Fuzzy Rules These Skies

All Star Band

2006-04-07T07:42:00.000-04:00

Northern Ontario's All Star band began last night at 7ish, with a readthrough of all of our music. The music is not too difficult if you look at it for a while. We're playing: William Byrd Suite, Montematre Mach, 'Round Midnight, Procession of the Aliens, When Agels Weep and Nobody Knows. The band seems pretty good but less people practiced their music than I expected. I'm looking forward to clinics and sectionals tomorrow.

Gig tomorrow

2006-03-10T14:47:00.000-05:00

Tomorrow is our last gig until Easter time that we know of. We have two fifteen minute sets in the afternoon. Our first set has songs Like.. Our on the Ocean, Foggy Dew, Cahnter's tune, Fortune from Feller/I'se the By and Banshee/Colleys' reel and Gravel Walks. The second set has Gravel Walks again, Star of the County Down, Emilie's dancing to Cahnter's, Butterfly and St Anne's reel. I am definitely forgetting some. This will be Tilly's first performance with us playing bass. I think it will sound good even though we haven't gotten together lately with everyone because Marla nd Emilie are busy. I'm exctied to play there because many people there will know the words and recognize the songs and enjoy the show more than the people of Walden.
After that I have no idea what I'm doing for March break.

I'm Busy

2006-02-19T01:16:00.000-05:00

But I haven't forgotten this place. Yet...

We're Successful!

2006-01-29T20:12:00.000-05:00

Me, Emilie and the Harings are started to get paid for gigs! The other night we did two fiddle/Irish music workshops and we got two more gigs. We're soposed to open for some Canadian Idol guy real soon and the other gig is just a tiny two song thing.
The Canadian Idol thing is a huge workload though. It's on the 11th or 12th, I don't remember. We need 45 mins of music and we found out a few days ago. Exams just started and our first practice since then was cancelled today due to some 25 cm of snow...
We plan to have practices pretty much every day after we finish exams as long as we can find a place to. Emilie also plans to teach me and the Harings some dance stuff because she doesn't want to be the only one dancing all the time.
I dunno how much we're getting paid, but she said she usually does $100 and hour. I'm excited to play.

Partying

2006-01-02T16:03:00.000-05:00

I thought holidays were time to relax. I have litterally gone out every night since the holidays started, expect for the nights when people came here. Most nights are fun, but I never actually find time to do my homework or practice people people are always here. I think this is probably the first afternoon I've spent alone in my basement, but Colleen wants to go out tonight. I probably won't go. I'll probably practice.

Busking was Super!

2005-12-18T09:59:00.000-05:00

We made en9ough mooney nto bu7uy and iPod! We figure we got abo9ut $50 and hour. We came up with $205.52 "I think.
Alswo Igo0t new mittens yesterday.
It is difficult to type with mittes. Also it is hard to p[lay piano with mittens on.

Idly idle dee

2005-12-13T20:02:00.000-05:00

I found my good tinwhistle! :D
Which is good, because my other one has a crack. The crack doesn't affect it really, but I'm afraid I'll make it worse, so it's really nice to have my good one. :)
I did an audition thingy for the talent show deal with Emily and some Harings doing some fiddle and Irish dance stuff. I kinda faked it the second time through because I was tired because it was halfway through band practice, but I'm sure we got in anyway.
Last night us strings folk played at some fancy hotel for some fancy party with no chairs. They fed us, and paid us $500!
Next weekend some Harings and more stringsenites are busking in the Hanmer mall and giving money to people who need it for band trip because of our money woes. It's totally better than selling crap.

Holy cow blogs

2005-12-03T21:56:00.000-05:00

I had no idea anyone still wrote in their blogs. Last time I checked, Seb took a break from his, Reno quit writing and Mum's computer crashed, and I look back today and they all have recent updates. Clyde is the only one I thought would be keeping it up.
What's even more surprising is that after posting here yesterday, I have a comment. That means that my blog has been checked regularly since before I went to Montreal even though I didn't post in a month or something. Less than a month. Still, I though all blogs had just died.
Maybe I'll read/ update more now. Maybe I'll be too busy. Maybe I'll forget.

We need your money.

2005-12-03T01:22:00.000-05:00

The band this year is so poor, no one wants us to have money. We're not poor in sound or anything, and this year we've worked harder than any of the past years and it's not just grade twelves helping out this year. So far, we need lots of money to get to Halifax, our biggest fundraiser failed and grade nines are (mostly) a bunch of hosers.
So our biggest annual fundraiser (the Christmas Walk craft show) for the band made very little money. It happened this year on Rememberance day weekend, and on the same day as Lo Ellen Park's craft show who had far more small amount off the trip this year. Then we bring the money the bank and realise someone paid with three counterfeit $50 bills. So after our least successful walk we lose $150. According to people at various cashes there it was the same person, buying very cheap things and getting lots of change back. But come on, who steals from a charity event?
Speaking of stealing, it is a new hobby of some grade nines here. It's obvious that they steal things because it all goes missing during their class. The first few things belonged to members of the band personally, but the other seven instruments "went missing". Five flutes and two trumpets are gone, and if we need to replace them we will not have money left for anything let alone a trip to Halifax (24 hours drive, plus stops) and yes Canada has higher gas prices than the states those hosers. If this stuff continues the music room is going to be locked, to us as well. Which would be pretty sad if you knew the place.
So with a combination of bad fundraising, theft, and a hells explensive trip and festival to go on/to, we are not going to pull it off unless the school helps us out for once. We never get dress down days to us, and they deny almost all fundraisers that actually involve the school and students. Me and some others are going to try to raise our own money, because people are out to get the band and their money this year. I owe Kathleen $150 too.

On the plus side, I've started lessons with Brenda Aerosmoth. Which is better than any of those schmoes I mentioned earlier, except maybe for Jack Gordon but he lives far. So far I have had one lessons with her for flute, and they're going until Christmas then starting again. For piano, I have one left, then I can start them again after Christmas as well. You guys should see all of my sheetmusic from like a million years ago. It's mostly super cool. Although mostly for piano and voice. Still super cool.

Going to Montreal

2005-11-08T18:20:00.000-05:00

I'm taking a bus with Kathleen and Tilly to Montreal on the 18th. We're visiting Brittany and spending a night on the town with her. The Harings were soposed to go, but they couldn't make it so we need to bring pictures of them and get them souvenirs.
So I owe Kathleen $150. And the bus trips are 12 hours there and 12 back. That or 10, depends if we are goign at night or during the day. And I won't have any money to spend there. But it's going to be awesome!

Halloween

2005-10-29T13:30:00.000-04:00

So I haven't got a costume or anything yet, but I am pretty excited for Halloween. Maybe it will be a let down, but from what I hear it will be awesome. At first I thought it would blow because Colleen was going out of her way to not invite Sarah. But the other day she was really trying to convince her to go, because she started making other plans with people Colleen likes. Also I would have probably gone with Sarah's crew just because Kathleen would be my ride and stuff. Colleen says Terrence and Cody are going though, which convinced a lot of people. I am excited to see them, although it is weird. I thought the last time I would really hang out with them would be that reunion. This could be good though.
It mostly depends what happens. I don't know why I have the feeling someone will get in a fight and it will be really bad. It's only ever happened really badly once... but it happens often, just not as bad. At least we won't be bored.

Again with the lessons.

2005-10-14T15:37:00.000-04:00

I have a piano lesson in 20 minutes. I think it's my third one, I'm not sure though because it was screwed up for thanksgiving. I haven't really practiced too much but she doesn't expect much from me I guess I've already done better than she thought I would. I onyl have trouble knowing which fingers to use and learning to read bass clef. It's harder to learn to read than alto clef because I just figured out where on the staff my open strings were and went form there but this is all keys that are all the same.
For flute lessons I am less screwed than I thoguth I was, but still pretty damn screwed. Allan Walsh's only time to take me is exactly when wind ensemble ends and I don't want to quit wind ensemble really. I don't know if it's worth it, because damn I need lessons. Brenda said she just found out about a new flute teacher,a dn Mr Van said he cuold try to get Jack Gordon's number, although he lives in North Bay. I really don't want a student teacher.
Gotta get to that lesson now I guess.

Not Flute Lessons

2005-09-25T15:05:00.000-04:00

Elise can't fit me in. She did give me Allan Walsh and Brenda Arrowsmith's phone numbers. I could use Allan's, as he'll probably end up my flute teacher. I see Brenda all the time now though because I joined wind ensemble. Like they need more flutes.
So I guess I'll be calling Allan pretty soon. I hear he smells.

Flute Lessons

2005-09-21T21:50:00.000-04:00

There are two hours left in this Wednesday and I have not heard back from Elise.
She was about to put me with a third year college student as a teacher, named Candice. I didn't really like the idea of having a student teacher, as I've pretty much already had a student teacher (Sarah) for free. When the Toronto Symphony Orchestra came to Sudbury I went to a Masterclass where Candice played. It seemed like the things she was having trouble with were the same thigns I wanted to work on, so I told her I would rather be with Elise or Alan Walsh for these reasons.
I emailed Elise and told her how really really nice it would be to fit me in or I could call Alan Walsh. She told me there was no time at her house (except the day I have band) so I could do it at Cambrian College, which is close to my house anyway. She said she should know by Wedensday.
So it's Wednesday. Has been for a while... So I'm thinking I won't find out until the weekend.
I'm in no rush for flute lessons, but the problem comes with piano lessons. I did go for a student teacher for piano because I'm just starting and it costs less, but the students need to give lessons as part of the course. The reason I had to tell Candice so early was because she had to hurry up and find a new student, and I otld my piano teacher to wait until I had flute lessons sorted out so there were no conflicts. School started about a mnth ago and I still haven't gotten back to her, and if I did get back to her I would have nothing to tell her because Elise has not gotten back to me.
You can see why, for this whole ordeal I blame the French.

Good news!

2005-09-11T20:00:00.000-04:00

I am taking music! I had to drop enriched Science, but I have a good Science teacher anyway. It won't be stupid. :)

Hmm

2005-09-07T20:15:00.000-04:00

So I'm not taking music.

