March 6, 2009 at 2:52 am | Uncategorized
Well… lots of stuff has happened since I last posted!!
First, I went to Disneyland! It was so much fun and there is so much stuff to write that you will probably punch me in the head if I tell it all now, so I’ll tell my 3 favourite stories.
1) I got hit on by Curious George at Universal Studios. It was raining so we were indoors drinking (free!!) hot chocolate, and the characters were milling around. I had a pic, then went back to the table, then George came back to me and pointed at himself, then at me, then started staggering around and pretending to drink. o_O It was so weird!! Marilyn Monroe had to drag him away.
2) California Screamin’ was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be! The upside down part just felt like a somersault. The rest of it was scarier but I was still not terrified. I also loved Space Mountain!
3) Meeting the princesses is ridiculous! You have to line up and the only place you can meet them is at a specific area (they are behind a wall so you don’t even know what princess are there). They switch out every 15-45 minutes, and apparently no one knows when. We went on the first day and lined up for half an hour, and met Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. Then we wanted to go back the next day and meet other princesses but the line was TWO AND A HALF HOURS LONG o_O!!!!!!11one. So we stood by the exit and begged the girl to let us in. Obviously she said no, but she took my friend’s camera and took pics of the princesses. We have a hilariously awesome one of Ariel making a fishy face! So cute.
OK so that’s it for vacation stories (for now!).
When I got back, I had 3 midterms (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). In one of my other classes on Tuesday, the prof reminds us that our 2000 word draft of our essay is due the following Tuesday. I didn’t have time to even start it till Saturday. Brutal. I finished it though, but it’s absolute crap. At least the prof didn’t seem to expect more from the first draft.
I’m also going out tomorrow with some friends from high school. There was some drama (still don’t understand it) but apparently everyone’s past it? So yeah, we’re going out. I think it will be fun (I’m still close with 2 of them so even if I’m hated by the others it shouldn’t be too bad).
Mark got a $4500 scholarship yesterday! I’m so happy for him, and he’s so relieved. It’s essentially like payment for research he’s going to be doing in the summer, and it will be supplemented by the government as well. I’m so proud of him. He never thinks he’s that smart but he is way smarter than he lets himself believe.
AND … last thing (I think), I got early acceptance to the Faculty of Education! So I started building my schedule. My fall schedule has 4 classes (laid out perfectly, with great breaks and starting at a decent time). Winter… not so much. I can only find 2 courses I want to take o_O And I need AT LEAST 3 to qualify for any scholarships or anything like that (plus I want to get these courses out of my way!) Stupid prereqs and crap. :( Ah well. At least I’m pretty sure I’m in :)
Anyway, I’m going to stop myself now.
Question: what’s some good news you’ve gotten lately?
They say the Nile used to run from east to westFebruary 9, 2009 at 12:18 am | friends, music, outings
I checked Wikipedia and there was no mention of this being true or not. Is it? Or was it just made up? I dunno. Five imaginary bananas to the people who guessed what concert I’m going to. THE KILLERS. In celebration of the fact, I rejoined The Killers Online run by my good buddy Gill. Yay! It’s nice to have an online identity outside Facebook.
In other news… I’m going to Disneyland in less than a week! I’m nowhere near ready. It’s kind of sad. I just got billed for the park tickets yesterday so I’m waiting on like $1100 from my friends, which I hope they give me this week, but I don’t want to pressure them to come up with the money (so if they have to wait till after it’s OK but I’d rather have it before). My grandma is going to be generous and get my USD for me, so I’ll get a special deal on exchange rate, yay!
I finished a lot of my homework today. Now it’s just the proposal for my paper for Latin American studies. That’s going to be difficult because we can write on ANYTHING having to do with Latin America (from a social or economic viewpoint… which still doesn’t help narrow it down). I’m thinking of doing something about languages, because that’s what I’m interested in, but I’m not sure.
I also went to the waterpark yesterday. I had gotten a pedicure JUST before going and my nail polish peeled off! Whenever I saw it floating in the water, I put it in the garbage but there were like 6 toes-worth missing. Unfortunate. At least my feet are soft, and I’m not too disappointed because I always ruin nail polish anyway.
