Jess's, OSLC, and hypnosis

Hey everyone, and welcome back to another edition of "Weasels, unfunny clownfish, and caulking guns" My name is Kyle, and I will be your host for the evening.

If you hop into the time machine to your left there , press " 10-26-2007-8-00" , I will take you back to Friday night, where our story for this evening begins.

So, after school friday, I took a greyhound down to Toronto to visit Jess for the weekend. I was looking very forward to going and seeing her, and it proved to be very much so worth it. I went down friday night, arrived there at about 8:00, which kinda sucked, but oh well, such is life. Jess zapped us up some Chili n' chips, and that was really really tasty. We watched a movie I brought, "Bloody Mary", but it pretty much sucked. It was blatantly a low-budget film, and it lacked whatever content strikes general interest these days. It kinda reminded me of the movie I made back in grade 9, except I didnt die in this movie. Sorry.

So Saturday morn' , we wake up, and we cant really decide what to do for breakfast. So, we beat around the bush for a bit, and finally decided that we would go to Arby's , concidering that it was probably around 11 by this point. We went, had some Bacon Cheddar melts and curly fries, and A&W root bear (yum) and then we decided we would walk around the mall for a bit. We went to the apple store, which was overcrowded, we went to some stores and Jess looked at $300 boots, and then we went to the Bay to try and find my Grandma, if she was working there. Well, she wasn't, so we went to "christmas street" which is the Bay's nickname for there Christmas displays. They were beautiful, and it was nice to look at. Plus, they had huge nutcrackers, which have always fascinated me for whatever reason. Maybe I was dropped on my head as a baby.

Anywho, we went back to Jess's after that, and hung around her room for a bit. we watched weird videos online, and just spent some quality time together. I always love doing that.

Jess had some 3 hour opera thing that she had to go to that night, so my idea of cooking us a nice reomantic dinner was scrapped. We decided we should go out and try to find somthing to eat. I had seen a place, its a chinese or some asian place, where you cook your own food on the grill in front of you. We walked around Yonge for a bit, and finally found it. We went in, and were obviously a minority. We ordered the "all you can eat bbq" meal, which sounded good enough. They brought us:

Beef
Pork
More Pork ( different cuts)
Squid
Salmon
Weird fish
Chicken
and a various assortment of noodles, rice, soups, and the like.

It was delicious. Luckily, I knew what most of the stuff looked like cooked, so I made sure that neither of us got sick from the food. The only thing I didnt know how to cook is the squid, but we figured er' out. It was all really good, and I would definitely go back again. They offer you the option to get shrimp + lamb as well, and we will definitely do that :) No ox tongue though, they offer you that :P

So, I walked Jess to her theater thing so she could watch her opera, and I went to blahblah's ( it was actually dominion, but blahblah's is way cooler) and I picked Jess up some groceries,things like bread, fruit cups, a 24 case of water, enough crustal light to flavour the sea, and some breakfast things for the next morning. ( i.e. Bacon, Lettuce , Tomatoes, but that will come later in the story) things for the next morning, and I surprised her with a bouquet of a dozen roses for when she got home. When i tried to leave the store, the carts wheels locked up. Guess that aint' coming home with me. So, I got to carry all the groceries. Which would have been fine, expect the water was heavy as FiretrUCK, and the bread and flowers were delicate, so i couldn't just juggle them home. I finally managed to her home, put ehr groceries away, cut the flowers, vase'd them, and awaited Jess's thing to be done. Well, that definitely is easier said then done, as within half an hour of being back, a girl comes to the door and asks if I can go help set up for the halloween party that night. So, not being a jerk, I went. I hung more streamers and cob webs then you'd know what to do with, and then headed back to the dorm. I hung there for a bit, and then went to pick up jess. We got back, got into our costumes, and headed off to the party at the pub down the street. We partied for a bit, then went back to Jess's, as her feet were sore. We hung there, took some pictures, spent time with eachother, and then hit the hay for the evening. In the morning, Jess's Alarm went off for 9, I went downstairs, fried up the bacon, cut up tomatoes, and lettuce, and made BLT's for ehr and I. The smell of real bacon was awesome, and it certainly drove her house mates craaazy. I sadly had to leave her place at this point, and up to the greyhound terminal I went. The princess got some sleep once I left, and I had a nice long bus ride home ( it stopped at the Guelph terminal for 45 minutes)

And so heres the ending to the story of Jess and Kyle's weekend, or shall I say, here begins the story of Kyle, at OSLC.

Sunday, I had to depart for a leadership conference in London at 2:45. Suuucked big time. I so did not want to leave Jess's for this. We bussed there, checked in, and had a dance that night. It pretty much sucked, so i just went to my room and watched TV. Monday, we had workshops all day, which kinda sucked, and then a dance that night too. Went for like 20 minutes and then went and hung out with other people that appreciated how crappy the dance was. We ended up having a huge Toga party, and like 100 of us paraded around the hotel screaming songs about togas and whatnot. The manager finally shut that down, and we all went and retired for the evening.

Next morning, we had more workshops, and the one I chose to go to just happened to be a hypnotist. I was one of the few "lucky" ones who got to be hypnotized, and I assure you that this scared the shit out of me that it worked. What i did was went back for the seccond seminar to see what all happened to me.

So, he starts off with everyone in the audience, he does some weird thing and you put your index fingers an inch apart and then they get "magnetized" together. Well, this worked on me, so he called me and about 10 others to the front. We went, and he started talking to us. He eventually got us to go into a trance, if you will, and it was right before this where I lost and and all recolection about what happened. Seeing from the seccond show, what happened now was he said " you are sitting on a beach, which was cool because everyone actually sweat, and was basking in the sun, and then all of a sudden, he told us it was freezing rain, and everyone was freezing and grabbing other people up there for warmth.

He then said " I am about to throw you the keys to your favourite sportscar" and we proceeded to actually pretend to be driving a car. Following that, he said we were in the middle of jurassic park, and that was scary enough in its own right, because even the big, buff guys, were crying like babies. I hope I didnt do that. Then he did a bunch of other crazy stuff which I am too exhausted to talk about right now, but I can assure you, it scares the hell out of me that this worked on me. I am very skeptical about this type of thing, and the fact that it worked and i had no control or memory of any of my actions over the period of an hour, kinda scares me.

Well, i'll continure the hypnosis story at another point, but I am BEAT tonight.

Thanks for the great weekend Jess! I love you!

Much love everyone!

Kyle