Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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4:59 pm - "So I take pleasure in the little things..."
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Highlight of the day: guy playing "Taking Care of Business" on his accordian at Yonge & Bloor Station
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
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10:08 pm
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i want to go home.
current mood:  crappy
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
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6:47 pm - zanta's on wikipedia
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
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10:54 am - Victory
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Purchased 3 tickets to see Deathcab/Franz Ferdinand in April.
Now does anyone know where I go to pick the tickets up?
current mood:  cranky
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
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8:20 pm - deathcab!
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does anyone want to go see deathcab for cutie and franz ferdinand on april 17th at the docks? the tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am and i really want to go! the tickets are pricey -- $44.50 and i totally can't afford it but i'm going anyway. so let me know and i can get the tickets tomorrow during my computer class.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
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3:51 am
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still up and now the window is leaking. a lot.
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2:44 am
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why am i still awake?
current mood:  annoyed
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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12:55 am - Hellen Keller's favorite color is Chuck Norris
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Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.
When Chuck Norris plays Oregon Trail his family does not die from cholera or dysentery, but rather roundhouse kicks to the face. He also requires no wagon, since he carries the oxen, axels, and buffalo meat on his back. He always makes it to Oregon before you.
Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull.
Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.
Chuck Norris's girlfriend once asked him how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He then
shouted, "HOW DARE YOU RHYME IN THE PRESENCE OF CHUCK NORRIS!" and ripped out her throat. Holding his girlfriend's bloody throat in his hand he bellowed, "Don't f*** with Chuck!" Two years and five months later he realized the irony of this statement and laughed so hard that anyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.
Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony,couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.
The original theme song to the Transformers was actually "Chuck Norris--more than meets the eye, Chuck Norris--robot in disguise," and starred Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger who defended the earth from drug-dealing Decepticons and could turn into a pick-up. This was far too much awesome for a single show, however, so it was divided.
Chuck Norris lives by only one rule: No Asian Chicks.
To prove it isn't that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and aquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong.
Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"
A man once asked Chuck Norris if his real name is "Charles". Chuck Norris did not respond, he simply stared at him until he exploded.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "booya".
Before each filming of Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris is injected with five times the lethal dose of elephant tranquilzer.This is, of course, to limit his strength and mobility, in an attempt to lower the fatality rate of the actors he fights.
Chuck Norris once went to a frat party, and proceeded to roundhouse every popped collar in sight. He then drank three kegs and shit on their floor,just because he's Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris took my virginity, and he will sure as hell take yours. If you're thinking to yourself, "That's impossible, I already lost my virginity.", then you are dead wrong.
Chuck Norris found out about Conan O'Brien's lever that shows clips from "Walker: Texas Ranger" and is working on a way to make it show clips of Norris having sex with Conan's wife.
The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
One of the greatest cover-ups of the last century was the fact that Hitler did not commit suicide in his bunker, but was in fact tea-bagged to death by Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris punched a woman in the vagina when she didn't give him exact change.
Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
Chuck Norris once tried to sue Burger King after they refused to put razor wire in his Whopper Jr., insisting that that actually is "his" way.
After much debate, President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending Chuck Norris. His reasoning? It was more "humane".
Chuck Norris frequently signs up for beginner karate classes, just so he can "accidentally" beat the crap out of little kids.
Chuck Norris doesn't have normal white blood cells like you and I. His have a small black ring around them. This signifies that they are black belts in every form of martial arts and they roundhouse kick the crap out of viruses. That's why Chuck Norris never gets ill.
If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.
Chuck Norris ruins the endings of Harry Potter books for children who just bought one for the hell of it. When they start crying Chuck Norris calmly says, "I'll give you something to cry about," and roundhouse kicks them in the face.
Hellen Keller's favorite color is Chuck Norris.
current mood:  amused
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
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12:41 am - METRIC
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who wants to go see metric with me two days after my birthday???? Feb 24th at the Kool Haus. They are also playing Ptbo the day before I go home for reading week so I guess I'll miss out on that.
current mood:  thirsty
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
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8:26 pm - Songs
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List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
1) David - Nellie McKay
2) Pull Out - Death From Above 1979
3) Hung Up - Madonna
4)I'll Be Seeing You - Billy Holiday
5) Things I Don't Remember - Ugly Casanova
6) Cotton - The Mountain Goats
7) Complainte de la Butte - Rufus Wainwright
Consider yourselves all tagged.
current mood:  mellow
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12:12 am - did i tell you yet that my mom is crazy?
