I've always liked these things, I remember getting something like this in junior high and using it several times to find out a lot about girls I was interested in. If this blog is going to end up being a complete portrait of who I am, it certainly needs the vital info. So onward!
100 Questions
1. Name: Blair
2. Middle Names: Edward
3. Province: Alberta
4. Place of Birth: Calgary
5. Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
6. Male or Female: Male
7. Bus most commonly taken: The #1 in Calgary. The #211 in Mtl I suppose.
8. School: McGill University
9. Occupation: Student/Running Aficionado
10. Initials: BEB
11. Screen Name: Wheatfield Soul
-Your Appearance-
12. Hair Color: Brown
13. Hair Length: Medium
14. Eye color: Depends on the light. Blue or Green.
15. Best Feature: My memory
16. Height: 6'1
17. Braces: No
18. Glasses: Yes
19. Age: 20
20. Diploma: BCom Finance/International Business
-Your 'Firsts'-
22. First best friend: Jesse Beckert
23. First Award: Not sure. The first one that mattered was the Indoor Soccer City Championship. 1998.
24. First Sport You Joined: Gymnastics
25. First thing you did today: Shower
26. First Real vacation: Summer 87, Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan
27. First thing you said when you were a baby: sun
28. First Love: Who knows? Only time.
- Favorites-
29. Movie: Chariots of Fire
30. TV Show: Lost
32. Artist: Burton Cummings
33. Song: Timeless Love
34. Food: Carrot Cake
35. Season: Summer
36. Candy: Swedish Berries
37. Sport: Track
38. Restaurant: When I'm in Mtl, The Keg!
39. Favorite Clothing: The mexico singlet or the flames jersey or the Go Pre shirt
40. Store: Westworld Computers
41. School Subject: History
42. Animal: Tiger
43. Book: Heir to the Empire (I know, I know)
44. Magazine: The Economist
-Currently-
46. What you did right before taking this survey: Watch The Emperor's Club
47. Single or Taken: Taken
48. Crying about: CMI
49. Eating: Nothing
50. Drinking: Hoegarden
53. Listening To: Bob Seger
54. Thinking About: Sleeping
55. Wanting: That's for me to know.
56. Enjoying: A break
-Future-
57. Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?: That's the real question isn't it. We'll leave it at "making a contribution"
58. Kids? 1 or 2
59. Want to be Married: In due time
60. Careers in Mind: Finance, Law....etc
-Which is Better with the Opposite Sex-
63. Hair color: Dark
64. Hair length: Long
65. Eye color: Green
66. Personality or Looks: Both (I have high standards)
67. Cute or sexy: Both
68. Unique Quality: Elegance
69. Hugs or Kisses: Both
70. Short or Tall: Slightly shorter than me.
72. Romantic or Spontaneous: Romantic
73. Good or Bad: Good.
74. Sensitive or Loud: Sensitive
75. Hook-up or Relationship: Relationship.
76. Harley or Car: Car
77. Trouble Maker or Hesitant One: Hesitant one
-Have you ever-
78. Kissed a stranger: Yes
79. Smoked: No
80. Streaked: No
81. Ran Away From Home: No
82. Broken a bone: Technically
83. Got an X-ray: Yes
84. Gone skinny dipping: It's on the to-do list.
85. Broke Someones Heart: Yes
86. Dumped someone: Yes
87. Cried When Someone Died: Yes.
88. Cried At School: No
-Do You Believe In-
89. God: That question has a complicated answer. I would say yes.
90. Miracles: Depends on the definition
91. Love at First sight: No
92. Ghosts: No
93. Aliens: Yes
94. Soul Mates: Yes
95. Heaven: Again, complicated.
96. Hell: Ah, redundancy
98. Kissing on The First Date: Yes
99. Horoscopes: No. But I do enjoy them.
-Answer Truthfully-
100. Is there someone you're thinking about right now? Of course.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Flipsides
Classic. Just thinking about it sucks all the stress away for a few seconds. Phenomenal.
"Do you realize that I've been reading about this place since I was in junior high? The road to Olympic gold, Track Capital USA, The House that Bowerman Built.."
"You really know how to sweet talk a girl"
"I'll be coming down that back stretch, burning on all eight cylinders..."
