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| Do I Ever Leave This Place??? |
[Nov. 17th, 2005|06:18 pm] |
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So I'm still at school, yes I've left and was away for a while & now I'm back. I have finished my classes for the day. Blythe & I are going to the Narnia presentation thing here at Ryerson this evening so I'm waiting for it to be 6:40 so I can go meet Blythe. They're supposed to be talking about how it was made & techniques & stuff. Really I'm hoping we'll win a couple of the advance screening passes they're going to be giving away. But it should be interesting & they'll be showing some DVD footage. We have this sort-of tradition of going to see a movie on boxing day (well it started with seeing each lord of the rings movie on boxing day each year.)So Blythe & I think this will be our boxing day movie, unless we see it sooner. I was telling Caroline today on MSN. And I quote "I don't think I can wait that long to see TLTWATW" Yes she is a little strange.
We'll I'm just wasting time really. We might be getting dinner afterwords. Salad king is always a popular choice with Blythe. Then we'll share the spicy thai noodle & an order of spring rolls. I'm not sure if they're open this late & they might be busy, well it will be after 7:30, we'll see.
Now that I've finished one of my projects due next week, the weather one. I feel like next week is more manageable. I just have to finish my research report, which I have taken 10 books out of the library for. And Mandi & I are meeting on Sunday to pickup garbage, yay. The Sync sound is the only, I'm not sure if it's going to be finished on time, but we'll see what happens in class tomorrow. Marayna better come.
So in the last 48 hours I've spent 20 hours here and only 9 of it was in class. I love midterms! (or rather end of terms!)
23 Days until freedom. I am so looking forward to having nothing to do. I'm thinking about day trips on want to make & I think I'm going to try to be very creative. I've been feeling a desire to create things lately. Although I think my one minute Rain film helped fill that create void a little better. Really I won't have the time until after my last exam.
Well I'm going to have to walk to Dundas just now, so have fun. |
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| Good Morning, Good Morning... |
[Nov. 17th, 2005|01:30 am] |
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It's great to stay up late, good morning, good morning to you...
Well if you you pay attention to posting times, you will note that it's 1:30 in the morning and guess what? I'm still at school. We'll I left, but I came back to edit overnight. I'm almost finished my project. I think I'm missing the last subway just now, but that's ok, mum said she'd come pick me up from school, it's safer that way. I'm quite pleased, although it looks like it's not going to fit on a CD. which mean I have to use a DVD for a 1 minute movie. Somehow, it has managed to be 1.7 gigs.
Anywho I'm Seeing if i can make it small. Good thing I'm paranoid & brought blank DVDs with me as well.
This means 3 projects left for next week. But I think I now have to draft for next week for my production design course. I have a lot to do in that class before the critique.
Oh well, 24 days until freedom! And yesterday was 3 months until my estimated date that Marshall'll (That's a lot of Ls) fly over. Unless he can't get the holiday & then I'll fly over there, tickets aren't too bad in February. But we'll have to wait & see.
So I'm just burning my DVDs now & then i'll call my mum. I'm really lucky to be living with my mother sometimes.
The Image Arts site has just added this only line database & i can put up movies & pictures. I might put my Rain one up there (That's what this one is called)
Well I have to clean up. Have fun. |
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| It's Raining, It's Pouring... |
[Nov. 15th, 2005|10:58 am] |
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I wish I was snoring...
Hello. I'm kind of in a blah mood. I'm feeling empty. I haven't spoken to Marshall since Friday (it's tuesday now) and he didn't call last night. I feel almost like he doesn't exist, like I made him up.
I don't know why I am still going to keep this going. No one reads it. I wish someone did.
I'm thinking of starting a totally anonymous one on another blog site and putting everything down there. But that would make this one kind of obsolete and I like this one.
At least there are no more minimum number or length or entries. I can relax now.
I don't think I'm doing very well today. I'm feel almost like I'm losing grasp of it all. Like this is all some strange dream that I keep coming back to. I was fine over the weekend. I had fun. I was happy, tired, but happy. And then last night I slide downwards. It was probably after I found out that Blythe's pissed at me for not thanking her enough for filling the dishwasher twice in a row this weekend. And her general hypocrisy. My family is driving me nuts. I think my Christmas break is going to be hard. I looked into visiting Marshall for maybe a week, but tickets start at $700 and I can't afford that. Besides he wouldn't be able to take the time off anyways. I'm going to try and take some day trips though. May be go to Honest Ed's (I've never been there) or check out Active Surplus. You know things to keep me busy for a couple of hours. Take my mind of things. Maybe find some Christmas presents. I found Blythe a Princess ring that looks like a crown at Dollarama today. & I want to work on Marshall's present. I hope he'll like it. I hope it's not me just wanting to do it and he seems to be the best recipient. I think he will. It's just that things I want to get him aren't plausible to mail to him or to big to put in a suitcase (one day I'm going to find & give him that moon chair). I am so terrible at presents.
