CANDY

"...when you feel embarrassed about something that you shouldn't feel embarrassed about, you end up in a vicious circle of being embarrassed by your embarrassment....and that's really embarrassing."



In the novel Candy the main character, Joe, meets a girl from en entirely different walk of life. He ends up having strong feelings about her. Joe is an overly insecure kid and he over analyses most situations turning them into awkward moments. I, like Joe, am fairly insecure. I tend to over think situations and can easily make situations awkward. Similar to Joe, if I am in an unfamiliar environment I become even more nervous and become embarassed more easily. I think Joe has a strange personality in that he is very self concious, but is not afriad to do new things.

CANDY

Frustrated Fans

The Vancouver Canucks have been a successfull team in the past, with trips to the playoffs and some high scoring players. But in recent years the team has been lacking a scoring arsenal. The defence of the Canucks is fairly strong, but has been injury plagued throughout the season. Kevin Bieksa, maybe the Canucks strongest defenceman in the 06/07 season was injured until midway throught the season and Sami Salo, the hard shooting point man has been out numerous times for various injuries. The main line of the Canucks consisting of the Sedin twins and one other player picked by the coach based on performance has been a dissapointment. In the last 5 regular season games the twins have combined for 11 points and only 2 goals which is not even close to being sufficient for a team that is attempting to make it into the playoffs. Their Captain Markus Naslund has not been putting up numbers that will take his team far. He has scored 25 goals and has only 55 points compared to his 104 point season in 02/03. Without Roberto Luongo in net the Canucks would have no chance to win a game. He is the only consistent part of the team and must be very frustrated when his team continually coughs up the lead when he is playing an exceptional game. I still am a fan of the Canucks, but I am losing faith rapidly.