Trip to Canada’s Capitol
Well, I guess it’s about time that I share the reason why I spent my thursday two weeks ago, in a car for about 12 hours. Yep. 6 hours there and 6 hours back, all in one day. It was fairly tough, but we survived.
Algonquin College was having an open-house for the course I’ve been accepted to, and am probably going to be taking next year. And I thought that it would be awesome to go check out the campus, check out the course, and check out…well…basically, everything! I’m pretty confident that I’ll be able to do fairly well in the course. I’m taking it just to improve my artistic skills, because I know I’m not the best artist in the world.
The artwork the students were displaying were a-mazing! I look at it and wonder if I’ll ever be able to do something of that quality. I was scared at first…but then I noticed that they had some before-to-after pictures. And many of their before work look similar in quality to what I can do.
We had coffee, chatted with a lot of the students(who all said they loved the course, and the prof) and we talked with the prof himself. His name is Rich, and he seems to be an all-around awesome guy. Very friendly, and a very good teacher, according to everyone. Me and my dad even went to apply for residence while we were there. We got a nice tour of one of the rooms, and they look sweet ^^. Not too big, not too small. Just perfect. They have internet(without which I wouldn’t survive), TV, local telephone service(you pay for long-distance), a massive bed, a desk to work at, and a load of other things. We were told that they try to get all 1st-year students into dorms, and we applied early, since it’s a first-come-first-serve deal. I hope to get one =D.
I am so excited to go! And after the open-house, we went for dinner at Crystal View Lodge, another retirement home that’s just 2 minutes away from the campus. It’s also under Holiday Retirement, so they said I can transfer there when I come to Ottawa for my schooling.
Man…I just can’t wait to go. Of course, there’ll be a lot of people that I’ll miss here. Like friends and family. But this is going to be an amazing experience. And I just want this year to end, and next year to start. Fast.
Success in the Pack
I promised, and it’s here. The post on the pack.
Man, I am just so proud of all the packmembers right now. There has been so much activity in the pack. At least when I’m there. And I’m pretty sure it’s been the same when I haven’t been. Because, I read my Alpha(Amythist)’s journal a lot, and she’s been quite happy about the activity of the pack, too. I remember the times when she was only saying things like “activity needs to improve”, or things along those lines. That phrase is completely vanished from her recent posts. It’s just been so nice to be with the pack recently.
We just had another pack meeting on Sunday, and I am so glad I could make it. I always love those, because it used to be the only time when nearly everyone got together and roleplayed. Sometimes it’s hectic…but who cares! There is always a lot going on. Promotions, discussions, and this time, adorable puppies trying to steal away his mothers voice while she tried to lead the meeting. Haha, Scyanite is hilarious. I just added him to my friends list on Facebook a few days ago. We even tried to arrange to meet when I was in Ottawa(he lives there), but that didn’t work out.
Here are the specifics of what happened the day of the meeting:
4/27/08 – Packmeeting is held!
Darklight was demoted to packmate for lack of activity
SilverEye promoted to Gamma
Opalfire promoted to Hunter/Scout
Feenix, Azureite and Whiskey complete Assesment and advance to Packmate
Spynil and MoonWhispers enter assesment as Omegas
Discusion held regarding Forum
Well, that’s not all of it. I intentionally left out two things there just so that I can talk about them individually. And you may have guessed it…but yes, they are about me. To some extent.
The first, is that Jasper has been promoted to Centurion. I’m no longer a Battalion. But, a Centurion. That’s quite an honor. Because that means that I have been granted the responsibility of leading the pack Battalions. They follow my order. And I will be the first on the scene if there’s a threat to the pack. This also means that, if the Alphas need to leave the EmeraldMyst territory for any reason, I am to accompany them as protection. This promotion is such an honor to me, and Jasper. Whoever reads this just might think I’m crazy…and you probably have good reason to. But that won’t change the fact that I love this pack. And therefore, be honored by this.
