feral-eyed angel

Work!

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:27:28 GMT

So I have a job now. Amazing, eh? Only took me 22 years ... *cough*.

Anyway, I'm full-time days at the Tim Horton's down the street, which is win cause it's like a 5 minute drive or a relatively short walk on a nice day. Although driving means I can sleep in so the Honda wins, as always.

Yesterday was my first day of training, and involved me doing absolutely nothing more than sitting in the break room in front of their computer and watching disc after disc of training CDs. FOR FIVE HOURS. And I was only scheduled to work four. Oops. Today was five hours of learning the cash register which was exciting. God bless the "double/double" button. I'm in tomorrow too, and I think I'm being scheduled for an extra shift on Saturday. Monehmonehmoneh.
Now I think I need a shower cause I reek of delicious coffee.

I live!

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:00:20 GMT

Sweet Raptor Jesus in the Jurassic, I'm bad at updating this thing. I'm sure you care.

I am still contentedly coexisting with my mother and Philip and our combined four cats and one gecko in Ottawa. Our plans to pick up and freak everyone out by moving to BC have been postponed, as there's some drama with Phip's family out there that we aren't about to walk into the middle of. SO, good news, we'll be around for Susan's birthday (which is good, I wasn't looking forward to her killing me for missing it) and for the wedding! I was so annoyed that we were going to miss it, and not missing it makes life much better.

Issy the kitten (full name: Issy bo Bissy fo Fissy) is well, and gimpy-eyed. I am still in love with everything Firefly and currently, the show Robot Chicken (available on YouTube, go watch now).

Tomorrow is the start of The Big Job Hunt since we aren't actually going to be leaving for a while. Wish me luck. Phip is taking me out for lunch to that sushi place Susan wishes she could go more often but she's off in lah-dee-dah fancy pants England so we're going without her. Hmph.

Oops.

Sun, 20 May 2007 14:04:40 GMT

Forgot to update for a while there.

So.

I am all gradumuated! s-m-r-t. For the rest of my life it will be a bittersweet memory because my grandmother, who travelled from Southern Ontario to be there for Convocation, had a heart attack in Amherst on the Friday before the ceremony, and passed away that night. My uncle was with her at the time, and everyone's been reassuring me that she died doing something she loved (aka travelling and seeing me) but ... talk about cold comfort. The whole time we were there, people kept saying "Oh yeah, and congratulations on graduating!" and I wanted to throw up a little.

So on Tuesday we packed up from Sackville and headed home. 15 hours of straight driving and didn't get in til 4 in the morning on Wednesday. Bleh is all I have to say about that. Then we packed up Thursday morning for the 6-hour drive to Grandma's hometown for the funeral which was on Friday. Philip got to meet my dad for the first time (we bought him a suit for the funeral, he was freakin' adorable) which was full of awkward, but it was okay. The funeral itself was nice, that woman was nothing but love to the whole world and it was obvious that the whole world in return was full of love for her. It was a beautiful day. I got to be a pall-bearer, which was a bit unsettling.

And yesterday we came home! I would say I'm utterly sick of driving except that it's *me* so ... I'm not. But a break is nice. We're going to try to get Phip his learner's permit while he's here, cause it's a lot cheaper than it would have been in Nova Scotia.

We went and bought a wireless router, too, so we could set up our computers in the basement, then we picked up kitten-face so she is back with moi. I missed her gimpy-eyed stare. She missed my computer chair most of all, go figure.

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:58:20 GMT

Suze - reply to this or send me an e-mail as soon as you're home. If you don't by tomorrow night I'll have to go home myself to make sure someone's feeding the animals.

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:35:57 GMT

Suze - phone Jess K., she's been trying to get in contact with you. Also, Phip and I will be out of here from this coming Saturday (28th) until the following Saturday. You'll have to be here to look after Brannimannishannanigan and kitten-head too.

Yay! More papers to write!

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:13:31 GMT

Dear person who wrote the paper that I have to review in order to write my own paper:

"albaillellids" is not a word, there are too many "L"s.

