The Stoked Thread

I work in our Writing Center here and do a lot of workshopping of writing in my classes.

I am getting really good at finding what is working well and a piece and balancing that with what isn't. With my friends, I will be more cuttingly critical, but it's because I know how hard I can push them emotionally and still have it be beneficial to the work at hand. With the strangers that I help in the writing center, I have to walk a much more balanced line, because I'm not aware of their emotional reaction.

Personally, I take all criticism as teaching, because I can always learn something to make my writing better.
 
First it's a super nice day out, which lead me to break out the shorts that've been stashed away during winter... now i just found $7 in my pocket, which means i can get lunch today!
 
Hah, I ended up doing both. Weather was pretty interesting for late April. Wet snow with 30 degree temps.

We just did it on one of the bunny slopes though.
 
Finally sold my 2nd 30D. I have a little bit of money now. Which is kinda dangerous, because I am oh so tempted to buy a 70-200 f/4.

In other news I'm sick, so that's no fun.
 
yesterday was my birfday! had fun... got a zong, half my intro to video class smoked me down, and Lena took me out for dinner and a bottle of wine. after a long weekend and rolling Saturday night, it was nice to just chill and enjoy the good weather with some great weed, food, and wine.
 
well I might be selling mine this summer so youc could get one cheaper. It is in nice condition too.

I just want to upgrade to the 4 IS.

and get a 5D mk ii if canon ever decides they want to sell them again. Anyone know what the fuck is up with the mk ii being sold out and unavailable for so long.
 
Haha, I am probably selling mine as well. Except I will be upgrading to the 2.8 IS. The f/4 worked fine for skiing, but I found its limitations when using it off snow or on days when it wasn't sunny out.

I am currently stoked on actually finishing my photo final today, and Old Chicago's dollar pizza and PBR on thursday nights. And "sleepovers."
 
Unfortunately, no. They have cut a couple programs in the last year or so to help offset the negative impact of the shitty economy and that was one of them. They do have their 10% price match guarantee though, so if a competitors price is lower they will give you an additional 10% off I believe up to $50 without having to consult a manager. Basically you can probably talk your way to some sort of discount and they usually just go off a customer's word when it comes to competitor's prices.
 
Well if you guys are selling yours in the near future, let me know. I don't have the money to be in the market for a f/4 IS or either of the 2.8s.
 
for those of you looking for a job:

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got new toys today:

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that is the first ski under 90mm wide in the waist to grace my quiver in a couple years and one of only two that are under 109.

(Others are: Wrenegade, Billy Goat, Jeronimos, XXL's, and some 09.10 Blizard Answers will be added Monday). In one year I have gone to having 2 pairs of skis to 7 pairs of kick ass skis.

But on an even biger stoke level:

I just got a brand new in wraper dvd copy of red tape.

Apparently when they were clearing out the puallup store, they found these as well as some Saftey Meating, The Waiting Game, and some snowboard ones.

So yea Stoked.
 
Will, I already work there.

Stoked for a quick trip to Portland tomorrow with the new girlfriend and Billy to see Scott and hit up the West Coast Session. We are going to Powell's too, which should be awesome, as I need a poetry anthology and don't really want to order it.
 
1) Shit flows down hill

2) Payday is friday

3) Don't bite your fingernails.

what else to plumbing apprentices need to know?!?!?
 
Yeah, definitely, but I don't really mind the weight. I've been using the 24-70 almost exclusively lately, so I have grown kind of accustomed to heavy cameras. I don't think the 70-200 2.8 would be a ton heavier than that is, and it would take kick ass photos.

Alex, I won't have the money to replace it until sometime in July probably, so it will be a while. And I am in the states too, which could make things shitty.
 
just rentals haha nothing too exciting. but I figured they was more likely to be a better crew in rentals than in the coffee bar.
 
"My Friend is a Pro" may be doing a full show at IF3 this september and I am really hoping to make it out east to see it, and all the other debauchery that goes along with it.
 
My parents own a big mini storage place and I was out there helping clean out some units today. When people don't pay for a while we just cut the lock and take all their crap out, which can be somewhat interesting. Anyways, today I left there with three kick-ass old school Polaroid cameras. I need to go talk to some photo professors about them and see which one I want to keep, but they are rad.
 
Skied all day in 27 degree sun (70 something for you mixed up americans), drank beers, checked out chicks in bikinis, tailgated and watched the massive in the parking lot. came back to town for a huge steak and poutine meal and watching turbo before heading to the bar. fucking awesome day!!!
 
started off friday night at a gallery opening at school which had free beer, moved to the bar with a couple of coworkers, drank, moved to the reggae show on campus, drank thinly veiled whiskey & coke out of a water bottle, moved to campus apartments to meet up with the coworkers and a couple other friends.... next thing you know i've got the girl from work with a mowhawk sitting on my lap.... transition to crazy roommate-awakening circus sex...... did i mention the mowhawk? i've got more scratches on my back than Ryan has voyeur porn tapes, haha.

good night.
 
