| "I'm Baaack!" - Kyle 1 |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|01:26 am] |
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Hokay, here we go, my montreal post:
I'll toss in some commentary, but for the sake of documentation, I'm gonna focus on mostly listing what I actually did over the 3-4 days I was gone.
So after work on saturday, I caught the 8:00 bus to the good ol' MTL. I basically just informed Cody that I would be staying with him over the next few days. So I met up with him, and then we headed to Graham's big party. In the metro, a very sketch man sat next to Cody and I and asked what we were up to. Cody played along with the man, assuming he'd subside I guess, but the man wouldn't let up. He kept asking us to go back to his house, and put his hand on Cody's inner thigh, and Cody didn't even flinch! He just kept saying that we had made a promise to go to this party, and he was a man of his word. I ended up standing up 'cause I thought the metro was coming, so Cody just stood up and apologised, and we went to the other side to wait for the metro that wasn't actually coming for another 5 minutes. Cody was pretty freaked out, and I wouldn't have just stood up if I'd known it was another metro coming! Anyway, we headed to the party. It was...odd. I hadn't been to a party in a while. Like 30+ people all stuffed into a small appartment, a couple good friends, a handful of old acquaintances and familiar faces, and the majority, people I've never seen before. So Cody and I strolled around, trying to look cool, but there were no hipster chicks, so we didn't look cool, though one creepy kid told me he really liked my "look". He was foreign and kept sitting next to me and putting his arm around me. I got the feeling that nobody wanted him there for some reason. Anyway, we ended up talking to Ericbent and he let us have a couple of his beers, and by the bottom of two bottles, cody and I had a good buzz going 'cause we're lightweights. We had to pee really bad, and there were people throwing up in the bathroom (along with the kitchen sink and Graham's room), so Cody, Joel Villeneuve and I all peed off of Graham's balcony. After walking around, talking to people a bit more, we decided to bail, so we stole someone's beer and Joel's vodka (which we found out later was just full of water), and we left. Navigating the city drunk was fun, and we eventually made it back to Cody's dorm, where we jammed for a while downstairs with Cody's guitar and a cheap drumset with a busted open snare. It was quite fun. Then we were told we had to be quiet because there were some noise complaints (I was unaware people could hear us from the basement, Cody was surprised we were even allowed to play that long). So we headed back upstairs where the retarded roommates of cody were watching Entourage, which I was then forced to also watch. I really don't like that show. It's so boring and unfunny! Then we slept, ringing on a new day!
Cody's plan from day one was to paint shirts. He had shirts, and he had fabric paint, so that was gonna be our plan for the day. We also wanted to jam, so we went downstairs, but when we got their, we heard strange noises coming from the room. There was another band jamming, and all we heard was terrible screaming, and awful synth feedback, with disconnected drumhits. Pretty amusing, but it sucked that we couldn't jam. So we went into town, to a music store where Cody tried out a couple of amps, and the employees actually had to tell us to turn it down. The music store was pretty cool and big. Then we went to an art store and got one more colour of paint, and we also ate at St. Huberts because it was a sunday and I really wanted it, and we were both super hungry 'cause we hadn't eaten in a while. At some point during the day, Cody ran into a classmate who told him that they had an assignment due on the monday, so our day was cut short. I got a hold of Rhonda and Phil and Laura, so I met up with them at the Visual Arts building and let Cody work on his homework. I checked out Phil's sweet painting that he had been working on for a while, then we went back to Phil and LAura's. It was the most stereotypical boy/girl setup ever! Laura and Rhonda were sitting on the couch, both with laptops, both browsing facebook, while Phil and I sat in chairs, drinking a beer, and playing shooter videogames. Oh, btw, the game "skate" was the sweetest demo I've ever played, Stranglehold was intense and so fun, The Club was a fun 3rd person shooter, and Burnout Paradise was as sick as I'd imagined. So I thanked them for having me, and departed, not knowing that I would in fact be at that apartment two more times before leaving for Ottawa. Went back to Cody's, went to bed (I think. I don't think we did anything that night 'cause it was already a bit too late). Oh, I did go on the laptop for a while before going to sleep.