Equally, "radiolarian-spiculitic wackestone" is not a phrase. It sounds racist.

Plz l2english kthxbai.

Best of luck to Lindz on her fantastical trip to Japan-land! <3 your updates.

Oops.

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:36:09 GMT

This is really not a good time of day for me to be working on a research report. Now I have to write another paper and its simultaneous presentation both tomorrow. I just want to graduate already so I can go away.

I hate getting myself into these messes.

Bah humbug.

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:31:48 GMT

Ugh, you know you've been playing WoW for too long when you're confused about why 'w' and 's' don't make webpages scroll up and down.

I am mucho over the flu, thankfully. Going to the hospital was a serious drag and I ended up missing some cool things (plus a big deadline) that made life a little more annoying.

The only really interesting thing I have to note is that someone's been forging my signature at Movie Experts to rent movies on my account. Bad movies, at that. And they returned one late, which is how I found out. How dumb is that? You don't need to pay for an account there, just give them your phone number and your name. People in this town are silly.

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:10:02 GMT

Yay for Convention! And yay for Convention OVER. Hehe. All the staff know they're awesome.

Sadly, I'm all flu-d up. Barfy barfy fever for the loss. Especially when I have a big paper due tomorrow and a presentation to do to strangers on Wednesday night. /emo.

I get a B in life

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:38:03 GMT

[x] You have a boyfriend/girlfriend.
[x] You have your own room.
[ ] You own a cell phone.
[x] You have an mp3 player/ipod/discman.
[ ] Your parents are still married.
[x] You love your family.
[ ] There is a pool/spa in your backyard.
T 0 T A L: 4

[x] You dress the way you want to.
[X] You hang out with friends more than once a week.
[X] There is a computer/ laptop in your room.
[x] You have never been beaten up
[x] You are allowed to listen to the music you want to.
[X] Your room is big enough for you
[x] People don't use you for something you have.
[x] You have been to the movies.
T 0 T A L: 8

[ ] You have over 500 friends on facebook (...Damn, that'd be sad.)
[ ] You have pictures on facebook
[x] Your parents let you have a facebook
[x] You get allowance/loan.
[x] You collect something normal.
[x] You look forward to going to college
[x] You don't wish you were someone else.
[ ] You play a sport
[x] You want to do something after school/college
T 0 T A L: 6

[ ] You own a car/truck.
[x] You usually don't fight with your parent(s).
[X] You have never got a failing grade on a report card in your life
[x] You have friends.
[ ] You never got a detention
T O T A L: 3

[x] You know what is going on in the world.
[X] You are happy with your life
[x] You usually aren't sick.
[x] You know more than one language.
[x] You have a screen name.
[x] You own a pet.
[x] You know the words to more than 5 songs.
[x] You don't have any enemies
T O T A L: 8

Total over all:

times it by 3 = 87

101%+: A+
90-100%: A
80-89%: B
70-79%: C
60-69%: D
00-59%: F
repost saying "i got a _ in life"

Ganked from saiera

Success.

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:58:29 GMT

Woooo, home from Grand Manan / Grand Banana / Grand Marnier / Grand Banarnier (thankyou Susan and Philip for bastardizing the Maritimes). It was a fun trip, the people there are amazingly nice and we're thinking of taking a short vacation-y trip back between the end of exams and Convocation. If I never have to see the mushy scenes from Jerry Maguire again, it'll be too soon o_x

Wrote my Classics midterm this morning which went okay (my own fault for not studying on the island :[ ) and I got some stuffs from the drug store on my way home. It smells like spring outside :DDD

The new kitten is the sweetest little thing, I will try to go snaffle her away from Susan momentarily (muahaha).

Now I am going to drink pepsi and be lazy for a bit before freaking out about my Enviro Science class.

Update Shmupdate

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:48:09 GMT

Eeeeeeeek, going to Grand Manan tomorrow. Will be interesting, but cripes I have lotsa work to get done. I'll be gone until Sunday, so obviously missing anime staff meeting. Suxxors. Lindsay and Bill have already heard my blab about video game/console boxes though, so now I just need to hear back from any more forum-ites about XBoxes and such. Honestly, why would you want a console Microsoft built? Hayabusa and DoA3 are the only valid reasons.

