Hey yo,
This entry is long overdue, I haven't updated for like ever. So for a quick recap of what's new.... I did a spring semester in Sydney and it was actually really good, I enjoyed it. I had a 4 bedroom apt to myself which was also very nice. It was wicked not having to clean up other people's (laura's) shit everyday. Sooo, I went home at the end of May, but not for long...
Back in the fall I discovered that Radiohead was touring. They have been my favorite band for years and Heidi also liked them a lot. So I said to Heidi that if there was any way that I could go see them, I would, 100%, I just really wanted someone to go with. So her parents agreed to pay her, and I paid for me with my bursary, hehe. Totally worth it. We had to buy our tickets off an online scalper, we booked our flight through travelcuts, and for accomodations we stayed at the university of Boston, which they rented out like a hostel in the summer. So I was home for like a week and went back to sydney (to meet heidi, she did a summer semester too) and from there we drove to halifax, stayed at sara's sister's for the night and left the next morning. Never been so excited in my entire life. So we made it to Boston and everything went perfect, totally perfect (except for getting back into Canada where customs kidnapped me for a while and heidi was left freaking out in the airport wondering what the hell was going on...but that's too fucking stupid to even talk about..) So yeah, we went shopping, did some sightseeing and went to the show. Very simple trip. But Kickass! I saw my favorite band!!!



( life is good )

Sorry my journal is such a boring piece of shit, all my codes got stripped a couple months ago, that's when I kinda gave up on it. Oh yeah, I downloaded the concert and the sound is decent. I also came across someone's blog where you can listen to it
http://musicisart.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-have-it-all-here-in-red-blue-green.html
It's here, I hope they don't mind. I made a little comment at the bottom of it, giving a link to a little video I took of Thom dancing.

study--->sleep(optional)--->Finance Exam--->pack--->ferry--->BIRTHDAY--->HOME :)

Dude...... all my overrides stopped working. When I go into my live journal everythign is white and I can only see people's icons and the date. My pretty scroll bar is gone too. I went into the 'modify journal' thing and they overrides are still there... but they just aren't working. :( wha's on the go!!??

Just warning you that the pictures in my last entry are HUGE. I can't resize them. I did it in rich text and when i go to edit that entry it goes back into html code and I can't adjust them. :( sorry

The remainder of my Christmas vacation went very well - lots of hanging out in Pasadena at Sara's (which is where I spent New Years and it was really fun). Also lots of alcohol consumption and hanging out in Corner Brook with Jon and Jeremy... It's cool that me and Jon are still friends ... I like keeping friendships with people I have good past with.   Me and Carson also started hanging out again around New Years.   It wasn't so much that we avoided seeing each other around the beginning of Christmas, it kinda seemed as though certain people were trying to keep us from seeing each other ... weird.   I don't know why other people feel like they even play a role in the situation, but whatever - people just like to feel important.

I stayed home for an extra 5 days but it was no biggie, classes started on a wednesday and I only have one class on thrusday and one class on friday.  Sydney with me!!  I'm so glad she came.  She wanted to come over for a visit for years and she finally did!! Woo hoo! She was here for eight days and we were loaded 6 nights in a row.  From what I can remember it was really fun.  I don't have many interesting pictures, they're all from us just hanging out in residence.

                                                           

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I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!! AAAAAAAAAAH!
Lastnight me and roger went to sara's for a bit. Then when we came home we were all looking at each other saying 'ya know.... it IS past 12:00........' so then we opened all our presents!! :D I feel bad doing that, but it makes the sleep thing much easier. I can never sleep on christmas eve, so much suspense. I gave my parent the coolest phone ever. It has a base and a cordless one and the cordless one doesn't even need a phonejack! and they do that walkie talkie thing and you can set up a network tihng and have up to 8 cordless phones! that is so perfect for our house. and you can also hook up a monitor camera to it! cooooooooool AND NOW FOR WHAT I GOT!!! :D :D :D