I need to begin my research report. It's for Film history. I think I'm going to research the evolution of art direction. I just need something I can bare reading tons of long boring articles about.
So basically I am my same boring old self today and I hope the day ends soon. Hope you're having fun. |
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| ...And I was gonna lay it down for you, I try to focus my attention, But I feel so A-D-D... |
[Nov. 14th, 2005|04:03 pm] |
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I need some help, some inspiration (But it's not coming easily)...Trying to find the magic, Trying to write a classic, don’t you know, don't you know, don't you know?
Well don't you? I am currently writing my essay, on this blog. It is due tomorrow. I'm pretty much done. It's really weird writing an essay on your writing though. I just thought I'd squeeze in one last entry before I hand it in tomorrow. This brings my total to 20 entries. I think my next entry kicks the first one off the bottom of the page. I need to save them somewhere, so that I have backup copies. I just have to say that I have never been able to put something I wrote in a bibliography before. It's quite surreal.
"I gotta get through this" Boy, those Bedingfields are full of wise words.
Anywho, I finished my craft yesterday. Yay! And everyone loved my food. A few other people want me to do their craft, but I really don't want to. It's alright sometimes, but it's not educational for me, well not in the film way, just the cooking way.
I am now aware of the power of being able to bake bread. It is much more powerful than I thought it would be. It is probably a dying art. I was surprised how many people were surprised that I had made the lasagna from scratch. "Not everything needs to come in a cardboard box?" (No one actually said that, it just feels like something society would say. That is if society had a single voice that spoke...what would it sound like...male or female...young or old?) Despite the long hours I had fun on set. And I now know a bunch of the 4th years a whole lot better. As well as a couple other people, a couple second years too.
I really need to go over my essay again, add so references to class. Stop procrastinating (I mentioned that in my essay). Should I really be writing about the process of my essay in the topic of my essay? I'm not sure. Has this dilemma ever come up before? I don't think so...not nearly as often as it should come up, I think. As I've said before I am going to try to keep this blog up, despite the essay being over tomorrow and my not having any readers. We'll see what happens.
Oh and my hypermedia project is now up, so check it out if you like, http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/inayman/npf555/Collaboration/Contents.htm I'm quite pleased actually. Although just to warn you it may take a while to find my & Mike's contributions. Good luck though.
Ok back to work now.
"That's all I got to say, can't think of a better way, And that's all I got to say, I love you, is that okay......?"
Have fun! |
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[Nov. 9th, 2005|01:31 pm] |
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Hello all. I'm on my 3 hour break now. Less than an hour left now. I've mostly finished my hypertext. I just need Mike's to link to and then I'll burn them all on to CD and that is one thing knocked off the list. Bad news though. I found out about another assignment I missed on my list.
Visual Study Assignment 3 (Nov 21)
yep, just what I needed another assignment due that week. This is just maddening.
I Don't think I'll be able to Mandi & Lee much for the next couple weeks on their Doc. I just don't have the time. I so shouldn't of offer to do craft. I really could do with this weekend to work on stuff. But somehow I'm going to make it through this month. then I'll have so much time and I won't do anything with it, or at least very little.
I'd like to work on Marshall's christmas present (which he won't get until I see him in February)during the break. It's not hard, but it will be time consuming. (Sorry I can't mention exactly what it is in case he's decided to browse.)
I am going to be so happy when this craft service is over though. I still have so much to do. Mum & I are going to Loblaws today to shop and then I need to make the food (prep, so that it can be cooked on set), bake bread and muffins, chop veggies and just get generally organized. I also need to email Sarah, to make sure that I have a ride. Because otherwise I won't be able to get the food there. I am not taking 2 trays of lasagna on the subway. This would be alot easier too, if mum wasn't going away for the weekend. We could cook the night before each shoot day and it'd be less rushed. But it's still good that she's here now, I wouldn't be able to do it without her. She's driving me places, telling me what to buy and not to, picking healthy vegetables and helping me shop around for the cheapest stuff.
I really don't want to go back today. I just wish the bus worked that I could be 5 minutes early, not 15. I suppose it'd be better if I leave to be there 15 minutes early rather than 5 minutes late. Also it's rainy, cold and wet outside. I want to crawl back in bed where it's warm.
