if DV were here, he'd say that my week was a testament to the church of the shaft and the flow...

monday: picked up S&A's wedding gift (part of it, anyway). that night, we dropped it off at their place and watched them forcefeed their cat. see, cats are kind of retardedly designed. housecats will get fat, then if something upsets them, they can stop eating. like other animals, they'll begin to metabolize their own body fat if they don't have food. problem is, their livers can't handle that. it gets all fatty and useless, and, if untreated, the cat just dies. apparently, then, the solution is to forcefeed the cat. i watched as A held the cat's head while S squirted pasty liquid catfood into the cat's mouth as the animal protested. rawr-rawr-rawr-rawr...

tuesday: finally got my letters and CV all ready for the internship application. went to school and printed everything out. then went and bought myself a long overdue pair of cons. they've got quite the racket going; there must be, like $2 worth of material in them and they're selling for $60. brings me one step closer to being joey ramone next halloween, though. also, bought the napoleon dynamite DVD, which my sweetie was convinced i would never be able to do. also picked up cables to connect the laptop to the television so that on saturday, we could run the DVD off my 14" laptop while watching it on my 13" television...?

wednesday: walked around town and dropped off my internship stuff. both BCAMP and ABPBC are in sun towers, so if i get hired at either of those places, i could head to victory square and shoot up during my lunch break. MR at ABPBC was honest, though -- she said that she probably wouldn't hire on an intern if she couldn't find funding for it. BCAMP is still a possibility, but the director wants me to think up potential projects -- she knows much better than i what her organization does, though, so i'm sort of at a loss. dropped off my CV at adbusters, too. tried to tell the lady i spoke to that i'm applying for an internship, not one of their writer/editor jobs, but it didn't seem to sink in. she was sort of bitchy.

thursday: my cold got worse. it also snowed about 4 cm. news stories showed helpless and hopeless vancouverites slipping everywhere, many of them complaining that city crews hadn't salted enough. bunch of wieners. i also got promoted/demoted in my freelancing job, depending on how you look at it. my supervising editor moved me to another journal -- the visual computer, from the international journal of advanced manufacturing technology; the upshot is that it's easier to edit, but i'm paid less per page (2.75 euros). i think it's still a good deal, though. we'll see...

my sweetie picked up a wireless router yesterday, i'm now doing this from bed. sort of dangerous, in that now i have no reason to leave bed.

wireless is awesome.