Adventures at William's Pub

2005-07-30T23:50:00.000-04:00

michaela. says:
i went to a locally owned cafe like books and beans in litle current today
michaela. says:
you should go to books and beans
Woah. says:
I should. When tuba boy goes.
Woah. says:
I went to William's today with Ray and Sarah,
Woah. says:
And we met this guy who we didn't know but recognized... it's really confusing.
michaela. says:
how did he look like.
michaela. says:
that is confusing though.
michaela. says:
you should have gone to BOOKS AND BEANS!!!
Woah. says:
Do you want the long story? Because it's the only one that's going to make sense.
michaela. says:
sure
Woah. says:
No, this was awesome.
michaela. says:
i have time
Woah. says:
Okay, we're sitting in William's and two guys walk in, thay're not together. One's wearing a suit, and one's pretty casual.
michaela. says:
suspsicious
Woah. says:
The guy in the suit orders and gets a newspaper near our table. When teh casual guy passes our table he stops to check out Ray's comic books,
michaela. says:
...
Woah. says:
He's talking about the comic books and forgets a name of an artist or something, and the guy getting the newspaper tries to guess the name he forgot, but it wasn't the right one, so he goes to sit down at the other end of William's.
Woah. says:
I ask who that guy was and the casual guy says he's an insrance salesman,
Woah. says:
*insurance
Woah. says:
I asked him if he actually knew the guy, or if he figured by the suit. He figured by the suit.
michaela. says:
this is interesting
Woah. says:
So he goes over and asks him what he does for a living, and Sarah is out of earshot and saying she knows the guy in the suit from somewhere, neither Ray or I have a clue who he is.
Woah. says:
We go over when they're talking and Sarah suggests how she might know him, none of them got us anywhere.
Woah. says:
Then she asked if he played the tenor sax, which he did.
Woah. says:
He was all scared now because she knew he played the tenor sax,
Woah. says:
Then Sarah said to Ray "It's violin guy!"
michaela. says:
and then....
Woah. says:
And the guy is like wtf? I've maybe held a violin once in my life...
Woah. says:
But Sarah explains to him that he was in Reach for the Top (frreaking him out more) and that during a question about Nero he was making violently obvious violin mimes to hint to his teammate what the answer was,
michaela. says:
im enjoying this story
Woah. says:
So now we've figured out who this guy is. The casual guy went to a payphone by the way and didn't talk to us, but suit guy (Jay) sits down with us
Woah. says:
And we talked about music and words. It was very fun
Woah. says:
But when he leaves, Sarah kindof laughs evilly after realising something.
Woah. says:
He might be going to beach day this Wednesday, and he's never met us before then.
Woah. says:
We think Brandon invited him.
michaela. says:
beach day?
Woah. says:
We go to the beach on Wednesdays
michaela. says:
books and beans has live music wednesdays.
michaela. says:
i miss books and beans
Woah. says:
(
Woah. says:
*
michaela. says:
i should gte a job there one day.
michaela. says:
i would adore that job
michaela. says:
are you working at SN?
Woah. says:
I want a job at Prom.
Woah. says:
No. <_<
michaela. says:
oh.
Woah. says:
Stupid SN.
michaela. says:
Prom.
michaela. says:
would you get deals at Prom?
Woah. says:
Hmm I don't know.
michaela. says:
hmmm....
Woah. says:
Yeah.....
michaela. says:
you should get a job and see
michaela. says:
and if they don't give deals
michaela. says:
QUIT!
michaela. says:
i have a question regarding yoru story: why was the guy wearing a suit?
michaela. says:
and what importance did the casual guy play?
Woah. says:
Oh, turns out he isn't an insurance guy,
Woah. says:
I'm not sure if it's true, but casual guy said he just came from a funural.
Woah. says:
I'm not sure if he was serious because when he sat down with us he said his break was only 30 minutes, so it's not very likely....
michaela. says:
so he IS an insurance guymichaela. says:
wait, you invited a strange person to sit down iwth you or did he just sit?
Woah. says:
No... I overheard something about either taxes or text something. Most likely taxes.
michaela. says:
ah ha
Woah. says:
We invited him.
michaela. says:
brb, i have to find my cat to make sure she hasn't run away

Game fixed

2005-07-26T20:14:00.000-04:00

My dad found the Game Doctor last weekend, so I finally fixed my game. It works perfectly now. :D I am happy.

This blog's first quiz.

2005-07-25T19:07:00.000-04:00

And it's not that humour one that everyone's done!

RIDDLE-EATER
Congratulations! You scored 83%!

Seer, Seer, Riddle-Eater, that's you. Damn good work! You're either living proof that Humanity can overcome the perplexities of life OR that I'm as clever as a carpenter's thumb. Either way, you should be out there writing your OWN tests --- the heck with mine. I'm honored you bothered to take the test. *bows*

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 92% on witpoints

Link: The Riddle Test written by Anarxus on OkCupid Free Online Dating

Woo! I did better than I thought I would.

Haha

2005-07-24T19:04:00.000-04:00

I find it funny that the moment I get comments don't post for a week and a half. I have a few excuses...

That's one more. I'm not lending any more games.

2005-07-15T21:33:00.000-04:00

Another game officially rejected by both playstations. This one's Spyro three. My cousins have never considered the wellbeing of our games. Not to mention the time time they broke out PS2 and got their dad to fix it. Also, we've lost our game doctor in a rearranging of bookshelves so I can't even attempt to clean up the destroyed games.
And Tyrone, I want my game back you deanic.

Northern Lights Festival

2005-07-10T22:37:00.000-04:00

I was actually able to get $25 before Saturday! The festival is all weekend, in fact it's probably just ending right now actually... But I could only afford last night, and that's all I really wanted to see. Other than Too Far North, but I didn't spend another ...lot of money to see them today. Especially in this heat.
So yesterday I headed over after Science North and looked for the Harings (Michaeala and Marla). They were the ones I was specifically looking for, and the last people I knew that I found.
I was with Sean since SN, then we saw Ray checking bracelets, Nursall was doing henna tattoos, Cheryl and Devon with their friend the condom fairy, Shailagh with Myths and Morrors, Sarah swimming with her mom, and finally we spotted Marla's fiddle case, which led us to Michaela as well as their mom.
The first band I actually sat down and watched was Mr Something Something. They were so awesome, even their soundcheck was good. They had a lot of energy and lot of skill. We had to leave halfway through the performance to meet Sarah and get good seats at the main stage for the rest of the performers. Sarah was hella late, but we got awesome seats. Third row centre, not bad considering how many seats we had to save and how many people were there.
Over at the main stage we heard the sound check (woo), then some guitar players. The first was named Peter something I think, who played Guitar, harmonika and Keyboard. I didn't find him that good, but probably just because of the style of music. The next musician was also a guitar player, named Joel something or other. He made far too many Sudbury jokes. Also, between, and even during every song almost, he mentioned the East coast, where he's from. We get it, you're from the East Coast, we're from Sudbury. There is a lot of nickel mining here. Although I was slightly amused when Sarah and Nursall finally showed up to the main stage he sang at that exact moment about friends 'going off to University, to Montreal and Toronto' Sarah's graduated and going Montreal, and Nursall's going to Toronto now. That was creepy. The two guitar guys mentioned then played together, nothing memorable.
The good players came next! Chakidor played, and they are super awesome. They're from Montral with a Guitar player, two fiddlers, a bass player and drummer. Very exciting music. Marla bought a CD, I couldn't afford one. Jorane came up next, with just her and her guitar player Simon. I was a little worried because I know she changes all of her songs each performance, I wasn't sure I would like it, but it turned out to be really really amazing. Really. Better than the Live CD, and better than her actual CDs. I want to buy Evapore now, but it's $17 for six tracks. I'll get it somehow.
The highlight that night was a four month (if I recall) pregnant Natalie McMaster. The woodwind player was awesome, but I guess I'm a little biased. The performance was really good, the players, her fiddling, her dancing. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. I actually looked back at how far teh crowds went, and at all the freeloaders watching from behind the fence on Paris street and though 'wow, we ever get nice seats eh'. Everyone cleared out after that.

Risk is a fun game.

2005-07-07T00:06:00.000-04:00

Risk is a fun game when played with the right people. As long as no one kills anyone out of game, and my dice aren't thrown besides rolling.

Another failure day

2005-07-06T00:51:00.000-04:00

Today I went out to eliminate half the I want list, which again failed.
Yesterday I left the house with $45, after two days I'm left with $15.
I got, two pairs of underwear, coke with lime, taco bell and a belt.
None of those things were on the I want list, and don't really logically add up to $30. But that's because I paid Kathleen back for some of the CDs she bought for me on IOU.
I really was going to buy all of those music books today with my gift certificates. You see I thought Jet Landry closed at six. Turns out, it closes at 5 30.
In any case, I no longer can afford the Northern Lgiths festival, so my plan is: Volunteer for one shift on a day that is lame, get in for free on awesome days.
Jorane is playing.

The mall was ore fun today than yesterday. I saw Courtny, Allison, Mr Matt, Tyrone, Phil, and Carl. Tyrone is the only one I expected I might see. He didn't have Spyro for me.

Tomorrow is another beach day, hopefully followed by Risk. Pretty last minute, but after three years people should know to go to the beach on Wednesdays.

Stupid Jet Landry.

I Have

2005-07-04T17:36:00.000-04:00

Suzuki Viola School Vol 1 (borrowed)
117 Meledious and Progressive Studies for Flute (borrowed)
Several new CDs
Several old CDs
Gift Certificates for Jett Landry Music
Ice cream sandwiches
Permission to go to Toronto for Video Games Live (subject to change)
A Gmail account that you should be using instead of hotmail. Stop sending to hotmail.
Posted in this blog twice in one day, I think for the first time.

