Why Is It So Dead This Weekend?

WOW! There's absolutely nothing going on this weekend, last night I was hanging out with Cory and Craig. Just had some regular chat for the night, it wasn't overly exciting. Tonight roles around and there's absolutely NOTHING. No one is here this weekend, and I guess that is understandable, it's getting close to the end of the year and no one really wants to be around, plus the weather has been excellent all week. It's only bound to get better as the days roll by.

So that leaves us down to 27 days, 27 days left until I'm back home. Kind of an interesting concept I guess. Maybe it's not, I think to much, BLARG! I'm excited to go home, and at the same time I'm not. I have more friends here then I do back home, and not that it's bad that I don't have a lot of friends at home, there's a simple reason for that, I had no social life because I worked too much. My friends back home haven't kept in touch with me, and it kind of bothers me. But then again there is also the fact that I haven't tried to get ahold of them either, which is just as bad on my behalf, but I thought that they would stay in touch at least a little bit, that doesn't happen for me. Is the same thing going to happen when I go home for the summer? Will the people here just forget about me like my friends back home did? I sure hope not because I would be awfully crushed.

Like I said, I think way to much, I'm weird like that, but I thought I'd write about it because I'm so bored. There's nothing going on like I mentioned, I'm listening to music on randomize in SAM Broadcaster. I found myself searching up broadcasting softwares tonight, didn't find too many that were extremely interesting, but a few of them were pretty cool. Which brings us to the next point of discussion about Radio Humber next year. I'm looking forward to being on the air, and Jerry applied for a wattage increase so we should hit a broader audience next year. Which I guess is pretty cool for us, I did happen to come in at a good time. This year they finished building the new Media Broadcast Centre, which started broadcasting a bit before Christmas break.

I cleaned my room today I was so bored. Who cleans their room on a Saturday night?! People who are bored, that's who... But either way, there was a lot of dust on the floor, I was kind of grossed out by it when I had just done it a few weeks ago, but then again, I am lazy like that.

I started working on a song today, and I was thinking about trying to get an album finished before I leave, but I don't think I'm going to have the time for that. We will see how it works out, but I'm not counting on getting it done, unless I use a few unfinished songs that I had from my last album that are half written, that might be an idea. Who knows, we will have to wait and see, but if it does happen I will have to keep you all posted.

This post is all over the board tonight, but that's because I am extremely bored, lol... I don't think I mentioned anything about the photo shoot that Renee did the other night. She had some light equipment so she decided to take a few shots in the lounge. I grabbed my guitar and she started snapping pictures of me. Most of them turned out really cool, she took around 80 of them. It was a fun night..

But I think there might be a few of us going out for a walk for something to do. We are bored out of our minds and theres only about 6 of us here this weekend. I'm bored so I might as well join. Later days.
-Kirk

Bored? Why Not Search Random Things On eBay!?

Hmm, well it seems as if we must have been really bored last night. Aside from being a bit sore, we decided to watch a movie. The Never Ending Story, now, I've never seen the movie, but Renee, Craig and Jeremy had all seen it before. You know, it's actually kind of a cheesy movie, but it was funny to watch the old crazy special effects. It was highly amusing.

Aside from that, it wasn't too much of a day, I didn't wake up until 7pm, because I had been up until 7am that morning when we had gotten home. I was quite sore yesturday, but aside from the bumps and bruises, I'm fine. We kind of had a laugh about it yesturday, and it's still kind of a joke today. It could have been much much worse.

Myself, Renee and Craig took off to Burger King because downstairs had already closed for the night (yeah we got up too late lol), and quite frankly, I really didn't feel like residence food at all. It's starting to get really tiring to go downstairs and eat that same old crap over and over again. I go downstairs and am no longer hungry because of the fact that I don't want to eat anything, there's nothing good to eat. Oh well, we are down to 33 days here. Not to far away, and I really want to try to get as much as I can done within those 33 days. They have already been pretty fun so far.

After the movie last night, Craig and I decided to do some ebay searching for something to do. Talk about bordem eh? Hahahah, we started looking up "Wheatie Boxes" and you wouldn't believe how many there were online for sale. Then we decided to look up Cereal toys, and there were some really cool toys from back in the 50's and 60's for sale. It was highly amusing to look at them. Then we got the big idea to look up McDonalds Toys. And BOY did we hit the jackpot.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Playskool-McDonalds ... otohosting

That is a Playskool McDonalds set. Now how cool is that?! I seriously would love to buy this thing just to say I had one, and to top it off after that, we found this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/LEGO-3438-McDonalds ... dZViewItem

It's a McDonalds Lego set! That is one of the coolest looking Lego sets I have ever seen. You could have your own drivethru lego set to play with all day long. Yeah, what can I say, we were bored last night. Anyways! That's it for today.
-Kirk

Nothing Like Getting Jumped In Toronto

I know what you might be thinking, Toronto is a bad place. And quite frankly, yes I will agree. It all depends where you are and at what time. It just so happened that me and Craig last night, were in the wrong place at the wrong time. We were on our way back to the College and got jumped. We were at Seven Eleven.

