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31 July 2003

Yesterday I went to the Keg for lunch with some people from work. I had a salmon wrap and it was pretty good. Two people got steak, but they were really miffed: the steaks were about the size of a hockey puck, but less round and more lopsided. Its deceiving how they didn't put how many ounces it was on the menu, and in the commercials the steaks always look like their the size of huge shoes, as opposed to lopsided hockey pucks.

Then I saw Tomb Raider with Dan after work. It was what I expected: Lara Croft finds an ancient temple, rides a (very computer generated) shark, beats up a bunch of guys to get the orb back, and saves the world from destruction. You knew that already. But she's just so darn COOL. I want to beat up guys and ride sharks and go scuba diving and parachuting and land in a Jeep. Woot woot for Lara Croft/Angelina Jolie! =D

There's a new MFOS layout up (the splash page is the same, but the inside layout is new). More new pix will follow when I have the time and energy (simultaneously!) to scan, thumbnail, organize, upload, and post them.

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27 July 2003

Before you jump in with both feet you should read Kate's little ditty on it. She IS a psychology major and she is super uber SMRT!

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Life or Something Like It
» Sugar Mountain Rocks My Sugary, Non-Existent Socks
[10:36 PM]

I've never had my passing fancy with Korean bbq, not until Friday anyway. I went out with Ally M., Janice, Gina, Steph, and some other people I hadn't seen in a long time and we had Korean bbq. It was a lot better than my previous experiences there. I actually cooked a lot and ate a lot. I used to not like it because a tiny shrivel of meat would take forever to cook and then when its finally done cooking you eat it and put another one on the grill and then you have to stuff yourself with rice in between when you're waiting for it to cook. NOT COOL. This time they had RIBS! I was ecstatic. It beats those little beef shrivels by miles. KBBQ worked out nicely and we ate for 2+ hours. It was HILARIOUS. After, we hung out at Ally M.'s house until 2ish. I got home around 2:30, took a shower, crashed at 3, and woke up at 9.

At 11, I met Courtney, Robin, and Le, and Amalia at Alex's. We went to downtown and met up with Sam and Bronwyn. I bought quite a bit of stuff: Tim by the Replacements (I now know why the GGD are compared to them!), the "Addicted" single on a 7" vinyl (VERRRRRY FUCKING COOL!) and a few buttons from Black Market. Had lunch at good ol' BK. Then Alex, Amalia, Robin, and Le left so there were 4. Then Bronwyn left so then there were three. Sam, Courtney and I went to Steve's. I still want my Telecoustic, Sam has his eye on an ESP, Courtney a Takamine. Then we walked all the way to Rotate This and spent a loooooooooong time looking through cds. I couldn't decide what I wanted (Datsuns, Saves the Day, Miles Davis, Sunny Day Real Estate, All-American Rejects, AFI, Dashboard, and probably a few more) so I didn't get anything at all. =*( BOOHOO! But its okay. On the way back to the Eaton Centre we stopped at Sugar Mountain, where I proceeded to by over $10 worth of candy. Gummi cola bottles, strawberries, tangerine slices, and OOOOOOOOOOODLES of Jelly Bellies. The guy there was really nice; we all laughed at the ever-so-laughable action figures of Freud and Jesus (not to be disrespectful, of course, but it is pretty funny). Then we went home.

Later that evening I continued my never-ending love affair with haircolour. Ally C. and I dyed our hair red. It's pretty different for me, even though I've had that colour twice before. I kind of miss being a blond; I was starting to like the creamy pumpkin colour. But oh well. Until next time. =) We did those silly quizzes from old teen magazines (YM, All About You... oh-so-laughable too). I'm particularly fond of the flowcharts; I hate writing things down. But then on one of them, mine went full circle. Boo. Oh well.

The weekend is too short. They should make weekends 5 days long and working weeks would be 2 days long. When I take over the world folks, when I take over the world...

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25 July 2003

1. If your life were a movie, what would the title be?
It Ain't Over 'Til Its Over Well Its Over. That's actually already a Boston Post song but its fitting, not to mention so very darn spiffy.

2. What songs would be on the soundtrack?
A handfull of GGD ("Ain't that Unusual", "We Are The Normal", "Naked", "Another Second Time Around", "All Eyes On Me", "Big Machine"), some BP, Sarah McLachlan ("Black", "Ice Cream"), and a lot more. It would be a 2-disc soundtrack. ;)

3. Would it be a live-action film or animated? Why?
It would be like... normal acting, not cartoony. Like a documentary. It would be a pseudo-documentary/serious. Like Seabiscuit!

