Friday, October 7, 2005

   "Dammit/
Dammit/
Dammit/
Dammit..." -Scatterbrain (Mama Said Knock You Out)
Same shit, different pile...

I knew it was wishful thinking when I said that work might be good. It wasn't. I don't think I should go into detail, but I was super-pissed off, and one thing after another very nearly led to a total breakdown. Heheh.. I actually cried a little and had to go upstairs. That's never happened before. And would you believe that the most unexpected person got me to smile? Weird... Didn't last long anyways. If I can make it throught the weekend...

Alright, no more depressed, moody Con. So, my prof gives us this assignment to correct the footnoting errors in an exerpt from an essay. In two pages (double spaced) I found 13 errors. Yay me. Now, the question is, do I take it one step further and correct all the errors in the assignment sheet, and risk being labeled a smart-ass?!? I found ten in there altogether, so it almost seems intentional. It's suspicious but I don't know for sure.. It's just things like bad grammar, and commas in bad places and misspellings. All things that the computers spell and grammar check would catch, but were not corrected. Should I apologize for being a smart-ass? Or should I apologize for being the kid of two teachers? Should I apologize for using the phrase "smart-ass" in University circles? Gah! I just don't know. I guess the worst that could happen is that he'll be offended and fail me... Which seems imminent anyways. So I guess I might as well do it. *shrugs* At least no one will call me a dumbass...
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Thursday, October 6, 2005

   "Well I'm not really sure/
But I think that I missed it/
Don't ask me how/
Cause I still don't quite get it/
You could blame it on fate/
Say I'm a victim of cupid/
But I took 24 years/
To get this stupid..." -J. Englishman (Flowers for Ophelia)

It saddens me that J. Englishman only ever released one cd. He's awesome. It's very good "angry music" but it has a way of making you feel better too.. Highly recommend "The One Thing"..

Thanks for the encouragement yesterday guys.. I probably wouldn't have dropped out anyways, considering the hell of a time I had getting IN in the first place.. I'm just going to have to pull something absolutely spectacular for that final project. I hope he'll approve my topic. Apocalyptic Themes in Modern Films.. (Or something along those lines) Some of the movies I want to use are Dogma, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and I'm considering the Star Wars Trilogy (only episodes IV, V and VI though..) I think I might be able to prove that LOTR is a bible story. The similarities are too many to ignore. We shall see, eh?

Sooo... nothing new. Nothing exciting. Have a happy Thursday. I know I will, until 4:00pm rolls around. Then it's work time. Boo-urns. Maybe it won't be so bad... Wishful thinking...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2005

   "Feel heavy/
Once Felt it... Hard/
Question an answer/
For a thousand days/
Give birth to the Earth/
Then let it drift away..." -I Mother Earth (Levitate)

Tuesday night, and I should probably be doing my reading for class tomorrow afternoon. But I just can't concentrate. Especially now that I know my grade from the Apocalypse test I took on Saturday... *sigh* not good guys... not good at all.. It's just too bad that after I took it, I FELT good about it, only to later discover that I actually got a.. well.. I don't think I really need to announce it here. (insert expletives) I don't have enough memory for dates of things that happened a couple of thousand years ago, or names of a hundred dead kings or the thousands of people they slaughtered. I also don't really give a damn.

So what do I do? I can either stick it out and try and make it through the next test and the 3000 word paper, (I got my 300 word one back and, acording to the prof, I @#$%ed that up too. Just super.) or I could drop out at the last minute, but still have to pay the tuition. I guess a third option would be to just fail the course. Don't really want that one, but hey, you never know. Maybe my GPA can handle taking a dive. I don't really have high hopes for graduating anytime soon anyways, if at all...

