I was invited to speak at a 'creative non-fiction' class at Marianopolis College today. The class and teacher were wonderful. They have no idea but I pretended to be 3 years old all the way.
This time I read a few funny selections from my blog with pictures and tied the whole thing together with the theme of empathy - in real life and social media.
I thought I might be really nervous like the last time, but it was cool. I didn't trip and fall or nothin'.
Tomorrow I will amuse the world by stepping outside my comfort zone and into oncoming traffic. I will enter the Land Of Public Speaker-ing - 400 college students at a Humanities Symposium. Start me off on something easy, why don't you?
I've depicted myself as a toddler so I can be easily forgiven.
The Huz is bringing wet wipes and a fire extinguisher just in case the unthinkable happens. Wish me luck.
Yesssss! Three days late, the UPS truck finally did show up. But not before first calling me to say the package was lost. Oh, ok, they didn't use the word "lost", pardonnez-moi; they simply said they couldn't "find" it. Sounds kinda like LOST don't it?!? Which made me feel like half way between broken-hearted and barfing.
Thirty agonizing minutes later... I'm not sure if it was the twitter angels bringing my plight to the attention of @EvanAtUPS or what, but just then the doorbell suddenly rang.
And voilà!
What's that yucky brown stain? See this animation.
My joy was somewhat shortlived. During all this waiting for the brown UPS truck, the electricity company somehow managed to accidentally disconnect my phone AND internet, shaving yet another decade off my life expectancy.
So here I sit, stuck at home waiting for yet another coupla guys in different coloured trucks to show up and fix it...
And since I'm sitting around waiting, I'm trying to install Bootcamp on this crazy Macbook Pro myself, and it's eating me alive.
It's important to have a sense of humour in life; animation comes in especially handy for this as you might imagine, haha. I tweeted all day long about my wayward Macbook Pro, (which I bought after seeing a DEAD Rat), that was apparently supposed to be delivered last Friday, and was apparently going to be delivered any minute now.
Now this laptop is no ordinary luxury item - I mean, yeah, it's kickass and all - but I need it for work, because I have an animation job I have to deliver right after my family vacation. I know, I'm not supposed to work on my vacation; but for me, it's actually fun. I mean really wanted to get the badass Dell, but it wasn't going to get delivered in time, so I went for the Mac instead. They promised me I'd make my deadline. You get the irony here? Dudes I am leaving in ONE WEEK. It's getting a little tight!
My twitter following is awesome; they held my hand ALL DAY LONG. One of them, super dude @DaddyYoEffinRox of the DaddyYoBlog, suggested I animate this. I thought it totally RAWKED!! So I did =D
And...I offer it to you, all my lovely tweeples who helped me crawl through the day. It's short but hey, so is life, right?
Now please cross your fingers that I get that *bleep* *bleep* *bleeeeeeep* ing laptop tomorrow.