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well, i'm officially addicted to knitting. i just wish i had more of the fun dollarstore yarn to finish this scarf. i also think i might try my hand at a blanket for this
there was a rememberance day ceremony at school on friday. it was sort of shoddily organized but i was still glad there was something and it was really interesting hearing some of the veterans talk about their experiences. however, i left the ceremony thoroughly pissed off. some of the people in my class decided to leave because there was no seats left in the tiny tv studio classroom where they held it. apparently standing for an hour is just too much of a strain in order to remember people who fought in a bloody war. also one of my friends was cracking jokes about the ceremony. given she is an american and didn't really seem to understand the importance of the day (apparently veteran's day in the states is a reason for retailers to have a sale). but i was still ready to punch her in the face. show some fucking respect.
spent most of the day procrastinating. oh well, i'm going to try and get some work done tonite and then tomorrow i'm going have to crack the whip and get my ass in gear. i'd rather be at the yarn stores knitting than going there and asking questions.
my mom called last night. she calls and asks what is new. when i start to talk about things that are important to me, she cuts me off and puts my brother on the phone. when she gets back on she talks about herself. i give up. if i don't i'm just going to start ripping my hair out.
the leafs beat montreal tonite. sweet.
i'm off to transcribe some interview tapes.
current mood:  relaxed
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
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12:25 am - gobbly-goo
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book reviewer would have to be the best job in the world. how about i just do that for the rest of my life. the guy who started gutter press is going to be teaching one of my programs next semester. sweet. he came in and talked to us for two hours and was probably the best guest speaker we've had all year. we all just sat in awe for the whole time. i'm very excited for next semester.
i thought my dad might be coming for a visit this weekend but he called tonite and asked me if he should come this weekend or next weekend. it killed me but i had to say next weekend because if i don't do someone interviews this weekend shawn will impail me with her magazine editors pen. she said my outline was perfect today. in the words of the great chantal, "squeeee!" i just really feel like i need to go home again for a visit and since i don't have time and am broke, the next best thing is a visit from my daddy.
ah, i just realized i have ran out of tea! gasp.
current mood:  dorky
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
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11:43 pm - don't piss on my cornflakes.... or else
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when i saw that my name was under the frittes section on the giller light volunteer schedule, i didn't think that it actually had anything to do with french fries. boy, was i wrong. how did i wind up with the least glamourous job of the night -- serving trays of New York Fries to the guests. and who the hell decided that this was a good hor d'oeuvre to be serving. french fries! come on --- this is a literary and publishing crowd, drinking wine - they don't want fucking french fries!!! to make things worse, tanya kim and ben mulroney were hosting the damn thing. if the cbc hadn't have been on strike when they were planning it, it would have likely been broadcast on that station and it was suggested that my george stomblopolous (???) would have been there. how very sad. i left right after my shift. i was thinking of staying but i was just so tired and staying meant drinking which cost money - something that i am running out of fast.
which brings me to centennial - who has the worst way of giving out bursaries i have ever heard of. they basically have people fill out an online application which is available at 7:30am one day and then the 1st 400 they deem needy enough get it. i tried to fill it out at 8:30am and they were already all gone. it's basically a method used in order to ensure no one at the college actually has to do any work. this college is seriously disappointing as far as administration is concerned. i like to set the "one-stop" office on fire. jerks.
my good news is that i got an A on my profile that i wrote for school. i was pretty surprised because i was really worried i wouldn't do so well. it is the only class that i care about my marks in. i had someone suggest that getting this mark really wasn't a big deal -- but its a big fuckin' deal to me. i guess it would just be nice to get a "way to go" rather than having my achievements torn down. well i'm proud of myself and despite my trepidation about the feature article, i'm feeling more confident in my writing since getting the profile back.
anyway, i'm off to bed. sorry for a bit of a rant but if i didn't get it off my chest i was going to explode with rage.
current mood:  pissed off
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
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10:05 pm - urban isolation is alive and well in toronto
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had an experience this afternoon that i can only describe as urban hell. walking down queen street for half an hour in the cold on a grey, blustery day while getting rained on during a feverish hotflash is not my idea of fun. however it did lead to me finally setting up an interview for the devil that is the feature article i have to write. the whole experience, even though it had more to do with the weather and me being sick, left me with a longing to move back to ottawa. i just felt like this little insignificant thing with this giant, dirty, grey city spiraling around me. i know i've only lived here for 2 months but i just don't picture myself living here for the long run. there is just too much....
went to dr. gillian's afterwards, who kindly diagnosed my illness as a sinus infection. now if i can get some drugs from the doctor to get rid of it. although i think our trip to the store was a mistake as i felt as horrible on the subway ride home as the passed out guy stretched out beside me looked.
so now i actually have to do this interview tomorrow. i don't want to at all. the fact that this is getting me so freaked out is hard to deal with. i know i'm being stupid but the whole thing is just scary for me. but i guess i don't really have a choice since the meeting is set. now if i can just get this one done there will only be 7 more to go..... ugh.
current mood:  confused
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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8:28 pm - shizer
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pretty sure i have mono. just looked up the symptoms and guess what... i have all of them. that would explain why i have been deathly tired for the last little while. i will be going to the clinic tomorrow morning to see a doctor and make sure that it is indeed mono and if not, then what the hell else is wrong with me. but i'm pretty sure it's mono. really not a great time for this with 3 midterms this week and millions of interviews to conduct. gaa.
current mood:  sick
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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11:47 pm - one more... i just couldn't resist
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11:46 pm - i love this thing
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10:24 pm - am i still sleeping?