I Want

2005-07-04T17:29:00.000-04:00

Suzuki Viola School Vol 3
Advanced Method Flute Vol 1
Selected Studies for Flute
117 Melodious and Progressive Studies for Flute
Myst IV Revelations soundtrack (as well as the other Myst soundtracks)
Kill Bill soundtrack
Tickets to the Northern Lights festival
Tickets to Video Games Live
Pants

Eh

2005-07-03T12:35:00.000-04:00

Canada Day didn't suck too much I guess. Wasn't the same though. *shrug*

Canada's really big

2005-06-30T00:36:00.000-04:00

And so is Canada day. Every year, Canada day is a reason to live. For as long as I've had good friends, I've had good Canada days. We spend the day at the beach with the rest of the population of Greater Sudbury, watch the concerts, fireworks, and people over Ramsey lake and walk to the Keaney's afterward laughing at everyone stuck in traffic.
This year however, I expected would be just as awesome. Sarah invited everyone we've ever met (not literally) to come camping with us just outside of Chelmsford. Me and Kathleen were pretty sure we were going, but last minute my parents said we couldn't go, becuase they "knew the area". Which of course meant it's where my dad used to get drunk and ride dirtbikes, so they believe there will be a bunch of French guys out there getting drunk and riding dirtbikes.
I don't know what I'm going to do on Canada day. I had a few other friends I could have spent it with, but I'm not extremely close to them, and they have to work that day. Luckily they work at Science North, which is where the fesivities go down, but I dunno. I don't think they want to stay around after they're done working. =/
I do have the Northern Lights festival to look forward to, because Jorane and Natalie McMaster are playing on the same night. :) Although tickets are obscenely priced.
I'm pretty annoyed right now. Not really annoyed, but.. so far no one I've talked to has had a really amazing summer. Marla is fighting with Michaela, Josh is pissed about work, Kathleen is just.. Kathleen. She quit her job. Sheryll was really ...robot-esque yesterday. Colleen is doing better, but still has nerve damage, and even Heather's on the edge lately. The only people that really seem happy are Nursall, Steeev, and Andrew.. that I can think of. It sucks that everyone's leaving on such an unspectacular note.
*sigh* I don't know what I'm going to do for Canada day.

School is out!

2005-06-29T02:19:00.000-04:00

I have a sunburn!

How does this happen to me?

2005-06-26T12:32:00.000-04:00

Every one of my exams is in Mr Weicha's room. Litterally, the hottest room in the school. Lately it's been in the thirties (Celcius) which is flipping hot up here. I already wrote one exam in there, and every window was open, and being not as on time as I could have been, I got a crappy seat by the window, resulting in papers flying.
I really don't undrstand why they're ALL in there, he's not even one of my teachers, and Weicha isn't supervising any exams, or relieving any.
But at least I'm out of school after tomorrow.

There Twice was a Fish Named Gary

2005-06-10T16:55:00.000-04:00

Miss Fahner read Gary to her English class apparently. They had to find some meaning to it.
It turns out Gary is insecure because of what the other fish though even though he was actually bald or something.

Why Josh and Heather?

2005-05-31T19:15:00.000-04:00

I had a dream last night that me, Josh and Heather were going to go see Lord of The Rings in theatres. We wanted to see the first show, which was at 4:57AM.
We all intended to go to school the next day on time, which seemed realistic in the dream, but seeing how long the movies are that's pretty impossible. We figured if we just didn't sleep we'd pull it off.
The entire dream was us talking and trying to stay awake untill the movie started. We were talking as if we were best friends or something too, even though I don't believe Josh and Heather have ever met.
When Kathleen woke me up that morning I remember thinking that I slept through Lord of the Rings. Then I looked at the clock and it took a while to understand what time it was, and that it was a dream.

shrug

2005-05-21T23:36:00.000-04:00

I don't mean to make one of those "No one reads this anyway I hate this blog" kind of posts.. but it's always such an effort to post. I'm not exactly quitting blogging, I'm just not going to make an effort to post often. I you called that often. I don't know if anyone does care about it, I'm not ging to assume no one does, or that anyone does. I do know that I don't care that much for this blog.

Stop throwing things in Gatchell.

2005-05-15T17:31:00.000-04:00

There are not nice people who don't like it. And gangs.
That was one crazy birthday party.
But I got $20. I can buy Star Wars tickets that I lost. ^_^
I also got five Batterys, a bag of Zingy Zaps, and a cute little man made of a film canister playing a tambourine. And Sarah made a pinata and got cake. ^_^ We love her. And her mom, who scares away gangs. :P

Greetings from Sudbury

2005-05-08T15:48:00.000-04:00

Not Chicago. This weekend hsa been boring if not bad. Everyone's in Chicago, except us poories and cripples, but we're going to have a poor man's band trip at Sassi's camp someday for anyone who couldn't go to Chicago.
The night before they left we had a party at Lex. Not the greatest party. It was pretty boring, and kindof stupid. Toma slept in another room for the whole thing, and Kathleen, Keenan and Cosh just left for a few hours.
Sadly, the highlight of this weekend was the part of it spent at Science North. Although it was the slowest day I've ever seen on fourth floor, but I guess that meant we didn't have to worry too much about the floor. Dan was there, who I never really talked to because he's one of the more imporant people, and because he's mostly in geology stuff on third floor, but apparently he's with us on our plans to "initiate" Mickey with a tazer. He suggested a cattle prod as well. >-) Also, they made a hovercraft. I knew it was trouble when I saw the leaf blower. It was actually pretty successful. *shrug* I realised at four that we're on summer hours now and we're open until 5, but I left anyway. My foot really hurt.
Yesterday after that, was evil. I hate the mall. Especially when it's closed and when it's a half hour walk there, and half hour back. So I didn't have a gift for Mother's day.
Today I went shopping again, but it was also crappy. I was sick because of the sun, so I bought a Vanilla Coke. Yeah yeah, it was the closest vending machine. I didn't buy anything for Colleen and Heathen, but I have an idea of what I'm getting them, but you can only get the CDs they want downtown. I did get mom a gift though, it was just a little late. ^^; Hey mother's day isn't over yet.
I think Kathleen's radio show is on..

It all went downhill from there, now it's kindof a straight line.

2005-05-03T21:35:00.000-04:00

I just erased half a pretty long blog entry, I can't really go on or pussyfoot around. I'm better with bluntness I guess.
So insteading of recounting the whole day, I'm going to just say equally unimportant points, but with much less rambling.
In classes, no one really called me on the homework I couldn't get done last night. So the day was already going better than I had anticipated. (which was very bad)
Lunch was pretty enjoyable, no uncomfortable moments, nothing to highlight, except the recounting of an earlier spat of Miss King vs Sarah Jazz and Sassi. Sassi has an appointment with the vice tomorrow about Miss King's actions. o_0
We were told at lunch that we need to clean up the back room. We all knew it needed to be cleaned, and often tried setting rules to keep it decent, today we made strict plans to remove any personal items.
Right before band Mr Van comes back and tells me and Heather (who were there early because we both have music last) that we will be the first to hear that the furniture will be gone on Friday. I quite liked the music room last year without the furniture, but these couches actually belonged to people. Are the staff going to throw them out? Keep them? As far as we know they have no plans to give them to the students who brought the couches in. And the furniture wasn't the only change, they painted the room, moved the instruments, it took them forever. It will either take them a summer again, or it will look incredibly tacky.
I hate to single out someone to blame this on, but I really think a lot of it was because of Ray. She's really been pissing people off lately. She doesn't sleep at home, so she skips class and sleeps in the music room. One of the reasons for taking the couches was because it seemed like a haven to skip classes, or to avoid teachers, and Ray is the only one I find abusing it. Teachers know she's skipping, we all know she does, Mr Van doesn't like it either. The last time I saw Sarah try to convince her to go to class, for her own benefit, Ray didn't lift her head, and flipped Sarah an upside down bird. A few days later we recorded for provincials Kiwanis and Ray didn't show up. She said she was deathly ill, and I believe her, but the reason she was so deathly ill was most likely because she stays up untill four in the morning every day.
After band was a band trip meeting, which I didn't attend, as I'm no longer going to Chicago, although I was in the back room eavesdropping with Heather and Colleen. One girls mother interrupted the meeting she had been listening to to tell the band that she was appauled at their lack of respect when Mr Van is trying to talk to us, and that if she were him, she would leave. This was a little uncalled for. If she knew the band, she would not say that we disrespected him at all, even Mr Van was glaring at her when she made this little speech. This isn't how the band works at all, and if Mr Van thought this way, or disrespected us enough to tell us he's appauled that we talk when he's in the room, THEN we wouldn't respect him. Hmm, kindof like Miss King huh.
The Chicago meeting was followed by a trip to the comics store, because we had been told that it was free comic book day today (and it wasn't an obvious prank, the day does exist) so I left my things in the music room while we went down. Sassi, Tilly and I went down to realise that today was apparently not international free comic book day. I went back to the school to find all five doors to the music room locked, and absolutely no one in the school. I have no homework, no backpack, no books, or CDs. This is the result.

Gary

2005-04-29T19:09:00.000-04:00

There once was a guppy named Gary,
Whom the other fish thought was hairy,
Which is funny, because he's a fish.
The end.

"All Star Stalker"

2005-04-18T18:29:00.000-04:00

And I wasn't the only one!

All star band is a three day event that happens once a year. During NOMF (mentioned in earlier posts) They pick out the best players of all the bands that play, and bring them to Sudbury for 3 days to be in a band together. I wasn't nminated because I'm in grade nine, but I took a billet (who apparently got almost to Amber (there is a p in her name but I don't remember where (brackets in brackets in brackets! =O)) level with Kyla. It took Amber three years to get on Amber level with Kyla!)and went to some rehearsals, because of the billet. The first night I found two more rejects to keep me company. These were the other stalkers. I was rejected for being too young, Tai was for being too old, and well, Lex is legally tone deaf.
I find it ironic that becuase of all the time I spent with the band I barely got to practice. Now that I do have time to practice though, it's been after pit band, and I guess I'm warmed up after that or something, but I've been playing really well in the lower register. Probably because pit band music isn't terribly high, but I'm playing really well overall. But now I'm shot, which is hard to do with flute.
The flute clinic man had a silver and gold open holed flute with a b foot joint and no adjustment screws. *sigh*. I don't need a flute like that though... I'd be happy with this: http://www.marshwoodwinds.com/ViewItem.asp?ItemID=613&Action=GetAllItems
It's also about $9000 cheaper... But for grade nine a closed hole c foot selmer is fine. Stupid lockerby, and their french model flutes for people who can't even play them. Gary Wu is horrible at flute! I thought I would let you know.
This post probably seems inconsistant because between writing it's been sitting in an open window for a few hours. I'm just happy because I was playing well earlier.

