Big Wide World

happy late b-day diana

it was a great party. thanks everyone. hope you all had a good time

the girls. can't remember if this is before or after the puking (not me), i'm assuming before

ah, so cute.

it was a good party.

finally, i can breath a sign of relief. year 2 is DONE. can you believe it? i can't believe it. just two more years to go. mind you, that's a straight 6 years of post-second already so i've started to feel it, but 2 more yrs to go and i'm sailing (figuratively of course).

ok, it was a rough week, with school exams (5 in five days, plus 2 assign) and work. but i did it. and friday i took the day off (and satur to recover) to party. chilled at my place with reeta, then trina came down, and we started drinking. then kat and ev came by, got ready and headed out. big party. fun. did'nt get that drunk (had to take care of someone-won't mention who). but still a lot of fun, over a hundred pics (yes, i said 100), and got picked up twice (some guy i wasn't interested in at all asked me what i was doing after the club so i told him that i was going home-alone (insert attitude here- and walked away). good times, will have pics up later today or tomorrow. then the next day, write off. so me and trina got movies, order chinese, and vegged all day (like all day- 4 movies straight through-my butt hurt). and today, me and trina went shopping (she bought brand new comp) and that was my weekend. good times. i still don't go to work till tues afternoon so i'm reformatting my comp and starting from scratch. wish me luck.

got my hair done on monday, and all i have to say is "sizzle". yeah, hurt like a $^^&&*&#$. first of all, it took 6 hours, with stripping it a couple of times, and then the color. let me tell you this- red is a horrible colour to get out. it does not want to let go. so, i still have some pink in the back. have to redo the colour and go for a cut. sounds like torture? yeah, it was. my scalp was burning so bad. and, as crazy as it is, yes, it was worth it.

two more exams, and then friday party party party. cheers.

i came from work, and had to start finish doing research on our legal research paper on the unconstitutional banning of pit bulls in Ontario. and as i was doing it, i easily got distracted into other pursuits. mainly, personality tests, personal and political. i'm probably sharing too much information about myself, but here are the results that i got. first of all, i'm a libertarian (smaller government, individual responsibility, tolerance of people's lifesyles etc). yeah, ok, that sounds like me. oh, and i did a quiz about whether i'm fascist, and apparently, i am. i got a score of 3.666 which means that i'm disciplined but tolerant. i see a theme starting to emerge already. lets more on to funnier things.

then i did a test on which famour person i'm like, and apparently, i'm orson wells. yeah, i can see it. attaining greatness and then personally ruining it and having to subject myself to doing belittling things and dying a failure (or in my case, with lots and lots of cats). totally see it. lol.

next, a "which david bowie are you" quiz. i am early "duke" bowie and am a neurotic, self-obsessed coke-addict. sweet. and yes, sometimes (minus the coke) i really am.

now, this one (how dumb are you?) i'm not going to tell you what i got, but me and math are not friends. as this is not new to me, i'm ok with it (though a bit of a dumb ass)

lastly, there are many more, but i have to stop procrastinating, there's the "how stressed are you versus how stressed you think you are" test -from sparklenotes. this ones really quite funny. these are my results: my stress factor (hard to believe, is only 21%; below average, and i am likely lazy and a simpleton. i should avoid heavy machinery. there are 48% of people worse off than me. wow. that puts things in perspective.

other personality results i got: i'm a guardian (from www.advisorteam.com)
i'm vigilant (aware of envrnmnt around me, but also social critic)
and on enneagram type, i'm a six (www.personalityonline.com)
waste of time, but fun. some funnier than others, but well worth it.

check out quincyweb for more tests
and Sparknotes (but you will have to sign in-create a sign-in)

this is for my girls:
"each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

summers coming. you know how i know that??? easy. my hair color is changing. on monday i'm officially going back to blond. real blond. so excited. i'm going to have to go get a little tanned though so i'm not white. this time though, i think i'll be blond until i get sick of it. even now, years later, i'm still so used to blond that i don't really feel like its me when i'm not blond. hard to explain. anyway, toni is doing my hair and i can't wait. thanks toni.

