Mike de Ruiter.ca

well, i’m back.  left my apartment wednesday afternoon at 2-ish.  got on the plane 6-ish.  had a 9 hour flight to vancouver.  sat there for 2 hours, then took a quick flight to calgary.  i didn’t sleep the whole time to try and force the jet lag thing, so i was pretty tired.  arrived 4:30-ish [...]

Well, here it is.  The final day.  I leave my apartment in 7 hours, am on a plane in 11.  Then 13 hours later I arrive in Calgary… 2 hours before I leave.  Stupid date-line making me lose time…  oh well.
Anyways, guess I’ll catch you guys on the flip side.

In 55 hours I will be leaving on a jet plane.  Today is my last day of work.  It’s going to be a sad one.  Mainly the morning b/c that’s when all my favourite students will be there.  But after today… sweet, sweet freedom from the management and all it’s stupidity.  That’ll be a great [...]

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El Corazon
By Steve Earle
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5 days and counting.  i’m both looking forward to leaving and getting back to calgary and all my buddies back there.  as well as my old job of landscaping, as crazy as that may sound.  the long hours, and hard work, will [...]

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Grandma’s Boy (Unrated Edition)
By Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Joel Moore, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, Nick Swardson, Jonah Hill, Kelvin Yu, Chuck Church, Scott Halberstadt, Heidi Hawking, Shana Hiatt, Todd Holland (II), John Kirk (IV), Geno Kirkland, Joe Koons, Bryan Ling
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well, it’s been quite a while since i’ve posted so here’s a quick update.  my visa expires in two weeks, so i’m out of here by then.  it’ll be good to get out of this place, although i will really miss some of korea, friends i’ve made here, and some of the students.  i haven’t [...]

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Hypnotize
By System of a Down
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“just one more week.  just one more week.”…. that’s been the mantra of rich, hayley and i for the last 8 days.  that’s b/c last week thursday we were told that starting feb. 26 we would no longer be teaching afternoon [...]

well this weekend was lunar new years, which meant that i got monday off this week.  so that was pretty cool.  would’ve been nicer if it had fallen in the week so i could’ve had a 5 day weekend, but whatever.  i’ll take it.  anyways, on sunday i went skiing with rich and hayley.  it [...]

so today was valentine’s day.  it was a balls up in nearly every respect.  we (rich, hayley and i) also had a meeting with cathy the new director that was the most irritating and aggravating meeting i’ve ever been in.  the woman is a fucking brick wall.  she’s got some ideas that will never work [...]

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Idlewild
By OutKast
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well, it’s tuesday night, which means it’s server maintenance night for world of warcraft, so i figure i might as well update this little blog here.
not much has really been going on out here.  kind of just winding time down until the end of [...]