Why I am Bad at Creative Writing

2005-04-12T18:32:00.000-04:00

I feel bad because I go to Creative Writing every week and never have anything to contribute. Soon we are having a 'poetry competition' against St Charles, and I'm realising why I never contribute. I'm not creative. So why am I in creative writing? I like writing. So you can see why this confuses me.
How do I write if I'm not creative? In the past, I always wrote poetry for assignments or contests, where they would tell me a subject and give me a time limit, and I would write about that subject in the time given time. Even then, I always spent eighty percent of the time I had having no idea what I was going to write and wrote out something in the last twenty. Creative wrting, and this contest require creativity, and give you all the time you need (well, maybe not the contest), so I either never think of anything, or never get around to it.
As far as my grades are concerned, it's a good thing creative writing is a club and not a class, but for personal gain, it's not working as well. When all we do is bring in work we've done over the week and read it to the others, I don't get much done. In a class I think I would have been assigned things, and I wouldn't be allowed to procrastinate this much. In a class also, I would keep better track of things and not be compared to seniors who are extremely good at writing... creatively.
Earlier in the year, I tried to do something for the group without really doing much writing, so I volunteered to start up a messageboard where we could post our work, some writing games, and news or contest updates, but Miss Fahner is 'freaked out' by the idea of her work being on the Internet (cough http://www3.sympatico.ca/scrivener/youmust.html). Miss Fahner told one of the girls who was having trouble with diologue that a famous author she had met told her that he found an effective way to write, especially diologue, was to eavesdrop. So I feel like I'm mostly eavesdropping by still attending meetings. So really, I could be a great writer, know all of their tricks. Still not very creative.

That Pope was Awesome.

2005-04-04T22:19:00.000-04:00

I'm not even Catholic.

The Terri Schiavo thing was ridiculous though.

What's on the b side?

2005-04-02T00:26:00.000-05:00

Is it possible for a group to be overly individual?
I know it's hard to see an individual group.... but I think that because we are all so individual, and so non-mainstream that we don't even know what mainstream is anymore. It feels cut off in a way. It's gotten to the point in our friends that majority is minority. I could not name you one friend that is religious, or one that follows MuchMusic, or one that hasn't heard of Final Fantasy. Two of my friends even jokingly started the Straight Support Group for our straight friends. Probably a minority, or..close enough.
It's used to be that, I didn't care that people were talking about the latest celebrities or songs that everyone listened to, because it was my choice to listen to other music, or devote my attention to something else, but lately I don't even know what peole are talking about. I don't watch much TV anymore, or listen to popular radio, so I haven't heard of so many things people have conversations about. I didn't even know what Napolean Dynamite was untill someone explained that that's what everyone was quoting lately, but this was soon after it was released, now I am certainly in the loop about Napolean Dynamite. And I do not know what to say about it.
The title is from an episode of Boy On a Stick and Slither.
The boy on a stick suggests to the snake that everything has already happened, and that we're all "just needles on the record of time... in a groove going around and around"
The snake asks, "What's on the B side?"
That's my new philosophy. Although, I kindof feel like I'm on the b side right now.

Planes for the Future Update

2005-03-23T17:29:00.000-05:00

We did this ages ago, but I never thought to update it untill now. Me and Sassi have decided on the full names of our children, as well as the order of the last names. They are as follows:
Reginald Edward Norman Oswald Schofield-Murray (M)
Allis-Alistair Schofield-Murray (M)
Niklaryn Ian Schofield-Murray (M)
Veralidaine Maureen Schofield-Murray (F)
Evangeline Hypatia Discordia Schofield-Murray (F)
Luciano-Draconis Briar Schofield-Murray (M)
Abhoracelli Kirsteen Lilith Schofield-Murray (F)
And we don't know if Cymbaline will be male or female, so he/she has two possible names:
Cymbaline -Siobhan Sora Battle Schofield-Murray (F)
OR - Cyanide Kianite Schofield-Murray (M)

Their teachers will love us.

Random Place to Wear a Tie:

2005-03-22T19:01:00.000-05:00

Taco Bell.

I've missed you Internet.

2005-03-20T17:20:00.000-05:00

Yesterday I returned to the internet after weeks of crappy wireless/crappy grandparents' computer. Their computer litterally has the outline of Freecell cards burned into the screen.
I couldn't use the schools computers because of March Break, but they block almost everything but the realm and MSN (Well, they block MSN, but you can get around it), but nobody's ever on during school. >.>
Yesterday there was soposed to be a gathering at the Keaneys' and we were mybe going to Kiwanis Highlights, but while Colleen was skiing in the states, she broke her femur, cracked her tibia, and got nerve damage in her foot. Bloody pole. Me and Sean went to Colleen's after Science North anyway. Her sisters and Max were there too, but we spent the whole time in her room, for obvious reasons. She has a cut all the way up her leg that is stapled instead of stitched. It looks cool. I feel really bad for Colleen though, she can't even go to school. :(
I got much less hurt when I went skiing. Calibogie must be the flattest hill I've ever skied on. Although the second day was stupidly icy.
This March Break however involved considerably less partying than expected, but two or three is okay. heh. Although, I've noticed, different groups of friends have very very different gatherings. When I went with the er, St Charles students, we watched movies, cartoons, and Star Trek all night, with a few video games. With the old group of friends, we always stay up having discussions about... actually, important things I guess. The regular group of friends just looks for something more I guess. We don't spend nights around a TV, we'll go to the park, or the arcade, play board games before thinking about going to a movie. We tried to show the St Charles kids, but they don't like playing Risk. Bastards. I guess they're allowed to like reruns of Family Guy.

Taking a Leaf from Clyde's Book.

2005-03-09T22:43:00.000-05:00

Noticing weird connections to Reno. o_O
I have a friend that reminds me of Reno in so many ways. He's really musical, he's Irish (mostly) and is really into chemistry. Even the conversations we have on MSN resemble mine and Reno's, how we insult each other but don't mean it, then just say something random and meow. Very occasional serious conversations, but all enjoyable sure. Every time he mentions Chemistry or piano or something, I kindof laugh and call him Reno, but then he just kicks me or something.
During NOMF too, I heard someone call our percussionist Dave. This was really weird, everyone always calls him Davidy. When they called him Dave I just realised that he had the same name as Reno and it was really odd because I never noticed before. I'm thinking I should call Reno Davidy now, and Davidy Reno.... Evil.

Gold. grins

2005-03-04T20:42:00.000-05:00

I didn't expect less, but it's still awesome. Northern Ontario Music Festival (nomf) *hehehe* is over now. It ended awesomely. We saw Chippewa play, (okay) and Elliot Lake (AWFUL) random bands all over. The concert bands weren't the higlight, but AFTER the crapp people played, they ended with some really awesome local proffesionals. The Northern Ontario Brass Choir played, with Charlotte Leonoard, that guy who went to St. Charles a long time ago, Peter Sherzinger, this cool tall guy on trumpet, and a cool french horn guy, the only really well known ones are the ones I know the names of, and the director Robert(?) Finlay.
After that was BROCHE A FOIN! WOOOOOOOO. I mean, download some Broche A Foin. Lamps. They roxxor my soxxors. Excuse my net speak. They have a (insert exclaimation that is more awesome than awesome) name Phillip (May?). The double bassist is Dick Van Raadshooven, my music teacher. He's also really cool. The saxophone guy was fantastic and I fell bad for not knowing his name. He and Peter Sherzinger on trumpet compose most of their music, with the exception of one that was written by a friend of the drummer. Broche a foin is a french expression for haywire by the way.
They were followed by the awards presentations. We got gold, and an invitation to nationals, but we're not going. When they adjudicate for NOMF, they record you, they record what they are saying while you play, and they have a page to write everything you need to work on. I looked at the page, and at the top the word " Adjudication:" was erased. The page was completely blank, but in the middle of the lage it said: "see tape" and the bottem right corner said gold. *grins*
And Colleen got into All Star Band! Woo! So did a lot of my friends, but not Jazz, and I wasn't nominated because I wasn't in the grade 10, 11, or 12 class. Stupid age. *fist shaking*
On a sadder note (no pun intended), this is the last year many of my friends will be in MaryMount's band. These are the people who introduced me to music and beat me untill I liked it. ;_; Mr. Van is really going to be sad too. He said this was the first time in many many years he's had a B400 band. And also, next year... Colleen will be section leader. We're not going to talk about that.
If this post seems kindof retarded, it's because I'm feeling excited/depressed about other things that I've ranted enough about in this blog/ got home too early for a Friday night.......
Not like anyone reads it. I don't know how many times that's been said in how many blogs, but I really think it's just AJ. *waves*

Sept Onze

2005-02-28T19:16:00.000-05:00

This Friday I didn't go to DDR, and I'm very glad. If I haven't mentioned before, I hate noobs, and I hate Tori Rosrorkski.
But that isn't why I'm glad.
On Friday we had a 'rock show' type thing at the school to raise money for band. It was called seven11 and we had to all volunteer for it. I was doing tickets at the door with Colleen, Heather, and Seán mostly. When it slowed down we played Risk, but the game failed. They played the Numa Numa Dance. Hehehehe. Many a hilarity that night.
The nest day I volunteered at Science North. It was international Engineering week, so I spent two hours building a bridge out of K'NEX with Matieu. Sean came behind me and whispered that there would be liquid nitrogen ice cream downstairs in two minutes, so I got up. Mat asked me where I was going, and I could think of nothing else to do but throw a handful of K'NEX at him and run away. That was good ice cream. When I came back I was replaced, but I was able to sit on the bridge when it was between two chairs. :)
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes out April 29th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alan Rickman plays Marvin, the suicidal robot. That made me laugh. Excitement.

