Word After the Street

My dear readers, I hope you aren't getting too stressed out about assignments yet. I feel like I'm barely keeping my head out of the water already, and I can see the swells rolling in!

Last weekend I attended Word on the Street in Vancouver with the El Presidente (his official title) of the Creative Writing Club (VIUCREW), where we, with one other student and a prof, ran the booth for VIU. It was a big success! There was a crowd around us for most of the day. We realized that many people still don't know that our institution has had a name change. They said things like "Oh, I didn't realize that there was another university on Vancouver Island", but when we said we used to be Malaspina UC they, of course, were familiar with it. For reasons like this it's good for us to be represented at Word on the Street. Also, we sold twice as many copies of Portal (our literary journal) this year, than we did last year!

As for the videoblog, which I said I would try to produce regularly, I did get one done today. However, I'm finding that students don't really want to be on my blog. Maybe it's just because Friday is a day off for many students, and they didn't think they'd have to see anyone they knew on campus on a Friday, and didn't make themselves as pretty as they usually do. Haha I don't know.

I decided to ask students the question posed by Rick and Glen in my last video: "What are you doing here?" and this is the response I got from four students who felt comfortable being seen on the internet today.

Tomorrow I'm headed to Seattle with some friends to see MartyParty play at Neumos! Usually I just catch his Vancouver shows, but it's high time I went on a road trip! Have a great weekend everyone, and don't work too hard!