I just realized about 5 minutes ago that I don't really have any gay friends who I correspond with mostly in real life (versus the interwebs). It's been like that for a while.

I wonder what that means... maybe I have some sort of homophobic complex or some latent fear or I-don't-know-what. Anyone got any theories?

Genya, myself, and Dylan played cards, ate a ridiculous amount of cheap japanese food, and then watched No Country for Old Men until very early Saturday.

The dialogue was pretty quiet, and I have troubles understanding Southern accents to begin with. As a result, I didn't really catch about half of the movie, so it didn't make much sense to me.

Now Genya is painting.

And I am working on my arts studies paper.

Remember how I said how much I hate writing? Still true.

I am back in Calgary right now.

Despite the fact that my mom has completely purged her house of diet soda, I am so happy to be back.
Calgary is a wasteland. All of the grass is dead.
I don't want to leave.

In other news, the Econ midterm was absolutely murder. I think I passed, and I will leave it at that...

The nice thing about University is that you don't have to get straight 90s to do well. Anything upwards of 75 is perfectly acceptable.

I'm okay with lowering my standards- it just feels awful because I'm putting in SO MUCH TIME to learn this stuff, and then I only get average-looking marks to show for it. What a frustrating experience!

Me, Kathlena, Stephanie, and Katherine went out to the Eatery after the midterm yesterday for recreational sushi bingeing and mutual commiseration. I think the midterm is a bit like a food processor. It takes all of the Econ kids and pulps them up into unrecognizable mush, but as a result, we are all closer and more united in our shared misery.

I'm looking forward to seeing:
-Gabi
-My Cat

From Savage Love:
The best strategy for a teenage lesbian: Study hard and get good grades, and apply to a good liberal arts college. Good grades can open doors to a world of smart, fun, open-minded women. Four years at Wellesley were worth the debt.

Smart, Sexy & Solvent

I have a new favorite thing on the internet: If you don't know about Dan Savage, than you are about as cool as I was before I went to Halifax this year

Seriously! Funny and educational stuff to be had here.

This weekend, I am mostly proscrastinating and avoiding doing real work (hell, I still haven't typed up all of my notes from yesterday). After this post, I am going to make a real effort to get off my sorry ass and actually do the things I have to get done (homework, laundry, garbagem recycling, tidying, reading, working out).

Me and my friend Sylvia went to see a Film Festival Film today. This one was called Eatrip

It was a totally-gratuitous foody movie from- you guessed it- Japan. Basically, it's a nice little smorgasbord of different people (farmer mothers, greenies, buddhist priests, artists, designers, grandmothers, etc) talking about how they love food, and how food plays into their lives. There was lots of shots of people preparing traditional Japanese food... and then eating traditional Japanese food, and then lolling around with their friends and family happily clutching their full bellies.

If there is more to life than that, I have no idea what it is!

Since I treated for movies, Sylvia treated me to lunch. We went to Toyama (my idea) for AYCE Sushi. This one was definitely better than Richmond Sushi IMO. I got a veritable feast of sushi (they were faster with the nigiri than they were with everything else), rolls (the specialty rolls are a bit heavy on the mayonaise, which is more tart than creamy), salads (they do kimchi, which I love, despite the fact that it is Korean and not Japanese), and... Barbequed Fish heads! Sylvia was pretty grossed out when it arrived, but I thought it was really fucking good. It kind of reminded me of roast chicken like I used to have every Friday night before I switched to piscetariansim. I ate the eyeball and everything, it was just damn delicious! =D

Sylvia described the place as 'sort of half between a fancy restaurant and a TV dinner'. The insides were done up all nicely with the typical minimalist Japanese decor, and modern furniture, but there was bad 90s pop music playing loudly over the speakers (we're talking backstreet and spice world here), and bad action movies playing on televisions throughout the restaurant. I have a feeling that we caught them at a bad time (just at the end of the 'lunch' run), because halfway through our feast, all of the staff pretty much stopped working and ate their lunch, and then the music changed to more tasteful japanese-language singing. I think they try and make dinner a more 'classy' event here (which makes sense, seeing as it costs 9$ extra at dinnertime).

Okay. Enough restaurant reviews. Goddamit Jacob- you're going to turn into a John Gilchrist shaped object if you keep up this monstrous eating!


Peace out livejournal- sociology beckons...

I leave such terrible phone messages. I am going to work into the wee hours of the morning making your mix-disc-setup all pretty, and then I am getting my dad to mail it off to you tomorrow.

THANKYEEEEEEE!

PS: I haven't read any of the letter or secret stuff hidden in the sheets yet, as I am too tired of packing to want to unpack it all, so I guess I will get more surprised when I finally move into my dorm and go through it all.