I need to start the essay soon. Thank God it's due this Tuesday and not next Tuesday. I know if it was I could just start it early, but you never do. Last weekend I planned to be very productive and hopefully 1/2 finish my essay. But that definitely didn't happen. I just did the work that was due on Monday. I think as long as I start the essay on friday, maybe when I'm on set & have nothing to do, and finish it off monday night. Then I start on the stuff due the week after on Tuesday. This'll give me the week before and I'll keep the weekend totally clear to finish stuff and then hopefully I won't have a mental breakdown. I think avoiding that is really my biggest goal for end of term.
Well that's all for now. Have fun. |
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| Omigod! I've Just had my Mind Blown! |
[Nov. 8th, 2005|10:23 pm] |
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I am still is aw. I just came back from seeing the Blue Man Group. They were so good. I'm like on a high, they were so amazing. If you haven't seen them, I highly recommend it. I got the tickets free from my visual studies teacher today. I got 3, so Mum, Blythe & I went. Blythe really enjoyed it. I think mum liked it, but not nearly as much as I did.
I really don't know how to describe it. There's drumming, paint splashing, marshmallow throwing and so much more. It was just too cool.
There was this part at the end, where they had rolls of paper on the back walls and then they pulled them up over the audience and we had to pull the paper along until it was done and send it to the front. There were strobe and black lights and I looked up at one point and it looked like no one was moving, but at the same time so much was happening. It was wicked. I would go to see them again just for that part.
I'm going to call Marshall now & tell him about it before my enthusiasm wears off.
Oh and I've finished 1 of 2 craft shopping trips (& it was only like 45 minutes long) Have fun! |
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| Let The Chaos Begin! |
[Nov. 8th, 2005|11:12 am] |
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Ohmigod. I am starting a month long marathon of insanity. I have so much to do before the term ends. Here in order it is due, is the list of things I have to do before end of term:
Hypertext assignment (Nov 10)
English Essay on this Blog (Nov 15)
History of Film Research Report (Nov 23)
Experimental Media Experimental Art (Nov 24)
Experimental Media Essay about Piece of Experimental Art (Nov 24)
Film Technology Sync Sound Project (Nov 25)
Visual Studies Project 5 (Nov 28)
Theories of Representation Test (Nov 29)
Film Technology Test (Dec 2)
Production Design Critique (Dec 5)
History of Film Exam (Dec 6)
English Exam (Dec 10)
As well as 2 readings a week, various unset production design stuff and 3 days of craft services this weekend. I'm only going to go a bit nuts.
And then I am free! Before Noon on December 10th I am finished and I am free for 29 days! That beats my 28 days last year!
I have slight christmas homework which includes reading a couple theories readings and listening to Kopernikus.
Let the countdown begin. Only 32 days until I'm free!
I wanted to apologize about my post yesterday. I don't know what struck me I was just suddenly totally not in the mood to be posting. So I'm sorry.
Marshall called last night so there is no need to beat him up.
I am almost finished my hypertext assignment I just need to come up with on more page. It should probably link to an easy to get to page, because I would like people to see my pages, even if only a couple do. I was hoping to have come up with an idea before my next class started but it's just not coming to me.
Here are my pages so far:
Fight: Manny & his girlfriend, Rachel, get into a fight and they break up you have 2 choices, Manny kills himself or begs for forgiveness from Rachel
Error: Click on kill himself and you get an error page saying that you made the wrong choice.
Call: Call Rachel & she's sleeping and talks to him and goes back to sleep
Sleep: Rachel dreams of a hideous wedding dress. She wakes up & manny proposes to her.
I need on more page, hopefully something that links to my pages already and that I can link to another page. I'm just drawing a blank. I don't want to come up with their actual wedding I want someone else to continue that part (hopefully!)
Well I'm going to browse the hypertext some more. Here's the link:http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/inayman/npf555/Collaboration/Contents.htm if you want to take a look, it's pretty all over the place, but it's interesting to say the least.
So have fun. |
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| Oh No! Not Another Monday! |
[Nov. 7th, 2005|01:31 pm] |
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Oh yes, that it is, a Monday. Why can't it be saturday again. I don't know what happened to my weekend. First I was there, it was fine and now all of a sudden it's gone and I'm back at school for another week. What have I done to deserve mondays?
Ok enough over dramatics. Yes Monday sucks, the end. Anywho, Marshall didn't call last night. It just sucks because he can't email me with an excuse anymore because the housemate with the phone line moved out on friday and took the phone with him, but hopefully there'll be a new phone line soon.
