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[05 Nov 2009|09:39am] |
Here is the whole poem for those of you celebrating today :)
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot ;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'Twas his intent.
To blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below.
Poor old England to overthrow.
By God's providence he was catch'd,
With a dark lantern and burning match Holloa boys, Holloa boys, let the bells ring
Holloa boys, Holloa boys, God save the King! Hip hip Hoorah !
Hip hip Hoorah ! A penny loaf to feed ol'Pope,
A farthing cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down,
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar,'
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head,
Then we'll say: ol'Pope is dead.
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[01 Nov 2009|05:50pm] |
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Well i'm attempting NaNoWriMo again this year. I hoping this time to do better than before! Wish me luck everyone! <3
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[21 Oct 2009|09:57am] |
I got this from my Mumu and it made me smile because its really true :)
FRIENDS VS MINNESOTA FRIENDS
FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Always bring the food.
FRIENDS: Will say 'hello'.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Will give you a big hug and a kiss.
FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Call your parents Mom and Dad.
FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Cry with you.
FRIENDS: Will eat at your dinner table and leave.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS:
Will spend hours there, talking, laughing, help you clear the table
& do the dishes, then play dominoes or cards and just being together..
FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you..
FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds' back-ends that left you.
FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, 'I'm home!'.
FRIENDS: will visit you in jail.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: will spend the night in jail with you.
FRIENDS: will visit you in the hospital when you're sick
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: will cut your grass and clean your house then come spend the night with
you in the hospital and cook for you when you come home
FRIENDS: have you on speed dial
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: have your number memorized.
FRIENDS: Are for a while.
MINNESOTA FRIENDS: Are for life.
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[15 Sep 2009|10:05am] |
Where do you fall in the list?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an X after those you have read.
Tag other book nerds.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien*
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total: 5
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott *
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien*
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger *
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eli
Total: 5
Total so far: 10
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams *
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *
Total: 5
Total so far: 15
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS *
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *
Total: 5
Total so far: 20
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery*
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
Total: 4
Total so far: 24
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 1
Total so far: 25
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold *
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding *
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville *
Total: 4
Total so Far: 29
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett *
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
Total: 2
Total so far: 31
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens *
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistr
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White *
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Total: 2
Total so far: 33
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery *
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl *
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo*
Total: 6
Grand Total: 39
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| Writer's Block: Proven by Science |
[12 Aug 2009|01:14pm] |
There is no way that everything can be explained by science... and even when it CAN more often than not its way better if you don't use it. What about love? What about friendship? i would like to believe there is more to those things than chemical reactions inside of the brain.
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[10 Aug 2009|05:11pm] |
Alright so I'm supposed to be writing an essay right now. Look at me go! haha thought i might do a mini update first :P
WELL so my birthday was YESTERDAY ;D for those of you who didn't know about all my bragging about my birthday lol I get excited what can i say? I like being celebrated :P
I had my party on Saturday and it was a ton of fun! Many drinking games commenced and much eating of cookie cakes! I wanted to have a continuation of it last night at a bar but everything sort of fell through but thats ok. I still had a pretty good birthday and its fun being 21... not that... anything changes for me here but its nice to say anyway :)
My class finished and work has been cut back a little so i'm finding myself with a lot of free time where i SHOULD be doing productive things but instead... don't do anything at all. Oops. (LIke the essay i'm writing right now... >.>)
I just got an iPhone which makes me feel super connected to technology at all times, which i enjoy :D hahah the technophile that i am.
My kitty got sick which was sad (and exspensive) and threw a few spokes into the tires of who she could stay with when i leave on thursday for BC with my friend Lisa and some family peeps but i THINK i have it all figured out now so... hopefully she'll be ok.
Also... WOO HOO BC ON THURSDAY! 8D It should be great!
Ok ok i'll go write my essay now. :P
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[27 Jul 2009|01:32am] |
So like most people i feel shitty when i realize that i haven't posted in my blog for a while. And then i read most people's blogs and am comforted to find that the majority of them really only post every few months as well. Sure there are the select few who are adamant enough to post their daily lives DAILY but lets be honest. that is not what is happening here at all.
UMMM so what have I been up to lately? Besides, obviously, not sleeping when i should be. Always a problem of mine....
I'm still working at the Tea Party which i love a lot. We're having some plumbing problems right now that adds some extra stress but I get to see Suri fairly frequently so that just about makes up for it.