*new snowboard boots (they're smaller than my last ones..... can feet shrink?)
*a travel bag for my snowboard so I don't scratch it up
*a nice red coat, makes me look like little red riding hood
*a jacket from pseudio... don't really know how to describe it
*a shirt from pseudio (i likes pseudio) hahahaha, i wrote shit, but fixed it
*trivial persuit 90's edition (it's so hard!)
*live perfume by jennifer lopez (I hate her but it smells so good!)
* money $$
*hair dryer
*hair straightener (a good one, from the salon)
*joico hair products
*mugs and stuff for my apt from sara!
*a watch
*a nice hat and goggles
*make up
*diamond earrings, necklace and bracelet
*purse
*the doors movie
*a book (freakonomics, i really wanted it)

yes, I am spoiled AND I LOVE IT! mwahahhahaha.
Now Sara and John are here. John brought up his drums and him and roger are having a little jam. oh yeah, dad got a new snowblower and he made a bunch of figure 8 trails all over the yard..... i guess he really likes it.

I actually have something to update about! I got my marks back! (joy!)

Finance 70 (studied my ass off)
Consumer Behavior 82
Organizational Behavior 80
Quantitative Methods 72
Tourism Marketing 81

I'm pleased. Hopefully I will make the Dean's list next year too. I can't believe I got a 72 in quants. That is crazy. I went in with a 66 and the exam was worth 60 percent of the year. If anyone don't know what quants is, it's a math course in business: you take statistics, then calculus and then quants. It's like management science or something. Anyway, I did not study for the final exam, except for like 1/2 an hour which isn't even enough time to do a practice problem. And my mark somehow managed to go up. crazy! I was in writing that exam until 10pm on a saturday night, I used up the entire 3 hours and well, it paid off. yay! I really thought that I might fail! phew.

IT'S ALMOST FREKIN' CHRISTMAS DUDES! woo! WOOOOOO! I am so excited. So roger wasn't gonna come home and tonight he called and said he got saturday and sunday off. So now we're trying to find him a ticket to fly home. I found something but my parents are too stupid to buy it now, they're gonna wait until tomorrow - when it's booked solid. nice. My bunnies are as cute as ever! Tonight seems extremely cold so I brought them in the house for the night. Oh, and I gave Bessie a bath when I got home and now she sleeps on my bed every night. :) she snores and chases bunnies in her sleep. hehehe.

Everything else seems to be going good. I forced my dad to put studded tires on the jeep. For all of last winter I refused to drive it. hahaha. yup.........
So val's tomorrow eh? sounds good! I likes seein people that I never see anymore :) wheeeee

I'm leaving stink-ass sydney in just two hours!!! woohoo! and I gave away the cat! :D but her smell still lingers in the apt.
I love the ferry at christmas! There's always so many ppl on there who I never expect to run into, and everyone is loaded! woohoo! We're going to the ferry like two hours early so we can begin drinking. hahaha. heidi's gonna have to get one of the workers to drive her car on for her.

so... we have a cat. Well, Laura got a cat. It's cute and stuff, but I knew that this wasn't going to go so well. I said that I didn't having a cat in the apt but I am not looking after it. So... we've had it for like 2 or 3 weeks and the apt smells like cat shit everyday. You have no idea how much it pisses me off, and to make things worse, laura doesn't clean the litter like ever! AND when she does, the throws it in a plastic bag, doesn't tie it up and leaves it in the closet. When I open the closet the smell almost knocks me out. I get so mad and I'm so sick of telling her to take that shit out to the dumpster. She's like my best friend here and I'm gonna freak out at her about a stupid cat. This morning Laura flew home to ontario for christmas. I get up, and she just left the cat here! What the fuck am I going to do with this fucking cat!? She knows everyone is going home for christmas. She is so irresponsible it drives me crazy. Doug checks the apts over christmas so now we have to hide all the evidence of having a cat and not even our cat. And laura also smokes like a tilt in her room and she's got like seriously ten ash trays (well, bottles of old beer or whatever) full of smokes. She left them in her room and asked us to get rid of them so doug won't find them. yeah right.