4. Casting: who would play you, members of your family, friends, etc?
I would be me, and everyone would just play their own part. I'd try to work Keanu Reeves into it somehow. TEEEHEEE! >=)

5. Describe the movie preview/trailer.
It would look trendy. Like me in my loft downtown that used to be a sock factory or me driving my Jeep TJ Sahara with the top down and wicked GGD songs playing in the background. And maybe a few shots of Keanu Reeves to help boost ticket sales.

Work has been very... relaxing this past week. A bunch of the senior managers and the director weren't in so I spent my week reading The Firm by John Grisham, which I finished today before afternoon break. And the e-mail system has pretty much become the instant messenger, since most of the summer students are scattered over the 2nd and 4th floors. Mundane days, but bearable. =)

Today in the crossword in the Metro, I got two very band geeky words: "a member of the orchestra" (oboe) and "composter — Bartok" (Bela). They shared the B, so that helped me in figuring out "oboe". I felt so very cool, not because I don't usually fill in a good chunk of it (we do the crossword collectively), but because they were so... specific. No one else knew. Yesterday/the day before I got "a kimono sash" (obi). I knew that from reading Memoirs of a Geisha. Woot woot for big vocabularies—NERD IT UP! =D

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24 July 2003

Ally double checked and found out that her roomie is not Nicole Mendes, but a Nicole Valdez, who also plays alto sax at McGivney and knows Nicole Mendes.

So the world is still pretty damn small, just not as small as I thought. ;)

I bleached my hair. My poor scalp is still reeling; I hope I don't find scabs tomorrow. Scabs on the scalp are yucky. I had really big nasty ones once when I had my hair put into an elaborate updo with about 7965115 bobby pins. It hurt so much, but I felt oh-so-pretty.

Back to the point. My hair is now blondish orangey babychickyellow-ish. But it'll be red soon enough.

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Life or Something Like It
» It's a Small World After All
[08:27 PM]

Ally and I were on the phone earlier today and she mentioned that she's going to Waterloo on Saturday for some orientation thingy. We talked about roomies and stuff and how all three of them in her suite (in Eby Hall) play(ed) alto sax (WOOT WOOT for band geekiness!!!!) and how one of them is actually from McGivney and the other is coming from B.C.

I asked if the one from McGivney's name was Nicole by any crazy chance, and Ally said yes. And then I asked if her last name was Mendes. And of course, Ally was pretty shocked by now.

Turns out I knew her from work two years ago. And her dad is still a manager there (I'm at the same office right now). I remember running into Nicole at a jazz festival/competition or two last year, so that's why I remembered that she plays alto sax.

Ain't that unusual? =)

I bought Fudge Paintbox in Purple Haze, L'oreal Preference in Intense Red and good old bleach from Trade Secrets. I'm going to bleach my hair tonight. Ooooooh, the beautiful pain of burning scalp.
R A H !

Finally got back 3 rolls of MFOS photos that I've shot at the past 2 shows. I'm so extremely ELATED with quite a few of them. I'm talking like, possible ALBUM covers, and definitely some wickedly wicked promo shots. Will scan and post soon!

Sidenote: I <3 parentheses. Not BRACKETS [ ], but parentheses ( ). It pisses me off when people use the two terms interchangeably. THEY'RE DIFFERENT! I just had to mention that since I used something like 3 pairs of parentheses in the first paragraph alone.

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23 July 2003

A good time for a new layout. Enjoy. I really like this one, so give me feedback. I like feedback, too.

Finished reading The Hotel New Hampshire. It is a beautiful book. You should by all means pick that one up. Or at least The Great Gatsby.

I had a whirlwind of a weekend. Friday: LAN party/sleepover at Ally's. Saturday: dinner at Pepperberries Bistro with my parents and then Starbuck's with Alex and then just talking and talking forever. Oh and did I mention bawling my eyes out ten thousand times?

I cleaned out my wallet and took out all the pictures except for one.

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16 July 2003

For Sale: my soul
Price: A pair of Goo Goo Dolls/Bon Jovi tickets for tomorrow night at the Molson Ampitheatre

The performance of the "A Thousand Words" interlude is to DIE for. It is so incredibly beautiful. During "Cuz You're Gone", they extend break and there is this absolutely incredibly unbelievably wicked guitar solo and then it goes into the interlude for about 2-3 minutes and it goes back to "Cuz You're Gone". It has never been officially recorded, and they usually change it up slightly each time (the lyrics bootleg I have differ from the performance I saw). It is so awesome, it makes my heart sick with reminisce, but that's alright since its so beautiful.

