Monday, January 10th:

A young boy trundled through another day of life, went to his SWHAT shift on the wrong night (because he’s just that out of it) and stayed because, as usual, there were holes in the roster to be filled. Can that be his good deed for the day? He also decided to update his webpage, because it’s been a goddamned long time, hasn’t it!

Seeing that this here (pathetically) is the first entry of the new year, I knew I had to do something special (did you see my gently touching, hopeful but only-to-the-pont-of-being-cautiously-optimistic one from last year? oh wow.. it was a keeper.. *tear) to make it worth the wait (actually I don’t remember if the one last year was good at
all, I think it had words in it, though). And seeing as I don’t like to disappoint, I’ve pulled out all the stops, and am prepared to present to you the brand new, all improved, completely spectacularly awesometastic new version of this website where everything is better, brighter, happier, funnier, more meaningful and yay, even godlike!

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See? I knew y’all’d love’t!

Before you can enjoy the new features here however, you must complete one of the following steps:
1. Lower your expectations drastically.
or
2. Erase any memory you retain that concerns this website in its previous state.
Having completed either of said operations you are free to enjoy the unbearable awesomeness contained herein! Thank you.

And I also have a small (meaning big) announcement to make concerning the existence of my own exclusive radio engagement on CFMU (!!!). Yup. I have my own show, and what a sweet timeslot it is: Wednesday Mornings from 6 to 9! I’m sure most of you know how much of a morning person I am, so this will be interesting. But still pretty freaking exciting! (the fateful email went something like:
“Hey man. You’re actually capable of being awake in the morning…any interest in doing your own morning show? As of this week, Alexis (Lexcellent, Wednesday am) is gone away to school in Waterloo and the slot’s open. If a weekly morning show sounds too intense you could just take it until the summer. Or you could just fill in a few weeks until I can find someone else. But it’s yours to grab first if you like.”)

The first show is soon, so do tune in if you get a chance. I would really appreciate it. I don’t know for sure the name of the show or the details surrounding it quiiite yet because the focus groups are still examining such things from all possible angles and varying levels of light intensity, but when I find out, you (and you and you) will be the first to know.

Just to not totally kill the spirit of Christmas, I should probably mention it. Christmas at the Muma household this year was awesomely split into 2 teams: Kids vs Parents.. with each group collaborating on snazzy gifts for the respective other. Kinda like a reality show or something. (You reading this big-time network producers?… What a stupid, obvious question. Sorry). Luckily we children were brought up to value creativity and delightful touches like printing out the 2005 video guide cover, taping it to the 2002 guide’s cover and wrapping it up, or labelling a present “to: dad, from: aliens (thank you for letting us impersonate your children for the last 6 years)” really added to the holiday cheer. The parent team countered by having 3 presents, the first 2 of which were socks and sheets, and the last one was the lonely trepidation-defying bag packed to brimming with awesomeness. Overall, the parents won hands down, I mean a freaking Ipod, man! Not to mention the loan of a loaned frying pan = Sweet! No, really… this mother is teflon, baby, and so no stick it’s practically repellent! If God had a frying pan that cost less than $100 this would be it! (just see those pics in the ham challenge for some evidence o the unpleasant frying pan predicament that up until recently tormented us). It was a little disappointing that Vern didn’t show up this Christmas; it’s almost become a tradition for second cousin Vern to drive in through the snow in his remodelled old auto and spend some time chatting quietly with the family over some tea. He’s one of those pious Christians who can really make you believe it actually is all about peace, love and understanding. But he was busy getting ready to be married probably, so no Vern this year. Anyways that’s enough about Christmas, time to dive back into the present.

School this term is looking like it might be a bit on the tricky side, what with the 2 courses more than last year situation, rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet for 7 hours every Saturday, 3 hours of SWHAT and 3 hours of radio.. = 13 hours I could maybe intsead put into a job or something, that might have an interesting effect, but yeah… me and jobs, well we all know that don’t mix! So things are looking slightly bleak for this term and I was getting a little depressed, but then Ian used his economics to cheer me up. Maybe it’s useful after all. Wait, that’s ALL it is.

Fun fact: “Triple dipped” makes triple look spelled incorrectly. Or maybe it does it on its own.