There were a group of 10 people and they had just wanted to be pests. I got punched a few times, slammed into the ground, and kicked in the side. Craig got the worst of it. He was thrown on the ground and kicked repeatedly. I am quite sore but I can just imagine how sore he is.

All in all, it wasn't a fun night, we had to walk to a gas station and call a cab, and then take a ride home. The whole time I was worried about Michelle and Renee, because they had gotten ahead of us because we were talking to some random guy on the street. But they had gotten back safely. I just can't help but wonder, if we hadn't have stopped, we would have been home safe and sound and none of this would have happened.

It could have been worse, we survived, and nothing was stolen, but it just goes to show you that there are a few bad places that you don't want to be late at night or something like that could happen. Oh well, you live life how it comes to you. All I need is rest, and I'll be back to normal in a few days, I'm just glad I didn't break any bones.

I am very thankful that Renee was around when we got back, because I broke down, I was upset, in shock, and still full of adrenaline. She was there to comfort and it helped a lot, and Jeremy was there to talk too. It's good to know that I have such caring friends.
-Kirk

Swallowed In The Sea

Swallowed in the Sea is a great tune. And If you haven't listened to it, I definitely suggest it. A lot of people don't like the X&Y album, but you know what, it's not as bad as everyone says. Just make sure you get to track 11 and you will be all set.

Now, you may be asking why I am up at six in the morning, it's a very valid question. And then you may ask why I'm listening to Swallowed in the Sea? That's another great question! I'm up because I just finished having a conversation with Sarah not to long ago(yeah I know, early in the morning chats are great). Then I decided to listen to a song afterwords, and then I just felt like writing in my blog. Such a great tune if you want to make yourself feel better after being down, but when I write things down, I always feel better. Hence why I am posting here.

The night was actually pretty fun, Craig, Renee, Jeremy, Sarah and myself watched Stranger Then Fiction. It's an excellent movie, I actually really enjoyed it myself. We kind of bumped the movie night to Wednesday this week (don't ask me why, we were all busy on Tuesday), but nonetheless I believe we'll be back to the normal schedule next week.

I had an interesting conversation with Sarah, and I know she is probably going to read this. This is absolutely fine, it's one of the main reasons I post on my blog, to get my thoughts out, and for people to read whats going on in my life. I just want to let you know, do not worry about anything, you are one of the greatest friends I could ever ask for. And I say that truthfully and meaningfully. You have been great, and you are on the top of my list for friends. Thank You

So The Countdown Begins.... And It's Only 36 Days?!?!??!!!?!

I'm thinking about going home again, why do I keep thinking this!? It's frustrating, and it only makes me feel like crap! Oh well, I suppose many other people are thinking the same thing. There are things I'm looking forward too, and other things I'm not so much looking forward too.

I still haven't heard back from Bigdog yet. It doesn't sound to good if you ask me! But maybe I am just jumping the gun, they are busy and don't have much time to be checking emails. I am still waiting to hear back from Chris though, he said he was going to tell me what he thought of my work I've sent him, but I haven't heard anything yet. Oh well I'll just wait it off, and stop in when I get home and see how things are going.

I had a conversation with Sarah tonight, about how many days are left before I leave. It's almost a month now, I have to be out of here on the 28th, so that means that there are 36 days left here in Toronto. WOW, ONLY 36!?!?!! That doesn't seem like a lot, and infact it isn't a lot. I don't like looking at that number, althought I suppose I should start the countdown... THAT'S DEPRESSING!

I guess it's really only a four month break, and them I'm right back to where I use to be, second year radio, which is one thing I'm really looking forward too. Anyways, I have a meeting to go to right now, so I should get going, or I'll get yelled at and "evicted" by Phil. Until later days!
-Kirk

I Just Want To Cry...

I don't know whats wrong with me today. I just woke up from a nap and now I'm not in the best of moods. I feel like I want to cry, but I don't have a reason too. I guess I'm just going to write about how I'm feeling right now. Perhaps if I get this down, then I will feel a bit better, who knows. It seems to be working so far.

