A Little Update - and a test too…

At school right now, in the computer lab. Why you ask?
Because there was a break in last night. To the chem lab no less.

Which means that as chem is my first class (and physics is my second…) I’m sitting here in the computer lab while our chem teacher looks through everything with the police.

Yes, I realize this is really quite inconsequencial - so sue me.
It also serves as a way to test that the auto posting from this Wordpress site to Livejournal works. We’ll see.

On another note, I started my Ski Patrol First Aid course last night. 14 sessions - three hours each. It’s going to be plenty of fun. Much like the other First Aid courses I’ve taken, but more specific to the needs of the ski hill, and also slightly higher training (for example, I will get oxygen certification with this course - never had that before.)

Halo 3 of course came out the other day. One of my classmates brought it today. The little booklet that comes with it looks pretty sweet. Wish I could play it (not sure which I want more - an Xbox 360 with Halo and Assasin’s Creed or an iPod.)

Oh well. Have to run. Teacher came back.

Cheers!

Wahaha… (or in other words, what I’ve been up to)

Yes, I know it has been a ridiculously long time since I updated this site.

So sue me.

I - umm. Have a plan! No, really! I do! I even have sketches of what this site should look like when it’s done. I have a few graphics made and ready to go. Some of the coding is even done.

It’s all just - incomplete, and still on my computer.

Anyway. I am sure you didn’t come here just to read about my (not) coding this site yet.

I have been up to a lot this summer - sailing, camping, hiking, tubing. We took a three week vacation through to BC. It was awesome. I may (or may not) write about it any more here. Just depends on if I have time and feel like going back and typing it all up. But that was July, and it is now September. So probably not.

But - more recently I have been doing First Aid at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. For those of you who don’t know, the Fringe is basically a festival for actors to perform - the organizers get together a long list of potential shows, and then randomly pick the ones that they will allow to run that year - fully uncensored, unmoderated theatre, with a large amount of the profits going to the artists (they say all the profits, but that can’t physically be possible given the number of paid staff - they have to pay them from somewhere. Not sure how that works - but whatever.) And when I say randomly, I mean randomly. As in draw a name from a hat randomly. (Not quite sure if this is the physical method or not - something tells me it could be - but you get the idea.)

Anyway. I was doing First Aid for this event. Second largest Fringe festival in the world. Some 500,000 estimated individual guests over ten days is the only number I can find. So - big. Anyway, First Aid was actually pretty slow. Which is good because no one got injured really. Bad because in just under 90 hours of volunteering, I saw one person faint, another have a seizure, a large number of wasp bites, and handed out band-aids to people with inexplicable cuts on their fingers.

Well, it wasn’t quite that bad. We did have one person who got burned from boiling oil, and another who had a nosebleed that wouldn’t stop (in the last minute that we were supposed to be open no less.) And a call over the radio that first aid was needed as one of the actors cut themselves. Which was fun as we ran out there, only to find that he pricked his finger, said ow, somebody in the crowd had panicked, and meanwhile he had gone on with his show.

Ahh well - as Julia (one of my friends, and an EMT) puts it - good times.

Anyway, I had my last shift tonight. Did an hour with front of house helping them do crowd control for the lineup to one of the holdovers - Homeless. Also got to see it as a thank-you, so that was cool.

Performance was - okay. I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as Kafka and Son (which I saw a few days before out of my own steam). I dunno quite why. It was just as interesting a subject, but I think the fact that with this one, he was just playing far too many characters to make it flow. He also didn’t seem to have as much physical energy as the person from Kafka and Son. Don’t get me wrong - for both of them, this play meant a lot, and they put a lot into it - it just seemed to me that the guy in Homeless didn’t have quite the same level of energy as the other guy. (I really am a theatre person aren’t I - instead of looking up the actors, I call them guys. And if they happen to be reading this - don’t take it personally. I never even remember film actors names - only the characters they play. The way I see it, your role should be remembered for your character first and foremost, not because you played it.)

Anyway, that is all for now.

Start school again on Tuesday. Should be fun. I’ve decided I’m going to go for one semester (which consists of Pure Math 30, Physics 20, and Chem 30 - so, basically, all evil maths) and then work for seven months, before I go into Grant MacEwan for nursing (I thought I was so close to getting in there in February - but I read it wrong. Courses for the winter semester start in January - before high school students even write diplomas! It would make much more sense if the two levels could agree when the semesters should be, but you know how it is - anything to do with business or government rarely makes sense.)

Wait - Cod.Studio?

Yes - I’ve changed the name of this site - the CodBlog has now become Cod.Studio! You may also have noticed that there appears to be only one category. Well, as this site is now an online art studio (of sorts…) run by me and my brother, the blog has been edited so that all of my posts appear in the category Philip and all of his will appear in the category Alex. Right now we aren’t doing anything as a request studio - just a little place for us to muck around. I’ll work in the photography/digital design, and Alex is going to work in traditional media.

Our gallery is online, and can be found at http://codsteeth.com/gallery/ although right now it only has my photographs in it (and only some old ones at that. I’ll get around to uploading my newer ones sooner…)
I’ll get around to adding a place for Alex to put his artwork as and when he scans any into the computer. ^^

As for the site itself, Alex has done a nice logo for us. and I’ll get that up at some point in the not to distant future. I will also finish off the sliding header at some point (I think I’ll put the playlist up there, as well as a link to a library plugin I have for WordPress. Make it my little colourful corner…)

Anyhow, that is all until I finish updating the gallery.

Cheers!