EDIT
Just got back from Borat, and hocrap that movie is so weird. WEIRD. Americans are WEIRD.

I'd rather be gaming.

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:23:06 GMT

Gah ... too much stuff going on right now to coherently list and/or organize mentally.

All my classes this term want papers, some short and on obscure topics, others very long and on topics which will require me having to conduct multiple interviews with strange men (aka drunk fishermen in a bar ... *shudder*). I have a presentation in my seminar tomorrow night that I am in no way prepared for, unless she wants a hastily slapped-together 5 minute article barf. After that (but no less worrisome) is convention stress, and finally stress of the "what am I doing with my life?" variety. Because really ... what am I doing with my life? Gah.

Day 27364272. ~~No aquasaurs yet.~~ ~~Not 70 yet.~~ STILL IN SCHOOL.

This Update is for Kimothy

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:35:44 GMT

Kiiiiiim. Here you go.

I just downloaded and read through the staff schedule for the Con, and I'm set up to work for eleven straight hours on Saturday. All by myself. Huh. Gonna bring that up tonight and see if it was overlooked or if I'm expected to die for my video-gaming sins >.> Oh oh and speaking of the Con, Suze said you might not be able to come up? Kiiiiim. Kiiiiiiiiim! You have to come ;_; It won't be a Con without Kimothy. Don't make me come to Bermuda and maybe hang around for a couple of weeks in the sun before I remember that I was supposed to bring you to the Con but by then it's far too late so I just stay in Bermuda for a while longer. That wouldn't go over well.

Hmm ... what else is new? You know Phip's living here now, right? Oh yeah, of course you do, you helped me pass out his resumes. Durr. He's working backshift at Timmy's currently (backshift = 11pm - 7am) so he's taken to stomping into my room at 7:45, freezing cold, and jumping on the bed to wake me up. Boys suck.

Ooh if you want a new game for your GameCube, I might actually suggest Animal Crossing. It's really really weird, but it's kinda addictive. (In case you don't know) You play a little person who's just moved into a town full of animals and you get to name yourself (Suze and I are "Futbuker"), the town ("Asrantch"), you get your own little house to decorate, you have to work of your debt for the house by doing errands for the racoon who owns the only store in town, and partake of general shenanigans. It's weird because it works off the GC's internal clock and gameplay reflects the time of year/time of day. I got pissed last night cause I sat down to play around midnight and all the friggin animals had gone to bed. Screw that. (But when they're sleeping outside for some freaky reason, you can push them out of the way and let yourself into their house to check out their home decor. That's pretty sweet).

Know what isn't sweet? I HAVE NO AQUASAURS. Friggin' things never hatched. I am very annoyed. So I guess sometime I'll get over my feelings of betrayal and heat up the tank to a good temp. again, dump in more eggs, and hope for the best.

Aaaand now I guess I have to deal with my weekend, which is looking like it will be hella busy with stuff for me to do. I have an assignment to write asap, a presentation on Tuesday, and an upcoming field trip back to Grand Manan to talk to fishermen. Eek. And lots of terrible things due the week after that that I really need to get started on now.

Phippy's being a good boyfriend and playing through all of Resident Evil: Code Veronica for me so I can watch the story. When that's done, we're going to do numbers 3 and 1 as well. Ahaha, I play RE for the story. So weird. Well, and Leon is my pretend shmoopie. He's in number 2!! Go buy number 2.

<3

Oops ...

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:31:48 GMT

So. Long time no update.

What is new?

Oh yeah. LAST TERM EVER AT MOUNT A! ( !!!!!!!! )

My schedule is great this term, or so I like to think. My earliest class all week is at 11:30, so I don't have to pretend I'm a morning person.

Phippy is also living with me now, he got a job at Tim Horton's, so there is practically never a need for me to take the dreaded bus trip back to New Glasgow. Muahaha.

I am getting my butt in gear sorting out video game lists/tournaments for the convention at the end of next month.

