I should have posted days ago. Lots have been going on. Monday night was my birthday supper with Dad and family. Delicious! But as you can see i'm not the only crazy one in my family.
Tuesday I picked my Mom's new iMac and got it all ready for her. She's learnt a lot even in the few days since she got it. Things that she wasn't able to do on her PC like email photos and make slide shows. Kudos to Apple for making their stuff user friendly for any generation.
Tuesday I also turned 22. I had a fantastic supper with Mike and Mom. It was a good day. It's been a good week actually in terms of bday. I started last thursday... and i'm still going. Woot! Thank you everyone!
Wednesday i began classes. By Thursday... the next day, I was ready to have my first nervous breakdown of the semester. I have a really heave semester of 5 high level classes. Extreme amounts of reading and assignments. And i have yet to go to my fifth class as it's on Mondays only. I've already had my first meeting with a proff.... and spent hours photocopying. Dave you better come to Poli Sci some day!!! I'll fall asleep if you are not there to poke me. Otherwise i expect my classes that's i've gone to to be wonderful... but hard. Don't panic for me yet.. (i can handle that. Panic is healthy right?) and i know that i'll survive just fine as long as i keep organized. I also know it helps to rant and so i am ranting.
Friday was a class on theory that was way too early to try to do theory... and work. Work=Ice cream cake! Woooot. Yum. Thanks!
Tomorrow is a family road trip. I'll let you know how that goes.
I will now go finish my delicious berry tea. And perhaps, after i digest my wonderful but very large lunch, Cinko and I will go find waffles. He tells me he needs them.
My brain hurts......................
I have built the strangest set of walls. I want people to help me, sometimes i even expect them to help me, but often enough I won't let them. Then i get more frustrated when they don't try harder. Very circular. No wonder i'm always spinning in circles.
I'm weird. I know this. I admit it and i like it. I'm moody. I can be happy and laughing one minute and crying the next. Some people think this is a girl thing. I'm not sure but i know i have it. I can be on my best behavior and be as pleasant and polite as can be ... if i need to be. I can also be the most annoying bitchy person you know ... also if i need to be. I'm creative. I like to make things and invent things. I talk. I can talk for hours and never shut up. I can be quiet and reserved too. My problem is that i'm not consistent. If someone asked me right now to describe myself in one word i'm not sure what' i'd say. Naturally i can say i'm 'me'.... but that doesn't tell anyone anything about my personality really. I'm not sure if i like this idea or not. Part of me thinks if i'm going to be weird i should be consistenly (more or less) one type of weird. Then again I don't really like being predictable. What fun is that? Then if i'm having a bad day i have to explain myself.... hmmm. That seems to happen anyhow. It seems though that i have proven my babbling ability in this paragraph....Did i have to prove it... no. But i did anyhow. I think my overall point in all of this is that as people we are expected to be and do certain things. Whether they be types of personalities or having certain attributes. And i would prefer to not have to explain myself sometimes. It constricts me. If i want to scream shouldn't i be allowed to without being told to shut-up..... and if i want to cry i should be able to do it in safety and peace and not feel as if i have to hide it or necessarily explain it though i know that sometimes explaining it can make things better (a form of ranting). I've since stopped caring if i get strange looks because i'm climbing trees on campus or the like....but those things don't need the same explanations and generally people are too freaked to ask. ....
I have totally lost this train of thought. I'm digging......I'm too far from my thesis.... what am i to do when i start school in two and a half weeks?
I've written some really great posts in my head over the past few weeks. However, none of them have made it onto this blog. There's really no good reason either. I just simply have not had the time or energy to put thoughts into words. But alas the summer is winding down. Fall and back to school is approaching. Fall weather is already here! This fact in itself is messing with my internal clock.
I'm about ready to go back to UPEI. My full time job has become less fun. It still has its good days but for the most part there are other places i would like to be. (Don't tell me that's life. I refuse to give into it). My courses are picked, some of my books are ordered. I have a new clipboard and pens. I even have a bright red Considerable Embarrassment to tote around Neko and my books.
The Little Mac Shoppe has successfully moved into it's new location. We are all enjoying the extra space and the sunlight. Sunlight i say!