I'm taking a class this summer which i actually really like. Its canadian literature through different canadian plays which i think is great. Its literally combining my two majors (except i only get credits for one of them).
I am doing my first summer NOT in minnesota... which means not at camp... which really has been hitting me hard no matter how much fun i'm having in ottawa. I love the times i'm having here, don't get me wrong.... but I really really really miss camp and my friends there. :(
I still have the most adorable, fat cat ever. And i still love her probably more than anything else.
i went to my first anime convention a while ago, my first one cosplaying. that was cool. i enjoyed it. Theres a possibility of me going to another one at the end of august... but maybe not. depends on funding etc etc etc
more positive note: MY BIRTHDAY IS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY OMG! I will finally be 21 in a country where... it doesn't matter. :D Its going to be great.
ALSO I'm going to BC in just over two weeks so that should be super duper awesome. My budday lisa is coming and my little brudder and my step sister and my awesome british relatives etc so its gonna be great. I plan on playing The Lonely Island's "I'm On A Boat" at least 30+ times when we are on the boat (just as a heads up to those of you coming with me!) and I also plan on being drunk for the majority of the week that i am there. Be prepared for awesomeness.
In other news.... my cell phone has been crashing on me lately so the only obvious solution is that I am going to get myself an iPhone after my next pay cheque. Can i afford it? Probably not. Will that stop me? Probably not. ;) I'm not just going to get any iphone though. I'm getting a 32gig 3GS whatever the fuck one. I dont really know as long as it has over 30gigs and it has a lightsaber and i can go on facebook with it like the ultimate dork i am.
Another thing. I have recently noticed that over 50% of my friends back in the states are married or are engaged to be married sometime very soon. I'm thinking its something in the water. No one here is married. Minnesota even got youtube famous with that wedding entrance to Forever. My boss saw it and i didn't even tell her about it. It was on TV. About minnesota. Good job guys. But no seriously. Get the water checked. Something in it is causing everyone to get married. Maybe its the lack of alcohol that is preventing people from making mistakes in their relationships?
thats got to be it. Everyone in canada is just tipsy all the time so we dont feel the need to get married. but we'll be at the reception for sure. Now don't think i'm bashing marriages. I'm super excited for everyone that is married and is getting married soon. I think its great! you've found someone super special and that is really awesome. In my own case, with my 3 month limit, am not planning on getting married any time soon.... but i would still like to send my congradulations to everyone and my love.
this is becoming a fatigued ramble. I think its time to attempt to force myself to sleep now. fingers crossed.
love you all
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[16 Jul 2009|12:06pm] |
Do you think death
could possibly be a boat?
No, no, no...
death is... not. Death isn't.
You take my meaning. Death is
the ultimate negative. Not being.
You can't not be on a boat.
I've frequently not been on boats.
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[13 Jul 2009|03:59pm] |
Today's Agenda:
Do all laundry
Tidy Room
Watch ALL the harry potter movies
Finish reading all the books
Get Harry Potter costume together for Midnight Showing tomorrow
Be Awesome
So far so good!
<3
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[20 Jun 2009|09:15pm] |
Well its my last night in rochester.... until further notice... who knows when the next time i will return is. D: Sorry roch peeps. I love you all... but the city holds no draws over me anymore. My heart belongs elsewhere... in canada. Or europe. or japan. i haven't found it yet but its not in rochester is my point.
I am now without wisdom teeth. Its like my entire sense of wisdom is gone. Just kidding. But no seriously it is painful. and bloody.
MONDAY: I GET TO GO TO THE HARRY POTTER EXHIBIT IN CHICAGO. OMG. <3
i'll let you know how awesome that is later.
If you want to see me before i leave Roch forever... call me. Otherwise... I'll be back in ottawa Tuesday!! <3 <3
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[16 Jun 2009|04:54pm] |
alright well it has been a crazy week... and month previous
My little brudder just graduated high school and we threw him a fun open house but i "got" to clean and decorate for it. Awesome. And i barely knew half the people there but oh well. it was for widdle brudder. :D
before that... before coming to Roch-town anyway, my life consisted mostly of... work. go to work. go to Tia's/Julie's. go home and sleep until i have to wake up for work again. I'm assuming its going to be much of the same once i get back to O-town but with the added bonus of going to class, then work, then Tia/Julie's then home to sleep. repeat.
I am getting some good rping in and am learning a lot about final fantasy which is super fun though. Nerding it up etc.