In other (and brighter) news, I'M FINISHED MY EXAMS!! I had my corporate finance and quantative methods on the same day!!! on a saturday!!! I was writing up until 10 o'clock last night (and then got very drunk, of course). I was kinda struggling with finance so I spent all my time studying for it and I didn't study for quants a bit. hahahaha. I bombed that exam! It's funny because I didn't find quants hard at all, so I didn't study for it, and the course that I was afraid of doing really badly, I studied my ass of for. So now I'll do well in the one I was not feeling so good about and I'll probably fail the one that I found easy. me = stupid. I really hope I pass quants, I should've studied for it. I haven't failed a course since my first year, it's such a waste of money. oh well. wheeeeeeeee!!

Did val really delete her journal?

OH NO!! Did I just miss Oprah's favourite things?? the one episode that you DON'T miss...

FUCK i am so bored. uuuuugh. drunk.. and bored. waiting for everyone to get ready. yup. I have my corona to comfort me. *love you corona, cutie little coronie yes you is*

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Keith's promo night at the pit (again!)
can't get enough of cheap booze.

weird. what's with this new "my LJ" link. hmmmm. kinda interesting I suppose. Here I am on my break in Quants class again. 'twas a week from today that I updated last. I didn't do a whole lot while I was home. I was studying a lot for my finance test that I had today. I hate finance. :) hahaha. I studied for at least like 10 hours for that thing and I still didn't do that great. At least it's over with so I'm not crazy stressed anymore. myup. Roger brought his new girlfriend home. Her name is Kelli and roger stole her from one of his close friends......
Me and Sara went to night sounds on friday and it was the funnest ever!! other than that we went to doolys and I ate a lot of junk food!! Anyway, my break is almost over so i must head back upstairs

I'm in quants now. It's from 4:30-7 so he gives us a 15 min break so I always come down to the computer lab. I always take one of the empty ones but there's this one other guy in here now and he keeps laughing and it's weird. there's he goes again. holy shit. that was a big fit of laughter. mmmmmmk. AFTER CLASS I'M GOINNG HOME!! Another fine cruise aboard the Leif Ericson. joy! At least I got a bunk. Kelly you should come out and with me and Sara one night :) I know Anton will be there but it'd be fun all the same. Anywho, 15 min is up so I gotta go finish class and pack! I'm excited. :D

you HAVE to download google earth! This is the coolest shit, you can zoom right in on anywhere in the world. I could play with this thing for hours!!!

go to google, type in "failure" and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button

 

I'm bored so I just took some pics to post.  yay!!  This one is of my new shirt which I love very much, and my new poster!  The poster guy comes here every year and he got the best selection of posters i've ever seen.  I bought 2, this one and ........... (i'll post it!)

hey my teeth are really straightening up, cwazy

 

cool.  I never used *rich text mode* before.  I resized the pictures and probably  distorted them a little.  Fes has friends here and they are idiots, very loud and annoying idiot.  Oh well, that's what we were like last night when he couldn't sleep. ha!

 

 

Oh yeah!!! Sara said she's going to come visit me soon!!! I think around the end of November! I'm so excited!! yay!~!~!~!!!!!