It's almost as if I'm excited, and sad at the same time. Closely approaching is the summer, which I am excited for. I always look forward to having beautiful weather. I'm looking forward to going back home, in a way, and in the other, I'm not. I have a few friends here that I am closer to then any of my friends at home, and how weird is that? The worst part is they won't be here next year. It bothers me an extreme amount.

There's a lot of people who I care for here, and it's depressing to think that they won't be around next year. The thing that bothered me the most, is those who I cared for at home, when I moved to Toronto, they didn't keep in touch. Do you understand how frustrating that is?! Maybe you do, maybe you've moved like me, maybe you truly understand what's going on in my head right now.

I guess I just have to rant, just like any other day. Some things don't add up for me. I've never been extremely good with making friends, it's been tough, but when I moved here I had no one, and now I have 3-4 REALLY close friends, and of those friends, they are all graduating or not coming back next year. It's kind of tearing me from one side to another right now, and that's what seems to be on my mind again and again.

I like to think I'm a friendly enough person, but sometimes I do things, or say things that aren't too bright. And it bothers me that there are people out there that don't think to highly of me. Actually, it kills me, and I feel bad. It almost bothers me more if I do something to hurt a person, then it does to the person who I've done it too. I guess maybe I'm too hard on myself, or maybe I care too much. I've always been concerned about people around me, but maybe I'm not concerned enough.

Today started like any other day, wake up, go to class, come back from class, and do assignments. Today just felt different... I don't know why... It should blow over tomorrow, who knows, I seem to be too emotional of a person. And I think that's why, and then I start thinking about other things, it gets me into an even more of a depression. Then the tears come, like they are right now, and I guess I better go lay down and think... I hate being an emotional person. It sucks...

What's Up With This Weather?!

I haven't been to a movie in awhile, but last night we went to the Premonition. And when I say "we", I mean Sarah, Cory, Kristen and Lisa and myself. Now I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen the movie, but the ending was a little lame. It just wasn't really that good of an ending at all. It made sense, and it wrapped up, but the whole movie leads towards you thinking something good is going to come out of all this craziness, but it doesn't.

Yorkdale Mall is a VERY nice mall, and the theatre is even more impressive. It beats Rainbow Cinemas any day! It kind of sucks that we pretty much had to break our necks to watch the movie, and it also doesn't help that I ate too much popcorn and felt sick through the last half of the movie. And also the blinding brightness of the screen from being close... I think you get the point, right? We were sitting in one of the front rows because it was so packed.

The weather certainly has taken a turn for the worse. It was chilly on the drive to the movie, and even worse on the drive home. And just when I thought we were getting rid of the snow, another two or so centimeters come down! What the heck is going on with the weather these days! Two days ago it was +10, and now yesturday it was -10! I am waiting for this darn spring weather to kick in and it just keeps flipping back and forth! Oh well, it will be warm enough before we know it. And also be done school before we know it... That's kind of depressing.
-Kirk

And The Drunken Adventures Begin

Well a very fun night it was indeed. Last night was the first time I've ever been to a late night CAPS party. It was a lot of fun. I was joined with Cory, Kristen, Shaun, and Lisa. Craig came along as well, overall, it was a really fun night.

We came back from CAPS at 2ish in the morning, feeling pretty good, and I kind of feel bad for dragging Sarah up to TBuilding. We were a little bit over the top. We were singing songs, and having more drinks. And that lasted until we conked out at five in the morning.

Either way, this isn't too much of a post, just a simple short one to tell you how good of a night it was. Might have to try a few more Thursdays like that before the end of the year.
-Kirk

Beautiful Spring Like Day Today

Wow!!! You sure don't get much nicer then this in the middle of March. It's +15 in Toronto right now! Unbelievable! It is so nice out today, and I always get that warm fuzzy feeling when I feel the warm breeze hit my face from having the window open as I sit here and type this message. It was a good day today, and it's suppose to be nice all weekend.

Aside from feeling like crap this morning when I woke up, the day was good, and full of suprises. I didn't sleep to well last night, it was blistering hot in the rooms, and I woke up almost every hour of the night. I'm feeling much better this evening because of the fact that I just woke up from a two hour nap not to long ago.

I had some suprising comments hit me today from a few of my teachers. First off, I really didn't think my 90 second feature was that good, but apparently Nijbour did. He asked me why I didn't have a job in radio yet?! I told him I had been applying around, and he said to make sure to apply in Halifax as well if I don't get work in Truro. Kind of a boost to my ego I suppose, I am quite pleased to hear that he liked it so much. I really hope I can get work on Big Dog though, it's a great station, plays great music, and I would be proud to be part of the "Dog" team. Plus it's local, and a lot more convient for me!

