while all of my university friends are enjoying their experiences in weeks of welcome or back to schools, i’ve had to cancel an end-of-summer camping trip with the funnest people i know in toronto to stay in town and work.  here is a highlight of some of the things that have made this the worst (september) weekend ever:

• failed to complete all the work that i was supposed to do this weekend, even with the extra time allowed by cancelling my camping trip;
• started playing world of warcraft (when i probably should have been working, except that at the office where i had to work, the air circulation was off, making it almost impossible to work in the stifling heat and staleness of the office air);
• had to push hans out of the way of the keyboard 47 times before he had my WOW character commit suicide in the real-time MMPOG world of warcraft (why is there no PAUSE option in this freakin’ game);
• i thought that WOW sucked;
• i managed somehow to catch a cold, making running a life-or-death challenge, two weeks out from the run for a cure run;

ok – so maybe it wasn’t the worst weekend ever… i mean, my legs weren’t blown off on a landmine or anything like that, so i still have an awful lot for which to be thankful.  but it rather sucked from a normal everyday point of view.
one good thing though was that i got to see the ironman movie preview.  i’m more of a man of steel person myself, but there’s one thing that this movie has that no superman film ever did, and that’s robert downey jr.  he is undeniably the best thing about any movie he’s in, from less than zero, to chaplin, to a scanner darkly.  i love what he brings to tony stark in this trailer, and i can’t wait to see what he brings to the film as a flawed hero.  ironman!!! yay!!!

- g

song of the day for thinking that things are way crappier than they really are:  things can only get better, howard jones