The funny thing about it, though, is that I knew this was coming. I saw it in hard writing from Amythist. I don’t think she knows that I check up on her journal all the time. If she found out…maybe she’d call me a freaking stalker…but no. I’m not. I check there because I want to know the happenings. And because I care about my packmates. So, I just laughed when she said in the OOC room one day: “Jasper, you better be there for the meeting. You might have a suprise”. I couldn’t stop for like…5 minutes. But of course, I kinda hid that from the pack… =P
But(I know, this is getting long. But meh. Don’t read if you can’t handle it, I don’t care =P), this is not all that happened to me that night. Remember, I left TWO things out? Well, here’s the second.
It came so sudden, I was hardly expecting it. Nothing in Amy’s journal about this, otherwise I wouldn’t have felt the shock. Randomly, in the middle of the meeting, Amy messaged me and asked if DemonCrystal and I wanted to start courting. For all of you who don’t know what that means, it’s the equivelent of dating in “wolf” terms. I told her I would talk to Demon about it, and get back to her by the end of the meeting. Man, that was awkward =P.
We got into this whole random discussion about where a wolf would get a good-looking wedding dress and a ring. We settled on rolling in the mud for a dress, and the twig my wolf was playing with during the roleplay earlier. Because that’s just us. The two most random wolves in the pack. Haha, she even had me propose to her. Jokingly, of course. Then, she said yes.
Amythist threw that into the meeting schedule, and we both agreed to become courts, in front of the whole pack. Demon’s quite the roleplayer. She took on a whole shy persona about the whole situation. I didn’t…lol.
Again, I must say that I am extremely proud of this pack. They are an amazing group of people. Always fun to be around. Hopefully, things can keep going the way they are!
Something New Everyday
It’s definately been a long time since I put anything up here on my blog. And for anyone who reads it, I’m sorry. I don’t even know the why behind it. Maybe, I just don’t have anything to vent about anymore. Which I suppose is a good thing.
Life’s been moving along well recently. As well as I can expect it to. My Media Arts group still sucks, but I’m over it, and we’ve got a little video done. Nearly. It’s not what I can call satisfactory…but, like I said before, I don’t care anymore. The next video we do, I’m going to take charge and designate myself as the cameraman. That way, I can use my creative sight and actually do it. No more “acting” roles for me, hopefully.
It was TheJakeman’s birthday on April 14th. He turned 18 now, and we still haven’t had a get-together with all our old friends like we used to! I’m totally going to try and get together with everyone this coming monday, and celebrate that and another awesome thing that’s going to be happening in his life. Soon to come. I have no idea what we’ll do for that…but that’s usually the case with us anyway. We just randomly do things. Doesn’t matter what.
I’m extremely happy that my boss has agreed to give me fewer shifts at work. Now, I only work a max of 10. Which is going to totally help me out in school! Most of my classes are still in the 70s, except French…which I’m almost failing… But then again, I’ve never been good at French. I managed to catch up on all my schoolwork a few weeks ago. But that didn’t last long. I missed a biology lab when I went to Ottawa(which reminds me…I need to write up about that still). I had no idea what happened, and so I struggled through it. Took way too long, and I ended up handing it in late, and couldn’t quite get some smaller assignments done for today. But it’s all cool. I can easily get all the rest done today.
The Emerald Mysts pack has been doing AMAZINGLY well recently. I haven’t talked too much about them, and that’s probably why. I’ll post something separate on that…maybe….NOW!
See you in the next post!
Back Home
It’s been such a long time since I was able to get onto mIRC and roleplay with my pack. Mostly because I’ve just had so much homework to do, and keeping up with that and working at the same time is just impossible. It’s pretty annoying, but it’s the truth.
All the time I was away, Jasper was lost. He’d been separated from the pack one day while he was scouting the packlands for threats, and a blizzard struck. He couldn’t get back until it cleared and, by then, the pack had evacuated the area to return home to the EmeraldMyst clearing. There was no trace of them, so Jasper had no idea where they went. He’d been searching for them for a month until stumbling upon the pack once again.
