jibber jabber 

i’ve got a new tv…it’s big…it makes my eyes bleed…i can see the individual pores on jessica alba’s nose…

i can’t remember where i read it or who wrote it but somebody posited the idea that our identities can be divided three ways:

1. the person we think we are
2. the person others think we are
3. the person we think other people think we are

and it is this third area of our identity that drives us in our shopping decisions as we buy things to create an identity that we think other people will agree with or like

with this idea in the back of my head for the past week, going shopping has been a decidedly conflicting affair. i don’t like it. i want to go back to just buying things without thinking about it. mindless consumerism is great.

today marks the first day of my new found unemployment. employment however did go out with a bang…to the tune of 8 hours on the patio of the reef and more pitchers of mojitos than i care to remember. luckily my drinking powers remain undiminished and i was fortunate enough to puke onto my brand new mark gonzales superskates. s-m-r-t

came across an short interview with Seth Godin who wrote a book about when to quit and when to “stick”. haven’t read the book but this quote was especially poignant given current events in my life…

Question: Other than hindsight, how does someone know when it’s time to quit?

Answer: It’s time to quit when you secretly realize you’ve been settling for mediocrity all along. It’s time to quit when the things you’re measuring aren’t improving, and you can’t find anything better to measure.

you know you’re life is boring when you can’t come up with anything to write about on a daily basis but instead have to come up with the recap…

the past week consisted of:

dinner at Baru for my brother’s birthday. great food, crappy service.

dinner at Chianti’s with the girlfriend’s parents. really not that good anymore.

shopping trip to seattle. gorged myself on the bacon n cheese ciabatta burger at Jack in the Box at 9AM (which i just found out clocks in at 1120 calories for the sandwich alone…oeuf). spent too much money at Ian on a pair of g-stars and a unis shirt. (they were on sale!). lusted after a insane pair of Paul Smith pants at Barneys.

watched “Letters From Iwo Jima“. really really good.

easter dinner at the parents where i got my ass kicked at monopoly.

and that’s it apart from some working, some sleeping, some jogging, some tv watching (the blondies better win the amazing race). and the highlight of today? i gotta go grocery shopping.

i’ve been sitting on this for a while and actually thought about posting it on April Fools Day but word is already starting to get out so….

i’m done…April 30th will be my last day with Burton Snowboards…

no idea what i’m going to do yet. if you have any suggestions let me know…

according to the Economist’s recently published World Cost of Living Survey, Vancouver is the most expensive canadian city to live in, ranking 34th in the world.

somehow i get the suspicion that pay scales in Vancouver don’t really reflect that. boo-erns… maybe i’ll put in for a cost of living increase…

oh and can somebody please tell me where the hell Nouméa, New Caledonia is and why they’re at #20?

if n > 25 then probability of x approaches infinity and f approaches 0

where:
n is the number of people at social gathering
x is shitty acoustic guitar wannabe playing Sublime song
f is the fun quotient of the party

…for my 3.5 hour stint in the emergency room at VGH was a lousy sprained wrist.

today marks the official end of preseason for me. i finished the last line showing of the season today and i couldn’t be happier. i’m positively giddy actually. now just a few more days of demos starting tomorrow at big white but its almost over…