Bad news of the month: I'm getting my wisdom teeth out in T-Minus 19 hours. D: Not. Happy.
maybe i'll try to remember to post somethign ridiculous and full of pain killers tomorrow after i'm done attempting to register for classes... without wisdom teeth. yea. I'm screwed :)
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[26 Apr 2009|01:24am] |
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Two exams left. One tomorrow. And what am i doing? Oh. Posting a short blog. Awesome. I am very good at studying, obvs :P
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[16 Apr 2009|07:42pm] |
i just thought i'd share that i kicked my essay's ASS and i definitely pwnd the exam for Theatre in English Canada. I am DONE with that class forEVER :D
what a good day :)
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[21 Mar 2009|11:12pm] |
so i've always been into crafting and creating fun things and i want to put this to use in some sort of new etsy project but i'm having a hard time thinking of something that would a)sell and b)hasn't always been done.
any ideas??
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[02 Mar 2009|08:17pm] |
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i hate Canadian theatre history. Its official. blah.
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[23 Feb 2009|10:38am] |
I'm not sure i should be posting this yet because i dont want to jinx my chances but really i have been shat on by every possible way i could be shat on in multiple airports so i'll write this anyway.
I have just had one of the worst travel experiences EVER. Honestly.
I just spent the past week in Rochester hanging out with the fam and old friends and it was saturday night. Instead of getting rest, i figured i would have plenty of time to sleep on the plane and once i got home i could get a good nights rest before my monday morning midterm on canadian theatre history.
Sunday morning, bright and early after maybe an hour or two of sleep i had breakfast with my dad and got into a car and drove to minneapolis to get on a plane to detroit, where i was to transfer to ottawa. This was 7:30am that i left my house in rochester.
Once in minneapolis it was easy for me and my mum to wander happily around before my flight where i flew comfortably to Detroit airport. I got off the plane and booked it across the airport to my next flight. I saw my japanese professor and her daughter waiting for the same flight, on their way back from Tokyo. Once the flight started boarding i was relaxed and ready to go home.
Yea. Right.
I quickly learned that my ticket had not been assigned a seat, nor had the tickets of two other girls: Stephanie and April. We were told that we would not be allowed on the plane because of weight restrictions. They had over booked the flight and we were not allowed on.
Well i was really upset. I had an oscar party to get to and a midterm to study for! We were given tickets to philidelphia where we would then catch a much later flight to Ottawa.
Fine. Ok. I was annoyed that i would be missing the oscars (and by that i mean really really upset) but at least i'd be home.
We reach philidelphia and find out our flight is delayed. Stephanie, April and I waited two hours after our original boarding time but got on the plane, celebrating profusely that we would finally be going home, over 7 hours later than we were supposed to be.
Apparently that was too much for the airplane gods because literally seconds later a woman steps onto the plane and announces "This flight has been over booked for weight restrictions and we need three volunteers to take a flight in the morning. You will be compensated"
No one volunteered.
"If no one volunteers i will read off names and those people will be forced to leave this flight."
my stomach dropped but it couldn't be me because i was already bumped from another flight. I should be a priority on this one. Right?
She read off three names. One was Stephanie's. the two other names received no response. So she read two more. April's. And Mine.
We were escorted off the plane, stephanie and I in tears because of the worry over our midterms the next morning, and were given flight vouchers and meal vouchers and hotel vouchers. We were treated terribly by one of the US Airway's associates who told us to her faces that our problems didn't concern her, though it was her fault we had been taken off the plane.
What they didn't give us our luggage.
April was told hers had made it onto the philidelphia flight and would be in the baggage claim for US Airways. Some how stephanie and my luggage hadn't made it onto this flight, as far as they could tell.
"It is most likely at the North West Airline's baggage claim. Just go down and get it after we issue your tickets" they told us. After much debate and research we decided that flying to montreal from philidelphia and then finding a way to ottawa from there was best. We were booked through to ottawa and went to go find out bags.
April got her bag at the US Airways baggage claim and we went to the Northwestern baggage claim only to find it was closed. After calling multiple numbers and asking anyone we could find (though it was 1am and not many people were around) we were told that if we came back at 4:30 the next morning we would be able to talk to the people at the ticket counter and they would be able to help us.
Frustrated, defeated, and exhausted, we took a shuttle to the Renaissance Hotel where we were given very nice rooms for the night. I was unable to sleep but I did enjoy the shower and the complimentary tea and chocolates.
At 4am Stephanie and I got our things and checked out. April had said she would meet us at the airport later so we went to go find out what we could about our bags. We took the first shuttle we could to the Northwestern Ticket counter and asked where our bags could be found.
