The winter mainstage, Lady Windemere's Fan, has begun and will last all week. I am involved as the assistant props manager and so come out and see me! (I change the sets which is really the coolest part of the play) 

You can always tell that you have a corrupt government when those who abuse their position and partake in public scandal are not held accountable by their own government. Last weekend, ex-defence minister Art Eggleton was appointed by Prime Minister Paul Martin to the Senate after his recent dismissal for awarding government contracts to those close to him. How sick is this?

So I woke up at 7:30 this morning and the first half of my day was rough. So after my first class, I decided to skip Philosophy class and went home to take a nap. After 3/4 an hour of sleep, I woke up and headed to my next class. While I was recovering from my sleep (a little dillusionional at the time) and walking to class I started to notice how beautiful it was outside. I looked around and the birds were chirping, there was a warm breeze and the sun was shining down on me. It just hit me how awesome God's creation was. So I continued walking down the path admiring God's creation and oh, whats that? Its the sound of machinery slowing growing in the background like the sound of a train coming closer, as I slowly came back to reality. "What was that smell?" I thought to myself as I turned my head I saw before me: construction. The grass was all ripped up, the air stank, and it was noisy. The construction crew was busy tarring the roof of the university. Everything I saw was disgusting and dirty and looked like it didn't belong. I turned my head again and looked at the other side of the path which was beautiful and still in good condition. How I wanted to have a steam roller and run down all the buildings and construction, releasing nature from its cruel oppression. I began to think how strange man treats creation; how he hordes it, abuses it, and does with it what he pleases. But alas, I arrived at the door some brief moments later, coming into full reality and life.

Tonight was formal...it was kinda fun, very hot, and quite long though. Anyways, this is a pic of me with my date, Heidi.  

Me as Captain... 

so last night i went to The Ranch for the first time ever for LJ's birthday party. I was kind of excited to go because well The Ranch is infamous and so I wanted to try it out. When we arrived, I reached in my back pocket for my I.D. and I realized that I had forgotten it at home. So, to pass 4 1/2 hours, I decided to tour Guelph and find out what it had to offer. I went to the move theater and watched Hitch which was an alright movie (until the end), but it was kind of akward because the entire theatre were couples and they just stared at me by myself. After the movie, I went to Subway and ate supper and then decided to go bowling. But when I arrived at the bowling alley I decided that it would be really wierd to bowl by myself and everyone would stare at me again. So I decided to tour the bustling city of Guelph. Turns out the city is THE MOST BORING CITY IN THE WORLD! It is like the same size and just as exciting as Winkler. I checked out the University of Guelph campus and went to a couple famous dead guys houses. Once done, I bought a newspaper and read it in a Tim Hortons. I than decided to go The Ranch to pick people up so we could go home. To top off a great night, the guy next beside me (Jim or something like that) puked twice while driving home and then passed out. So overall it was a great night. The Ranch seems to be cool, at least the entrance and exit hallways that I saw. Maybe next time I will rember to take my I.D.

Update on the fridge...we have water, half eaten soup, margarine, some cheese, 1/4 cucumber, carrot, and a lemon. yeah. 

so today in recent political theory we were discussing once again bernard crick and the chapter on technology in his book, In Defence of Politics. It is interesting because everyone criticizes the government for arguing all the time and never agreeing and (as i stated in an earlier blog about the federal budget), that it seems that they have their own interests in mind instead of wanting to work together to pursue the interest of the country. but crick argues that this arguing and disagreement is needed. the minute that a government or beaureucracy or anybody claims to understand society and human action, and claims that everybody should follow it, they are proposing an ideology, which is the death of politics and is the beginnings to a totalitarian government. for ideologies tend to oversimplify the world reducing all human actions to the result of one or more factors. e.g. Marxism which reduces everything to economics. therefore it is necessary for different interests and claimed truths to be debated, discussed and struggled with in the political realm

crick also argues that scientism or the worship of science as a god has serious effects on politics. for when people believe in science whole heartedly, they expect that all human problems can be solved and happiness can be found using the scientific method and hard facts. People champion science because of its unity and therefore those who believe that they can find the answer to the problems of society automatically claim an ideology which they feel that all people should follow. once again, this is the death of politics as there is no more talking and the leader (who feels his/her ideology is completely true) will try to use whatever means to pursue it and put it into effect. throughout history we can see the seriousness of the effects of this under lenin, stalin and hitler.

i have really begun to see the serious of scientism and its effects on our society in the way people talk about politics. so many times people in our church (from my experience) solely support president bush and thing he is like the best politician of our time. but this worries me as president bush him self embraces an ideology of how the world works and is calling all nations to accept it. and he has no problem of using different coercive methods to push his ideology on other nations. this is very dangerous as the US and President Bush is forcing an ideology on the people of the world which causes a death in politics. (Of course, he is not forcing the ideology on people to the extent of hitler, stalin, lenin or the like, but it is still being done in a milder form.) I agree that God should have a place in the government but i feel he extends it to far. And people boast about the US as the champion of democracy and freedom. But are they really a free society? maybe this explains why Americans love their local and state governments - because not everyone agrees with what bush is doing.

What im trying to say is that disagreement is politics is necessary for politics and freedom to actually survive. There is a line between having a vision for a country and claiming an ideology as the only way. so even though people may be frustrated because politics is messy...it is a necessity. maybe politicians should not be getting as bad a rap as they are getting today?

so i thought it was strange today when everybody was coming up to me and was like, "yah we should have you guys over for supper or something!" and i was like sure thats cool because we really are like starving.... it turns out that sharon in student life emailed every dorm asking them to invite us over for supper so that we can survive the rest of the year. yah so i don't know if people actually want us over or not...so i kinda feel like a charity case. and i feel people laughing at us. poo.

A poor man's fridge. Inventory shows we have water, 1/2 milk bag, 8 eggs, a tub of butter, some left over peaches from a can, a couple pieces of garlic, some tuna in a bowl, 1/2 a head of lettuce, carrots, a lemon and two stalks of celery. Oh yah....and a billion bottles of condiments. that ain't right.  

The love of my life...right now. My new taekwondo kicks...check 'em out. SWEET! 

Kaylie, Teresa, Helena, and Rach came down the other weekend and Hannah and I hung out with them...it was a great time. Here we are at Union Station admiring... 

hey people! for all those who read my blog...i haven't updated it in a while...partially because im crazzzzzzzzy busy and because i have nothing to blog about at the moment. i have a ton of assignments coming up and am currently running for senate. so until next time, see ya!