Timpanis of Secrecy

2005-02-24T18:44:00.000-05:00

Kiwanis Music Festival has been going on since Monday, and will untill Friday. A bunch of people in Sudbury go there and play with their concert band (cough), do solos, quartets, and mostly piano stuff. I think there's also public speaking.
On Tuesday our concert band played. We woned St. Charles College in every category. We got gold in everything, but who doesn't? I have honestly never seen anyone get lower than gold in Kiwanis. They're all freakin panseys.
Yesterday (wednesday) me, Colleen, and Toma went to St. Charles to watch some solo things in the morning. Stacy and Steve did a really good flute duet, Kenny and some other girl did a flute duet too, but they didn't do as well. Kenny was really dreading adjudication, but he got gold anyway (surprise surprise). Carl did a tuba solo. I don't hear many tuba solos..... He played okay, but it was an easy piece. CJ did really badly.... unfortunately, on his flugel solo. Everyone got gold though.
After this, I realised I hate St. Charles. With a flaming passion. During Kiwanis recess, we were kicked out of the hallway because we didn't have hall passes!?! We went into the caf and I sat on a table, which CJ told me I would get killed for. I sat down on the bench of the table, and they told me I wasn't allowed to have backpacks or jackets in the cafeteria. o_O Well fuck them I don't have a locker. When we left after lunch we were skipping toward the bus and all the smokers threw pop cans at us. heh. But the people I like were cool. It was nice to see them. ^_^
Today we had full band at the beginning of lunch, and the music room smelled really awful. Band went long and me and Sarah went for a walk outside after it was over. We talked about someone in the band, and about our own playing. When we went inside, we saw that the lights in the music hallway were off, and the timpanis were in the hallway, so we played around there. I know we're childish. ^_^ But we hid behind the timpanis.
"A perfect hiding spot." I said.
"Our secret lair!" She whispered loudly.
We were crouched behind the largest, and we heard someone come out of the music room, So we jokingly quieted down and listened in. But then we heard crying, and Mr. Van say 'Tell me what's wrong Brittany'. Me and Sarah panicked because we really didn't want to eavesdrop now, but we couldn't leave or she would see that we heard. Brittany started talking about how she can't play the Kiwanis piece, and she really won't. Mr Van started tapping his fingers on the timpani and Sarah shot a panicked look. He tried to reason with her, and turned on the light in the hallway. We still weren't seen. What seemed like a long time after, a janiter walked right by us, could not miss us, and didn't look twice. Finally she went into the music room, and me and Sarah ran down the hall to class.
Before fifth period Tilly came into the music room and told us that she didn't know what was wrong with Brittany, she was really high strung and went home. I couldn't really say anything but I suspected she was stressed about Kiwanis. I hope she feels okay soon. But I really can't believe we weren't found behind the timpanis.

WTFebuary?

2005-02-13T00:04:00.000-05:00

From the begining of Febuary I have been thinking that. This winter just doesn't know what the hell is going on.
There is something wrong, if on Febuary first, in Northern Ontario, you see someone in huge winter boots and boxors. It is a problem when you spend the first week of Febuary skiing in t-shirts and still be warm. We have plans to go skiing on March Break.... if there is snow.
I hate spring. Passionately. It's happening too soon and must be stopped. The snowbanks are black right now, or water, and everything that the snow covered up get uncovered and gross, and smelly.
Some say that Spring leads to summer, so it isn't bad, but I don't particularly like summer. It's easy in winter to just go South for a while, but how easy is it to go North enough in Summer? Not as easy as sitting in a basement where there are more windows open on my computer than anywhere else.
This winter lasted a weekend. One weekend of -48 weather, then back to -10. I don't like it. Now it's been in the positives. In FEBUARY!
Oh, and in Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Spring is the worst movement.

Not me too!!

2005-01-31T20:13:00.000-05:00

I had the strangest dream... involving realmanites. o_O I'm scared.
We were in a narrow room in a large building, where a nun told us to rise and sing the national anthem. I started singing O Canada in French, but everyone was singing a different anthem in some other language. The realmanits all looked mad at me and asked where I was from. We left the room and the others waited for me on some stairs to an exit. It turned out that we were all related and it was some sort of reunion, the only one who wasn't related was Mum. I asked him why then he was there, he said "I'm a friend of Mr. Wieler's." And Mr. Wieler was nowhere near there. o_O
I didn't go to the stairs immediately because there happened to be an EB Games store accross the hall. =P Earlier that day before I went to sleep my friend Tyrone had a bag of games he bought at EB to the arcade, and that bag was in the back of the store in my dream. Someone tried to buy something from it and I fought them for it saying that it was Tyrone's.
I told the person at the cash to give it to Tyrone and not to sell it, and headed toward the stairs. Then I woke up, or had another dream or something... Friend of Mr. Wieler's? o_O

Old Friends.

2005-01-29T23:42:00.000-05:00

A week ago we went to the bowling alley with all of our friends from 2002. We really don't like DDR anymore. There are so many noobs, you don't know anyone anymore. It really isn't fun. We decided to make it exclusive, but it didn't work very well. We specifically said no uninvited significant others, but Jesse brought his girlfriend. Dave also showed up, which was creepy. He 'found out' about it, and decided to show up. o_O
It was fun. Me, Kathleen, the Keenan, Pat, Jesse, Sarah, Sassi, Jazz, Sam, Cody and Terrence were there, invited. Sassi and I were too broke to bowl, but we had fun anyway. Later we played pool and ate. Good times... had by all. Minus the Kayla and Daveness.
I also had quite a long conversation with Josh today, which is rare during exams. He was on his 30 minute to twelve hour break from studying. Wow, and now we have more old friends plans. I've just invited some old Science North friends to a game a Risk. :)
I really like how my computer is working this evening. It wasn't this morning, but it's been fun tonight. I have a befifit concert for the tsunami tomorrow, I'll get to see some newer friends.

Boo!

2005-01-15T21:38:00.000-05:00

The new version of Trillian has caused me nothing but trouble! Just after that week with no MSN, I stopped going on the computer so if anything went wrong my dad would have no one to blame, but I just started going on again, and this is the second day since I've come back, and as I sat down he told me "Oh yeah, I got rid of MSN, Outlook Express wasn't working so I assume MSN is doing that." RAGE
On a lighter note, I only have two exams! =D French and English. I assume they'll be pretty easy, French is just retarted because she'll keep doing something untill everyone in the class has the right answer, especially on tests, so I don't think the exam will be really difficult. With English, I can write exams, and I think I heard her say there was going to be two, and also she said she noticed our class sucked at grammar, so hopefully that's on the exam so I'll do well on it.
In my other classes I have a playing test (strings) Which I'm pretty confident about, although Micheala's going to do the best, meh. I'll do second best. XP
I've already handed in half of my final prject for hys Ed, now I have to do case studies and crap about dieting. I actually recognized some stuff right out of my elementary Health notes.
I still think Religion is the stupidest class. I want to take world religions, that actualy teaches you about religion, it's not as...stupid as this class. Not that religion is stupid neccisarily, but.... well, in our case studies we have a "book of faith" ... let me explain:
Page one: Book of Faith title page
Page two: Draw a picture of God
Page three: Name, address, birthday, closest church to your home, godparents, sacrements received, greatest accomplishments to date, most difficult moment to date (write in code if you wish o_O), greatest hope for the future. Describe your earliest memories of faith. Illustrate properly.

Page 4: Draw your sanctuary, the place where you feel most connected to God and to your spirit; the place where you feel the safest.

etc... there are seven pages.

My friend even asked her about it, something like why she needed to know our address, and she answered "Oh I don't know, I got this from a portfolio". There's also a test in religion. ....on Monday..... hmmm....

Enough about exams. We had a snow day! =D Not really, but buses were cancelled. But to answer the question in Al's blog "Where is the summer?" It's here. Or, was here. I rained for two days then froze overnight. I slept over at Colleen's the night before because I couldn't get home from NSA, and we walked to the bus stop near (if you can call it that) her house. On the way there was a coffee cup that had fallen on the ground next to a large blood stain. @_@ Then the bus never came, so we had to call a cab. What fun. T_T We played Scotland Yard at Andrew's, then I got a ride home.

In conclusion, I like pie. What I'm really trying to say is, I suck at concluding things. ...Maybe I won't do so well on that English exam....

I should probably be doing homework....

2004-12-31T11:52:00.000-05:00

Eh, it's only worth 20% of my mark.
Yesterday I bought the Jorane live CD. It's very good. I couldn't find it for the longest time, I didn't know the music store had a seperate French section...... ^^;
This holiday has been odd. There were three major fires on Christmas eve, my uncle was fighting the largest, which was incidentally the closest to our house. I'm nearly done FFVII... I have that much free time this holiday, I just can't bring myself to do homework.
J'aime ma nouvelle CD. ...Zere can be only one french fry.

edit- Why is the French word for CD 'CD', but the French word for compact disc is disc compacte? o_O

Send me RAM!

2004-12-29T22:54:00.000-05:00

My sister installed a new version of Trillian, but my computer can't handle it. She can't find the old one anywhere, and downloaded MSN for a night, but we can't get AIM because it has too much spyware. Lamps.
If any people in Sudbury are reading this, (and you know me), New Year's is at Steve's.
I haven't started my holiday homework. For Christmas I got The Salmon of Doubt and Risk.
Trillian is a jerk. That's all.

I'm posting!

2004-12-21T16:25:00.000-05:00

I was going to write alot, but I'm lazy. Long story short, Sudbury has crappy drum circles, my dad moved the computer to a stupid place, and I'm on holidays and left my viola at school. Also, I have been informed that Dave is an ass. o_O

Ou est le Pamplemousse?

2004-12-06T19:01:00.000-05:00

My computer hates you all. Trillian isn't opening at all for me, (but it does for my sister for some strange suspicious reason <.<), and I tried going to the realm and that didn't work either.
Trillian will load, but before it can connect to anything it 'performs and illegal operation'.
I only tried the realm once, so there's still hope, but I waited a long time then got 404'd. Ow, my browser.
I didn't think my blog would load either, but it obviously did. I don't knnow how to fix Trillian though, which has been like this for two days. :(

These films are twisted!

2004-11-26T23:24:00.000-05:00

I borrowed the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD from Colleen today. I didn't watch the movie itself, as I've seen it a few times, but I watched all the special stuff on the DVD. All of the 'making of' stuff was interesting, but the one (or two) reason(s) I would tell anyone to get the DVD is for the section of 'Tim Burton's early films". They are twisted. I'm scared of Tim Burton. There's only two: Vincent, and Frankenweenie.
Vincent is a short animated story, about a seven year old who idolizes Vincent Price. The whole thing is narrated by Vincent Price too. It was Nightmare Before Christmas-ish, as expected. I can't say too much about it because it's so short... but I enjoyed it. It's a parody of The Rayven, only more strange. o.0
The next one, 'Frankenweenie' *snicker* was quite a bit longer, although I had my eyebrow raised the entire time. It's about a kid who tried to bring his dog back to life like Frankenstein. The whole town is scared of the dog and hate the family. It's completely ridiculous and lame. I like it. This one wasn't animated this time, but still in black and white.

Not today Jesus!