Side 1- Enter Sandman, Metallica
Say your prayers little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Somethings wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of Snow White
Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragons fire
And of things that will bite
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take
Hush little baby, dont say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
Its just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head
Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Were off to never never land
The Flipside- Night Moves, Bob Seger
I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds
Tight pants points hollerin' out
She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points of her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high
Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my 60' Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves
Tryin to make some front page drive-in news
Workin' on our night moves
In the summertime
In the sweet summertime
We weren't in love, oh no, far from it
We weren't searchin for some pie in the sky summit
We were just young and restless and bored
Livin' by the sword
And we'd steal away every chance we could
To the backroom, to the alley or the trusty woods
I used her, she used me
But neither one cared
We were gettin' our share
Workin' on our night moves
Tryin to lose the awkward teenage blues
Workin on our night moves
And it was summertime
And oh the wonder
We felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder
I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just dont seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
Night moves
Lord, I remember
Workin' and practicin'
Night moves
I remember
I remember
"Do you realize that I've been reading about this place since I was in junior high? The road to Olympic gold, Track Capital USA, The House that Bowerman Built.."
"You really know how to sweet talk a girl"
"I'll be coming down that back stretch, burning on all eight cylinders..."
Side 1- Enter Sandman, Metallica
Say your prayers little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Somethings wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of Snow White
Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragons fire
And of things that will bite
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take
Hush little baby, dont say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
Its just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head
Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Were off to never never land
The Flipside- Night Moves, Bob Seger
I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds
Tight pants points hollerin' out
She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points of her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high
Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my 60' Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves
Tryin to make some front page drive-in news
Workin' on our night moves
In the summertime
In the sweet summertime
We weren't in love, oh no, far from it
We weren't searchin for some pie in the sky summit
We were just young and restless and bored
Livin' by the sword
And we'd steal away every chance we could
To the backroom, to the alley or the trusty woods
I used her, she used me
But neither one cared
We were gettin' our share
Workin' on our night moves
Tryin to lose the awkward teenage blues
Workin on our night moves
And it was summertime
And oh the wonder
We felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder
I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just dont seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
Night moves
Lord, I remember
Workin' and practicin'
Night moves
I remember
I remember
Friday, December 01, 2006
Kingmakers
This weekend is going to be one that resonates in Canadian politics for a long time. A number of different scenarios will play themselves out, and after watching closely the past few days, I'm not sure who I should be supporting in each of the races. In fact, whoever wins one will impact who I like in the other. So i thought I would take a few minutes to outline some of what I think before the results come in.
1. If Harper wins the next federal election, I like Dinning for Premier. In terms of electability, I feel like the four major liberal contenders fall in this order. Ignatieff, Rae, Kennedy, Dion. So I guess from this angle, I like Dion and Dinning to win this weekend.
2. If Harper loses the next election to Ignatieff or Kennedy, I still like Dinning. I feel like Ignatieff would get my vote if I was picking my personal favorite for Liberal leader. Kennedy impressed me tonight though. Both of those men have some strengths, and despite my dislike of the Liberals recently, I would be willing to give either the benefit of the doubt. Therefore, I would still pick Dinning for premier as the best man to negotiate Alberta's place within Canada. Ignatieff is my favorite Liberal candidate, so if one of them has to be PM, I'd rather it be him.
3. If Harper loses the next election to Dion, as remote a possibility as that is, I have a very hard time predicting what would happen. Dion's policy, beyond environmentalism and national unity, remains very much a mystery to me. I will say that since he was such a Chretien hardliner, I might expect something along those lines...but as for which premier would be the best fit if Dion were PM..no idea
4. If Harper were to lose to Rae, as much as I dislike social conservatism, Alberta needs Ted Morton. Everything that Morton, Harper et al. wrote in the Firewall Letter would become absolutely true, and Alberta needs a hardliner to fight someone who is essentially an NDP turncoat and prevent them from ruining our province. Being accomodating to a Bob Rae government would be suicide. If Albertans thought the NEP was bad..there's absolutely no predicting what Rae would do. All I know is that Ontario's economy took a nosedive when he was in charge, and I've never met an NDP'er who said "fiscal responsibility" and meant it. That includes Bob Rae.
5. From a Conservative point of view, there was one man who terrified me above all others at the Liberal convention tonight. Luckily for Harper, he's not one of the candidates this time around. The two minutes that Justin Trudeau spoke, introducing Kennedy, gave me the irrefutable impression that he will be the PM one day. He's a tremendous orator, he has a legendary name, he's fluently bilingual and hes is young, smart and as far as I can tell..a pretty good looking dude. Us Conservatives better be ready..and we better have a titan of our own ready to fight Trudeau in about 10 or 15 years. Harper, Day, Manning...none of them would stand a chance. We better start preparing now.
1. If Harper wins the next federal election, I like Dinning for Premier. In terms of electability, I feel like the four major liberal contenders fall in this order. Ignatieff, Rae, Kennedy, Dion. So I guess from this angle, I like Dion and Dinning to win this weekend.