Anyways, I'm sorry to bore you with a cynical, 'poor me' type post. It's just a discouraging situation. I'll be just fine. No worries.. no worries.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005

   "Love is in the water/
Love is in the air/
Show me where to go/
Tell me will love be there..." -Collective Soul (Shine)

**THAT WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!!!**

My ears are ringing like crazy and my throat hurts from shouting/singing so much, and I think I smell a little like beer, but I am so happy. I would have been kicking myself for weeks had I missed that concert! The only thing I regret is not trying harder to get seats closer up. I mean, 8 rows back is good, and we had a good view and everything, but... A friend from work was in the second row, and that included a backstage pass.. Dammitdammitdammit.. I wanted one. But oh well.. It still kicked major ASS!! And I was impressed with the security people. They were actually doing their jobs and booting people out of the aisles and away from the front if they didn't belong there. Nice, eh?

So, more than likely, I'll be changing up the site tomorrow, not that it's all over. I should at least take the counter down, eh? Or find something else to count down to...

*dreamy sigh* yep... that's m'band...

I apologize for not getting to sites earlier today. Something happened with the connection and I got booted and it kept giving me "page not found" messages. Evil. Everything seems to be hip now, so I'll do my catching up tomorrow afternoon. Until then... All hail to the Soul machine! *waves lighter*
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Monday, October 3, 2005

   "Feels like a new regime/
All hail to the soul machine/
Feels like what I taste/
Always better than yesterday..." -Collective Soul (Feels Like)

Sweet action! Collective Soul tonight! How can you tell I'm just a lil' excited? This is the first real concert I've been to. It's kinda weird. Oh well... it's going to be awesome. I'm going to have to remember to set the vcr to tape Prison Break though. Because it's getting TENSE! (Ain't that right Kevin?) Somebody remind me, pretty please?

Anyways, Sunday morning I get a call from work saying that they're going to push my shift back an hour or two because the power was out and had been for five hours or so, and they had no idea when it would be back on. All the work was done and they couldn't make signs or shelf tags or anything like that because the computers were all out. By he time I got there though, it was back on, but it was super busy since in the morning everyone must have been like "oh, we'll just come back later.." So yeah, fun and games always. Someone said that some guy had drilled through an underground something or other and that caused a giant power surge.. I dunno much about electricity. Just that light goes on, light goes off, light goes on, light goes off...

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Sunday, October 2, 2005

   "Everything is physical/
Everything takes precedence/
Everything's admissible/
Everything is evident..." -Collective Soul (Everything)

Well I did go take both them tests this afternoon. I kicked their butts! I think I did... I hope I did... Nah, I'm doubting myself. I kicked butt. And the Hostory of R'n'R test pretty much was name that tune. For bonus points I could name the title and artist of the clip that played. The only one I didn't get was "Who's Sorry Now" by Connie Francis. *sigh* You'd think I'd remember her name since it's pretty much my name too, but no. I sat there thinking, damn, I'M sorry now, that I didn't pay better attention in class! Grrrr..... Oh well.. And the Apocalypse one had a lot of stupid dates to choose from so I had to make "educated guesses". Whatever. We'll see how I did next week. If it was all good, then Par-tay! If not, I'll be sitting around reading my happy, blue, crowd dispersing bible a lot more often.. Happy Sunday!
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Saturday, October 1, 2005

   "Oh, I'm newly calibrated/
All shiny and clean/
I'm your recent adaptation/
Time to redifine me..." -Collective Soul (Better Now)

9:00am Drove sister to work. Managed not to fall asleep at the wheel.

10:00am Read the paper, drank three cups of coffee, twitched a bit.

11:00am Went back downtown to drop off keys at Exhibition Grounds, had watch battery replaced, shopped for comfy new shoes.

12:00pm Went to carwash since birds have been eating blueberries or saskatoons or something and leaving fantastic purple blotches on my truck, rather than the standard white.

1:00pm Went to class where prof doled out cookies.

2:00 Bashed King Antiochus from 1 Maccabees (uh, don't ask), discussed History vs. Propaganda.

3:00pm Paid tuition, avoided interest charges and being dropped from classes for non-payment.