2004-11-22T19:55:00.000-05:00

I thought I lost my Playstation today ;_; I turned it on when I got home so that I could play FFVII before Kathleen felt the need to play for four hours, but it was making a weird scratching noise. I opened it and took the disk out. Under the disc was a small piece of the part in the thing in the middle that makes it turn (I don't really know the technical terms for it okay <.<). I took it out and tried again because pieces have fallen off that in the past and it still worked, it wasn't the right part because it broke in the past and they wouldn't send us the part and we had to use one from an old Sony CD player. It wasn't reading. I went downstairs and told my dad, because he fixed it the first time it happened a couple years ago, but he didn't see the use since we hve a PS2, he told me to just stop playing the old one. I went upstairs and tried it again and it worked. o_O It lagged a hell of a lot, but it still works. Yay!

It's Magic

2004-11-14T13:23:00.000-05:00

I moved from second floor at Science North to the exhibit hall. :) The hall right now is a magic sortof thing, where it shows you how some tricks work using science and tells you about old magicians. It's cool. I don't know any card tricks though. The tables at the back have three decks of cards and some paper cups, so I learned a trick with the paper cups so I'm not a total dissapointment when people ask for a trick. I like it a lot more than second floor. The staff isn't as lame. One of them is also in NSA (community band). I haven't seen him there though, but he does tricks at band. Magic is more fun than cleaning the children's area. I am happy with it so far.

Did I mention Ms. King is a nazi?

2004-11-09T22:32:00.000-05:00

Today me and Kathleen were in the music room at the beginning of lunch and Ms. King came in and yelled at us and told us to go to the caf.
"Didn't you hear the announcements this morning?! No eating in ANY classrooms! You must eat in the cafeteria!"
My sister told her that this is where we also spent lunchtime, and that we weren't even eating, and didn't plan to while still in the classroom. M. King 'didn't like her tone'. Kathleen said that's how she normally spoke, and then Ms. King threatened to bring us to Mr. Del Riccio. I would have been fine with that because I know he would have agreed with us because we weren't doing anything wrong. When my friends came in they had similar stories about encountering Ms King in the halls just coming toward the music room. They all told her they just wouldn't eat. She came into the music room halfway through lunch, I supose expecting to find us eating, and send us all to the office or something, but we really didn't eat anything. Me and Sass saw her, it made me smile inside. She didn't look it, but she was so embarrassed. :)

Plans for the future

2004-11-02T20:26:00.000-05:00

While Caitlin was talking to Mr. Weiler on Friday, Sassi and I planned most of our future. Amazing how much time we have on our hands.
For college, Colleen, Ian and I are going to Montreal. Me and Colleen will go to McGill and major in music, and Ian will be our translater. We're going to live somewhere together while we're in University. Sassi and Kathleen are going to Laurention and live together. Laurention is right here in Sudbury.
After living with my sister for four years, Sassi plans on marrying me when I'm 24. We're going to get married in Ireland and live in either Ireland or Scotland. We are going to wear dark brown cloaks over our wedding dresses, and have nine children. The first of course will be an adopted Irish boy, named Sir Reginald Edward Norman Oswald tthe second. ^_~ She had names for the rest, but I don't remember them.
Sassi also wants a pony, but I hate horses and ponies and everything of the sort. We agreed on a goat. we want an aquarium wall as well, but with cool fish in it. I'll probably name the fish because she's naming most of the kids.
Don't ask me how we're going to get the money, with me being a musician and her a librarian. Well, there's only so much you can plan before Caitlin's done talking to Mr. Weiler. It will happen dammit!

Rumours -- Pranks

2004-10-30T02:30:00.000-04:00

Rumours
The current biggest rumour in the school might result in Mr. Weiler quitting I've heard. Apparently, he teases the girls in his class with nicknames and things, I don't know exactly what he does because I'm not in his class, but one student complained to the school. Mr Weiler got in trouble apparently was crying in his grade nine science class. I don't know exactly what happened, but his science class is period 2, and I found out about this on the way to period four, my french class, where Sabrina was crying, and people were threatening to beat her up for making him quit. I heard later from the grade twelves though that it wasn't really Sabrina who called the school, it was some more popular giril who blamed it on some ninth grader...Sabrina. It's realy confusing. Girls fail at life.
The other, much less popular rumour, if you can call it that happened to my sister and friends. Ray and Kathleen have whiteboards on the outside of their lockers, on which they usually write little messages, and (although they've gotten used to it) the other seniors erase some letters to make it into a different sentence. Recently though, they came to their lockers and in permanent marker on the whiteboard it said "DYKE ASS FREAKS". They told the vice principal about the whiteboards and who they thought it was, simply because they owed them new whiteboards. He managed to get the permanent stuff off, so they aren't so worried about it. They know who did it, but they can't get her in trouble unless a teacher sees her with the marker. And on a lighter note,
Pranks
Me and Colleen are so badass. ...Not really, our pranks are really lame. Not annoying Hallowe'en pranks even. See what I love about staying after school for the Christmas walk is well.. running around the school after hours. :) On thursday night, we rearranged HAPPY HALLOWEEN to HAPPO HELLANEWY, which actaually has a bit of a long story behind it, but I won't get into it. When we rearranged the letters though, we took the stapler from Ms Yawnee's room, while we were talking to her, and ran back to the music room. She didn't notice. We waited a while so it woulsn't be suspicious, then went back later and rearranged the letters, making quite a bit of noise just outside her open door as well. We looked into Ms Yawnee's classroom, and saw that she wasn't at her desk, so we went in to return the stapler. Apparently she was at the computer in the other end of hte room, and she asked us what we had been doing out there. o_o I let out a big UMMMMM and then told her we were setting up for the Christmas walk, then we ran. I don't even know if she noticed still, but she has an ok sense of humour, she wouldn't mind.
Another sortof not really prank thing, Colleen stole Ms Levec's TV from her classroom a while ago and brought it to the music room, and we decided we should bring it back, but her door was locked. We decided to put a note on her door that told her that we'd give back her TV if she kept the door unlocked after school while we were volunteering for the Christmas walk, but then some joke was made about a ransom note, and well... there was a newspaper lying on the coffee table...... So we cut out all the different letters and made a sign that said "If you ever want to see your TV again, leave your door unlocked after school" And she actually did, I brought it back tonight.
This was a longish post........I'm too tired to look over it, so if it doesn't make any sense to you then.......... You have no friends.

I wanted to be in advanced English, really I did.

2004-10-21T18:30:00.000-04:00

The class isn't too easy, but the people are dumb. I got interims yesterday, and I got good in everything, end then...average in English? I thought it was my best subject.
The problem with that class is groupwork. We've had two classes with assigned groups, and both were horrible experiences.
The first one, my group was to summarize each scene in act two of The Merchant of Venice. When I got with my group, they asked me if I read the play, which I did. Apparently I was almost the only one. -_- They basically told me to do all the work since I'd read it. I started to do it, then I pointed out that there was already a summary of each scene before it in the book, so they didn't need me anymore and didn't pay attention to me.
Today was worse. We had two days to read about a ten page short story, and some people didn't finish it. How does that even work? This time, insteading of making me do it, they tried to wing it. They got the jist of the story I guess from what they read, but their problem was that they sucked at English. I tried to tell them over and over that their opening sentence didn't apply to what we were doing and wouldn't even make sense over and over, but they didn't listen to me or my friend's suggestions. Me and my friend got frustrated and went to sit by the window to complain about them. They yelled at us for not participating. Jessica Digby yelled at us for not particpating. Not even that, she asked me if I was taking part, and so I asked her if she'd read the story. She hesitated and said yes. That's odd, considering she said at the beginning of the class that she hadn't read it (and I hadn't seen her touch the textbook since she said it) and also that was the worst lie I've seen since visiting my cousins. Me and my friend went back to the window, and went back later to see what they'd done. After they asked for my input, I told them the part about their opening sentence again, and the girl who was writing said "Uh huh whatever." She gave me the paper so I erased to sentence and corrected it, and they still asked me why I was doing that. Class was then dismissed.
I wanted to be in advanced English, really I did. I actually tried to get higher in 80 last year so I could get into that class. When I got a schedule change, they asked me if I minded taking just the academic class because it conflicted, and I said yes because I liked the teacher and I would also be getting a better French teacher. Then Mr. Michaud left the school without telling us, so I have the crappy French teacher from before and I'm stuck in academic. I would switch to Ms Fahner's class next symester, but then I'd have to do all this Merchant of Venice crap again. And I'd probably need a better excuse for a schedule change two months in.

Uniform Nazis

2004-10-14T21:55:00.000-04:00

Today was one of those off days where we have strings at the same time as Ms King has a music class, so I walked through the music room to get my viola from the violin room, and then go to the library for class. I pushed my sleeve up a bit so I could pick up the case when I got there without having my sleeve in the way. I was stopped in the middle of the room by someone pulling on my shirt tails. I turned around and saw Ms King, who yanked at them again and said "What is this?" I just said "Oh.." And tucked them into my vest. I guess that wasn't good enough. I thought I was done with her and turned back toward the violin room (so close yet so far...) She turned me around again and said, even louder this time "Not OH, teachers are sick of this!" And she tucked in the little bit that missed. She also told me to roll down my CUFFS. she actually made an announcement to her class that "If they are going to roll their cuffs, buy ashort sleeved blouse!" I mean, I knew they had a board meeting that told them to more strictly enforce the uniform, but my SLEEVE was pushed up! I thought I was in perfect uniform compared to yesterday. I wore my gym uniform pants ith a Wal-Mart blouse and red blazer, as oposed to the McCarthy's pants, with a McCarthy's blouse and navy blue MaryMount sweater. Lucky I didn't cross her path that day. @_@

Four Hours.

