doberman pizza. a baha'i (bahai, bahá'í) blog.

ha ha ha shake my hand mister monkey!

so, I visited the job fair today at the illustrious Place 4213 (purely a coincidence), and made a few contacts, interesting ones. I gave out a fair number of resumés; hopefully someone will bite and get in touch with me for a job. I’ll post updates on this site when I get major news. hopefully I can find something stable that’ll give me more hours than Loblaws. :P

oh by the way, I spent the last two days working at the Cranberry Interpretation Centre in St-Louis-de-Blandford. It’s fun being a tour guide! I get to goof around and be funny, and I get paid. It’s a lot easier than I thought. The only thing is that it’s hard on the voice (because you have to speak loudly) and it’s tough standing up all the time. I find that it’s pretty easy to run the tours in both french and english, too — I wasn’t expecting that. I guess it’s because it’s so simple — you’re really just saying the same things over and over, and then you throw in a little bit of your own colour. I take people around through a guided exhibit on the nature of a cranberry bog, how the production cycle works, and so on — and then they watch a ten-minute video, and then we go out for a hayride (without the hay) to see the cranberries being harvested out in the fields. That’s fun. I get to just say whatever I want. I mean, within reason. And I answer questions, hopefully ones I know the answers to.

I’m hungry. Guess I should eat lunch.

upcoming events

these are things I am looking forward to:

the tears cried in silence
drop from my cheeks,
and fade into the haze.

the hand that dried these tears is long gone
and this strange land offers no relief,
no respite, no calm,
only trials, only tests,
only bitter toil and grief.

memories and dreams of better days
flap in the wind, flutter like moths
and in a gust are blown away.

oh Job, oh patience,
what has become of you?
we were best friends once,
but now all have fallen,
and I stand alone,
or rather slump,
crumpled in the corner.

perhaps I never told you
how much I loved you.
perhaps I never knew
until you were gone.

ere long will this city of exile
surely be a city of light,
but in the meantime
I am shrouded in night,
unbefriended,
abandoned.

in this midnight hour
I close my eyes and sit still
and all I have are my prayers.

critical thought

going to Montreal tonight! I’m going to drop in on McGill University to see Dr. Bill Hatcher speak.

ça vibre et ça balance

la vie continue, les affaires continuent à rouler, et j’adopte un rythme qui me convient. la vie, c’est comme le kung fu. tu peux t’enrichir et tu peux vivre pleinement, mais il faut être prêt à aborder les difficultés. hmm. c’est ça le kung fu? peut-être c’est… euh…

et ensuite.

see?

told you.

i always wanted to be… a lumberjack!

oh, if I were not a-serving here

something else I’d like to be

if I were not a pi-o-neer

an engine driver, me!

with a chuff-chuff-chuff

and a chuff-chuff-chuff

and a chuff-chuff all day long,

with a chuff-chuff-chuff

and a chuff-chuff-chuff

I’d sing this merry song.

feeling a little less patient today… oh well… it won’t last ;)

head, meet wall. wall, meet head

well then. I just did a little bit of futzing around with the website, fixed some display problem (that was making everything look huge) and added a links page. Not a whole lot of them yet, but links none the less. also, I fixed up the 404 page. it’s still not as funny as keebler’s though.

oy. I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to organize this study circle and it’s not working as well as I would have liked. bleargh. yet another reminder of who’s the boss… the tests come and they don’t stop coming. it’s a part of life. and we’ve all been told again and again, we’re tested so that we become firmer, stronger, closer to God. yeah, I think I could stand doing that. I just have to learn to complain less and accept it as a positive part of life. yeehaw I love tests!

several people have told me over the past few years that I’m really very positive. I guess that’s really true. I’ve had a lot of wack stuff happen to me and I still haven’t given up. I know that there’s always a solution, that there’s always a reason. And it’s all in the hands of God. Now, when it happens in my own life, it can be more difficult to accept, but the same principles apply. I just aspire to the station where I automatically accept it radiantly instead of being moved to lament or complain. There were such people in history. if only, huh? We can always aspire.

it’s that big chunk of fudge

Here’s a run-down: yesterday I popped by one of the local churches to attend an information session about a gospel choir. That was pretty cool. Actually, it wasn’t the church, it was the pastoral house (or whatever it’s called), right next to the church. Nice place. You can tell the Catholic Church makes a lot of money. So, anyway, that’s nice, I might be able to sing regularly this year.

Also yesterday, we had an assembly meeting, but a really phat one, the best we’ve ever had. We were united, we were organized, we discussed some great topics, we all participated — man, I’m just blown away. It was a great, great meeting. Alhamdu’lillah! It was nice to see. I hope we have some more like that.

Meanwhile, today I worked some more at Loblaws. Yay money! I’m pretty certain that I’ll have to keep looking for a job though, just as a precaution. Since I’m not part of any union, they can cut me whenever they want me to — which may be far away, but may also be within a month or two. You never know. And there has been a lot of talk about said cuts. Oh well. That’s okay. As long as I can find something else that’s phat.

Um, what else? I made photocopies. I did a pretty good job facing, too. I was pretty focused, and I’m becoming more efficient all the time.

I’m tired now. Good night.

oh btw

i got paid. pretty nifty sum for a week’s work. oh and i am drinking pepsi @*$@(%@(*@#!#!!!

aaaaaaaahhh yeaaaaaaaaah

WOOOO I have internet access on my own computer now. MAN that feels good. I was really missing it. it just wasn’t really fun having no tools to work with. :P

feels good feels good feels good. hi all you lovely people. now I can look at you all through my nice funky windows, and use the keyboard that I’m used to :)

speaking of keyboards, I saw the new imac (aka ilamp) in the store today. It looks pretty cool. I’d like one of those, if I could afford it. looks like it would fit pretty well on my desk.

man. hopefully now I can get more organized. I hope I’ve learned my lesson. :P

powerless

I am powerless.

but man does it feel good.

bring me, O cup-bearer of the wine of the spirit, a cup as full as the sea.