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canoe trip!!!

tomorrow i’m leaving for a two week long canoe trip, (three weeks total) to canada. i’ll be going somewhere in northernish part of it. specific i know. well hey, i’m just trying to keep all you creepers out there from following me into the canadian wilderness and doing who knows what kind of non-consensual things to me. one aspect of this whole trip is that i won’t be able to see/communicate with my girlfriend of seven months for three weeks. now i feel lame that this is even an issue, as i’ve never been the sentimental type, but it actually is. hours ago i was completely psyched to begin paddling, but then i said goodbye to her and a funk has set in. for years deep down in my heart of ridiculed long, tearful goodbyes, and people who can’t be their own person because of the relationship they’re in. While I don’t have to own up to a drawn out emotional goodbye, i can now completely understand teh temptation. i mean i’m leaving for a kickin trip, and i’m slightly depressed. but anyways i should talk about something of general interest. You will forgive me for mmy rambling explorations of my emotional thought life, however, since the stated purpose of this blog is the release of my thougts, however emotionally charged and sappy they may be.

today in preparation for my canoe trip, i engaged for the first time in about a year the materialistic pursuit that is the purchasing of clothes. to be far to me, i mostly visited thrift stores, which is like the recycling of the clothing industry. i found some white, cottenish dress pants which for some reason reminded me of something that sufjan stevens would wear. why i pictured sufjan stevens wearing these pants is a mystery. i always pictured a huge beard with middle eastern clothing, probably due to the name. this whole episode caaused me to look up pictures of sufjan, and i found out that he is actually somewhat of a pretty  boy by all appearances. i’ll see if i can summon up the technical prowess to post a picture along.

until three weeks from now-

andrew

first post

Ok so this is my first blog post ever. I am new to this narcissistic pursuit in which you make as many people as possible be interested in your life, however mundane it may be. I will also attempt to appear more intelligent than i actually am, which i assume is part of the whole thing. I had considered starting a blog, as an outlet for my thoughts for a while, but the catalyst was a brief bit of news i read in the paper. that’s right the newspaper. i know this may come as a shock to you members of the digital community. this news was that the Newberry award winning children’s book Mr. Popper’s Penguins, is going to be remade into a movie in 2012, starring Jim Carrey (one of the most obnoxious actors I have ever seen). This is not a bad thing so far, but it turns out the plot of the movie will be a high-ranking business man is sent some penguins, the care of which threatens his luxurious lifestyle. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the book, the general premise, if my memory serves me, is that a working class man who is very interested in exploration sends a letter to a famous explorer who in return sends a penguin. Mr. Popper cares for this penguin and eventually gets more penguins and trains them for his own show. I greatly enjoyed this book around the age of ten, as many other Children have, and I highly resent the alteration of this goofy, yet excellent plot by Hollywood. This made me so angry, in fact, that i intend to make a facebook group about it, which is just annoying behavior, all those notifications…..anyhow if anyone reads this, which would be cool but kind of periphial (this blog is an outlet for my thoughts, remember?) feel free to comment, especially in regards to the upcoming movie which actually may or may not be the devil in disguise coming to check up on the havoc he has been wreaking as of late.

-andrew