Aaaaand ... thassit. Nothing else interesting, I think. Ooh, I got Aquasaurs for Christmas, so I'll keep you biology-minded folks updated on their happy little progress once I actually get around to trying to hatch some. Score.

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:39:06 GMT

Last class of the term today ... I'm almost sad =(

Almost.

Here is my list of upcoming STUFF that is either due or I have to do:

~~Dec. 1st - Transport Paper~~
Dec. 4th - Biogeography Lab Report
~~Dec. 5th - Geography of Japan Term Paper~~
Dec. 6th - Biogeography Exam
Dec. 7th - Transport Exam
Dec. 9th - Geography of Japan Exam
Dec. 11th - Philosophy Take-Home
Dec. 12th - Enviro Studies Reasearch Proposal

Obviously, these thing are so important that I'm sitting here updating this and filling out teaching surveys on WebCT instead of working on them. HaHA ... procrastination.

because it's late, and I can.

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:48:31 GMT

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:08:48 GMT

Ack, how the time flies. Just over 2 weeks of classes left and so much left to get done ... which won't happen this weekend, since I'm being whisked away to Grand Manan in a couple of hours to schmooze with the locals about lobster-fishing. Yeah. Won't that be fun.

I hope everyone has a good weekend :D

Ararararar

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:51:02 GMT

Man, life is so busy right now it's not even funny. Phip came to visit over the weekend which was fantasmagical, but he left yesterday morning so now I'm a sad panda =(

I have stuff to do every weekend up til the end of the month, at which point I have a bajillion and one things due and then it's straight into all four of my exams in the first week of the exam period.

I'm really just posting so I can postpone the inevitable chilly march to Avard Dixon where I will pray to the rocky gods of geography that WebMail is back up and drop my biogeography presentation onto my M: drive or pray his computer can read my CD.

Anxiety, anyone?

EDIT It snows it snows!! All is well with the world because IT SNOWS!!

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:56:07 GMT

Woohoo! No plague for me!

When last Norwalk and I met, I pwned it good and hard. In retaliation, it ... made me throw up for 3 days. Let's end that flashback right there.

When they cancelled midterms on Monday and Tuesday I was thrilled because of course, my midterm's on Wednesday. But my only class today was called off for no reason (wooooh) and the assignment I had due tomorrow has been bumped to the end of the week. So I win, regardless. My midterm is biogeography so it shouldn't be hard anyway.

Thursday we went to see a movie called An Inconvenient Truth, about the effects of global warming and the general suckiness of the American political institution, as presented by Al Gore. For the record, that man is full of awesome. I'm still hoping to go see TPB in theatres, but I might not be able to =(

Today I went for a field trip with a class I'm not even in to a waste management/sanitation plant just outside Moncton. I came away with the lesson that it smells awful, but they do good work. There are big seagulls there. Oh! And a bald eagle. Reduce, re-use, recycle!

Honestly, I am only still writing because I'm fascinated that MtA has its own wikipedia entry. We are really not that interesting.

nightcap

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:36:42 GMT

Ahhh I have been busy. I'm sorry, Livejournal, we can't be friends anymore. I am too busy for j00.

Friday was my crazy 5-hour field trip for biogeography, in which I determined that there is far too much underbrush in the forest. Too many scratches and pine needles in the wrong places. It was pretty though. Canoeing is much easier when you're not in the middle.

I took the bus to New Glasgow Saturday morning and hung around there for Thanksgiving, which was nice. I'm disappointed that I couldn't go home but visiting Phip was just as good, and my Mum's going to come down here sometime next month to sort of make up for it. We didn't really have much in the way of Thanksgiving dinner, since Phip was sick and thus un-hungry, so it was sort of a rush-job on Sunday night. Mashed potatoes and stuffing saved the day, though, since Dusty (the cat) ate some of the turkey from the counter. He is a sneaky one.