2. If Harper loses the next election to Ignatieff or Kennedy, I still like Dinning. I feel like Ignatieff would get my vote if I was picking my personal favorite for Liberal leader. Kennedy impressed me tonight though. Both of those men have some strengths, and despite my dislike of the Liberals recently, I would be willing to give either the benefit of the doubt. Therefore, I would still pick Dinning for premier as the best man to negotiate Alberta's place within Canada. Ignatieff is my favorite Liberal candidate, so if one of them has to be PM, I'd rather it be him.
3. If Harper loses the next election to Dion, as remote a possibility as that is, I have a very hard time predicting what would happen. Dion's policy, beyond environmentalism and national unity, remains very much a mystery to me. I will say that since he was such a Chretien hardliner, I might expect something along those lines...but as for which premier would be the best fit if Dion were PM..no idea
4. If Harper were to lose to Rae, as much as I dislike social conservatism, Alberta needs Ted Morton. Everything that Morton, Harper et al. wrote in the Firewall Letter would become absolutely true, and Alberta needs a hardliner to fight someone who is essentially an NDP turncoat and prevent them from ruining our province. Being accomodating to a Bob Rae government would be suicide. If Albertans thought the NEP was bad..there's absolutely no predicting what Rae would do. All I know is that Ontario's economy took a nosedive when he was in charge, and I've never met an NDP'er who said "fiscal responsibility" and meant it. That includes Bob Rae.
5. From a Conservative point of view, there was one man who terrified me above all others at the Liberal convention tonight. Luckily for Harper, he's not one of the candidates this time around. The two minutes that Justin Trudeau spoke, introducing Kennedy, gave me the irrefutable impression that he will be the PM one day. He's a tremendous orator, he has a legendary name, he's fluently bilingual and hes is young, smart and as far as I can tell..a pretty good looking dude. Us Conservatives better be ready..and we better have a titan of our own ready to fight Trudeau in about 10 or 15 years. Harper, Day, Manning...none of them would stand a chance. We better start preparing now.
89 Dice
Right now there are at least 89 things flying around my head. This is going to be a stream of conciousness post.
1. This post will end with song lyrics
2. Life is crazy
3. I have a terrible finals schedule
4. I dont know what to do with my life
5. It's been too long
6. I want to go to Mexico
7. Damn I've been screwing things up
8. 89...pretty darn good
10. Awkwardness
11. If this doesn't work, I'm gonna be very mad with myself
12. Is I-banking too intense for me?
13. Do I really love Finance?
14. Would leaving it all behind for NZ really be that bad?
15. Can I write a post soon called "Beyond My Wildest Dreams"?
16. How hard is CMI actually going to be?
17. How hard could it possibly be to get a 79 on Fin 2?
18. Am I in good enough shapeto run 1:21?
19. Will I be by February?
20. Do I want to go to Law School?
21. Is elegance outmoded?
22. Why is it this time?
23. I like Sushi
24. I thought this was low-key
25. What the hell are dishes anyways?
26. Confidence and Success are far too correlated
27. I like straighforwardness
28. Straightforwardness gets me in trouble
29. Strangely, I dislike barging ahead
30. Equally strangely, not barging ahead gets me in trouble
31. Am I gonna make it to 89?
32. I love Star Trek Jokes
33. Am I too unique?
34. Do I love being different?
35. Hanging By a Moment
36. It's getting late
37. I'd just as soon kiss a wookiee
38. I can arrange that
39. Not a Day Goes By
40. The Lake
41. Gone to Carolina
42. Law school?
43. Is a Rhodes Scholarship out of the realm of possibility?
44. MSN is strange
45. I'm glad I had that conversation
46. That conversation made me feel terrible
47. Why can't things be simple?
48. Is chivalry dead?
49. How come Daniel Craig never gets in awkward situations?
50. "I wanna Log Into You"
51. I love the Arrogant Worms
52. "But you do, right?'
53. "I dont know. How do you know?"
54. "I just think you know"
55. "Yeah. I do"
56. "Don't tell me what I can't do!"
57. How much will I give up for a job?
58. "Love over Gold, Mind over Matter"
59. Mark Knopfler is the man
60. Golden Heart is #3
61. How much do i value the friendship of Dave, Aaron and co?
62. Call on Me is sweet
63. Live Together, Die Alone
64. 100 hours a week?