I'm on my monday break and then I have a critique and then I'm done for the day.
You know what, I apologize, I'm really not in the mood to be writing right now and don't have much to say. So I'll try to remember to add something later today. Have fun. |
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| I Failed the bloging test... |
[Nov. 6th, 2005|12:41 pm] |
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| Do You Even Know What a Blog Is? | 
You got 0/8 correct!
What the heck are you doing at Blogthings? |
I'm new to this but I didn't think I'd get them all wrong.
Click on the How Much Do You Know About Blogging link to see how you do. Think you're so smart, see if you can beat me. |
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| Sunday Child...Is Bonny & Blithe & Good & Gay. |
[Nov. 6th, 2005|11:55 am] |
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| | At Seventeen by Janis Ian | ] |
Blythe was born on a sunday. I suppose it's the only appropriate day to be born on and named Blythe. I was born on a wednesday and thus, I am full of woe.
Well really my point is how can the sunday's child be bonny & good etc. when sunday is like last resort day, if they were really good and happy, they would have finished their homework before sunday. So really this should be friday's child because then, the kid gives their mum the weekend to recover after giving birth. Yes, I know the poem's really about god, I'm just putting it in a modern context, the whole point of blogging is that I am sharing my opinion.)
Anywho, in terms of homework, I'm doing alright I did a bunch yesterday, so I'm not too badly off. It gets alot worse next week. And besides I get to do all my work on my awesome new computer! (Sorry I needed a segway)It is so fast! If I got a good video card put in, it would totally outstrip Marshall's laptop, which is saying alot. I've been playing the sims 2 and it is so fast. Before I couldn't even listen to real player and go on internet explorer on the same thing, now I can do 5 things at once, with no delay. I'm am so pleased with it.
On to other things. I really hope I have enough entries for my english essay, I'm running out of time. The essay's due a week Tuesday. My hypertext is due on thursday. The Hypertext assignment is a sort of interactive story online and everyone in my class has to add to it. The problem is that we are all arts students and the story is so all over the place and I don't know where to start. It's about the life of this guy called Manny. It's all of his live from start to finish, and I have to add memories and thoughts and stuff. This is the assignment I'm paired up with Mike the deaf guy. I supposes once we figure out what we're linking to it'll help, but like I said I don't know where to start.
What else has happened recently...the biggest thing is my new computer...I don't think Marayna went to any of her classes this week. She phoned me during Tech class, which she was supposed to be in, to ask me if I wanted to go out on Friday. Unfortunately I didn't check my phone until 11 last night (no one ever calls me.)But I think someone might be visiting her, I could hear someone in the background of the message.
Marshall might call me tonight. I hope he does. He's off tonight, and as long as he doesn't get to wasted and pass out or get home to late he should call. I'm not allowed to text him anymore. Mum had us signed up to unlimited texts on our phones, so I've been texting him all the time. But it turns out international texts aren't included and they cost $0.20 each. What rip off. It only costs them something like $0.005 to send a text and then they mark it up by 400%, it shouldn't be legal.
Other things: it is dangerous that I installed the sims 2. I installed it on Friday and have probably spent at least 6 hours playing it. It is so addictive. Talk about life writing. It's just not your life, you're creating a virtual life and controlling it. If you're not familiar with the sims, it's a game where you control a person or family, depending on the family you create and you dictate their life. Everything from the job they get to what they eat for breakfast to when they go to the bathroom. It's hectic. Marshall laughs at me for playing it, but he watched me playing it in the summer and I think he understood a bit more. It's like watching a movie that you decide what happens. Well that and it comes with recording options and you can film your sims doing whatever they are doing and then you can edit the footage in any editing software and you make you're own movie. Then you post it online on the sims 2 website and anyone who wants to can watch it. Maxis (the sims 2 company) makes it's own serials that it posts every so often. It's just so all consuming. The family that I am playing now (that I have created similar versions of on 2 other computers, but have been lost to uninstall) are Maggie and Katie Smith. Maggie is Katie's mother. Katie started as a toddler but has grown up to a child now. She is doing very well in school and has a consistent A+ report card. Maggie is on the culinary career path and is currently a waitress, she is trying to make her way to head chef. Their house has a TV, a computer with the internet, where they can chat online & send & receive emails from their sim friends. When Maggie goes to work there's a nanny who comes and watches Katie, so that the social work doesn't come and take her away. The maid (a male maid)comes everyday to clean the house up. And the repoman came yesterday because I forgot to get Maggie to pay the bills. He took the couch as payment. (yes I know I sound obsessed, but all this and more happens, it's so absorbing)I played the first sims and had most of the expansion packs, but the sims 2 is so far ahead to the first one. I've already asked for the 2 sims 2 expansion packs for Christmas. There's Sims university (where they go to university and gain a degree) and night life (they go on dates and to night clubs.)
