Life needs change.

CHANGE #20050116

so i just had a totally awesome weekend. i LOVE doing stuff like this. i helped set up for the design exchange gala saturday night and helped out with the clearing up of stuff this morning. saturday morning i got there and they were setting up the whole lobby for this garden of eden theme. so they had astroturf as the ‘red carpet’ and there was so much fake and real foliage. i realized that i have NO eye for flowers and flower arranging so i wandered upstairs to help with setting up the uhhh… ballroom. ‘so uhh tim? is there anything that’s not floral-related that i can help with?’ i think they were going for this ‘heaven’ thing since adam and eve were downstairs in the garden. it was all ‘gasp/hack/ew’ white. but it was purty cool. they had GIANT balloons as big as uhh… those large gym balls that people use. i went to go buy a bushel of apples at st. lawrence market.  i was able to procure us a bushel basket thingy so we could carry them apparently the caterers in the garden were making caramel apples with them. ooooooh! then i was mixing white snow. you just add warm water to this powdery stuff, mix vigorously and voila! you have instant snow. but it’s kinda gross. it’s warm, feels like ikura that you get on your sushi, but it doesn’t have that uhh… little ‘pop’ thing happening. anyhow, it’s impossible to clean. and we filled up these square candle holders with it. there were these GORGEOUS white leather couches… well the leather was SO naice and soft. and there was a stage set up in the centre covered with white fun-fur. it sounds tacky, i know, but it looked awesome.

then eric and henry started doing more flower arranging stuff upstairs so i started helping ian load the van up. things were kinda disorganized with people telling some people to do one thing and not knowing how to deal with simple problems when arose. but all in all it was FUN. i don’t know why i like doing shit like this. it’s so so so awesome. maybe because i know that i’m volunteering and nobody can give me shit because i’m doing work for them for free. ha! you HAVE to appreciate what i do.

it’s funny the number of us who were volunteering were disgruntled arts people. ranging from interior design to art history. ha ha and to think, the majority of us WILL NEVER FIND JOBS IN OUR FIELD! what a shame!

anyhow so we finished up basically when the whole event started. so i felt pretty ghetto walking around in jeans and a tank top while others were in gowns and stuff. the models were SO full of themselves, and man some rich folk are ASSWIPES. i’m carry a fucking heavy box to the truck through the doors and rather than WAITING for me to get by, this old asswipe in a tux pushes me aside with his arm. if i had some snot in me i woulda horked some on him, but i just muttered some scarborough lingo under my breath. hahaha, he was a lil confoosed.

henry and i went to get blank dvd-r’s for some reason. and we were discussing the foibles of being asian. he’s studied media in school and has made a film that had only ‘ethnic minorities’ as his charaters. he was accused of being racist by an all-white film panel. riiiiiii~ght! he had to learn martial arts for self-defence. sad eh? cuz people would want to kick his ass for being an asian boy. he was brought up in guelph and now he won’t leave toronto.

this morning was spent scraping double-sided tape off marble and wooden flooring. and well, i can take apart flowery things and at least put the alike things together. it’s funny how when you really think about it, it’s all fake! but it looked SO SO SO good. then it was sweeping floors.

and i met this drummer robert. he’s been working with esthero for the past 8 years and when she performed with the tso recently for a charity gala he performed with the tso. how awesome is that?! so he plays every sunday night at a club, but alas, i’m in scompton where bus drivers get shot. ha! i don’t have a license/car. anyhow, i saw him just before he cleared out and left, and he couldn’t believe that i was volunteering to do this shit. yeah, i mean c’mon, i coulda picked up a shift on the fly for saturday. hhhelll no! i’d rather volunteer and do something FUN thank you very much. and while all that i described doesn’t seem at all fun, it was. i met cool people, i got something to add to my résumé and another reference. so i got a few cuts and scrapes, but i loved it. i got a gift bag which i gave to aruny for putting up with me and feeding me a yummy din-din last night. he got an eye cream sample! hahahahahaha.

anyhow, i’m exhausted and exhilarated. people thought i was crazy for not sticking around for the gala, but really, i don’t have the time/energy/patience to deal with people who are full of themselves and live boring lives. i’d rather do the behind-the-scenes stuff and meet all the cool and exciting people who live funner lives. so i did. and i hope that i see them again someday.

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