this manual labour sucks. i probably bad-mouthed it somewhere along the line last summer, so maybe i deserve this. today we went up to the hendershott warehouse and moved fluorescent bulbs. in the end, the pile was about nine feet tall. when it got to around seven feet i could here the muffled explosions of bulbs with each new bundle i threw on. towards the end a few "fell" and exploded and we started to get a bit careless. oh, and relax because these bulbs aren't new. they have been sitting in the same spot for ten years. so have the ballasts and the friggin five hundred light fixtures that go with them. they were pulled out of the brantford board of education around 15 years ago. how did we get them? the old b.d.c luck, that's how. i'm pretty sure i have mercury poisoning but it's ok, i'm fairly resilient. by the time we were finished with the bulbs(rich, andy and me) it was time to pull down these fixtures that are in metal racks ten feet off the ground. but we did take a "break" with a little game of slap-shot. since the warehouse is unsupervised breaks are frequent and goofing off is encouraged. plus it smells like pcp's up there and it's cold and mouldy. i swear if i had to work 40 hrs a week up there, i'd already be dead. anyway, i think moving and organizing will be another few days work. and plus cleaning bits of smashed fluorescents up is a daunting task as well. i'm sore and i wish i could complain more but i won't. i'll feel better in the morning.

tonight i was supposed to go see brassy in the burgh. but i'm exiled in ham-town, so court took winfrey in place of me. i know it sucks but there's nothing i can do and besides the show is long from over. bleh.

i think i can get closer to the cats that are in the back yard. now i said there was fifteen last time but i think in reality it's more like twelve. if i was the one feeding them, i'm sure i'd get really close to them but they are "wild" cats.

so there you have it. i wish i was down with my girl right now. it's exactly thirty days since the application was sent(or filed, i can't remember), so now everyday is more nerve racking then the last. i hoping it won't be long for this visa. i have learned quite a bit and everyone has a story about someone they know who's gone through the very same thing. i'm trying to be pleasant about it and i just want to tell everyone to shut up, but they are my friends. i can't say if they'll be right or wrong until we get there.

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