kind of work that I would be inspired to do after leaving that school would be graphic/web design and nothing more. WRONGZO. There is nothing that I find more tedious than struggling with a mouse in Illustrator and I highly doubt that using a pen tablet would make me enjoy it any more. But moving pictures, sound, lighting... What could be more perfect?
Although my list of film projects remains quite small to this day, it is the one thing that I cannot stop thinking about. Sadly, thinking about it is really all I end up doing. I don't jot my ideas down. I don't pick up my camera. I just let these ideas swim around in this depthless pool of wonderment that is my brain. But this must cease! I must write! And that is what I fully intend to do tonight.
I don't know where filmmaking will fit in my busy schedule, but it has led me to think of cutting out the things that I enjoy doing to allow more time for the things I hope to love doing. And once I become a teacher, filmmaking may have to wait for the weekends, holidays, and summer breaks, but that is a bridge I will cross once I reach its edge.
I'm fading fast. But I know which of my six ideas to work on right away... A young man who has never been in love. Although it sounds sad, I feel it holds a lot of comedic promise. As the usual writer's advice goes, "Write about what you know." And that is what I fully intend to do.
Just not today. Sounds like a promising title.
The storyteller thing is not a new goal either, but one that has shape-shifted throughout the years. It is an even older goal than that of becoming a teacher. Ever since grade eight, which would bring us back to the year 2001, I have had this dream of telling stories. Back then, it was a desire to write a series of eight books, or some other ridiculous number for a thirteen year old. One series turned into two, then three, then some number variable replaced by x. These stories still might make it to a book format, but my desire for storytelling doesn't end there.
Novel writing then transformed into writing music with lyrics that told a story, with each track acting as a chapter of a book. And somehow in each piece, the story would go through a three-act structure only to pull you into the next song, which would make the most sense if you listened to the album in order, but each song could stand on its own. Then the realization came that I cannot write music nor play any instruments and all I would have is my voice, and if I could not do all the work myself, then I wasn't interested. Way to kill some ambition, but it's for the best.
Then came the art of filmmaking. Now this was a bit of a shocker to me. I had attended Vancouver Film School and left not wanting to make any sort of film whatsoever. I was certain of the fact that the only kind of work that I would be inspired to do after leaving that school would be graphic/web design and nothing more. WRONGZO. There is nothing that I find more tedious than struggling with a mouse in Illustrator and I highly doubt that using a pen tablet would make me enjoy it any more. But moving pictures, sound, lighting... What could be more perfect?
Although my list of film projects remains quite small to this day, it is the one thing that I cannot stop thinking about. Sadly, thinking about it is really all I end up doing. I don't jot my ideas down. I don't pick up my camera. I just let these ideas swim around in this depthless pool of wonderment that is my brain. But this must cease! I must write! And that is what I fully intend to do tonight.
I don't know where filmmaking will fit in my busy schedule, but it has led me to think of cutting out the things that I enjoy doing to allow more time for the things I hope to love doing. And once I become a teacher, filmmaking may have to wait for the weekends, holidays, and summer breaks, but that is a bridge I will cross once I reach its edge.
I'm fading fast. But I know which of my six ideas to work on right away... A young man who has never been in love. Although it sounds sad, I feel it holds a lot of comedic promise. As the usual writer's advice goes, "Write about what you know." And that is what I fully intend to do.
Just not today. Sounds like a promising title.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Let's try this again.
I turn the awesome age of 25 tomorrow, and I think it is about time I stop saying I will go to the gym and actually go to the gym.
No. Wait a minute. What the hell? Am I crazy? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah... I'm not going to the gym. But I can work out from home, which is a bajillion times more awesome, less intimidating, and cheaper. Sure, I miss out on some eye candy, but that's what the Internet is for, right?!
...Right?
Anyway, I have had these apps on my phone for a while. They're 100 Push-Ups and 100 Sit-Ups. I intend to use them and stick to them this time. And, this time, I will do the workouts in the morning and not right before bed because that feels dumb when you haven't had the whole day to intake enough protein for muscle recovery. My shoulders are just a tad sore from yesterday's push-up work out. I did the initial exercise for sit-ups to see how many I can do in a row. I think 30 reps isn't too bad. They're not even full sit-ups, anyway. Just crunches.
OH MAN, I AM GONNA GET SO HOT.
No, but really. Time to do something about it.
No. Wait a minute. What the hell? Am I crazy? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah... I'm not going to the gym. But I can work out from home, which is a bajillion times more awesome, less intimidating, and cheaper. Sure, I miss out on some eye candy, but that's what the Internet is for, right?!
...Right?
Anyway, I have had these apps on my phone for a while. They're 100 Push-Ups and 100 Sit-Ups. I intend to use them and stick to them this time. And, this time, I will do the workouts in the morning and not right before bed because that feels dumb when you haven't had the whole day to intake enough protein for muscle recovery. My shoulders are just a tad sore from yesterday's push-up work out. I did the initial exercise for sit-ups to see how many I can do in a row. I think 30 reps isn't too bad. They're not even full sit-ups, anyway. Just crunches.
OH MAN, I AM GONNA GET SO HOT.
No, but really. Time to do something about it.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
One Week
It's been one week since you looked at me...
Yeah. That's a Barenaked Ladies lyric. What of it?
Anyway, today marks one week until I am no longer an employee of the Government of the Northwest Territories. And then the morning after, should the paperwork finally go through, I will work my first day as a substitute teacher with Yellowknife Education District #1.
I am sure there are many people who will know what I mean when I say this: it is really hard going to work when you know that it is almost over. The excitement for what's coming ahead. The feeling that no matter how hard you try, you will never catch up. Knowing that what you're doing is just right for yourself.
Oh no, I'm hyperventilating. It's all happening so fast. The world... It's going dark. Help me. Help me!
Yeah. That's a Barenaked Ladies lyric. What of it?
Anyway, today marks one week until I am no longer an employee of the Government of the Northwest Territories. And then the morning after, should the paperwork finally go through, I will work my first day as a substitute teacher with Yellowknife Education District #1.
I am sure there are many people who will know what I mean when I say this: it is really hard going to work when you know that it is almost over. The excitement for what's coming ahead. The feeling that no matter how hard you try, you will never catch up. Knowing that what you're doing is just right for yourself.
Oh no, I'm hyperventilating. It's all happening so fast. The world... It's going dark. Help me. Help me!
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