Next day, Cody woke me up after coming back from his class at 12:30, where he and his dumb roommate made fun of me for sleeping in that late (little do they know...). So I got up, and we went downstairs again to jam, which was fun, again. After that, Cody pitched the idea of Value Village, which is never as rewarding as I hope it will be. Went to the Namur station (which had the craziest light setup ever, I got a picture of it, I'll post all these on my facebook...though I only took like five pictures during the whole trip...whoops...) And we hiked to Value Village. found some 4 dollar converse for Cindy, and some cheap ass couches and desks and stuff which is good to know for when we move out, and Cody found some awful McGill Engineering Faculty shirt. Then we walked to Walmart to buy some bulk candy (Cody's idea) and we ate at a McDonalds IN the Walmart, which, in my opinion, is the most evil merger ever. Cody wanted to get to the Winners, but it was across some bridge and just way further away then it looked, so I convinced him to give up and we went back with our spoils. I had gotten a hold of Phil earlier (or he had gotten a hold on me) and we had setup playing video games again. I convinced Cody to come along. Rhonda wasn't there and Laura came later. Sadly I didn't see Rhonda again before I left :(. Phil apparently enjoyed the Burnout Paradise demo so much that he had gone out and bought the game that day, so we played that, mostly online, for about 3 hours, which was super fun. We turned the mic on and took turns speaking, and we got their voices to play out of the TV speakers for all of us to hear. We made fun of kids and old people, and it was great. then we showed Cody some of the demos, which I'm now recalling is the time I first tried the Skate demo and was blown away. Then we went home and slept, again I went on the computer for a bit first.
TUESDAY. Woke up at 11, Cody's break between classes. Today was the day, we decided, that we were finally going to get those shirts painted! I had already picked out a design in my head, and it turned out super well! I'll post pictures of our shirts on facebook. And I'll wear my shirt tomorrow for anyone who'll see me then. After we were done (or semi-done for Cody, I guess, he'll finish it later he says), Cody had to go back to class, and I had a date with Phil and Laura's apartment! The prior night, I was talking about how I had to find something to do while Cody was gonna be in class, and they told me to stay in their apartment, even though they weren't gonna be there! Now THAT is hospitality! I felt so weird about it, but eventually accepted the offer and thanked them, and the plan was to meet up with them in town, get keys from them, then meet up again to give them back, or wait for them to get home. But I called, and they ended up both being at home! So I went over, and Phil and I played more Burnout, and they fed me some crazy delicious stirfry, and a quantity I didn't even know could exist on a single plate. Didn't finish, Phil did. Quite quickly too! Then they had to go, and I was gonna meet up with Cody, so we parted ways for a final time, and I was back at SOLIN (Cody's dumb dorm name.) I was kinda worried that I'd have to sleep another night on that terrible futon in the middle of the living room, in everybody's way another night, and I was quite ready to head home, but luckily, the paint dried almost instantly, so I managed to shove it in my bag without worry. I left when the dumb roommates were watching shitty quality, out of sync episodes of family guy on the projector. Don't get me wrong, there were a couple cool people around the dorm, but Cody's roommates and their friends were all pretty dumb. Anyway, I caught the metro to the bus station.
The bus ride home was ridiculous, we didn't leave montreal and the surrounding 'burbs for a full hour, going to the airport to pick up more people, then honestly looping around residential streets, industrial roads, and off-ramps for like 30 minutes, then going BACK to the airport for like one extra lady who I guess missed the bus. THEN we stopped at dep for another ten minutes because I guess the driver was thirsty or something...there's a dep at the fucking bus station, guy! And it was at this point that he decided to collect our bus tickets, which he didn't do at the beginning of the trip...o_O? Then, I happen to wake up from my daze/doze and spot a little offramp development/suburban area and I see that there is a huge McDonalds in this mini town, but far away from the McDonalds, in the middle of this area, was a loooong pole, with a McDonalds logo at the top of it, to advertise to highway drivers. But it was seriously super creepy, like they owned this township you know? Freaked me out, and reminded me of the thought of a Walmart/McDonals merger. Anyway, get back to Ottawa, waiting for my bus, and some kid starts talking to me about how he's late for cadets, and how one time he accidentally shot an officer with a .22, then the guy ran after him, shooting him, so he had to run home. Also, the bullet ricocheted off his leg and into the pepsi machine the officer was at, so after it hit, two cans of pop shot out and hit him in the nuts. Oh and he wants to join the army to kill...some racial slur I didn't really catch, because they "blew up" his uncle with a landmine. Ugh, I didn't miss Ottawa. I missed my house, my family, and my friends. So if we moved at least two of those into a better city, I would be quite pleased ^_^
Ironically enough, the South Park episode that came on RIGHT when I got home tonight was the evil Walmart one!
So that's about it! Check out my facebook pictures sooner or later, I'm too effing tired to do it now. Now, I must sleep. Thanks for listening to me ramble! And thank you so much to Cody (who doesn't read this) and Laura (who does read this...probably) and Phil for putting me up for those days, really appreciate it. And thanks to you too Rhonda for at least hanging out with me for one day! Night all! |
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