Today is...

Well, hasn't this been an interesting last 24 hours. I had a horrible night last night, a horrible day today given that I spent all of it dizzy with a headache up until 3:30 PM doing what I've been doing for the past 4 days straight which is working like mad to finish my 320 poli sci book report which was supposed to be in a long time ago. Then I came home and got some even worse news from the folks and we're now waiting to get confirmation if its true.

Now, given all these things I could make a long winded rant about how much life sucks and how much I would rather be somewhere else.

But that wouldn't really be in line with who it is I'm trying to become. If there is one thing I've learned clear as tropical waters this year it's that I can't tolerate self pity from myself. I find it revolting. Crap happens, plain and simple. Understand it, accept it and move on. Things happen for reasons you may not understand for a long time after they do and many people have it worse than you do.
Just try to remember there are good people and things in this world and while they may not seem large in numbers try to remember a little bit of good trumps a whole lot of you know what anytime and anywhere if you're willing to let it.

So with this in mind I'm going to make a list of all the things I am thankful for and from this day on Nov 28th will now be known as the "what Daniel is thankful for day".

They are off the top of my head and in no particular order:

-The house. It's huge, comfy, with a fire place and a room I love to death. When you consider that more than half the world lives on less than a dollar day it makes you end up asking how you got lucky enough not to have to live homeless or in some third world country.

-Being fortunate enough to eat when I ever I want.

-My girlfriend. There are many things I'm thankful for when it comes to you but I'd have to say off the top of my head I'm thankful for when I get to fall asleep and wake up holding you. Touch, and I'm not refering to that in a sexual way for anyone wondering, is a wonderful warm thing that too many people I'm sure don't experiance often enough.

-The Jolly Farmer. It's a little pub here in Ponoka and the only place in Alberta that reminds me of B.C pubs. I get to go there every week and relax.

-Professors who for some strange reason feel reason to give you condifence and credit. Why I recieve it I don't know why and more to the point don't care anymore. Sometimes it really is the end product that's important and not the means. I say that because sometimes the end is what illuminates the means you may not have been able to see previously.

-The fact that I can make music however shitty or good it may be.

-Harry Potter books.

-The Political Science Society. Each year I am amazed at the people I meet and despite their diverse personalites the fact that they have an ability to work with each other towards something better. Like I said on the myspace entry, it makes me have faith in the world in general because you get to see people producing ideas and moving them into something solid first hand. Actually you know what? I shouldn't just say the Poli Sci Society. Make that anyone I meet in school who cares about something in general because I know many in RDC who fall into that catagory.

-My friends. They have their bad qualities, but so do I and they stick by me regardless of them. I can say without hesitation that the good things outweigh the bad and I appreciate the company and advice all of them are willing to try and share if I need it at the drop of a pin.

-Vacations.

-Seeing the faces Randy's baby makes, especially when he follows the coffee cup up and down. I love the faces babys make. They're so...weightless.

I'm sure there are more things but those are all of them I can think of at the moment.

Just so I no one says I don't give credit where credit is due

It'll be interesting to see how Chernushenko and Jaccard work together. For those of you how don't know Dr. Jaccard is the author of Sustainable Fossil Fuels : The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy.

It's nice to know thay despite the lack of talk about it in the January election, the environment is now pretty much something that all party's have to address regardless of their personal views on the matter.

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Other stuff:

-Good for a quick laugh

-Had a really good weekend.

Updates galore

So much to talk about, so little motivation to do so. But, I'll try anyways.

-Obviously the forum was this Tuesday. I'm not really to sure what to say about it. A couple councilmen and our MLA were among the 25 that showed up to see the film and hear Ricardo speak after I asked them to attend. I'm not sure whether to be more mad at the conservatives who can't grasp the message of the film, or the speakers in the film for making so hard for the conservatives to feel like they're not being slapped in the face when they try to watch it.

-There's this girl from one of my poli sci classes I've been seeing for the past two weeks. She's the head of the New Democractic Youth on campus and...I honestly don't know what say about her- mainly because I don't want to jinx this by explaining what she means to me. If it works it works and if it doesn't it doesn't. There's nothing I can do about it seeing as we are who we are. All I'll say is I've never met anyone who is as close to me in terms of politics as she is and last night's discussion was one that I'll probably never forget so I'll just say thanks again and leave it at that.

-The Youth Environmental Summit was a worthwhile experiance. I was able to spend about 15 minutes talking to our environment minister "Guy Boutileer (yeah, I can't spell), not that I think it really did any good but whatever.

-I'm drunk

cheers,

~This guy