Well no that you're even more convinced that I have a life, I wanted to mention that Marshall was not happy with the entry dedicated to him. He sid he meant 4 full lines (which I knew) not 12 words was too long. It was a joke, okay! So I don't know if he'll be back anytime soon. That and he doesn't have the internet right now, not until the new guy moves in & gets a phone line put in.
Well that's all for now. I think I'm going to add a blog thing just now, but in a separate entry to avoid spell check confusion. Have Fun! |
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| Wiating...waiting.. |
[Nov. 4th, 2005|12:22 pm] |
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waiting...I am in my mum's office right now. I am waiting for her to go buy a computer with me. I am getting a new computer today! I am so excited about it. No more shitty computer! Yay! If only mum'll come back. I've been waiting for at least half an hour. And mum has a candy bowl on her desk, so I've eaten too much candy. She said it'll only be a few more minutes, but I don't believe her.
At least her office it fun. She's got a mini-basket ball game, magnet darts and like I said candy. Other people's offices are boring and empty. And at least it's an office and not a cubicle. But it doesn't have a window, well a real window, to the outside world. It has a window to the hall, which is a window to the outside vicariously through open doors and other hall windows.
Anywho...still waiting...yep...still, still waiting...
I've got news Marshall is going to become a fireman (at least that's the plan) He'll volunteer, he lives 1 minute away from the fire station and take as many courses as he can and hopefully be able to go full time in 6 months or so and eventually come here.
Mum's back, so going to get a computer. Have fun. |
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| Live Journal is my friend... |
[Nov. 1st, 2005|01:07 pm] |
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So if you pay attention to posting times, you will note that I last posted about an hour & a half ago (I had an 1 hour class in between.) So I am beginning to feel slightly obsessed with live journal, especially since I have nothing to do during my breaks. The biggest problem with this being that I am no longer reading during my breaks. Which is when I was finishing all my readings (I have 25 half pages, you know the way they photocopy 2 pages on to one, on editing practices in the 1920s to read for tomorrow.) The biggest problem is they drown on & on and say nothing for pages and pages.
I have been browsing a few other journals and I have come across quizzes and fun stuff to add to your journal. I am currently taking the Sesame Street Persona Test. Results once I'm done.
Here it is:
Snuffleupagus
You scored 54% Organization, 53% abstract, and 45% extroverted! |
This test measured 3 variables.
First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean.
Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete or an abstract viewpoint. For the purposes of this test, concrete people are considered to gravitate more to mathematical and logical approaches, whereas abstract people are more the dreamers and artistic type.
Third, this test measured if you are more of an introvert or an extrovert. By definition, an introvert concentrates more on herself and an extrovert focuses more on others. In this test an introvert was somebody that either tends to spend more time alone or thinks more about herself.
You are somewhat organized, both concrete and abstract, and both introverted and extroverted.
I bet you didn't think you were Snuffleupagus. Let's find out why.
You are both somewhat organized. You have a good idea where you put things and you probably keep your place reasonably clean. You aren't totally obsessed with neatness though. Alloyius Snuffleupagus (and all Snuffleupagus') is not sloppy by nature, but he moves so incredibly slowly that it is impossible for him to be totally organized.
You both are about equally concrete and abstract thinkers. You have a good balance in your life. You know when to be logical at times, but you also aren't afraid to explore your dreams and desires... within limits of course. Snuffy generally has very basic interests, but he explores his abstract sensitive side when he plays his snuffleflute.
You both are somewhat introverted. Originally Snuffleupagus was very shy and was only Big Bird's invisible friend. However as he has aged he has started to build new friendships with new characters. Like Snuffy, you probably like to have some time to yourself. However, you do appreciate spending time with your friends, and you aren't scared of social situations.
The other possible characters are
Oscar the Grouch
Big Bird
Cookie Monster
Ernie
Elmo
Kermit the Frog
Grover
The Count
Guy Smiley
Bert
If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback! Also if you want to tell me your favorite Sesame Street character, I can total them up and post them here. Perhaps your choice will win! |
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My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 30% on Organization |
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You scored higher than 39% on concrete-abstra |
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You scored higher than 10% on intro-extrovert |
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Given the other possible characters I think Snuffleupagus is a fair assessment of me.
