Day 1

another long gap btw entries...ahh whatever, nothing much has happened...school's goin well, work is a joke...plannin on reading week getaway down south (Feb 20-25 btw for those who want to come) and possible euro trip in the summer time

watched jarhead yesterday...was expecting more action, but realized after the fact that it wasnt the point of the movie...i mean playing foosball and hittin golf balls in the desert? i wouldnt mind doin that...but again getting killed for stupid reasons...not worth the risk...good movie overall...love the war stuff for some reason...shows the desparation, emptiness of masculine nature at its finest

quote of the movie..."every war is different and every war is the same"

whoh june 14 to aug 2? that is a bit of a gap...apologies once again for my absence...

this is one of few days im not working 12-13 hour shifts at summer camp (830-5) and the restaurant (6-10)...tryin to chip away at that credit card debt that has transformed itself from a tiny insect to a monster!!! oh well it was all worth it...italy trip 3 years ago...golf driver...many rounds...fun times...

3.5 weeks left then im done summer camp...i dont know why i always want it to end...maybe cuz its draining...but if it paid a little bit more i prolly would do it for the rest of my life...pretty easy, just saying no to kids, laughing, playing games...wrestling...

my golf game is really starting to stink...like out of my boys i used to be the best...now im like the worst...if you dont know him look up a golfer's name (david duval) and you know what i mean...except i dont have a wife and kids like he does...and the millions he still has...dammit!

girls' softball team won...whooo...just pure domination...not getting ahead of myself or on behalf of the team when it comes to the talk of word 'dynasty'...but we're 1/3 of the way there...

harder to defend than to win,

lock it up!!! -wedding crashers-

4 years, 25k, 10 lbs of weight added and unforgettable memories = university degree...

in some ways i feel unsatisfied or the feeling hasnt sunk in yet...possibly in a month or so

anyways i arrived at 8:30 (7:30-8:15am) was the pick up timefor the gown and hood, we didnt even get caps! it made sense since we were gonna get hooded...fortunately there were hundreds in line so i didnt worry about not making it in time

i was impressed how organized and efficient the program went...they put us in order by number and alphabet and we walked in a straight-forward line towards convocation hall, it felt like cows going into the slaughter only that we were graduating from u of t...not bowvine university as ralph wiggum would say

i was worried that they wouldnt call my name at the correct time since numbers 198, 199 and 201 were not present...i was number 200, but my skepticism turned into optimism as i watched the co-ordinators work busily and giving them the credit that they have done this for the past few years

anyways, time came and it was my turn to head up to get hooded...it was a nice feeling...it went by too fast yet but an special experience that will stick with me forever...opening up the envelope with your name and a degree attached to it...

special mention to my parents who i couldnt have made it through without; physically, financially, spiritually, my boy haakon who won the E.A. Robinson Medal for social sciences meaning he had a super high g.p.a. like infinity or something and got the announcer to say "haakon NORWAY knoph" as he came up...haha

ended at noon with me scrambling to get some pics and last good byes in and handing in gown and hood to go for a nice lunch with the rents and cuz...

night started with a little reunion at felcia's irish pub in the saug and ended at 4am with a drive in whitby getting a bite to eat with middle-school boys...

did i say i woke up at 8 am for some reason?

alright alright...havent been updating lately i know...so here we go

sunday slept over the hams house in order to wake up early the next morning...we played a game of poker, i won $40...yesss cowboys!

monday i played in tkpc's 1st golf tourney (not considered to have a large turnout but lo and behold nearly 40 showed up)...not like i was gonna win with my new 30 handicap...haha...7th hole had a beer with the boys (john kim, paul lee, tom no)...we all played preetty badly...well john was gonna hit mid 90s...tom and paul started blasting shots...actually tom won longest drive, 275 i think...paul hit a 3wood hook that would of won it but went into the marsh...thats golf!

just got promoted from busser to food runner...its ight...i mean staying late and polishing cutlery isnt what i want to do the rest of the summer

had a pretty interesting convo with simon park last week on religion and our common belief in evangelical christianity...sparked some good points and now im beginning to read "Why Christianity Must Change or Die", by Bishop Spong who described the toxins that are poisoning the Church. Spong explains why the traditional understandings of God, Christ, the Church, and their rules and dogmas are wrong and dangerous. He spells out his contemporary vision of God, Jesus, prayer, worship, evil, the afterlife, and the Church as a community of love, equality, and truth.

afterall...we do have to ask ourselves, is it the environment who has shaped us to believe in a narrow, linear way of thinking?