soundtrack of our lives

while youre reading this you should be listening to paul van dyk's politics of dancing 2... select the title above in a new window and escape from its shutters, become transported to that ethereal world...

its been a crazy 4 or 5 months, more new people, more new experiences, some experiences a lot better than others ;)... the semester is pretty much over, but i still have a project to wrap up. partly my fault, ive been dragging it out but ive also been pretty busy. this past week was the first time in a while i could sit down and work on it, but i still didnt! yeh needed a vacation from the busy vacation... so hopefully tomorrow ill start looking at it and prolly start feelin the heat again. most likely i will have to meet with my phd guy early next week sometime...may have to come up wit some wild excuse...

i am also slated to start work next week, our office is relocating to a somewhat closer location, but my commute will still be pretty damn long. theyre giving me a laptop, so i figure ill work on the way into work and out of work, and leave the office early. maybe i can convince my boss to let me work from home 2 days of the week or somethin...

on a related note, i still havent received my work permit from homeland security... and i can only get paid with it... so i gotta get somethin in writing from my boss saying that once i do actually start "working" he will pay me as agreed + compensation for the time ive already put in... he seems like a cool guy, i hope it works out...

ive started working out and yogging this week... ive been yogging in riverside park which runs right along hudson river... started at about 4km, which took about 20mins today... decent i guess considering i wasnt over-exerting too much, since this was my second time jogging in like 10mnths lol... watchin old world cup matches online is pretty motivating too... those guys are in such insane shape, i figure if im in bad shape when im 26, i have no hope when im 36 or 46.. so i bettr get movin...

i need to clean up my room.

oakenfold's new album a lively mind came out this week; chek out his website, the link is on the left sidebar... the first single faster kill pussycat is tru club jive, and surprisingly brittany murphy (sin city vixen) is doin vocals, and does a pretty hot damn good job at it too!... you can hear that song and the song souther sun on the website too... both are jivin', though most reviews seem to say the album has too much of a mainstream club pop vibe that deviates from oakenfold's last release bunkka... even so, im sure many of the tracks are killr...

world cup starts today... google/ig has this great world cup update feature you can add to your personalized page... small things like this make google v cool... i am rooting for the spanish side, they should be able to come out of their group h fairly thoroughly...

im still contemplating paying 20$ more in june and 60$ more in july to get espn and espn2 on tv... those 2 channels combine to show 52 world cup games, while abc shows 12 games, and i already get abc... almost all the espn games are during the day on weekdays (while ill be working (hopefully)), while abc games are usually on the weekend, including july 9th sunday championship match... i wish espn was showing the games at nite, tape delayed if need be, theres somethin authentic about watchin great futbol in the wee hours...! anyways, i can add the espn package anytime, so ill see how my schedule goes...

ive been trying to eat better since i am working out... i dunno bout others but it takes a real conscientious effort on my part to get my lazy ass up and eat properly... maybe if i can keep forcing myself to make the effort it will become habit...

oh ya, i plan on flyin up to Tdot for the july 1 weekend... maybe if my boss is cool i can leave the thursday evenin and be in TO to party thursday nite heh... july 4 here is a holiday and its a tuesday, so maybe ill fly back here tuesday evening... i think my guelphtimes roommate ben shack is plannin on bein in town too, in from halifax, thatll be cool... guess i need to talk to my boss about it first though... im not really working for a lengthy period to begin with,.. maybe i can scam some extra weekend hours...

anyways, thats pretty much wats goin on right now... yuko is on her way to germany, hopefully she gets world cup tix:) and mebbe grab me a team spain jersey too!:) hev fon wid ze gerrhmanns...

aight thats about it for now, life & muzak... peAce