Well I think I'm going to go find somewhere to eat now. I want to try for of the quizzes & stuff & put them up later.
So have fun. |
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| Omigod! It's November! |
[Nov. 1st, 2005|11:44 am] |
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Holy Cow! It's almost Christmas practically!
I was in Canadian Tire this morning and there were almost no signs of Halloween left in the store. But half of it was decked out with Christmas Crap to buy. I mean don't get me wrong, I love Christmas, but I don't need it shoved down my throat the day after Halloween. I will be happy to begin to embrace Christmas halfway through November, because I need to start thinking about gifts then.
Anywho, this is just a quick entry, just before I go to my next class.
And I am happy to report that Marshall is not dead. He was drunk & sleeping.
Have fun. |
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| Happy Halloween! |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|01:51 pm] |
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Well it's monday morning/afternoon and I've had the strangest weekend. Up & Down...Up & Down...Up & Down. Well I'm glad to say it's over now and I just need to get through the week. On saturday I dressed up like a chick from the 80's and titled myself "poison groupie" to go with the poison shirt I was wearing. As it keeps happening when I go out, I got more wasted than I wanted to and feel embarrassed the next day and just wish that Marshall had been there. Especially since I know they'll be making fun of me when I see them tomorrow. I suppose it could be worse. I could be the loser who didn't do anything for Halloween just stayed hope and didn't dress up or anything.
Well as tonight is the real All Hallows Eve, I will be at home, helping give treats to children in costumes. I'm looking forward to it. I would like to dress our house up a bit more first though. All we have is a string of pumpkin lights right now. But there will be 2 pumpkins, a talking doorbell (It sounds like it says "Happy Halloween, Ho Ho Ho Ho", it's supposed to be "Ha Ha Ha Ha", you know of the evil laugh variety) and of course the newest addition, which my mum purchased this year, Earl the motion activated talking skeleton. Earl has 3 halloween-ific sayings "Nice costume, Happy Halloween", (my favourite)"Hey, what are you supposed to be?" and for all the children "Will somebody get me a drink?" But I think he will be successful.
Blythe & I carved our pumpkins last night. Blythe carved eyes peeking out of a pumpkin and I, keeping up my carving cartoon characters tradition, carved Cosmo from Fairly Odd Parents (if you don't know who that is, watch the show it's really funny) Previous years have included "portraits" of Woody from Toy Story, Yellow the M&M, Gary from Spongebob Squarepants & Mike from Monsters Inc. Cosmo is alright, not great, his eyes are a little freaky looking, but that's ok.
I had a fight with mum yesterday. A big fight, well big for me. It started because her messing with the internet, but it was really about (for me at least) everything that pissed me off that she had done. It was really a vent for everything. I was actually screaming and yelling at her, but she seems to find it more funny she should have. It was probably because I never get that angry, especially at and in front of people. My Eyes are still puffy.
And in the end I'm probably getting a new computer. I know I should be happy about that, my current computer is a piece of crap, but it feels like a lot of money that doesn't need to be spent on me. And I think Blythe's mad at me because it kind of defers from her getting a new computer, although I keep telling her she really doesn't need a new one. She just needs to clean up her old one. Also I just reformatted my crappy computer, in a bid to fix it & all that's installed on it now is windows & word. So I don't know if I should keep setting up for wait for this new computer, which I'm pretty sure mum is going to get no matter what. I had to convince her yesterday to not come home with a computer the hour after she decided she was going to get me a new one. I wanted to check the specs first with Marshall and it needs to be about to handle more complicated programs like photoshop & adobe after effects. But I think she found a good one, I'm just waiting for Marshall to email me back. I'm partly in Marshall with drawl, I haven't talked to him since Wednesday and last I heard from him was a wasted email he sent me last night. He's sleeping the day away (again!) and didn't call me last night, because he was partying next door (which he's totally allowed to do, I just want a sign that he didn't die last night, hey I know you maybe laughing, but no one is going to let me know if something happened to him)
Well I'll know by tomorrow night at the latest, when I call him at work and he doesn't answer.
Well I am now trying to clean up my hotmail a bit (I've gone from 37 pages in my inbox to 25)
Well more later, have fun. |
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| For Marshall... |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|01:48 pm] |
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...who says
anything over 4
lines is too
long to read. |
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| Happy Humpday! |
[Oct. 26th, 2005|08:30 pm] |
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| | America's next top model in the background | ] |
Well it is wednesday. This week is going by fast. And I get to be pretty relaxed for next week. I only have a couple readings to do, so it's not to bad.