Jerry approached me today just before I stumbled into class late, I was talking to Cory in the hall before he was about to do an air shift on the 96.9 and Jerry walked by. As I was about to head towards my afternoon class Jerry started talking to Sonia and John (who I was with at the time) and then he brought up the station IDs that I had done a week earlier. He said that they sounded fantastic! I was thrilled to hear that he liked them so much, and they are going to be getting air time on 96.9, so that was pretty cool to hear as well! The IDs are up on my portfolio if you are interested in a listen.

Only one and a half more months to go before I am back in Truro, I'm kind of upset about it, because I'll be leaving all my new friends. The worst part for me is, the fact that I made friends with a lot of graduating students... Renee, Craig, Cory, Kristen, Brian... just to name a few, they are my closest friends here right now, and they won't be back next year! How much does that suck?! I have also grown very fond of Sarah, but she is back next year, and she is a great girl, so I hope things go well over the summer and we will be back in three months time.

Anyways, thats about it for my rant today!
-Kirk

Another Fun Night To Put In The Books

So another fun night on a Friday to put in the books. Healey, Laker, and Diehl came over last night. We had a few drinks and ordered a pizza later that night, but the best part of the night was working on 104.5 Laker Radio's webpage. It was fun, and we are in the process of getting it up and running. Cory purchased www.lakerradio.com and I designed the site.

The station id voicing went well yesturday, got that stuff done and then we were off to creating a few ids. Only a few are produced so far, but that's fine, because theres still much work to do. We got a few of them on the air now running fine, and it's sounding good. (I'm not just saying that because it's my voice hahahaha)

Today was a lot of fun too though, last night we got talking about making some tshirts for the station. I designed a logo for the webpage of course, and Cory liked the look of it. So we talked, and came up with the idea that the logo would look amazing on a tshirt. Well what did we do today? Yeah, we went over to Woodbine and had a tshirt made. It turned out really well, believe it or not, and I was quite proud to say that I had designed the logo myself. It turned out good, and if I can get a snapshot of it for you guys, I'll post it up here for you to see. I'm almost tempted to go and get one made for myself, I think I may hold off for now, and get one in a few weeks time, although I still love the look of it.

Sarah comes back to residence tomorrow! I'm excited to see her return, hopefully she is feeling better. Turns out she picked up the Norwalk virus. I've had that, caught it Christmas Eve and was in the theatre when it happened, puked all over the hallway because I didn't make it to the washroom intime. I'm worried that I might catch it again though, or that I've already caught it, because today I'm not feeling 100%. Maybe it's because I'm paranoid, who knows? If I get it again, I get it again, that's just the way it goes!
-Kirk

Another Jam Packed Week Is Over!

Yes, I am a few days late from my entry, but I have an excuse. This was a jammed pack week, and the next few are going to be even worse. Either way I will keep posting on how my progress is going this year. And by the way, if you are frustrated by poor grammer and improper spelling, I am just going to say, it's a blog, and I'm not perfect! I don't even spell check the thing.

Aside from that, I've updated my portfolio if you are interested in hearing my station ids. I am quite proud of how they turned out. I really like the cheesey Jeopardy parody I did. Even though it's one of the most dumbest station ids ever, it gave me a laugh when I listened to it back, so I submitted it to class and got a few laughs from it as well.

Sarah had to go home this weekend! I was looking forward to partying with her, but unfortunately she has to attend a funeral. Which is never a good thing, but the fact that she didn't want to go doesn't help either. Oh well, I guess that's the way things go, and you really can't say no to that when your mom tells you that she is leaving that very moment to pick you up. There is always next weekend I suppose :)

Not much else has been going on this week, aside from assignment after assignment, and the fact that I think I did terrible on my sales exam doesn't really help either. But I did find out marks for several of my classes, and so far I have an average of 84, which is honours! Lets hope I can keep this up, because I still have three more classes to receive marks from. I was really trying hard for honours this semester, and I think I may just have pulled it off for midterms.

Nothing to exciting planned for this weekend, just going to be the same as always. Have a few drinks and party hard. I did help Cory voice some station ids this afternoon, so I am looking forward to hearing how those are going to turn out. He is working on getting a fully functional online radio station up and running. Laker Radio, which is an all country station. It's quite the setup he has going so far. I look forward to see how the format turns out within the next few weeks.

Anyways, that's it for today folks, check back again for an update. Ciao
-Kirk

Career Pathway For Next Year!