Got back from WCS about an hour ago. Snowed and blew all day, but it was fun aside from T-line's small jumps and flat landings. Great sessions happened, I won a ski bag, and skied with Katie a little bit too.

Got to see Scott, which was nice. Thanks for the hospitality and skis. The pancakes were terrific too.

Nice to meet you Brian, sorry we didn't shred together more. It'll happen.

Then we hit up Powell's in Portland, which was epic. Not surprising for the largest bookstore in the world. I'd never been before, and it blew my mind. I escaped with only four titles, and think I did pretty well considering that I could have blown my entire paycheck. The damage:

20 Love poems and and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda. Amazing Chilean poet, and one of the most popular collections of poems out there. Really beautiful, and I have a Spanish/English edition so I can read them in both languages. I'm always suspicious of translations, and can actually do my own in Spanish.

Good Poems, collected and prefaced by Garrison Keillor. It's a collection of the poems he reads on Writer's Almanac (NPR fans unite!), and I like what he chooses. A good collection to broaden my horizons.

New and selected poems, Vol. I by Mary Oliver. Amazing poet, with a terrific perspective. I read a bit of her last summer, and now get to do more of it.

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Suggested by Katie. I needed a novel, and now I have one.

Katie drove the whole way back, so I got to sleep. Glorious. Going to Powell's was super fun too, there are few things as sexy as a woman who knows her way around literature and can appreciate a bookstore. She's amazing.

 
Great to finally meet you too man, WCS was a blast, regardless of weather. Won a pair of goggles for fs sw up on the dub kink, stoked because that rail was frustrating all day long.
 
So last night I went out to another drag show with this girl:

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and a few of her friends. They are all 100% insane, and awesome to be around. I was drunk at 7:00 when we left town to go to it (in Livingston, MT!), and then we kept that going while hanging out with drag queens and watching amazing renditions of Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys songs. For those of you who have not been to one of these before, I would highly recommend it! Watching people in drag is one of the most hilarious things ever, regardless of your orientation.

We got back to Bozeman, and then things managed to somehow get even more....interesting, I suppose. About five minutes after getting into one of the bars I turned around to see a super small girl that was with us bending over the 300 pound bouncer and spanking him for photos. That was just one of many amazing things that went down, and then I started buying rounds of Jameson for everyone. We went across the street to another place, and I vaguely recognized a girl on the dance floor there. Hmmm. Oh yeah, it was an ex-girlfriend's older sister! So she immediately came over and started talking to me about how hot her little sister was, and I was in total (but befuddled) agreement.
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They look pretty similar, but I do have to say the older version is much more fun to talk to, and more intelligent. Apparently she wasn't too concerned on how I ended it with her sister, because despite the fact that I had only met her twice before, she was ridiculously friendly to me.

So yeah. Drag show+dirty Bozeman bars=me waking up next to an awesome friend, covered in glitter, in a strange house. Sorry if that made no sense, I am still trying to comprehend everything myself!
 
Just got back from a weekend down at Hood, it was good times. Went to West Coast Sessions the first day, then hung out and folfed in Portland today. Drove back and practiced dance moves all the way to Seattle. It is nice to be home... good times.
 
Did anyone else catch the windstorm in Ontarible yesterday?

I was driving down the street at around dusk, heading down the road in the space of 5 minutes shit gets ominously in front of me, lighting strikes ahead, it's a good show, driving towards a light with cars spralled out all around the intersection, traffic lights are out, one of the lights hanging from a cable is wiping around like a pin wheel. I look over in the field as a large realestate billboard (14ftx10') is flipping around supendened in the air like a card from a deck of cards dropping to the ground 52 pick up style, hail or gravel is whipping into my windshield and I'm thinking this is fucked up like something out of the movie Twister, wishing I'd caught what I just witnessed on video, but wanting to get get the hell out of that interstection, out of instincts I pull a right hand turn at the intersection and within the space of a Km I was out of the storm. Watching the news tonight I had a chance to see how extensive the storm was....

Not stoked for those affected, but shit was intense and really eirry for that moment yesterday.

 
I have a 15 year old sister, who's really not my sister at all, but is in reality. Long story short, Ed and I were driving to dinner with her in the car Saturday night and I played the song, she's hooked. Absolutely loves it. It's spreading quick. She's getting all of her friends hooked. It's funny. Same with the Hathbanger mixes. I can't get her to listen to Zeppelin but she loves this stuff. Should I be surprised? Judging by the top 10 song downloads on the iTunes store...hell no
 
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