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31 March 2003

Just another Monday here at my desk.

Handed in my Hamlet essay and wrote a math test today; I feel pretty good about both of them.

Borrowed Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden from the library. And I'm STILL reading Garp (the one Dilly gave me).

I technically have no homework tonight. I'm still going to work on stuff, but I don't have anything due for tomorrow. How wicked is that? Very wicked, I tell you.

It SNOWED today. It "blizzarded" from this morning until the afternoon. Most of it is melted now, so that's good. An early April Fool's joke, I suppose. I was so disappointed because it was in the mid-high teens last week!

I am so hungry right now. I've already eaten a pizza and a thing of instant oatmeal and an apple but I feel like I haven't eaten anything all day.

Apparently, SARS is a result of someone's dirty laundry water in Hong Kong (they hang their laundry outside and the water drips) and now, whole apartment buildings have been quarantined, causing mass panic and hysteria.

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29 March 2003

So I'm going to do the original ones:

1. What was the most memorable moment from the last week?
Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat (rehearsal on Thursday night... its one of those things you had to be there to get it).

2. Name someone who has changed your life.
Everyone in my life has helped to mold it in one way or another.

3. Describe a time you helped someone else without profiting from it.
One summer I was a counselor at a church Bible camp thing.

4. Name a special teacher who inspired you as a child or adolescent.
My grade 8 history teacher, Mr. Vieira.

5. Describe a memorable birthday.
There are fond memories for every birthday; I guess this past one was fun.

I got the new Linkin Park cd Meteora on Thursday after band. I <3 it!! Woot woot for LP.

Oh and I finished reading The Fourth Hand by John Irving earlier this week, too. Its was alright, but not one of my favourites. Still reading The World According to Garp; still a lot left. I'm at the part when Garp is in Vienna and he meets the prostitutes.

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25 March 2003

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Life or Something Like It
» The Next Sydney Fox
[11:10 PM]

I left my keys at home today so when I got home after school, I was locked out of my house.

Not a problem; my mom keeps a spare key hidden in the backyard, "underneath the flower pot", just like every other mom in the world.

The problem was the gate to the backyard was all wonky and just plain STUCK from the winter so it wouldn't open. I went to the other gate, but it was locked (it has one of those ground locks). On my way back to the first gate, I saw my tire toilet from the snowfort that Jason and I built over the Christmas break. The snowfort has long since melted, but the toilet tire stayed intact (duh!). I took it with me, used it to climb up onto my neighbours fence (its slightly lower than ours), threw myself onto the fence between our yards, and jumped into my side of the fence.

I was so proud of myself. I proceeded to look for the key (I couldn't remember exactly where so I had to call my mom on my cell), found it, and went into the house.

That's when I decided I'm going to be the next Relic Hunter. Breaking into my own house (or any other property for that matter) just felt like something I'd see on the show.

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24 March 2003

The Lion Cat and the Panda Dog (links via Alex).

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Life or Something Like It
» Beach Party!
[08:37 PM]

The MFOS show was spiffy. I think everyone who went had fun.

I watched Trading Spaces instead of the Oscars last night because I absolutely adore TLC.

I wrote a perfect(!) math quiz on Friday and a perfect(!) journal at the end of February. I got those back today and I was like "WOOT!" and "WOOT WOOT!!"

New Linkin Park cd(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) entitled Meteora out this week (worldwide today, US tomorrow; beats me why.)... *craves*. Hopefully I'll pick one up in the next few days. I think I'll order the 2-disc set (cd and bonus dvd) and make Jason watch it with me, only because I know he adores LP 100 times more than I do *sarcasm*. >;)

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23 March 2003

They work now, except the only months you'll see on the archive index is February and March of this year. This would be because I've been having trouble importing my previous entries from Blogger, and I haven't had the time to sit down and wrestle with both Blogger and MT, so I'm just going to leave it like this for now.

When I do wrestle (and win) though, I will convert not only the previous Stellar entries from Blogger, but my ancient Silverglitter.net entries as well! Now wouldn't that be a fun thing to reminisce about! (Actually I'm not so sure myself... LOL!)

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22 March 2003

Get ready to fall out of your chair laughing at Saddam Hussein's lj.

I can't believe someone would do this, but GEEZ its funny.

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F5
» If you had to...
[04:40 PM]

1. If you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be?
The Goo Goo Dolls because they're my favourite band in the whole wide world!

2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be?
I'd like to live in the future, where there will be tons of cool stuff and gadgets and the like and I could use a replicator to replicate anything I wanted it to, from food to cars.

3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be?
Silicon Valley! Then maybe I could be a hotshot codergirl like Karla in Microserfs! =)

4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be?
I'd love to be someone who has a cool job/lifestyle... like Captain Janeway from Voyager or something.

5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
Lisa Ling or Lucy Liu. They're both so pretty! I only said both of them because they look almost the same.

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Life or Something Like It
» O U C H !
[09:17 AM]

I did my Bronze Cross exam yesterday. It was a long exam--3 and a half hours to be exact! It wasn't the greatest exam either. You know the failure rate is pretty damn high when the whole class ends up redoing a rescue and spinals. The only thing I was certain I did right was my timed swim. I did 24 laps (500 m) in 13:34. Not too shabby, especially since I was purposely taking my sweet time knowing I had 18 minutes to complete the task. My spinal was horrible though. The first spinal was... slightly unfair. My partner was only, oh, I don't know... 2-3 times my size?! The second time we did spinals, rollover itself was decent but there were so many of us in a small area of the pool (the exam cut into public swim time... YUCK!) I kept crashing into people.