A lot has changed since I’ve been gone. First of all, Amythist’s pups have been born. So far, he’s met Ruebie, the runt of the litter. She acted so cute ^^. But more bad things happened than good, from what I understand so far. Two of my friends are gone. Kuma was banned for insubordination. And Kagetora, well, I just think he left. I don’t really know the reason…I haven’t asked about him yet. I probably should sometime soon.
But what else is interesting is that I’ve tried to get TheJakeman into the roleplay. He joined as Thiago(correct my spelling if it’s wrong…lol). He came on yesterday, and checked it out. He seemed to fit in pretty well with the group in OOC. Which is awesome!
He had to leave pretty quickly, though. And I don’t blame him for that. He’s not exactly been feeling well these past few days. And a computer screen definately doesn’t help with that. I know…I’ve been down that road several times myself.
I just hope he decides to come back once in a while ^^. It would be nice to have a real friend around the pack.
UPDATE:
Well, it turns out Kagetora didn’t leave at all. Instead, he’s also one of Amy’s pups. Scyanite. Also, I’d planned to put a banner for the pack on this post. So…here it is!
Where’s the Chemistry?
Alright. I’m here, at school. And I have just blown my fuse and am about to freak out on everyone in my Media Arts group. I’ve written about it before, and I’m sure as hell gonna write it out again. I’ve just had it with these guys. One of them way more than the others.
Well, sure, they came up with this idea. Wow. Good for you. Now, do you have ANYTHING to put together? Any interesting camera angles? No? How about a little more detail in your storyline? No again? Wow. Who would have thought that was possible with Nathan? I sure did!
That’s it. I’ve put my best foot forward for an entire week for this video assignment, and everything I do is literally shot down. And by who? Someone who’s not even going to pass high school. Do you people think that it just might be possible that I am the one who knows what he’s doing? I’ve averaged at 80% for pretty much my entire high school career. I have plans to go into art for my future. Do you think it’s possible that I know what I’m doing, compared to someone who just wants to smoke and get high all the time?
What is wrong with you people? Seriously.
Goodbye. I’d rather take a zero than work with you ever again.
So, good luck, eh? Find yourselves another nerd.
Why not?
This is another rant about school. About how stupid some people can be. Or just how stubborn I am. You can take a pick of which it is when you’ve finished reading.
Well, a few days ago, we were in Media Arts class, and we had to come up with an idea for our next video to produce. Well…my group had no real ideas. But I had one, and I offered it up. Of course, it was just a few little thoughts of mine that seeped onto a lined piece of paper, and I understood when they said that they didn’t understand.
And so, I took the idea home with me, and gave some thought to it. I even wrote it up for about 2 hours in a kind-of story format, so there was no possible way that they wouldn’t understand. I come to them and let them read the draft the next day…and they were hardly pleased. All they really said was “This is too hard”. Really. That’s it.
I had everything pieced together, except for one little part. I could see it all playing through my head. I knew exactly what needed to be done to get the project done. And they say it’s too hard. The thing had an incredible story compared to others seen in that class from last semester. I had ALL the scenes planned out. All the vocals. Even the songs to put the video to! And they claim it was too freaking HARD?!
I just left. Because what they said was just so rediculous. Again, I’m thrown with the lazy group. And like I said, I wasn’t going to do all the work. I didn’t push it any further.
Basically(if you don’t understand, let me give you the full synopsis thing), it was about this “shadow” person. We start with him in a dark room, with evening light seeping into the window, and making eerie shadows on the ground. Things we could just get by spending one day at someone’s house. Well, the creature explains that he wasn’t always like a shadow. He was a good person, but temptation lured him to being bad. And as hard as he tried, he could never get away from the evil.
There’s more detail to it, for sure. Again, everything’s been planned already.
All I’m thinking is. Why are you guys just going to settle for something that’s satisfactory, when we’ve got a crisp piece of work to work with right here? They want to do a biking video. That’s all they know so far. rant
Seriously? You guys don’t even have any idea what you’re doing.
And don’t expect my help. My ideas are crap, remember?
And so, TheJakeman has kindly agreed to do the video with me. If it doesn’t happen, that’s alright. Because I know that he’s still appreciating the effort I put into making this thing up.
My group made me feel so insulted. I live to create stories.