The red is very nice. The blanket is basically what my favorite flannel shirts would want to be reincarnated as. I'm ecstatic and exhuasted!

Sushi with Gabi soon. I haven't eaten all day, and I intend to get our money's worth's! =D

Dear Gabi: I couldn't get all you can eat with you... so I went out and got it with my mom instead.

Advice for anyone:

NEVER get all you can eat sushi with a person who
1- Doesn't like sushi
2- Isn't really very hungry

It was delicious, but really, I ended up eating all of the sushi intended for both of us, because my mom didn't want any. Ah well; live and learn.

If anyone cares, I really spat in the face of Judaism last night. I broke Kosher in Sssssssstyle:
-Prawns
-Scallops
-Squid
-Octopus

So now that's good and done!

In keeping with the theme of Japanese, sea-related things, me mom and Rebeccah went and saw Ponyo.

It was a bit too much of a kids' film for my liking, but still lots of fun. I like his darker films better, to be perfectly honest... oh well.

CDS: I made a list of things to download, as I am trying to be a cheap bastard, but I ended up spending some of my hard-earned moolah on some local artists who I am unlikely to be able to find in Van-city.

and


Last night, my mom and I rented Paris J'taime

I love shorts. I loved this movie. Simple as that!

This is what is coming up in my life:
-Fundraising Casino Tonight @ 6:00
-Gigantic 35.5 hour workweek starting tomorrow

Time is moving forward too damn quickly. Luckily, working as co-op makes it slow down practically to a standstill! =D

I have finally finished schlepping ALL of the music from my PC over to my Mac.

I have left NOTHING behind this time. Everything is PEFEFECT!

Me and ashley didn't end up having garbage day, so I sat around the house and made gabi's V-day mix.
Brent's is next, and then Kevin's (and then after that, I am going to mail off his and Lauren's)

Gabi and I ate all you can eat sushi at sushi ichiban. The service was completely terrible, but the food was good. As usually, I ate far too much.

And then, I trained down and met up with Blaire and Steph. We went to the House, and basically chilled all evening. It was fantastic. Steph ended up seeing a bunch of kids she knew, and after we got bored of listening to all the singer/songwriter kids (aka, after all of the popular kids left), we sat on the couch and drew each other using Linda Kopec's art supplies. I drew a ghetto-ass version of blaire, and a pig-snouted version of steph, which I'm sure they both hated =D

My throat is SORE.

Brent: I have jazz rehearsal at beth lane's house tomorrow morning. When its done, would you like come over? I probably won't have your mix done, but we can watch a movie or something while I work on it!

Dear Livejournal:

Today has been nice, despite the fact that it started way early.
LTV is better with Tuesdays than Fridays, definitely.
Other than that, I slept in Band, wrote about a paragraph in Journalism, did nothing in psychology, took notes in social studies, learned my lines in about the space of an hour for theatre pro (we had to be offbook today. I managed it, but I was stressing out for most of the day).

And I got my interim report card.
Journalism 35: 100
Band 30: 95
Psychology 30: 100
Social 30AP: 97

woo...

I was supposed to practice bass every day this week and be good about that....
Oops?

I went and saw my psychologist today, which was okay. I don't actually remember most of what we talked about- mostly about Sarah. He said I seemed pretty mentally healthy and like I was ready to get out of here and on into University, which is true. I don't dislike high school, but I have a feeling that University is going to be a lot better.

And then Gabi and I went out for dinner. We went to Ginza at Chinook and got all-you-can-eat sushi. Lets just say that I think we got our money's worth. I was super full, but I got Gabi to get me frozen yogurt afterwords. I walked her over to her uncle's house, and then read 'watchmen' at chapters until my mom came to pick me up.

I feel strangely antsy and achey at the same time.

I got full marks on my last psych test. That's a nice thought.
Other than that, nothing happened today. The student ambassador person from UBC emailed me today, and now I've got yet another link to a bunch of scholarships I can/should apply for. Ugh... too much work. I'll start tomorrow... or something like that.

Me and devon spent most of today eating. We figured we may as well go down to kensington and eat lunch out, and I suggested we try eating ethiopian food. Little did I know that apparently, ethiopian food takes FOREVAH to make. I think we spent an hour and a half in the restaurant, and by the time we were done, we had just over an hour before we were schedualed to eat sushi dinner with devon's folks!

So we ran to TD, ducked into the lacoste, gawked at the prices, grabbed a flyer, and then high-tailed it back down to where the sushi place was.

AND AT DINNER, DON & BRYAN GOT ME AND DEVON SIGNED COPIES OF SHINE, BY JONI MITCHELL!

And singing cards. It was very emotional. I have two signed Joni Albums now. I should start a collection...