65. What is really important?
66. What if I get a shitty job and sacrifice everything else for it
67. Can I do well enough on the LSAT's?
68. How well is well enough?
69. "Never would admit to flying blind"
70. Please let this work
71. How can I make a difference?
72. Stephen Harper is cool
73. If Bob Rae become PM, I'm leaving the country
74. Does admitting my mistakes help?
75. Do I just look like a bigger idiot
76. I wish she's given me a hug today
77. DB is a tool.
78. "I'll see you in my dreams"
79. "I know"
80. I love to run
81. I've been forged into who I am
82. Why?
83. How many chances do I have left?
84. Tahitian Skies
85. Women are like Klingons
86. CI's?
87. How am I going to decide about next summer?
88. "Who are you really, and what were you before?"
89. Dice- Finley Quaye and William Orbit #12 All-Time. The newest addition to the top 25.
I was crying, over you
I am smiling, I think of you
Where your gardens have no walls
Breathe in the air, if you care
You compare, don't say farewell
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
I was crying, over you
I am smiling, I think of you
Misty mornings and waterfalls
Breathe in the air, if you care
You compare, don't say farewell
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Virtuous sensibility
Escape velocity
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Breathe in the air, if you care
Don't say farewell
Nothing...
1. This post will end with song lyrics
2. Life is crazy
3. I have a terrible finals schedule
4. I dont know what to do with my life
5. It's been too long
6. I want to go to Mexico
7. Damn I've been screwing things up
8. 89...pretty darn good
10. Awkwardness
11. If this doesn't work, I'm gonna be very mad with myself
12. Is I-banking too intense for me?
13. Do I really love Finance?
14. Would leaving it all behind for NZ really be that bad?
15. Can I write a post soon called "Beyond My Wildest Dreams"?
16. How hard is CMI actually going to be?
17. How hard could it possibly be to get a 79 on Fin 2?
18. Am I in good enough shapeto run 1:21?
19. Will I be by February?
20. Do I want to go to Law School?
21. Is elegance outmoded?
22. Why is it this time?
23. I like Sushi
24. I thought this was low-key
25. What the hell are dishes anyways?
26. Confidence and Success are far too correlated
27. I like straighforwardness
28. Straightforwardness gets me in trouble
29. Strangely, I dislike barging ahead
30. Equally strangely, not barging ahead gets me in trouble
31. Am I gonna make it to 89?
32. I love Star Trek Jokes
33. Am I too unique?
34. Do I love being different?
35. Hanging By a Moment
36. It's getting late
37. I'd just as soon kiss a wookiee
38. I can arrange that
39. Not a Day Goes By
40. The Lake
41. Gone to Carolina
42. Law school?
43. Is a Rhodes Scholarship out of the realm of possibility?
44. MSN is strange
45. I'm glad I had that conversation
46. That conversation made me feel terrible
47. Why can't things be simple?
48. Is chivalry dead?
49. How come Daniel Craig never gets in awkward situations?
50. "I wanna Log Into You"
51. I love the Arrogant Worms
52. "But you do, right?'
53. "I dont know. How do you know?"
54. "I just think you know"
55. "Yeah. I do"
56. "Don't tell me what I can't do!"
57. How much will I give up for a job?
58. "Love over Gold, Mind over Matter"
59. Mark Knopfler is the man
60. Golden Heart is #3
61. How much do i value the friendship of Dave, Aaron and co?
62. Call on Me is sweet
63. Live Together, Die Alone
64. 100 hours a week?
65. What is really important?
66. What if I get a shitty job and sacrifice everything else for it
67. Can I do well enough on the LSAT's?
68. How well is well enough?
69. "Never would admit to flying blind"
70. Please let this work
71. How can I make a difference?
72. Stephen Harper is cool
73. If Bob Rae become PM, I'm leaving the country
74. Does admitting my mistakes help?
75. Do I just look like a bigger idiot
76. I wish she's given me a hug today
77. DB is a tool.
78. "I'll see you in my dreams"
79. "I know"
80. I love to run
81. I've been forged into who I am
82. Why?
83. How many chances do I have left?
84. Tahitian Skies
85. Women are like Klingons
86. CI's?
87. How am I going to decide about next summer?
88. "Who are you really, and what were you before?"
89. Dice- Finley Quaye and William Orbit #12 All-Time. The newest addition to the top 25.
I was crying, over you
I am smiling, I think of you
Where your gardens have no walls
Breathe in the air, if you care
You compare, don't say farewell
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
I was crying, over you
I am smiling, I think of you
Misty mornings and waterfalls
Breathe in the air, if you care
You compare, don't say farewell
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Virtuous sensibility
Escape velocity
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and swear
Your love's for me
Breathe in the air, if you care
Don't say farewell
Nothing...
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