Today was a weird day. I don't know why but I think I felt slightly more rebellious than usual. In the morning after we finished the test I had today (I think I did alright) we were watching "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and it was painful (it's a silent film from the 1920s and it's 88 minutes long. It takes 5 minutes for a reaction from the love interest that one of suitors has been killed, and no, it wasn't worth the wait.) So I wanted to leave earlier. Other people left during the film and I just couldn't bring myself to do it and I stayed until the end and by then I wasn't even paying attention anymore (I checked my email on my phone in class.)Then it took me hour and a half for me to figure out how to get photoshop to behave (which I didn't) and print my assignment due in the afternoon (which I did) But halfway through I was sure I wasn't going to get it printed and I was going to have to hand in only half of my assignment and I thought about not going to class. But I managed to get it to work. And I took the bus 20 minutes later than usual, so I was 7 minutes late. So I went to class and part way through I realized that I needed to photocopy an assignment to hand it in. We had already had our break so I left the class while everyone was looking at this other person's location survey. Ok, I know that these are not especially rebellious acts, but if you know me at all, you know that they are out of character for me.
Well I'm going to be phoning Marshall just now, so have fun. |
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| Because I have too little time & too much to do... |
[Oct. 25th, 2005|01:19 pm] |
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| | None-Computer Lab | ] |
Well I'm at school, which sort of limits what I can do. I could study if I could find a decent quiet, empty spot to read. The image arts lounge is not ideal for this at 1 in the afternoon. So I am on my 2nd break from today and currently have 40 minutes to waste. I thought I'd spend more time here so I could add another short entry making my entries long enough to count today as one (the essay topic sheet says "should be substantial in length (at least a few paragraphs per sitting)")So I'm not exactly sure how long substantial is but I need 8-10 of these substantial entries and hopefully I will finish those as well as the essay due in just under 3 weeks.
Well I've decided that I'm going to give Marshall the url for this journal, I don't know if he'd actually read it. Besides I tell him everything anyway so it's not like there are any deep dark secrets here that I don't want him to know.
Anywho not like that really matters to you, I just felt like mentioning it.
As I said I'd do yesterday here are my word associations:
1.smart
2.school bus
3.work
4.work
5.fly
not particularly ingenious or telling, but I promised and there it is.
I'm really bored. I don't like it when Marayna doesn't come to Visual studies on Tuesday because then it means that I have no one to hang out with during the 1 hour break. Not like I'm not used to it, It's just nice to socialize (see yesterday) So I'm 80% sure I'm going to go to Marayna's John's Halloween Party, but I don't know what to be. Blythe has suggested 80's chick. I think mostly cause she's like a reason to show off the Cyndi Lauper esq hair piece she bought when she her school was having an 80's themed dance. I think that's kind of a last resort, I'd have to come up with a clever title, like I could wear her poison shirt (also bought for the same dance) and be a poison groupie. I just want to be something different. When I asked mum she suggested the witch costumes she made Blythe and I when we were 5 and 8. She's no good at this kind of stuff (she self-admitted this)So any suggestions let me know.
Ok I still have 25 minutes. Why can't time go this slowly when I'm working all night on a project, you now drag on so I'll still have time to sleep when I'm done. Not this "oh shit it's 5am"
Oh and I want to give a shout out to Marisa (who is awesome) for not only posting a comment, but for also being probably the only reader of my blog. THANK YOU MARISA!
And same request as yesterday: PLEASE POST A COMMENT, this request is in the interest of my english paper, oh course like I said above if only Marisa is reading this, I'd love to hear from you but there's no obligation.
Hey I wanted to recount a strange moment I had yesterday. I was sitting in visual studies yesterday next to the deaf guy, Mike, who is in 5 of my 7 class. He has sign language interpreters who let him know what's going on. We are paired up for an assignment in experimental media, so he passed me a note asking for my email and I wrote it down and passed it back. Then he started talking to the interpreter on the other side of the room and it's just very strange to be sitting next to someone you can't physically talk to and he's having a conversation across the room that no one else understands. It's just very bizarre. Hey maybe that's another weird thing my reality cause...uh, probably not, he is in 5 of my classes. Well I'm going to email Marshall before class so, have fun. |
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| What The &#*?$ Do We Know... |
[Oct. 25th, 2005|11:32 am] |
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| | None-although I'm finally in the image arts computer lab | ] |
Well I know where all the crazies live. Toronto must be the crazy capital of the world. I only have about 20 minutes before I have to head to my next class so I just wanted to relate quickly what happened to me yesterday.