just in time for the big party at DNA on friday next week. i need to party. its been quite the semester. blah. 2 more years to go.

since i get to say this to my friends in t.o. all the time, i just wanted to say to my friends from far, that i love you and miss you.

i am getting way to domesticated in my old years. i'm excited about good vacuum cleaners, and i actually know the difference between good and bad vacuums, and now i'm making food that i've never made from scratch, and, to my surprise, its turning out pretty good. where will it stop? brushing beaten egg whites over pie crusts to create that extra pretty shine??? if this happens, you know what to do. pull out the booze, trash my place, and buy lots of microwace dinners and mac&cheeze, and remind me how evil martha stewart really is for the modern woman and the progress that we've made. still, that chicken that i made today was pretty good. damn domestication and her allure.

check out the following link for a laugh: domestication

"some people say that one's personality is reflected off of their car... well, i have no car"

"in a world of pollution, profanity, adolescense, zits, racism, ozone depletion, sexism, stupid guys, and PMS, why the hell do people still tell me to have a nice day?"

"mix a little bit of sillyness with your serious plans: its lovely to be silly at the right moment"

"support bacteria, they're the only culture some people have" (my personal fav)

"some say the glass if half empty, some say the glass is half full; i say, are you going to drink that?"

"honest criticism is hard to take, particularity from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger"

-these reflect my mood of the day. i'm sensing a theme?

also, i make sure to check out "deep thoughts" on a regular basis. just find some random thought and go with it. cause the best thing i read today, DRUM ROLL please:

"ANY TIME I SEE SOMETHING SCREECH ACROSS THE ROOM AND LATCH ONTO SOMEONE'S NECK, AND THE GUY SCREAMS AND TRIES TO GET IT OFF, I HAVE TO LAUGH, BECAUSE WHAT IS THAT THING?"

i see a dim light at the end of the eternal being malkovich tunnel that i've been in recently. been hit by one stress after another, or one piece of bad news after another, and it seemed that there would be no end it any of it. now, there is a TINY little ray of hope that seems like the breath of air that i've been clutching for, and finally, things seem a little more (in nic's words) possible. and seriously, i know how wrong and capitalist and evil and demented and soul-stealing and brainwashed.... but sometimes the only way that i got through the day was to just buy something for myself. i know i know. you don't have to tell me. i'm aware of all the things you're going to say or are thinking, i'm completely aware of what a capitalist whore i am, but i had to do it. i'm a shopper. i'm aware of the evils. but it made me feel better and i didn't have to kill anyone. really, what more do you want from me?? lol.
now, for those of my fellow shopper friends, i know you feel my pain and understand what i'm talking about, and to you i say- look at all the pretty things i bought (and charged- oh my god i am a capitalist whore) mu-ha-ha-ha-ha

watched ZED tv today, its a cbc program about technology (i know cbc is sketchy but its a good show), and they showed some short movies about our possible future if things keep going the way they're going. one of the movies was called (EPIC 2015). it started with the history of the web, then about the power of amazon, and google, and blooger, and microsoft, proposing that amazon and google were going to become one entity, and the way our personal information would start to get compiled, and the way traditional news would fail as print and would instead all be personalized algorithms- the news would be personalized for us; for example: when bush makes a statement that goes into a compiled source of info and then amazon/google takes your shopping/browsing/etc info and makes the news personalized to you. well, it goes on and on, its a good one.

the other story was about a guy calling for pizza, and the computer compiling his personal info for the customer service person to be able to recommend what he can afford (cause her screen shows his financial history), and what healthy alternative he should eat (she has his health info), and on and on. its funny-but scary. cause its heading that way.

what's funny is that the whole idea is a little scary, but the stories become propaganda with the sinister background music (very dark and hitchcock like melodies). if you isolate that from the content, you realize that in less than 10 years, all our lives could be a compilation of algorithms in the "brothers watching" database, and i don't know about you, but i'm not so happy about that.