4:00pm Came home, ate food.

5:00pm Went to work, maintained sense of humor, smashed fingers again, but didn't slice them off (yay).

11:00pm Thought about how bad the Naruto dub is.

11:30pm Typed stuff, wished friends a happy weekend! *blows kisses*

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Friday, September 30, 2005

   "I don't need nobody/
I don't need the weight of words/
To crash on thru/
I don't need nobody/
I just need to learn the depth/
Or doubt of faith to fall into..." -Collective Soul (Needs)

Well, the bruise on my knee looks really weird. There's a little circle of pink right on the kneecap, and then a big ring of purple around it. Owwwww...

I had to work back there again tonight. That girl must be dying or something. I dunno.. But I was very careful to watch out for stray waxed paper. Haha! I don't know what it is, but little things really annoy me these days. I hope I'm not losing my sense of humor, or growing up or anything nasty like that...

I should probably go study for my Apocalypse test before I go to bed. (It's still Thursday night) Hmm.. Or I could put it off a little longer and take the test on Saturday instead. It's a web test so I have the power to do that. Mwahaha! I think I will.. Actually, I can take both of my tests on Saturday. And I won't have to pay for parking since it's the weekend. Sweeeeeet... A+ for ME!! And a good weekend for everyone else! *gives the wink and the gun*
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Thursday, September 29, 2005

   "Congratulations, oh baby I'm back again/
I'm loaded down with my god and my medicine/
I know wisdom is change/
So why can't you function that way/
Here I am flaunting my self control/
'Cause happiness is more than a kiss you know..." -Collective Soul (Happiness)

Work sucks. The union meeting this morning was a little more productive than the last one, thank god. So, when I came in later on in the day for work, Assistant Boss tells me that bakery/deli chick is sick and I'm supposed to cover. Alright. I can handle it. Except for it's stinkin' busy and I'm all alone. And like every person is like, *whiny voice* "Ooohh, can I have 300 grams of that meat that you don't have any more of? And can I get it shaved?" *narrows eyes* Can you not see the lineup of ten bloody people behind you?!?! Not many things irritate me more than people who ask for meat shaved. It's just a pain in the ass. So I'm already behind schedule, and I'm in the back doing dishes like a sonofabitch when I hear "ding". That stupid 'ring for service' bell.. I silently freaked out and mouthed some not so nice words and then tore around the corner to see what the lady wanted. Now, here's the kicker. I stepped on a piece of waxed paper. Just one. And I totally biffed it. Yup. On the floor. Super. It's all good though. I'm just going to have a big ol' bruise on my knee...

Anyways, enough complaining. I'm going to crawl into bed with my book. I've been reading "The DaVinci Code" So far it's really awesome! And there's Bible references in it, so it's LIKE doing homework! Honest! But really, it's a gooder. If you haven't read it already, think about picking up a copy. Well.. Until next time, kids...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

   "Somebody told me about a worn out distraction/
That I had let slip away/
Then it comes back and rides my shoulders/
And burdens me every new day/
Well I'll just sit here like a slow burn out/
And try to figure out how to do without you..." -Collective Soul (Goodnight, Good Guy)

Alright, so I did end up taking the antichrist quiz, and it wasn't anything like what we were all thinking it was. It's actually a test of your knowledge of historical figures and whether or not THEY are the antichrist. If you really want to see it, here's the link-age.

Yeah, and it's just great. (note sarcasm) I had to go into my email to get that link and there was a message from my prof "reminding" us that we have our first test coming up starting on Friday. Oh. Crap. I am so not ready for it. Eeehhhhhh.... there's gonna be dates to know and people's names and bible-y stuff... *hyperventilates* The History of R 'n' R test starts this weekend too, but that one, I'm not too worried about. Stupid tests. I'd rather write a paper...

Why is the cat gnawing on the corner of my cd? I do not know. Oh well.. Have a good Wednesday. Union meetings for me, so it could go either way. We'll see...
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