So I was walking down Younge street yesterday (crazy central, if you've ever been at the corner of Younge and Dundas, you'll understand)and I passed this man (I'm sure it was a man,he was tall and stick like, as tall stick like men are) And he was wearing lipstick and a scarf wrapped around his head. Yes I am an equal opportunity kind of person and if a guy wants to dress like a woman then go ahead. But it got me thinking. If any one has seen what the bleep do we know? (which I recommend as a film that'll make you think)then you'll understand where I'm coming from. My friend Marayna has strange things that happen to her all the time, like she causes them to happen to her by walking down the street. And in What the bleep do we know?, they talk about how our minds influence our reality more than we think. So as I passed this man/woman I thought I want crazy and/or strange thing to happen to me, I believe they will happen, so they will happen to me.
Ok so several hours later as I was riding the subway home, I was standing in the opposite the opening door doorway and this short, chubby asian man was standing beside me. He started making these funny noises, speaking in a language I don't speak and making funny sort of laughing noises. I think he was trying to make me smile and/or laugh. He was staring at me while making the noises and the other people on the subway were staring at him, but I can't look at him because then I'll be provoking his weird noise making even more. So I just stood there trying not to laugh or smile and then he got off at bloor.
So I don't know if my mind changed my reality or if it was just a coincidence, but it seems kinda weird, but a good kinda weird (not the crazy men, the situation)
Anywho we'll see if it happens again. Have fun. |
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| Same Shit...Different Day |
[Oct. 24th, 2005|01:46 pm] |
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| | None-computer lab...school...same as last week | ] |
Hey Kids,
Well it's monday afternoon (it feels like the morning) and I am feeling the usual monday blues. "I've got too much to do this week!" At least I just finished my English presentation, which I think went quite well (at least there were many people who wanted to answer our question) And despite the fact that I'm happy to be helping out on various film crews, I wish I had thought it through. I don't have time! In the next month I have 3 essays, 2 major projects, too many readings and various other crap I have to do, along with helping out on film sets for a couple of weekends and not to mention attempt to keep my sanity. Oh well I suppose it could be worse. I could have even more essays.
I think another reason that I'm not as chipper today is that Sunday night is usually the one night a week Marshall calls me (I call the hotel during the week, it's the only land line I can reach him on, which is like 10x cheaper than phoning his cell phone.) And he decided to rely on Skype instead of charging his phone card. I have decided that the problem is that Skype doesn't like me. I can hear Marshall, he can hear me, but the program keeps cutting our calls off. But he did phone for a few minutes on his cell phone which will probably cost him a lot, but I'm worth it (according to him, I don't mean to sound overly cocky, it was just really sweet when he said it)and he said he'll call tonight and we'll have a decent chat.
Well I am now in the 1 hour count down until my visual studies class (no I'm not that excited about it, I'm just tired of always waiting, that & after it I get to go home)I just wish I could sign in to the computers in the image arts building, rather than having to come all the way to kerr hall west to use the computers, where it is busy and nearly impossible to find an empty cubicle at this time of day and am forced to sit in the open area (last time the computer I was sitting at smelling like it had done a couple laps before I sat down, it was quite gross)
I think I am going to go to Marayna's sort-of-boyfriend (they say they're just friends, but I don't think so)Jon. And Marayna says Brian, from summer school, may come. I'd like to see Bryan, I haven't seen him since February. I've also been invited to Mandi's (whose 4th year doc I'm helping on) liquor potluck. kate said she's going to Mandi's but I think she might be filming that day. I think I'd just like to meet more people and have some fun for once, you know socialize?
Hey I have a request. Like I said in my first entry, I started this for an english essay, although I'm pretty sure I'm going to continue to after the paper's due. I was wondering if anyone reading this, whether you know me or not to just a post a comment on what you think or even just a blank comment so that I know someone else read this, just for something to make reference to in my essay (it's supposed to be about my experience blogging and how I felt sharing my life on the internet etc.) Any comments or thoughts are appreciated, even if they are to tell me how much I suck (yes, thank you I already know), but tell me again if you fell so inclined.
I don't really have much more to say...but I still have 54 minutes until class...what to do...what to say...Hey I got something to comment on if you feel like it. In experimental studies class last week we were talking about word associations, so I'll put a couple down and you can comment back the first word that comes to mind.
I'll put 5 and you can answer 1...2..all or none (but I won't know that you answered none unless you specifically tell me that you are refusing to answer) Ok here goes:
1. Dumb
2. Yellow
3. School
4. Art
5. Bird
I'll come back and put my answers in the next entry, I can't really do them now, I've had too much time to think about them.
Well I suppose that's it for now then, have fun. |
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