But that is really all i have to say right now. I'm tired. I work in the morning. Just less than three more weeks.
Oh! Ani Difranco just released a new CD. Reprieve. I like it. A lot.
Maria and Mike's Rock Tour of 2006 has come to an end. I am back at work now trying to sort out the chaos of what was while i was gone. The trip was fantastic though. We flew into Ottawa on Thursday and spent the afternoon getting our bearings and visiting.
Friday was the Museum of Civilization across the river in Quebec and that evening was the first of many concerts. Malajube and Broken Social Scene started us off and they put on great shows. I also managed to get a henna tattoo of the apple logo on my arm that night.
Saturday was a trip to the market followed by a fantastic show by Feist that night. Roy is now a whole lot cooler looking in his specially designed Feist iPod hoodie.
Sunday was spent at the locks of the Canal and at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. It was a fairly relaxing day followed by Performances by Ani Difranco and Michael Franti & Spearhead that evening. Fantastic.
Monday there were some antics at the National Gallery and a trip to the Canadian Mint. I'm worth about a million dollars in gold. Woot. Monday night was Sam Roberts and Matt Mays.
Tuesday was relaxing and visiting as well as a trip to Parliament. I had Fabulous cake that day too. We ate at some excellent restaurants while in Ottawa and I even managed to get a tan due to the extensive amount of time we spent walking.
Wednesday we flew out of Ottawa into Halifax. That night we went to see Wilco who were awesome. But I still prefer Ani and Feist. I think it was because I was so tired by the time we saw Wilco, and i'm not as familiar with them. We spent the night at the Holiday Inn in Dartmouth and drove home Thursday. This is where I insert my comment on how i enjoyed the Holiday Inn much more then the Delta in Ottawa. Much easier to get along with and fewer hidden fees. And free wireless. Ottawa is a horrible town for free wireless. Horrible!
I took a trillion pictures too that I hope to post on my gallery soon. Well over 130 anyhow... maybe not a trillion.
Tomorrow morning Mike and I fly to Ottawa to take in part of the Ottawa Bluesfest. We have tickets to see the likes of Malajube, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Jason Collett, Ani Difranco, Sam Roberts, Matt Mays and more. Woot. On the way home we stop in Halifax to take in a Wilco concert. You can bet i'll be exhausted but musically fulfilled when we return a week from tomorrow. I also hope to do some sightseeing and playing while we are there. I'm excited.
What have you been up to lately? Me, well i've been pretty busy. Work is sickeningly busy. I just can't seem to get ahead of it and it's driving me nuts. It's been like this for a couple of weeks now. I keep hoping this will be the last crazy week so i can get caught up. I begun just trying to make myself last until Friday's at lunch. That's when i leave Anne and go to the Mac Shoppe. It's all good from there until Monday morning.
I had a jam packed but very fun weekend. Two trips to the beach with my dog. North and South shores. I wasn't in but he was. I saw Thank You For Smoking. I recommend it. I ate delicious quesadillas and Chocolate Expresso Cheesecake. Sunday I had a fantastic visit with my Grandmother and spent sometime with family and friends. I was determined to have a good weekend and enjoy the weather even though a basement full of boxes was haunting me at work. For some reason i'm determined not to go in after my regularly scheduled hours to work and get more done. I think it's because even if i go in a bunch of evenings or on weekends i know the flow of boxes won't stop and i'll just drive myself nuts overworking.
Courses for the fall are up at the UPEI website. I've been through them. There are a few courses that are "must takes" and the rest i'm not too sure. I'll have to think about it some more.
Well I did it. Mavis is at the Shoppe. I now am partnered with NEKO. It was an emotional transition. Mavis was my first laptop. She was my baby. I took her everywhere. I was up with her the night i accidently put her into a coma and good ol' Dr. Dave was there to get her out. Now Neko exists in her place and we are getting to know each other.
Neko is pretty cool. She's slick and fast. She's the basic Macbook model with an added bit of ram to bring her to 768. I can to video chat and take entertaining pictured with Photobooth. She comes with FrontRow. She also boots "sickeningly fast". There are also some pretty cool toys to add to her too which i'm posting about here.