Good news!

Good news, everyone! I went to the post office today and got a letter from Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, about my application. It turns out that I can transfer over 18 credits from my days back in Fanshawe College! Pretty good, eh? Of course, this is all contingent on if I get in to Thompson Rivers University. The program I applied for there is called Digital Art & Design, or DAAD for short. This is pretty encouraging news, especially as DAAD is my second choice program behind Capilano College's IDEA program.

Things are moving along, and my portfolio is done. I just have to type up some words to accompany it and I'll be off to the races! Next stop educationville!

Jollywood.

While running errands yesterday I popped down to the local video rental store to see if there were any "previously viewed" dvds for sale. They usually have some pretty good deals, and this time was no exception. "BUY TWO, GET TWO FREE", read the sign, so I started my search. In the end I picked up Spiderman2, Fast Food (a snowboarding video), Thunderstruck (an Australian film somewhat about AC/DC), and Zatoichi (a Japanese film about a blind swordsman).

Last night I watched Zatoichi, and really had no idea what I was getting myself into. I'd never really seen anything like it before. Why, you ask? Well, it was good. Don't get me wrong. Lots of great swordplay and action, as well as some funny bits. But the thing that got me was the dancing. I mean, it was wierd. Interspersed with all the action scenes and regular acting was dancing, where the extras would be doing "Stomp" routines to the movie sountrack. Then, the last scene in the movie had the entire cast (I'm pretty sure I saw a crew member in there somewhere, too...) doing a Stomp/tap routine.

I know that Bollywood movies very often have dancing in their movies, and it's usually expected, but this is a Japanese samurai movie! I didn't know that samurai had such amazing tap dancing abilities! What is this, Jollywood?

Nearing the Century. Sorry.

Hi there! Welcome back! Good to see you again. It sure has been a while...

I'm saying this more to myself than anyone, really. It's been a few weeks since I was last on here, and to be honest not that much has happened. It seems like time is sort of standing still here for the moment. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm having a good time... It's just that not much of note has happened since last I was on.

Okay, I had a great night at our staff party last week, where I got really drunk, laughed a lot, and had a great night. Okay, so the weather is really warming up here and today I got a bit of sun on my "Robert Smith" face. Okay, so I've sent away all my transcripts for school and am working hard at getting my portfolio together...

Hmm. Seems there's been a bit more going on than I thought. Sorry. I'll try to be a little bit more diligent here. Sorry blogger. Sorry blogger readers (if there's any still out there).

I'm off to an early spring barbeque, so I've got to cut this short. Sorry. This is post #96 for me. Only four more until I hit the century mark. Keep your eyes pealed...