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.)