In the end, 3 out of 12 people passed. I was one of them. A big fat WOOT WOOT for that!

But now I am soooo sore. My legs, back, arms, neck, EVERYTHING. I woke up this morning and every joint in my body was aching and cracking. Booouurrnnnns.....

On another note: if you're in the Markham/Stouffville area or you're not but you can drive/get a ride to Stouffville, and you're thinking about what to do tonight, consider checking out my Father's only Son in concert! Click for details.

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18 March 2003

In Math today, we did Functions Aerobics. Basically, people take turns (in groups of 6) going up to the front and making the different graphs of the different functions (y=x, y=x^2, y=square root of x, y=1/x) using their arms as the graph and thinking of your navel as the origin (0, 0).

Easy enough, no? Now add in TRANSFORMATIONS! Shifting to the left, right, up, and down by moving left, right, standing on chairs, and crouching. It sounds silly but it's so much fun to do and watch just because it is exactly that--silly!

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Life or Something Like It
» Where is Raed?
[07:15 PM]

Jason found this blog a while back. I've been reading it semi-regularly, especially with all of the developments occuring about Iraq and the war in the news these days.

I applaud Canada's decision to not take part in military action against Iraq without UN approval. *stands up and claps* I'm quite certain that this decision represents the opinion of the vast majority of Canadians.

To sum my views on this situation concisely, I would say that Saddam Hussein cannot be the scapegoat for every terrorist act. I acknowledge and understand the fact that he has done horrible things, but IF it is restitution and revenge that Bush wants (note I say BUSH and not Americans in general), waging war on Iraq is not the way to acquiring it. It is however, the way to acquire oil.

I watched the live address at 8 last night. Simply put: not impressed. But then again, I never expected to be.

A classmate in my World Religions class shared this e-mail forward in class today. Think of it as comic relief to this tense situation, if you will.

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17 March 2003

A couple of days ago on Oprah I heard that a tip to lose weight was to not eat after a certain time at night (you get to specify it youself based on your lifestyle, habits, bedtime, etc.). When you start craving a snack at night after dinner, you shouldn't respond to the pang of hunger. That's because it's actually your body reaching into its fat storages and after a while, you won't be hungry and you've actually burned some fat.

Now you see, I get the Munchies too. All the freaking time. I can't help but respond to the craving. I MUST EAT. You'll notice this if you're talking to me online or on the phone between the hours of 11p and 2a... I will most likely break for a snack at some point there. And I frankly do not care about the consequences of snacking after dinner because I'm 17 and my metabolism is high. But after watching that show, I was a little bit more aware (maybe even a tiny bit concerned, even though there is no reason to be) so last night I tried not eating between 11 and 2. It didn't work. I just got hungrier and hungrier and I finally gave in and ate a snack.

Based on that, I would conclude that I lack fat storages and (more importantly) willpower when it comes to food.

I like see food--food that I see.

(Please note this is not a "Oh-no-I'm-fat" rant before you flame me. I woudln't consider myself as overweight and I do not obsess about my weight.)

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16 March 2003

My second-last March Break ever is drawing to a close. I don't want to go to school tomorrow! I still have two essays to do research for. I've put them off until now because... I don't know. I have been looking on the internet here and there but my results haven't been too good. I kinda wish I went to the Toronto Reference Library again sometime this past week. Woe is me...

Oh and I saw Old School last night. It was pretty funny.

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15 March 2003

There's a piece of glass sticking in my back and tar covering my mouth.

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F5
» Phone Habits
[01:06 PM]

I should start doing Friday Fives again. I used to do them, but then the site went down and I got lazy.

This week's questions:
1. Do you like talking on the phone? Why or why not?
I like it for the most part, be it for information purposes ("Hi, where are you?", "Can you pick me up/drop me off?", etc.) or just for talking.

2. Who is the last person you talked to on the phone?
Jason.

3. About how many telephones do you have at home?
A billion plus one. Well.. not really. There's one in every room upstairs plus a cordless phone downstairs and everyone has a cell phone, so that makes 4 + 1 + 3 = 8. I have EIGHT phones at home. There are three people that live in my house. LOL! *feels ridiculous*

4. Have you encountered anyone who has really bad phone manners? What happened?
Probably. I don't recall who/when/why though. I'm sure it's happened at some point or another.

5. Would you rather pick up the phone and call someone or write them an e-mail or a letter? Why or why not?
If I'm just trying to find out something or to get a point across, probably the phone. I'd e-mail them if its not extremely urgent or I'm not too keen on talking to them. Letters are novel. Jason and I mail silly things back and forth just for kicks sometimes but I actually still write pen-and-paper-stickers-on-envelope letters to a friend of mine who I've known since kindergarten.

Ooooh... And I got the categories thing to work, too!

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Stellar
» I Give Up
[01:20 AM]

I've been trying to import my entries from Blogger. I followed the instructions to the "t", and MT said "all files imported successfully" (or something to that effect) but when I go to view my entries, they're all BLANK and the date/time stamp was the date/time I imported them.

I tried the support forums and found a situation exactly the same as mine. I followed the suggestions given that helped the situation and applied it to my blog but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it didn't want to cooperate with me.

So I give up. I will start over for now, and keep my blogger entries and their archives and figure out how to import them to MT later.

With the exception of the MT archiving issues, I am thoroughly happy with this layout. I hope you are too. Feedback is always greatly appreciated through the guestbook and now through the comments as well! (see below)

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14 March 2003

mt, PLEASE COOPERATE WITH MEEEEEE!!!

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