Lastnight was so crazy. Thursday is my Friday so I usually drink, but not to the extent that I did lastnight. At first we were just out in the apartment talking and I decided to crack open a corona, then another and another and so on. Then we were talking about different drinks and decided to mix stuff up. We had like 3 shots of kaluha with orange juice, it was so good!! Tastes like orange chocolate and me love orange chocolate. Then we decided to make kaluha milkshakes. Before I knew it I was completely loaded. So then we venture over to the pit where I drank some sort of 'jolly rancher' drink, god only knows what was in it. I didn't pay for one drink the entire time over there. Laura works there so she always snags us some free drinks. I had so much I can't even remember. I know there was some whiskey and gin and juice and more beer. Then some dude wanted to keep drinking after the bar closed and said he'd give us free drinks if we went over and drank with him. So me Laura and Adena and Davin and dude all went to dudes place. We were only there for a min and then we all decided to take all the booze and drink at our place. We polished off a bottle of butterscotch schnapps and a bottle of sambuca. We played pool on my mini pool table that I bought at value village and chinese checkers. Amir (aka fes, our roomie) couldn't sleep because we were loud so then he came out with us and played chinese checkers. I felt kinda bad for keeping him up because it was like 3:30 am and he has class on friday. Anyway, then we decided we wanted more booze so Davin ran over to mac res and got more of dudes alcohol. So then we drank a bottle of wine and bacardi rum.
That's a lot of combinations in my belly, I'm suprised I didn't get sick. :) I felt kinda hungover this morning though but it was expected.
Oh yeah our night didn't end there. Me and Laura decided to get all decked out in hockey gear and play out in front of residence. It was so fun! It was like 5am and we're loaded running around in hockey gear. We didn't have a ball, we just used one of the pumpkin things that was on our christmas lights and of course we beat it into a million pieces. Then the dudes ran over to put on their hockey gear but we ran in and played cards with the basketball guys. Thanks for the booze! Smell ya later! hahaha. The basketball players are so funny and they kinda remind me of hangin out with jon and his friends.
That was such a fun night! But now it's halloween weekend and I'm probably gonna end up going out every night including monday night. My poor body.
I don't eat enough lately either. Half of it is because I can't eat a lot of foods that I used to eat before I got the STUPID braces. They're the clear ones so I can't eat food with dye it because it'll stain them. Yesterday I only had a pack of instant noodles around 12:30 and then nothing all day and then started gulping all the booze down. It's so weird that I didn't get sick. A lot of days my eating habits are similar to that too and I don't even feel hungry. At least I'm losing a bit of weight :D yay!

**study break**

I hate studying! I shouldn't even be here, my marks are shit so far this year. hahaha. At least I don't skip classes though, people who do that are just stupid. I had a test in corporate finance last week and i got a whopping 57!! The average was a 55, so that's....... good?? something doesn't seem right about that. He should clue in that his tests are rediculous. I got my quantitative methods midterm back tonight and I got a 66 and the average was a 66. It sucks being average. My marks were really high every other year. I think half of it is that I'm so annoyed all the time. Our apt is a pig sty (my mom always used that term, oh god, i'm turning into my mom). Why can't people just clean up after themselves???!! Laura hasn't cleaned out bathroom once this year, she can't even change a roll of tp, get garbage *in* the garbage pail, brush her teeth without getting blobs of toothpaste all over the sink, taps, counter and walls. I hear her doing snot rockets in the shower, i go in and they're all over the shower walls........ wtf?? I have to spray down everything before i get a shower now, i'm scared to death that my elbow might rub up against the wall. and what's worse it that her loogies are all brown, she smokes like a tilt so I think that's why. I am the only person who has brought out the garbage so far this year. I feel like i'm everyone's bitch. Everyone leaves their dishes everywhere and they don't even rinse them or anything!! So I only wash my own dishes now, then when all of theirs are dirty they start using mine, that really pisses me off because when i want a dish and there's none clean, i have to wash one that they dirtied. And they have no clue about meats... they'll leave ground beef, chicken, salmon, whatever in the fridge for weeks and it's all rotting. I ordered a pizza the other day and wrapped it up, put it in the fridge and then heidi layed bloody ground beef on top of it and the blood got into it somehow and i had to throw it all out. I told her about it and she was like 'what are you, food inspection agency or what?' We live here, wouldn't you want to keep things clean and organized for yourself?? jesus. FUCK. There's so much more but whatever.
What I'm getting at is that I can't concentrate on my books when I'm annoyed with shit like that. I need things to be clean, that makes sense right?? Am I some sort of freak becuase I make my bed before I go to class, or because my room is *clean*?? I can't do work if i have clothes and shit all laying around my room, i dunno why but i just can't. I just start looking at it all and I'm like "well i can't study if this needs to be put away, or this needs to go here" or whatever. yup. Ok, there's my study break. i ventilated :)