merry

fuckin a!!!!

that's the fighting spirit!!! i knew you were better than an office monkey, fuck that shit!

damn, that's exciting!!

like you i have a need for a high degree of autonomy in my work--- usually that means you have to work a whole lot harder than if you were in a 9 to 5 job, but what you lose in agonising dullness and predictable routine, you gain in empowerment, confidence and satisfaction... and dare i say it, fulfilment.

my dream job would certainly be creative--- writing and performing mainly. plus indulging my interests, like travel, music, comedy, that kind of thing.

for that reason i'm quite excited about starting this PhD. For starters, they're paying me, so it's like a job. Secondly, I'll be back in Belfast, which is small enough to 'network' with the right people, and indulge in all my interests. and then for the purposes of my research, i should be able to wrangle a few travel opportunities out of it, which is all good. and by the end of it, even if being an academic wasn't really how i imagined myself, i'll still have developed the skills for what i really want to do (including teaching as performing, i suppose), so I'll be in a much better position to launch myself in that direction when I finish.

If that made any sense .

Good luck Mary, that's great news!!

sup yo
been out galavanting. was best man at a wedding in maui and some other stuff. so yea i missed the august issue completely. glad to know things are coming together.

what are you using to format your zine? love to see it. ttyl

thanks for the grammer lesson. i hate when i do stuff like that, cause it makes me look/feel stupid.

and the two times i saw moneen, kenny was acting the same way. maybe he just likes hugs....

He is.

And I can't place one of those lyrics

thanks for adding me as a friend. sorry about your dog
what do you put in your zine?

damn, that makes me even more mad that i missed it. oh well, i'm sure it will be on again.

my address is on the way...

sorry about your dog =(

our internet's been down for four days and it just came up now. you can use whatever you want of mine. just include my email address somewhere on there to make sure people know it's mine. because i like my stuff. =)

hmm... i'd rather not get anything in the mail just because i don't want my girlfriend seeing the word "bad" used in conjunction with my poems. she's a bit protective. but maybe you could like, scan it or something so i can see what you've done. hehe.

That's the worst. I don't have my own dog, but there's a couple in my immeditate family that I'm super close to. I took a bunch of pictures of Poet the last time he was here because I was thinking that I didn't have any.

I'm super sorry. I hope it was a peaceful end.

i guess that makes it BC day here.

those three are great! especially Hump up the Volume. and finally one for 'Matthew Madison' to star in, White Men Cant Hump. i think thats the story of my life.

but you would wrestle Tony Clifton. what about Latka?

actually i had thought of that right after i posted the last one.

or how bout this one, this is my favorite...

The Humpty Dance....... your chance to do the Hump.


and was it just me, or did you think you might have to take it in the butt for Humpty Dumpty.

Thanks dude--will do.

I was just reading DitNB....the rejection letter reminds me of my old roommate. He's an aspiring writer. We lived together in the dorms. He wallpapered an entire wall of our dormroom with rejection letters from submitting stories to magazines.

hahaha! who the hell is that guy?!?! see, i've been laughing at people like that my whole life, and now God is punishing me

Some of friends used to do youth work. How they stopped themselves from cuffing the mouthy little fucks is beyond me.

So, did ya watch Bubba Ho-Tep? I watched it last night. It was a little cheesy at times, but I liked it a lot.

Hahaha. I dunno, those guys have the hottest girlfriend in the park.

Hahaha. I dunno, those guys have the hottest girlfriend in the park.

we go on pub crawls all the time..

oh wait I am in Canada too....

Yep, as Nicky said, pub crawls are definitely British. Which means that the Australian peeps do that a lot too...

I've been on, well, let's say "way too many" myself