I watched a movie called Scent of a Woman (1992, drama) with Mark the other night. I was assuming that by “scent” they meant a certain kind of scent… which would lead me to imagine a Will Ferrel kind of movie. But it was actually SO good! It had Al Pacino in it, and he played a blind, drunk veteran. And ever 5 minutes he went “hoo-ahh!!” Pretty funny. But yeah, the movie is definitely worth seeing.
Other than that… well, not much. Have a great.. however long it is until you read my blog again :)
Question: what’s your favourite Disney character?
Glamourous Indie Rock & Roll…January 29, 2009 at 3:39 am | friends, music, outings, work
Well. I’m ON TOP of the world right now! FOR REASONS UNKOWN, you can probably READ MY MIND about which band I’m going to go see! And just for fun, I will not tell you which band SOMEBODY TOLD ME will be coming here… Before they were announced though, I felt it in my BONES that they would come before it was announced on the radio, I just randomly decided to change the station!
Anyway, I think I’ll tell you about ALL THESE THINGS THAT I HAVE DONE. (This is probably going to be the most annoying post ever, it looks like I’m yelling at you… well just nod and SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT as you read this).
Uhhh… yeah. Well in other news, I’m seeing Hot Hot Heat and Bloc Party (so if you were going to guess them I suppose you would have been right… but now you won’t be. Oh well, EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT.
Last night I had the strangest dream. Oh, BELIEVE ME NATALIE, it was strange. I was going on some strange stairs that were really messed up, and it was so easy to fall through. I was running from *them* because I did something. I finally got to the bottom of the stairs and ran, and then I found my family. I got a gun and then *they* came and I tried to shoot but the gun was empty. I ran to my parents’ room and I hid under the bed with two of my cats. A third cat showed up, and I knew it was going to protect me. *They* returned with my gun and suddenly it didn’t need bullets. The cat produced the shield but it wasn’t strong enough for all of us. I watched my cats fade, and then I died. Then I went somewhere (not heaven) and my family was there too, and my aunt was sorting greeting cards on the table. I picked up a particularly large one and it was actually a photo album of me and my friends from when we were little. It made me cry, and my aunt’s husband was like, “you’re a moron. Why are you crying you moron.” and I was like, “I’M ONLY 19! I’M NOT READY TO BE DEAD!” And then I looked at the photo album some more and then I woke up. And then I started crying again because I was afraid I had died (and since dead people don’t always realize they’re dead, I was really panicky and I didn’t know until I got to school that I wasn’t). Really fucked up dream, but hey, I guess I’m HUMAN and that happens sometimes. There was a strange sound though, I could blame a SPACEMAN.
They’re cutting my hours at work. I guess THIS IS THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN, and I have no money. Unfortunately the dollar is still shit, so I’ll just have to deal with being broke when I go to Disneyland. I’m so excited though!! Just over two weeks… well… 17 days! WHY DO I KEEP COUNTING? It won’t make it come any faster!! Gah.
Uh yeah other than that… just filling up my iPod again. It’s kind of sad work. I realize how many CDs I’d borrowed from people I don’t talk to any more!! And some of my CDs are missing, I wonder if they have them. It’s kind of sad, I’m totally LOSING TOUCH with all my friends from school but I guess that happens once you CHANGE YOUR MIND about the direction of your life. I still have a few of my old friends (the good ones!) and I’m making new ones all the time. EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT…
I guess that’s it, GOODNIGHT, TRAVEL WELL. :)
Question: What concert am I going to ;) And what was the last concert you went to?
January 10, 2009 at 5:15 pm | friends, outings, school
Fuck J! Fuck J! Fuck J! Seven, Eight, Seven, Eight, Seven, Eight, OHHHH! We’re happy, we’re sad, and suddenly we’re mad, bi-polar, bi-polar, bi-polar bears! GO GO POWERWALKERS!!
Dudes. I had an amazing week and the most fun I’d had in EFFING FOREVER. My university puts on this week-long gong show, essentially, called Anti-Freeze. It’s a bunch of events and you just compete for prizes (I think there were prizes, I know 3rd place got beer shirts haha). It was so intense and I haven’t slept all week and I spent about 14 hours a day on campus but that’s OK. There were so many great events. We were in Iceberg division so we only did stuff in the evenings. The hardest part was the photo hunt; we had to take 24 pictures and we did it in 24 hours, and they were SO AWESOME. I volunteer for a Safewalk organisation (free walks on campus after dark) so we had two Safewalk teams (Powerwalk, which I was on, and Dangerwalk). We also helped out Dangerwalk with their photos because they were doing everything last minute (and they came in 3rd… we were 7th out of 8 haha).