2004-10-11T16:08:00.000-04:00

I notice weird things when I'm sitting in a car for four hours...
I noticed when we were driving through different towns hey would have signs that say "Tim Hortins! Fifteen minutes ahead on the left!" The reason I found this odd is because in Sudbury, you're ALWAYS within five minutes of a Tim Hortons (Canadian coffee/donut shop thing..).
Another thing I noticed just outside town, there's a water treatment place, and on the sign it said "Wanipitei Water Treatment", but on the sign coming into 'Wanipitei' it says "Welcome to Whanapitea". I'm pretty sure that one is right, but I dunno. Damn Aboriginal names.
Driving around that much makes you listen to a lot of different radio stations too. It seems every other town's radio stations are named after animals, "Fox 102", "98.5 the bear" etc.. but in Sudbury they're all anmed after letters, "Q92", "Z103" I guess they couldn't find any cool animals with names that start with Q of Z.
Anyway, after we finally got to Douglas, we had thanksgiving dinner....two days early, and then played playstation with my cousins all day (who by the way hate Final Fantasy). The next day my mom woke me and my sister up to tell us that she and Dad were going for a drive and would be back in an hour. After almost three hours, she returned and told us she didn't want to go to Stittsville anymore, after she told us both we could go to the market there. She didn't want to go because dad got lost on their drive and they took a bad road that made her carsick and stuff. My sister volunteered to drive, but my grandmother wouln't get in a car that Kathleen was driving, but my mom was eventually convinced. That was another hour and a half drive. We drove through Arnprior though. :) Reminded me of band trip. =P
Once in Stittsville we looked around, saw some nice scarves but they were upward of 12 dollars each. Saw three glowing Jesus plates and one with Mary on it. It seemed all the hottest things in Japan (even socks) were way overpriced, but we bought shirts from an indian booth and the shopkeep haggled for us. o_o When we got home, played more playstation, and our cousins left, and took their playstation with them. meh. That night the Final Fantasy movie was on TV, the ending sucked.
Today we went home. Another four hours driving, and I've been on the computer since we got back. And I seem to have made a longish post without it sucking.

A longish post...for once.

2004-10-05T20:24:00.000-04:00

I hate making long posts, but I haven't in a while soo... blah.
Game Experts (more like SHAME experts!) has no friends. I walked over half an hour with two of my friends, only to find out that I don't have a renting account, and I can't get one because I don't have a drivers liscense and credit card. My friend Jesse had his liscense, but doesn't have a credit card so we went home empty-handed. :( Do they really think the kind of people renting games willbe over sixteen and have a credit card?!
Actually that was a while ago, but it's been a while since I posted so meh. This Saturday, me, my sister and our friend Sassi went to see Triplets of Belleville at the new cinema because the movies were free. On our way out, Sassi was dressed like..erm..how she always dresses, and my sister had her arm around her, and this kid goes bye and says "hookers 'r' us!". My sister was like "where?!" and he pointed to us. Kathleen later went on a rant about how much she looked like a hooker in her baggy jeans and blouse and vest etc... and pointed out that this girl outside the doors (who was really dressed kindof skanky) looked like a nun she was so modest...blahblahblah. When the girl from outside walked in Kathleen said, quite loudly, "omg nuns 'r' us!". Heh, and also my sister accidentally threw a pool ball accross the food court right by a security guard.
What else... oh, I need an idea for a fifty-thousand word novel. nanowrimo.com has details, but it's basically.... you have the entirety of November to write a novel with 50 000 words. About anything. Maybe I could write a book about the realm. ^^ Maybe not... *shrugs*
Speaking of the realm, I just realised today that once-off poster Super_Dude is my friends Seán. lol, AJ you said you hated him because hesaid you didn't research your weed. =P He said he forgot the URL so I gave it to him but he got disconnected. Crazy
See I hate writing long posts because I could have just said "Game experts has no friends. Went to the movies and got called a prostitute. I need an idea for a 50 000 word novel." But I figure you can have more than three sentences to read for once. Even though they suck. Meh.

I may/ may not be ripping off Reno's post...

2004-09-27T21:45:00.000-04:00

I may/may not be pissed off at/ happy for a certain/ uncertain female/ male who may/ may not think she's better than me/ feels sorry for his or herself because he/ she is older than/ younger than me. I hope he or she doesn't/ does read this blog/ .... [opposite of blog]

Now that that may or may not be off my chest, enjoy my first almost serious post in a while. Ü If you can't guess who it is, you likely don't know them.

www.potterpuppetpals.com

2004-09-25T11:59:00.000-04:00

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YES YES YES WE DO, WE GOT SPIRIT HOW 'BOUT YOU

2004-09-16T16:50:00.000-04:00

Spirit week! Yay!

...I just start making longer posts.

My head hurts.

2004-09-13T16:10:00.000-04:00

I had to go home from school at lunch today, because I almost fainted in strings. Don't know why.

Ah the thrills of Catholic school

2004-09-10T22:25:00.000-04:00

Who doesn't love the smell of burning kilt?
Since my last post, I started school, which meant fixing my uniform.. and finding it.
I'm not going to go through the reasons, but so far I've ironed my kilt, ripped out the hem, sewn up the original hem in the wrong colour, and ironed it again. I was still in improper uniform the first day of school because I seem to have lost my sweater, and my vest, and my zipped polo, and my golf shirt. *nervous laughter* Well, no one noticed really... except my computers teacher, but I dropped that class since then. Dropping that class was the best thing to happen to me all year. Now I get to take strings, and Michaud is my French and English teacher, and I don't have any classes with Mr. Santoro. So I'm happy. I didn't really need to know who invented the loom anyway.
English class would be fun if it wasn't full of grade nine girls. Today they made the teacher move back the due date to read The Merchant of Venice, because apparently, 11 days isn't quite long enough to read a play that is meant to be completely acted out in an evening. We're suposed to eventually represent the play using some form of media, and I was thinking I could do a flash game or something, but I don't know how, and I don't have flash, and Kathleen's computer is broken.
I haven't practiced flute in a whiiiile... but that better not get out. Since taking strings though, I've started learning to play the viola. The only really hard part I think will be learning to read alto clef.
On an unrelated topic, I'm almost done my Hollowe'en costume! So far we're going to have someone be Rikku (me^^), Yuna (my sister), Tidus (my friend Ian), Cloud (sister's boyfriend, the Keenan), generic black mage (friend Cody), Squall (friend Tyrone) and maybe some more soon. I'll try to get pictures.

75% Irish, 25% blonde.

2004-08-31T20:27:00.000-04:00

I bleached the ends of my hair last night, I don't think any of you care since you never see me, but I thought I'd mention it.
I went to Douglas recently, to visit my grandparents. Wasn't as boring as I thought It'd be. I found some cool goggles for my Hallowe'en costume for $1. I also read my family tree, which took a long time, but turns out, no one interesting. A couple people who came here from Antrim Ireland, and had a bunch of kids.
School starts next week. First symester sucks for me. Ah well.

Mrgnao?

2004-08-19T17:18:00.000-04:00

Okay I've been told to post more often, so prepare for boring entries! =D
I guess I'll talk about this summer.. It's basically been a two month party. Today is the first time in a while I haven't been with my friends, but I was soposed to be. Yesterday we watched some episodes from season six of Buffy, since Tai got the DVDs for his birthday. Fun stuff. Also, thankfully, the Keaneys' camp is at the end of the lake that isn't full of sewage, so we went for a boat ride.
I don't think I could even tell you about every time I went somewhere this week. I don't even know what day it is half the time, ah well. A while ago, we went to Sam's place, and played video games and stuff. I made a cool thing with K'nex. We went to Sarah's another time, and went to the park at umm.. I don't even know what time, but it was probably 1 AMish, and also hooked up a gamecube to her ancient TV, which worked, but it was really hard to see. Another day we went to the Keaneys' house and basically argued ..well, debated untill dawn. And once more, not long ago, everyone came here, and we played video games, and watched an anime thing. Um, that plus weekly DDR and beach meetings. Crazy summer.

There Clyde, not interesting, but something to read I guess. It also reminded me never again to play Donkey Kong at 3AM. o.o

Not-so-beautiful Music

2004-08-10T23:45:00.000-04:00

Arg, I'm terribly out of practice. Today I had trouble hitting a high A. =/ It was a lot easier to practice last year, I had more time, and also some sheetmusic that I hadn't played a million times over. I can't make myself play if I know I'll be sitting there doing arpeggios and inversions for an hour, it's no fun. On the bright side, when I get back to school, I'll have high school music classes, and also in band we're playing Lord of the Rings. ^_^ I really hope we get to go on band trip again this year, it would be the last one with the people who taught me everything, although Mr. Van doesn't think it's a good idea to go two years in a row.
I might be a little less impressed with the high school music classes once I start taking them, but ANYTHING is better than my past two years in music. One year of about 50 different versions of mary had a little lamb with Mrs. Cummins, followed by a year of Ms. King sitting back and letting us teach grade sevens.
*crosses fingers for next year*

Summer. It's.. a season.

2004-07-22T11:53:00.000-04:00

I can't concentrate on anything lately. I don't know why, but I have to force myself to do everything. Probably why it's been so long since my last post. Actually, that's mostly because my computer is an asshat.
Umm.. Right, a not so lame post this time.
Yesterday we went to the beach, but we never got around to building our giant sand Pac-Man maze. It was fun nonetheless. The summercamps started, and invaded our usual spot on the beach. It wasn't quite as fun as scaring away all the kids by singing 'Trogdor' at the top of our lungs like last year, but we managed to bug them anyway. Just when we were making fun of how they treat the kids, one of the counselers said "When I call your number come here and line up. Number 1.." and that just made us laugh, why not just give them barcodes?
Later on we went to the playground and played grounder. Why is it so much more fun than it was when I was 9? Although it is sortof difficult to play with your eyes closed when there are children running around the park.
Also this week I went to whitewolf. It was confusing when I was there, seeing how I haden't read any of the books, now it makes more sense. I want to set myself on fire.
I should practice flute now so Sarah doesn't kill me.

moan

2004-07-10T00:47:00.000-04:00

*sigh*
Tomorrow, (today rather...it's kinda late) I'm going to Science North again, which isn't so bad, unless you're accompanied by 3 younger cousins. *sigh* Of course, after waking up early, and going out to Long Lake to visit said releatives, plus a few more. THEN I go to SN,(I reeeeally hope Heather can make it.Save me Heather!) Ummm. I definately won't be pinning pupae this week, that was last week, and a lot less hilairious. I now hate butterflies with a fiery passion that consumes my soul. The shipment was late or something, and there was a lot of pre-emerged pupae, which is messy and smelly, and evil. I came in for the second half of the process, and I imagine the first was worse, considering all the ..*hem* fluids from the unsuccessful pre-emergees. Also, the more experienced girl took a fifteen minute break, and during this time, 4 butterflies emerged, which I didn't know what to do with, and were very.......disobidiant. Anyway, after tomorrows visit, I get to go back to the rest of the relatives, and stay there till the next day. Harrah.
...Also my feet hurt.