Another song that I absolutely ADORE is "Nothing Can Change You". Its a b-side on the Slide single and it is a Tommy Keane cover.

I want my GGD DVD for tomorrow evening. Its from the "Music in High Places" series, entitled Live in Alaska. I ordered it on the weekend from HMV and they told me 4-6 weeks, but on the HMV/Amazon.ca site it says "ships within 24 hours". Grrr.... *shakes fist*. I guess I'll just throw my own Goo show with my tape from their performance at the Olympics last year. =)

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13 July 2003

My hair feels like a kitty cat. I used a new conditioner today. Some Revlon Outrageous detangling rinse thing. Mmm!

Yesterday Amalia, Sam, Courtney, Kirsten, and I went downtown to wreck havoc hang out. We went to HMV and I bought Johnny Mnemonic (KEANU REEVES! *falls out of chair*) and headphones. I also got a SURPRISE for Ally from Sam* (you'll see hun!) and a 28 Days Later poster from Silver Snail.

Courtney wrote a little ditty on the subway, so we went to Speaker's Corner to read it. Its a short story about a guy name Theodore and his cat named Kyle. LMK if you see it!

And then we were going to dye Courtney's hair and watch Zoolander but then we didn't end up doing that, so I watched Johnny Mnemonic and went to bed.

I finshed reading The World According to Garp last week. Now I'm through more than half of The Hotel New Hampshire. I also picked up a couple of John Grisham books (someone was giving away boxes and boxes of books at work last week, so I took some). Books rock.

[edited to add footnote]
*Sam the Record Man, not my friend Sam.

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10 July 2003

... with a quick death.

But alas.

There will be other days and other auctions. I have not lost faith (yet).

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Webbyness
» I am Drowning...
[06:57 PM]

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7 July 2003

Stage band: 90
Instrumental Band: 88
Repertoire: 92
English (Grade 12): 90 (woot!)
World Religions: 93 (double woot!)
Functions & Relations: 77 (ewwww!!! math is death suicide.)
Average: 88.3

I think I'll live, even without $150 Goo Goo Dolls/Bon Jovi tickets. I'd almost sell my soul for those. Almost. Stupid Bon Jovi! They make the tickets so expensive. *shakes fist*

My mom, on the other hand, had a coronary when she saw my marks, more specifically my math mark. ("What happened to the other 23 per cent?!") Ooops.

On Friday I had all-you-can-eat Greek for lunch. We had an eating contest at work and I tied the person I was against--3 plates of lunch, a bowl of soup, and a plate of dessert. And these weren't wussy plates: they're piled high!

On Saturday I went swimming at Jason's and then we went for all-you-can-eat sushi, where we ran into Steve and Rebecca. Wow! Supercool. =) We ended up eating with them and it was really fun.

Tomorrow I am going for lunch with an old friend whom I've known since kindergarten. She moved when we were in grade 6 but we still write snail mail and send pictures and stuff. I am quite excited.

PS: Added pictures to last entry (F5 about Summer).

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2 July 2003

Late, but still good.

1. How are you planning to spend the summer [winter]?
Working a full-time contract at the Ministry of Finance, going to concerts, sleeping, hopefully go on a vacation somewhere (MEXICO! MEXICO!)

2. What was your first summer job?
My first summer job was by no means my first job, which I started when I was 11. My first summer job was at the same office I'm at this summer, but two summers ago.

3. If you could go anywhere this summer [winter], where would you go?
I would go on a huge roadtrip to every show in North America that the Goo Goo Dolls are going to play on their summer tour with Bon Jovi. I am not kidding. If only I could. :****((((

4. What was your worst vacation ever?
I like vacations. I can't think of a "worst" vacation.

5. What was your best vacation ever?
Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) last August. I swam with dolphins. No kidding.

Click for bigger picture.

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Life or Something Like It
» Life Is Simple
[10:18 PM]

Eat. Sleep. Bleed Goo. ;)

Ally and I were talking about today how every song and/or CD of our respective favourite bands (MFT for her, GGD for me), is like an "audio timecapsule". Does anyone else know what we mean? Does anyone else even share the same kind of passion for their favourite band?

I feel so unbelievably miserable right now. A punch in the stomach wouldn't have felt this bad. :*(((

On a brighter note (no pun intended), Vancouver got the 2010 bid for the Winter Games!! (Dilly: *high fives*)

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