bone in sub

my costume was super fun to wear, the whole night was really fun. walking down bloor st. was amazing, even though nobody knew who fonejacker was i was still a scary-looking terrorist. later on in the night i was leaving a bar and some dude asks me “who are you supposed to be, a chechnyan terrorist?” i didn’t want to explain so i just said yes, at which point he grabs my arm and gets all tough and asks me “you think that’s funny?!”, to which i also said “yep!”. he was so taken aback by my answer that he let me go and didn’t say anything.

i still look pretty young so if i shaved that day i usually get carded unless it’s a dive bar…it was kind of funny to order drinks while wearing a ski mask and sunglasses. nobody ever asked me to take it off, or for id!

sometime around midnight i was walking across king’s college field, the huge one in front of convocation hall. i got to a muddy part (i didn’t think it would be so muddy this early in the year) and started running, and my awesome prop phone fell out of my pocket. i didn’t notice this until i was out of the mud, so trying to find a black phone in the mud, in the dark, at midnight on halloween was impossible. i wrote it off and got a little bit sad about my loss.

the next morning was SUPER weird – i sat bolt upright at 6:45am, completely sober and awake…15 minutes before my alarm went off. i don’t know when i got home but i estimate 3am or later. my metabolism is insane, i still barely believe i metabolized everything that quickly.

in the shower i put on young americans and sang the background vocals. what a great start to my day. when i got out of the shower i found that my pants and shoes were completely covered in mud, presumably from when i lost my phone.

this reminded me of the phone, so i left for work 10 minutes early and stopped by the field on the way there. i looked around for about 5 minutes..and FOUND IT! i was so incredibly happy for the next hour. it’s not about ten dollars, or the phone itself, just the concept i guess. actually i’m still not sure why that made me so happy. there was a chocolate bar in the battery compartment that i ate when i got to work.

the whole debacle made me consider that emotions might be a zero-sum game for some people. i know it’s not for me, i don’t really get angry or sad often but i get excited and happy frequently. i think for some people though, equal opposites have to occur? it’s a weird thought.

i also like how the mcdonald’s monopoly posters have pictures of last year’s winners, followed by things like “Winner, $1000000, Monopoly 2007″. the last part is hilarious to me, it’s like monopoly is a month or a season. you can attribute quotes to that time: “something stupid” – celebrity, monopoly 2007. or you can be like, ‘how was your monopoly? it went really fast for me.’