We were seriously the token Canadians, it was kind of sad really. We helped out other teams on the scavenger hunt, we took pictures for people and held stuff, and before one of the events we sat in a circle and played Stella Ella Ola while everyone else was talking strategy (I guess that’s why we didn’t win haha).
We also played assassins, so we had to put a clothespin with some person’s name on that person on that person, and then take their clothespin and then pin the new person. No one on our team got assassinated though, it was epic. We always congregated in the Safewalk office but the night before the last event we decided to book a room elsewhere on campus. The DominAZNs were hunting us but we hadn’t seen or heard from them all week. Then, while in the room, I get a call from someone in the office saying that 10 Asian people came down there and started pinning everyone, but they had the wrong team (Dangerwalk). So that was pretty funny.
The last event (last night) was Mixology 110, so you have to make a dance/skit and have a drink to go with it. We did a toy commercial for Powerwalkers action figures, so another girl and I stood there while the two biggest guys carried us around and made it look like we were fighting. It was hilarious but our music didn’t work (and we had made a remix of Harder Better Faster Stronger and the Power Rangers theme). We also made a robot costume for someone, and it looked so much like Alpha-5. We got some red briefs for him for the codpiece and then someone jokingly shoved the extra 20 feet of H-VAC tubing in his pants (we compressed it so it was only about 3 inches long and tied it at one end) so he had this giant ribbed thing in his pants… absolutely hilarious. When he delivered the drink, one of the judges yelled out “I CAN’T STOP STARING AT YOUR JUNK!!!” He also had a headlamp around his waist to illuminate the drink but it ended up just lighting up his crotch.
After the event we had an impromptu pizza party in the SW office. After we ate, we went to the Student’s Union Bar. Usually it’s just depressed engineers drinking up there but everyone from Antifreeze was there and they moved tables out of the way to make a dance floor! I was so drunk (I might actually still be drunk now!) and I was slutty dancing to Wannabe and Backstreet’s Back (is that even what the song is called?). I think that was the best time I’d ever had at the bar. I always feel self-conscious (even when I’m drunk) because I always see people better looking than me and better dancers. But last night we were all average, slightly nerdy, volunteer-involvement types, and bad dancers. At the end they played Hey Jude, and the Danger and Powerwalk got in a circle and started swaying, but pretty soon we had a circle (well some sort of shape) going around the ENTIRE bar. EVERYONE was in the circle. It was so moving! Then some people broke off and danced in the middle, so I danced with Alpha-5. And at the end they played the song from the Sound of Music that goes “So long, farewell, auf wedersain goodbye” (I don’t know German) and turned the lights on. I’d actually never been to a bar until closing time before.
Anyway. I need to go try to make myself feel decent for work today.
Where’s your favourite place to drink (or hang out if you don’t drink)?
December 30, 2008 at 10:37 pm | movies, site
Well I FINALLY got a new theme done! I would have finished it MUCH earlier but since my hard drive crashed I lost some valuable time. I like this new theme a lot, I feel like I’ve made something remotely creative (even if I followed tutorials and stole other peoples’ ideas).
Let me know what you think (and be honest). I know load time is a little slow, but if it’s unbearable on your computer, PLEASE TELL ME and I will further compress the images.
Otherwise, not much new has happened, I’ve been watching lots of movies (old and new) with Mark. Wall-E, Ratatouille, The Sixth Sense (I hadn’t seen that since I was like 12! And I forgot how awesome it was!), The Village, Benjamin Button (tops the Notebook for crying-est movie I’ve ever seen), Fawlty Towers (not really a movie but sill hilarious), and there’s a couple more I’ve forgotten! We’re watching The Nightmare Before Christmas tonight I think. I’ve never watched that one all the way through, but this time I will. I think it scared me too much as a little (little!) kid and I never had the guts to watch it through haha.
In other news… well there really isn’t much! I want to make a resolution but I can’t think of anything. I think it will be to floss every night (I’m really bad for flossing! Like REALLY bad)… I would say go to the gym but I would never do it so I’m just not going to disappoint myself.
Question: What is your New Year’s Resolution?