shiney happy sky

I am currently in possession of 6.05 CAD Dollars.

How did I come to have such a vast quantity of Canadian wealth in my clutches? Funny story, I picked the $5 bill out of the garbage at work...

I know it sounds gross, but I walked behind the bar to grab some water and it was just sitting on the top of the bin. Can you believe someone would throw away 5 Canadian dollars?!? I know, crazy. That's almost $5.40 AUD. And, it will purchase my first Tim Horton's medium coffee and toasted everything bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese upon arrival in the homeland in December.

So whose crazy now? The girl who picked Canadian money out of the garbage or the person who threw it away?

I thought so.

creepy

i always find it slightly disconcerting to come across random shoes strewn on a path.

these flipflops were sitting in the middle of the path, facing towards the shrubbery, for 5 days. then vanished.

weirded me out everytime i went by them. i was always trying to think of what the person who owned them might have been doing that led to their removal.

hmmmm.

word of the day

so here i sit at the front desk at aquarius, hard at work perusing through the friday updates on the Surfing World blog, when i should come across a review of Canadian magazine Adbusters.
adbusters was always a favourite of my fellow higher educationees during media discussions, and if im honest a constant go-to of my own when having trouble finding something deep and insightful to write an essay about.
sean doherty, who wrote the review, calls the mag; "a little hostile and a lot nihilistic..."

nihilistic, fantastic word. and one i absolutely had to look up because i was pretty fuzzy on what it actually meant. this word led to the discovery of another word: anomie, a sociological term meaning "personal feeling of a lack of norms; normlessness. It describes the breakdown of social norms and values."

i feel smarter just for having discovered these two words, though at present time have no need to use either of them.

don't blink

SURF - The Pass - Byron Bay Australia - Quadrocopter HD from rc-video.org on Vimeo.

don't blink, or you will miss me...but if you look really closely you will see me sitting on my bright pink longboard while people catch waves all around me!

this video was taken from a flying helicopter with built-in camera that's been making appearances around byron lately.

it was a GORGEOUS sunday afternoon. spent 4 hours in the water longboarding that day. so fun. so stoked there is video evidence of it.

ps- how sick is that song? its a remix of the song "artsy" by the grouch performed by edIT