So I ended up going in to see Neil today, I had an interview to discuss which pathway that I am going to be focusing on next year. We had the discussion about going into the Announcing pathway. And he was quite pleased that I am planning on choosing to go this route. We had quite an interesting conversation.

The first thing that he mention was how passionate to radio I have been over the past six months. He has noticed a vast improvement, and he says I had a great vocal tone and very creative with my on air work. He did however mention that there is one downfault that might get in the way in my future broadcasting career. Due to having a little bit of an overbite he can hear a bit of a diction problem when it comes to pronouncing words with "s" correctly. He said it's not a huge deal, but it might get me into a bit of a problem. I am very glad that he told me about this, because now I have the chance to try and correct this problem. I really appreciate someone telling me where I am going wrong, and he told me right up front that this might run into the problem in the future.

Other then that, he was quite pleased with my performances, and my ad libs. Solid, and creative, which is good thing for me. I am hoping I have what it takes to make it far in the announcing career, it's what I love doing. It was a good chat though.

I mentioned that I am trying to get work with Big Dog 100.9 and he was thrilled to hear that I am taking the extra step to try and get some radio experience. I got a business card from him before I left his office and he told me to use him as a reference if I needed it. Apparently Astral Media got purchased by Standard Radio, which is the biggest broadcasting firm in Canada. So I can see some big changes coming up with Astral Media. He told me if they offered me full time to take it and not to come back next year, which if I had a job in radio and am getting the experience, I can still get my degree in Radio. Apparently the program states that if you are in the field working on your second year of studies then it's even better then finishing your training here, so they give you the degree in broadcasting anyways. I'm not expecting to be offered full time work if I get the job for the summer, but it sure would be nice to think that it might happen.

I just finished producing a bunch of 96.9 Radio Humber spots for Nijbour, they turned out really cool. I may post them up here in a bit for everyone to listen to on my portfolio, so be sure to check them out.

I think the plan for tonight is to watch a movie with Craig, he wants to watch Willow, I'm up for that. I've been wanting to see this movie for quite awhile now. Anyways, just wanted to keep you up to date for the day. It's been a good one so far, hope tonight is even better :)
-Kirk

Online Exam Fun!

Another great night to put into the books. It was a fun one, we had a few drinks and I cracked open the new bottle of rum I had bought on Friday. There weren't as many people here as Friday night, I guess everyone was partied out for Saturday. That was fine though!

I have an exam to write today. An online exam for Sociology, kind of sucks, I'm just sitting here waiting for Renee to show up so we can write it together. We are both taking the same online course so we always like to brainstorm together. It's not going to bad though, I was expecting something a bit different for when I signed up for an online course though, but it's alright so far, I'm getting a good mark in the course so that's all that matters

Speaking of exams, my exam last week got canceled for Sales. I was quite pleased with that because I didn't fully feel I was ready for it, and now I have another full week to study which will be nice. We had a severe snow storm here on Thursday so they had canceled classes. It was quite nice to have no classes for once, it brings back the days of high school. When classes were always canceled and you jumped with joy! Well, sadly, that doesn't happen too often with College. We had a lot of drivers from around the GTA and even further, so they have to judge accordingly.

Myself and Craig are talking about going to see Leh-lo tonight, which is the drummer for Billy's band, he has a solo performance tonight at The Supermarket. If nothing else comes up then we are hoping to get down that way, perhaps Renee would like to join, and I might ask Sarah if she isn't to busy (I don't know how much of a music nut she is so she might not want to come).

Anyways just wanted to give you an update, and I want to keep my promise :) That I'm going to be posting on my blog more, as you can tell already I'm one up on that project hahah ;)
-Kirk

Template Complete

Well I think it's done. I've completed the template, and I love the color scheme. It didn't quite take as long as I thought it would but it works! It's simplistic.

I like red, grey, and black together. They seem almost dark, or night timey. That's why I have the title banner a picture of a city scape, which is actually a picture right outside my window that I just took five minutes ago.

I like it, I'm pleased with the turn out, and I think it will stay this way for awhile. A job well done for the night. Now the partying can start soon and we can have a good time!

Comments are welcome on the template. Any suggestions are great too. Just let me know what you think. I like it :)
-Kirk

RSS Feed From Now On

Well I decided I'm going to pull the posts from my blog from now on and they are going to end up showing here on facebook. It will make it easier for me, and I want to keep people updated who don't use facebook as well. Either way, you are going to benefit from it here too, because you'll be getting the posts imported here automatically.

Anyways, if you don't understand this, no worries, just continue on as normal, but here is my blog for those who are interested in reading about my lovely life
http://www.dportalonline.com/blog