Tales of a vagrant ant

Today was a pretty decent day, I guess…
Woke up much later than I wanted… about 12:15 or so in the afternoon? Ugh, I’ve got to stop the stupid habit of going to bed so late… I’ve been trying to figure out what it is exactly that keeps me up late… During the night when I’m on the computer, I have a sense of, “I’ll just finish doing this”, and I’ll just keep doing things until next thing you know, it’ll be like 3 or 4am… just argh.. I dunno what it is… I think I just feel like I really don’t feel like I have anything to wake up for, being unemployed and living at my parents… so I don’t. But it’s fucking annoying, so I’ve decided to set a schedule to instigate some structure into my life. No more of this drifting through the days business.
Anyways, I had driving lessons in the afternoon… Learning stick shift, so that I can free myself from my house.. muhahaha. I’m making some progress… It’s going to just be a matter of practicing, and getting comfortable with it.
Then I went to see a film playing on the vancouver international film festival. Saw Our Daily Bread, which essentially shows you how the food that you eat gets to your plate. A really powerful documentary that shows one of the things that I hate most about our “industrialized” society.
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I’m really want to share my road trip with you guys, so i just don’t care if it’s coming in sporadically.. There’s this mental backlog, that my brain can’t deal with… haha
For a recap, read Days 1+2: (Arrival and Departure)

Otherwise, read on…
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(edit: I’ve fixed the photos, having uploaded them to flickr instead of using the bogus yahoo links… so yay, pictures!)

Yet again, It’s been a while… I really suck at this whole blogging thing, but yet, I don’t give up. I’m still here, kicking at the dregs of blogdom. It’s not that I haven’t been online, I have been, probably excessively… Applying for jobs, reading blogs (and yes, not writing them), and surfing a buttload. In some ways, I think i’m a bit obsessed with information. There’s so much going on with the world, so many stories of heart-wrenching tragedy, and also of soaring hope, as well as inanity. I’m caught up in the endless sharing of ideas that the internet helps facilitate, and I’m definitely trying to wean myself off of it. It’s just too much information, and what I need to learn to do is synthesize. There must be some way to make use of this knowledge, to harness it, and to share it with the world…

There’s this brilliant tool called del.icio.us… It’s essentially and online bookmarking system, where you can share your links, as well as add useful tags to help you remember or share this information. For anybody who’s interested, you can see what I’ve been surfing here. I’m going to try to make it a sidebar on this blog so that it’s easier to see.
After the cut, I’ll talk about my trip to Alaska (with lots and lots of pictures!), and a little ramble of the thoughts in my head lately…
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