"They're at the baggage claim but it doesn't open until 8" the woman told us.
Our flight was at 7:29. Boarding at 6:59. Not going to work.
"Well let me see what i can do for you then."
After nearly 10 minutes of holding our breath, hoping against hope someone could get us our bags, the woman returned saying that someone should be at the baggage claim office around 5am with the key and she would get us our bags.
We were ecstatic and practically ran to the baggage claim area. It was 4:45am so we had to wait anxiously for our bags to be given to us outside a locked door in a deserted corridor. At 5:10 the person with the key had yet to arrive and we went to try to call someone (ANYONE) who could help us.
As Stephanie began talking to Emergency on the white courtesy phone, the woman with the key arrived and let us in.
Where we discovered our bags were NOT.
"They never made it to philly" the woman told us bluntly. "They are still in detroit. They were scanned onto the flight to philly, but they never made it on."
Stephanie and I gaped at her. Where the fuck were our bags?? She told us she would put in a message on the computer, saying that anyone who found our bags should send them to ottawa but that was all she could do.
Dejected but not entirely defeated, we made our way to the gate where we would wait for our next flight to Montreal. I took the meal voucher to the Au Bon Pain only to discover it was worth 5$. you can't buy shit for 5$. I got a bagel and a small iced tea and i still had to pay extra. But whatevs. I was hungry.
We finally boarded the flight to Montreal and my heart pounded every time someone came over the speaker. I was convinced they were going to try to bump us off of the flight again. I was not happy until the flight began to taxi away from the buildings, and i promptly fell asleep.
I woke up as we landed in Montreal. I had never been so happy to be in canada. I mean... i'm always happy to be in canada as opposed to the states, but as we landed in Montreal... i was the happiest i had ever been (in the last 24ish hours)
we de-planed and went through customs. Stephaine and I filed claims for our missing bags and we went to check in with our new tickets. Imagine our immediate horror when the woman at the Air Canada desk told us that US Airways had screwed up our connection. Though the woman assured us there was more than enough room on the flight and all we had to do was go talk to US Airways and get it cleared up, we were still shaking and worried. It was a very nice change to have the airport staff at the Montreal Airport be comforting and assuring to us instead of telling us that there was nothing they could do because it wasn't THEIR problem (coughDETROITPHILIDELPHIAcough). They made sure we had seats together and that we would be on the plane no matter what. Relieved, and finally seeing SOME humour in our situation, stephanie and I made our way through the security line where they laughed and joked at our immediate reaction to take our shoes off.
"you don't need to do that here! Just go through!" they smiled and waved. Cracked jokes and made us smile for the first time in over 26 hours.
We got to our gate and collapsed which brings us to where i am now. Waiting to get onto the final leg of our tragic journey. We get to file another claim for lost baggage once we reach ottawa and we dont know when we will get our bags, but we are almost home. We are so close we can taste it.
All we need is our bags...>.>
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| ok ok fine i'll do it! |
[01 Feb 2009|04:03pm] |
Rules:
Once you've been tagged you're supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or facts about yourself. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tag you it's because I want to know more about you.
To do this, go to the "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people then click publish.
1. I have visited at least 10 countries and want to see more
2. I have two citizenships/passports (Canadian and American) but am known to deny the American one
3. I have only worked two types of jobs: Child care and Barrista (coffee shops) and i love both!
4. I shot my first gun ever the summer of 2007 and was running the gun range at camp olson by 2008
5. I have taken classes for 4 different languages: English, Spanish, French and Japanese. Japanese is by far the most difficult, and the most fun!
6. I really really like playing halo but i really really suck at it!
7. I have been a vegetarian since 9th grade but I think i might eat meat again if i move to japan
8. I have had two MRIs and 6+ x-rays for my right wrist and no one knows why it still hurts
9. I am no so secretly addicted to Anime and Manga
10. I started the Dungeons and Dragons club at JM and even though we only had 2 meetings we got into the R book!
11. I have learned to play 4 instruments: Piano, Flute, Percussion, and Guitar
12. I did a miniature exchange in St Etienne where i stayed with Yasmina and it was the best experience i ever had and i want to go back some day
13. I have a slight obsession with OPI nail polish and MAC makeup. I blame Natalie and Julie.
14. I met one of my best friends my first time at summer camp over 10 years ago and we went together every year but one
15. I have only once finished an entire beer and it was with my step sister this new years
16. I have been accused of being able to make friends in any situation and have been told i know too many people, in which i reply "Not as many as Enoch!"