...Sorry this was kind of a gloomy entry, I'll get over it.

Canada's Really Big. ---Happy birthdays

2004-06-30T10:59:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday Kathleen, happy Birthday Canada. Sorry I ate your leprachaun. And happy birthday Spiderman 2. See you tonight.
And Kathleen, if you're reading this, I have one thing to say to you. This ain't ovah. >.>

^_~

I should rename this place "I like caterpillars"

2004-06-25T20:21:00.000-04:00

So much for posting everyday. I actually did type up a big long post, which involved a little more XDing at caterpillars, and then I go upstairs for half an hour of so, and back down to the computer, which is now shutting down. Thanks dad. >.>
Anywho, lets get back to today. Today I went to DDR, and for once, I really pwned Max. Ha. Good ol Superstar, gotta love those rolls eh. Holic, not so much, it used to be my song, and today when I played it Max beat me up a bit. :( Damn you and your having it at home! I'm going to find out exactly what songs you have at home and pick all songs that you can't do at home! Whore.
I can't really think of anything else of today, except maybe a visit to the park where there was a planning (wishful thinking) of Sudbury's first anime con.
Well I guess I'll catch up on those days I didn't post then.
I guess it all starts with that party I almost posted about......I met a bunch of my sister's school friends, along with some people who were already my friends. I would try to befriend these people, but Kathleen would again accuse me of "stealing her friends." ...
On to the caterpillar part. ^_^ Well it is catterpillar season after all. Anywho, At said party, some veggies and dip were served, and we later found the cucumbers were...bad. So we found this caterpillar and...we dipped a bunch of the cucumbers in lots of dip and made the caterpillar a nice fort. ^-^ Well, he pretty much drowned in the dip, but I'm sure he died happy. ^_~
Then later that night at the fire, Steve threw a caterpillar into the fire, which was mildly amusing, but then the caterpillar came out of the fire, all singed, and....wigly. So Steve reached to throw it back in, but we stopped him, he deserves to live after that, I mean come on! He has to go back and tell all his caterpillar buddies about his adventure! He would be a hero! But then, he starts heading back toward the fire. *-.- That's when we decided maybe it didn't really deserve to live all that much, but we figured he was blinded a bit... so we let him live. Of course at this time we were all watching it admirally, when my dad comes over to drop a bit more wood in the fire, and steps on him in the process. It's not how he was meant to die dammit!!!;_;
Heh, ya, caterpillars are funny. So after this, I went downstairs and posted ALL about it, well, not all, but I could touch it up when I come back downstairs... And blahblah, I already explained. And then when I tried to go back on he told me I'd had enough internet for the day. So then I stayed up untill 2 AM playing FFVII ^_^
On another note, Kitty moved a bunch of songs from her laptop to this computer, so I now have some awexome techno! ...And some other stuff too.....
Oh ya, I guess I could also mention my sister went to Victoria today, and won't be back for 3 weeks maybe. She's gonna miss Canada day partying! ^_^ On her birthday. *shakes head*
Well, there's my life (or lack there of) this week. Are you enjoy?

MangomangomangomangomangomangoMmmmmm.

2004-06-18T23:30:00.000-04:00

Welp, absolutely nothing of interest has happened between now and then, except Kitty bought me some MANGO FLAVOURED JUICE CRYSTALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And also, I had a bottle of pepsi. That's MY excuse for this post, where's YOURS?! Yep, you should probably never speak of this post again, I did this purely out of boredom (I got bored of the springy monkey... I think he left....bastard.>.>)
Wallawalla bingbang!

Happy Everything!

2004-06-16T17:44:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday The Realm!!!!!!!!
Not much else to say on the subject really... I guess it has the same b-day as Kristin. :-) Happy birthday to the both of you.
Happy last day of schhol for secondary people!!!!!!!!
I'm gonna miss grade 12s so much!!!!;_; Caitlyn :( Cheryl :( Sam:( ..I got a couple hugs from Serena too... :(
Now I want the my other friends fail next year so they don't graduate! Ray's already decided that's NOT the best strategy. :-þ
Also, I'm not in secondary, so I still have a week of school but hey! I don't have exams!!! Nananana! (By the way get well soon Heather!) This week is gonna be crappy 'cos a lot of my friends are secondary. :( We're not going to have a lot of classes, we're going to the showcase dance, which I'll probably skip, and the next day to Harry Potter, after that is the last day, which I plan on getting out of early to go to Ray Ray's (if I can get away with it.)
Happy food in the house! My mom got paid today! Which is good, because I finished off the mushrooms :þ. My dad hasn't been having a crapload of money lately because both jobs kind of depend on gas, which in case you haven't noticed is a little pricey lately... So, drivers-ed and motorcycle instructor are not the top jobs as of late.

Oh ya, an added section for today, Reno wanted the origin of my nickname Fuzzy Spatula, but I didn't have time to tell it all, so I was sopposed to E-mail it to him. I'm not really an E-mail person, and Bubbles asked me today, so I'm taking the lazy way out of this one. *Copy paste!*

BubblesNK2507: (afer telling me where Bubbles came from) Does that answer your question? What about you....whered yours come from
Spatulated One: looong story..kindof...:P
Spatulated One: Ummm, me, and.. my sister, and my friends, were all obsessed with X-men, so obviously we have both PS games, and we got some cheats for some new battle arenas and one was pool party and it changed everyones clothes to beach clothes, and weapons to pool/BBQ stuff, and my favorite character had his sword changed to a spatula (This is gonna maybe take up 3 posts by the way)
Spatulated One: In school we had to colour posters of Marymount students that are sopposed to be ourselves, but they all looked the same, so I coloured myself blue with yellow eyes (like nightcrawler) and made myself hold a spatula, and wrote SPATULA! across the middle...That's where the spatula part came (This was in gr.7) ...(age 12-13)
Spatulated One: Also, last year my friend Jazz and I would mess each others hair when we passed each other and yelled fuzzy! And one day she called me a fuzzy spatula as a stupid insult, and people have been calling me that since. :)
BubblesNK2507: i see

Now if Reno decides to ever read this he'll get his answer. Ü

Good day all!

Another day, another layout.

2004-06-15T17:18:00.000-04:00

I must say, I normally avoid things the same colour as my uniform, but I needed a change and this suited. I had an odd green layout for about 5 minutes, but I didn't like how the words were all over, it didn't have those nifty boxes that this one does. There was one other colour of this one, but I decided to refrain from blinding the reader(s) ...
Yep, Now you're all jealous of my stylin' new template. :-þ

On to a new subject.................
The Backstreet Boys owe my sister a new pair of pants. Ü
I think that's the best way to bring up the arts banquet. It was pretty fun, but the food was horrible. There was a few hilarious dances, the Baby Got Back song was fun to watch and also our little episode of Bohemian Rhapsody.Ü Also the slow dancing with Jazz, every other song we basically danced the macarana to. The best dance of the night though had to be Rock Your Body. I'll never forget telling Sarah and Mr. Van that my sister ripped her pants, to look over to see her runnning to the bathroom holding the seat of her pants.
Priceless...
Actually...$12

I'm gonna go in the bush and TICKLE COCOONS! Wanna come with?!

2004-06-13T21:55:00.000-04:00

That's right. This Saturday at Science North when I would normally be telling tourists about how Sudbury has more rocks than them, I spent the day in ...THE BUTTERFLY LAB! It was about 38 celcius in there with 40% humidity. *-.- We got a new shipment of butterfly pupae, and my job was to unwrap them,and glue the ones without enough silk to pin, to smallsquares of paper. Little did I know, pupae tend to wiggle when they are ..annoyed, which makes them VERY difficult to glue to paper. After I got used to it it was actually pretty amusing, espacially after they were glued. IT WAS LIKE THE PAPER SQUARE WAS DANCING!!!!XD
So, the title comes from me telling Max, and he wanted to see, so I told him either to come to SN in 2-3 weeks or go tickle some cocoons. ..Guess which he chose. :) (Maybe that should be "You know which you chose.", As Max seems to be the only one who reads this thing. Yep, I guess people who AREN'T freaks would find this pretty uninteresting.... so, hope for something better next week! YEAH!

Things!

2004-06-10T21:04:00.000-04:00

I haven't been up to posting these past ...yesterday, Do you expect me to post everyday?! Or rather, my computer hasn't been up to letting me. So to sum up the ..day I missed, I was stuck downtown for 4 hours and my teeth really hurt.
As for today, I went to the bookstore, and I was actually pretty disgusted. I looked in the teens section and saw titles like "Gossip Girl" or "On the Brightside I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God". So I turned around to the (age)9-12 section, and saw things like "Zombie Butts from Uranus" and an entire rack of Lizzie McGuire (no offence Sassi), which from what I've seen, is basically about a girl who spends her days swooning or a thick-headed jock (Craft?). So in the end, I headed for the Sci-fi section, although that particular bookstore (Coles) doesn't have the largest selection for window shopping.... meh.

...And also I'm almost out of school... Which made me excited untill I found out how much time off Niamh gets. :-þ

One post blogs are boring. TWO POST'D!

2004-06-08T20:32:00.000-04:00

Today I told all my RL friends about my blog, expecting them to be jealous, but instead they were all "We all have live-journals, not blooogggs!". So... other than that, nothing too interesting happened..except getting yelled at for eating all the pie. o.o
And also I got a Spiderman toy out of the cereal box! :D
Highlight of my day.
Yep... This is a very pointless post.. but hey, veggies....

Happy Seb?

2004-06-07T17:52:00.000-04:00

Tada! I made a blog.:) Now you all get to see what I do all day!

Well this morning I slept in (five minutes before the bus usually comes) so I didn't realise I put my blouse on inside-out and I had also misplaced my vest, so I had to borrow the offices sweater. Yay for un-air-conditioned schools!
During school, since it's too late in the year for teachers to care about me catching up after band trip, I spent my classes reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
After school I discovered a lack of keys, so I waited outside in unbearable heat for an hour before my sister got home and unlocked the door. Luckily I had books. :)
Then once inside I went online, and Seb told me to make a blog. Then I made a blog. ...myes.

Now you're all jealous of my blog.