I got my term-paper proposal and midterm back on Tuesday. Both were 'A's :D. Apparently my Geog. of Japan prof has been waiting for someone to do my topic for years, and he's "delighted" that I've chosen to do so. That should be a full letter grade right there 8)

Next week isn't too busy ... I have a biogeography midterm and some sort of essay to write for Philosophy. Pah, I'll think about that on the weekend. Time to sleep now.

school stuffs.

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:23:45 GMT

So I found out my exam schedule last night. I have four, on the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. Fancy that. The first 3 are at 9am, the first 2 are the only 3-hour ones, and the last one is the only one being written in the Gym. All-around, very weird. Oh well, at least it means I'll be done retarded early ... D:

My Mum rescheduled me a doctor's appointment for December post-exams, so I'm thinking I'll stick around for a couple of days to hang out with the Kimmy and then go to NG for another couple of days before I fly back home.

In other news, I have a midterm today and a term paper proposal due. I finally chose my topic for the paper - Food Culture in Japan. It's tentatively titled "Not Just Raw Fish." I haven't studied for my midterm at all, so I'm going to do that now, and then in Philosophy, and then when I get back from class. In the middle somewhere I'm going to go to the library and try to find a couple more books for my term paper proposal, since I only have 3 in the annotated bibliography (and no websites, can you imagine?)

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:21:26 GMT

I had to phone my mum last night and tell her that I can't go home for Thanksgiving. $700 worth of plane fare just isn't in the books for this little student. She and I are both really disappointed (haven't been home since July D: ) but she's gonna come visit sometime in November instead. That will be nice.

School's going well, I think my presentation last week was fine. October's my busiest-looking month yet, starting with a term paper proposal and a midterm both on Tuesday. Speaking of which, I still haven't decided on a term paper topic. Aha.

Watched Death Trance with Sue and Kim last night, awesome movie. We went to Kim's to check out our Sims, too, since she has Sims Uni. edition and she made our house from last year. omgwtfbbq, it's so great. I snaffled her Sims 2 discs so I'll probly get back to playing that sometime soon rather than working on either of the aforementioned Tuesday-things. Hehehe.

necessities

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:23:08 GMT

Don't you hate it when it's late, none of the websites you troll have updated, and all you really have left to do is the stupid schoolwork you've been putting off all day? Me too.

Every time I go to my Geography of Japan class it makes me want to watch anime and/or be Japanese. Since I can't really do the latter, I may start indulging in the former again. It's been ages since I saw a good new series =( I really need to get around to renting from the anime club.

All I have to focus on tonight is working on my friggin presentation. THANK GOD Natasha is my partner, she is making the whole dumb thing bearable. Plus, once the presentation is done, I won't have anything due in the class until November. Awesome.

I haven't even cleaned yet! Scandalous.

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:58:03 GMT

Ah Sunday ... the day of cramming all that needs to be done in the least amount of time possible.

Phip and Susan left yesterday morning, he back home and she to Halifax. So I've had the place to myself ever since. Haven't been as bored as I thought. Did dishes, laundry, had a shower, and met Natasha at the library so we could work on our presentation. I have to meet her again later today to plan out our powerpoint slides. I didn't go to the anime meeting last night because apparently there WERE NO meetings, and everyone was just playing some of Bill's wacky games or watching anime. And it was raining >_>. Hehe. I somehow convinced Kim to come over and she ordered food for us, and we watched the 2nd half of Silent Hill. Emmy came over later and I showed them Flight of the Conchords (go to youtube NOW if you haven't heard of them. NOW!). After that it was sleepies time. I actually had the cat sleeping on my bed for most of the night, until around 7. She's getting better every day.

Sooo my list of stuffs for today isn't quite as long but is still no fun. I can't book my flight home quite yet because my biogeography prof thinks it's reasonable for us to have a 3+ hour field trip the Friday before the Thanksgiving weekend. This would be all well and good except that I have a doctor's appointment that morning. So. Gotta figure out what to do there. I'm hoping he'll just come to his senses and bump the the field trip back by a week.

Now I am eating leftover pizza for breakfast and writing down random things from texts about the ecology and management of Atlantic Canadian fisheries. SO MUCH ... uhh ... fun?