To start, today was the longest day of musical theater I've had so far - six hours from 11am to 5pm... and without a real break - from noon on, I barely left the piano.
I don't believe it necessary to mention how I feel about this. Unfortunately the two least prepared pieces were at the very end... so that was an unfortunate mood downer at the end of the day.

So it was suggested to me that in light of the upcoming provincial election, I should blog about politics. I'll admit I'm not very educated about the topic, so I'll fill some paragraphs with random rants that I can vaguely string to anything political.

First of all... at some point, some politician decided to make it necessary to put nutritional info on food - good for politics. I find this useful... but I think there should be more common sense... why do I have to look at a diet coke and see that it has NOTHING in it... do I care that it has zero percent of 20 different vitamins or no carbs and fat. They should just put a label on it that says "There is nothing nutritionally good nor bad about this product"
There's too much useless information in the world these days.
So they should put useful information on packaging - like a gassiness factor. You should be able to read the label and find out how gassy it will make you. This would be sooo useful... like when you're going for a job interview... if you know the can of beans has a 90% gas-factor, you might avoid it... at the same time if you are going camping with someone you don't like - a baked potato might not be the best choice, you need something with a solid 80% gas-factor, otherwise it's not worth your time.
I probably mentioned, but I wasn't gassy on the night of my recital... but I was worried. The extra stress in a performance situation could have easily been avoided by proper labeling.
I urge everyone to urge political candidates to advocate for the proper labeling of gas-factor in foods sold in Canadian grocery stores.

So, back to my dream of being a blackjack dealer. I think that it's stupid that the government and politicians have implemented "responsible gaming" into the casinos of Winnipeg. They should know that blackjack is more than a job - it's a passion. When someone decides to devote their life to blackjack.. dealing cards is not enough to satisfy the hunger - they need to be able to gamble while they're not being paid... but the Gouvernement du Manitoba says that you can't.
Speaking of french? are we a bilingual nation or not?!? as a Canadian, we're supposed to be, but as a Manitoban, we don't have to be... Quoi le fuck monsieur politique?!?
WHat a namby-pamby way of trying to appease people - In theory we're bilingual, but not in practice.... then what's the point... language dies in theory: that's why Latin is dead, we have the theory of the written language, but no people to speak it. No wonder Canada is so unilingual - all the Latinos are dead!

Now that I'm getting riled up, why even bother with political parties. With all the floor-crossings and whatnot these days, how can I trust that the person I vote for is going to stand by the principles which they originally presented to me through which I made my decision in voting? But more importantly, why should I vote based on the principles chosen by a political party? Theres like a billion people in Canada.. and even with all the the joke parties out there(like the rhinos and the NDP{hahahahahahaha, jk fi and other NDPers}) there can't be a reasonable assortment of views that can reflect the true diversity that truly is out great nation of Canada.
I yearn for the world where representative government actually is what it calls itself. I yearn for a can of beans that tells me I'm going fart in the middle of a piano recital. I yearn to deal blackjack for hours and then reap the satisfying reward of paying back my entire paycheck to the other casino of Winnipeg. So tell me Mr Politics, which candidate will grant me these desires?!?