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i've been so tired lately. i really need to get more exercise i think.... that and stop going to bed at all hours of the morning. i've also been sort of down lately. i think the lack of sunshine is getting to me and the whole interview thing has got me worked into a tizzy. i have to get over this.... i have to.
i fell asleep this evening shortly after getting home. when i woke up i didn't remember when it was and just assumed it was the middle of the night. it was until i glanced at the clock and found out it was only 7:30pm that i remembered laying down an hour and a half earlier. i was pretty confused and disoriented for awhile -- i hate that feeling, especially when you have to get up and do work afterwards. it's that feeling of being stuck in limbo between the worlds of sleep and awake and no matter how hard you try to snap yourself out of it, you never feel quite right until several hours later.
lately i've been thinking about the idea of eventually starting my own magazine. i need to talk to the crazy guy that came to career week and did that. also the zine fair is on sunday. i think i will be checking that out even though i don't really have time. i know it's just an idea and i'm sure i'd like to get a real job in the industry first. but it's certainly something i'd at least like to try once in my life. a couple friends at school are seriously trying to get one started and they're going to let me help with it so i'm sure watching them go through the process will be really helpful.
i got a bit lost today downtown. well it was more a case of being given shoddy directions but anyway.... sometimes getting lost is exactly what you need. other times, like getting lost in the middle of nowhere while trying to buy cat toys on a freezing cold and rainy night (long story), can really suck. i wish i had more time to get lost on purpose instead of just feeling lost.
current mood:  groggy
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
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9:09 pm
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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1:19 am - these days
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just finished watching The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. i love wes anderson. and i love bill murray.
today was my copyediting mid-term. i don't know how i did but i don't really care. as far as assignments and test (marks in general) in my program, they're are pretty much a joke. instead of studying (if you consider placing tabs to mark the chapters in the Chicago manual studying) i went out with some people from school. went to the salad king with anna and finally had thai food for the first time ever. yum yum yummy. then went to sneaky dees for the launch of "the f-word." sadly they didn't have any copies ready yet. not such a hot promotion plan but i'm still interested in getting my hands on the first issue if i can find one.
the weekend and next week will consist of (beside the career week goings-on): cleaning my apartment again - it's always a ginormous mess; going to the reference library to do research for the feature article i'm writing; doing interviews for said article; taking lots of vitamin C to hold off the inevitable cold that i feel coming on; taking photos of the danforth for my coffee table book layout; coming up with a halloween costume; hopefully visiting with Gillian when she gets back from Ottawa; and finally fighting off the growing feelings of disatisfaction with school.
i must keep reminding myself that i will get a job from this and that is what matters. some people have already been offered jobs and we haven't even been here for 2 full months. i'm just so fucking bored with school. a lot of the stuff we learn is interesting but i just don't feel challenged as far as the work we do. and some of my classes *cough, cough - copyediting* just freakin suck. the teacher for that class makes me want to fling myself through the window of the classroom. university may have turned me into a depressed and anxious mess, but at least i was never bored with it. one thing that school has helped with is figuring out what i want to do when i get out. i'm pretty sure i want to do magazines rather than books and i'm interested in doing editorial or publicity and promotions.
anyway..... i am also thinking of working on a few short articles to submit to some magazines. we've been learning a lot about how easy it is to get published in magazines. and you get paid for it. and then you can join access copyright and get a check for $500 every year. in fact if most people knew how many mag editors are looking for copy to fill their pages they'd give it a whirl too. we'll see how it goes since writing and i don't have such a hot relationship most of the time.
i skipped my design class today -- there is another class that ain't so hot -- and walked down to book city to browse around. i also finally checked out the big carrot. i only bought some chai tea but they have lots of yummy-looking stuff. unfortunately it's a little pricey for my budget right now. it was nice and sunny out but with the pre-cold sinus headache i had, i decided to just go home and then proceeded to fall asleep for 3 hours.
tomorrow's plan is to walk part way to the reference library in order to get some exercise as i have been feeling pretty sluggish lately. then it will be a fun-filled day of research and visiting knitting stores for my article.
I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking
These days, these days.
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to.
-Nico
current mood:  thoughtful
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crazy