17. I have read the entire Harry Potter series (as much as i can) every year since the 3rd book came out and I have read them more than once a year before if a book and a movie come out in the same year
18. I have an extremely large cat whom i love but she and i abuse each other frequently
19. I am currently trying to watch all the movies nominated for Oscars before Feb 22nd
20. I almost went to the University of Eau Claire and was signing up for my residence there when i got into Ottawa U and immediately changed my acceptance
21. I dream of some day being a fabulously wealthy Editor of a fancy big publishing house somewhere and possibly writing my own novel and becoming famous
22. I secretly dream of reading more books than my Dad has but shh dont tell him!
23. I am easily caught up in TV series and at one point had 1-2 shows every night of the week, weekends included
24. I have a wide range in musical likes and though i still don't like most country music, rap is growing on me (especially Kanye and Lil Wayne)
25. One of my life's goals is to become famous enough to get to be the host on SNL just once
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| Japanese Blog Assignment. Bonus Points to those who can read it! |
[26 Jan 2009|11:12pm] |
もしもしみなさん！
サラはここです。 すみません。私は クラス が 行きます から 私は ブラグを かきませんでした。 さいきん、バスのストライク から 私の人生 は むずかしい に なった。私 は クラス に あるきます。 あるいて ９０分 かかりました！！ バスのストライク は ばか です 私 は かぜ を ひきました。 オタワ は とても さむいんんんんんんです！！！！ 私 は いつも とても ぐったり です。
この 週末、私 の 友だち が オタワ に よりました。 友だち の なまえ は ジェシカ （Ｊｅｓｓｉｃａ） ちゃん です。ジェシカ は 中国 に 帰りました。 ジェシカちゃん は 中国 に えい語 の 先生 です。私 は すごい を おもいます！ こほ 週末 私たち 千すししま に 行きました。私たち は すし を たくさん 食べた！！ にも、私たち リドカナル で スケート を しった。ジェシカちゃん は いちばん ビバ テル を 食べた！ あれ は とても さむい と すごい でした！ カナルは きれい です。私たち は Ｔｅａ Ｐａｒｔｙ に 行きました から 私たち は あたたまらたい でした。ジェシカ は マイプル 茶 が すきです。昨日 私は ジェシカちゃん と わかれた。かなしかった。２月４日、ジェシカちゃん は コストリカ に行きます。がんばって ジェシカちゃん！
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[16 Jan 2009|01:00pm] |
alright ottawa. I am THIS CLOSE to being done with you. Packing up, and going. no more. I dont know how i would get anywhere because of this ridiculous freaking bus strike but i am DONE with it. OVER IT. The City and the ATU are both whiney little brats and they dont even think about what the strike is doing to the PEOPLE. OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS SO FAR. AND MORE WILL! What about the students? Our education is at stake. What about the invalids? How do they get their meds and their treatments? What about the small businesses in the Market? And the Rideau Centre? They are losing so much money because of the strike on top of the already plummeting economy. This strike is losing money for almost everyone. WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT ANYMORE?
If someone can tell me a really good reason as to why this strike SHOULD continue, if someone can tell me about a reason as to why this strike is helping ANYONE... please. Do. Because as of now all i can see is the devastation it has left.
I have had to wake up at 6am or earlier to try to make it to school for 1pm because i usually have no other way of getting downtown after that without walking over 16km (~3 hours) in -39 C weather. I have been sick for a month because of these walks or waits in the cold for shuttles that never seem to want to come and take me home. I have had to stay at friends' houses instead of getting to stay in my own apartment with my own cat and roommate that i pay for because i can't get home. I have felt terribly guilty bumming rides off of whomever i can because i am not getting enough hours at work because i can't make it downtown on weekends and therefore cannot afford anything else.
I have been working towards trying to become independent and i want to become self sufficient but how do i do that when i can barely make it to my job or my classes? I've stopped being worried about my own safety walking home late at night from the shuttles. (though luckily i have an amazing roommate and she has a fantastic boyfriend whom do worry about my safetly...)
All I'm concerned about is getting home and hopefully not dying of sever hypothermia.
THIS IS NOT RIGHT.
The bus service needs to be declared essential. It is affecting thousands of people's jobs, educations, and overall health. I don't know how those in the ATU and of the City (Esp Larry O'Brien and Andre Cornellier) sleep at night. I hope they don't.
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