Thursday, September 15, 2005

   Stolen Laptop...

Everyone on our floor (except Becky, cuz she's never here) went out to this restaurant about a 20 minute walk off campus where we had desserts around 9:45pm until 11:30pm. The ten of us had a blast.

Then when we got back, Katie across the hall discovered that someone had broken into her window and stolen her laptop.

We're on the ground level and some of us usually keep our window's open to let in the cool evening air (like Kristen and me). Katie had left her window open a crack and someone came in and stole her laptop.

They had cut the netting off the window frame, slid the window open and crawled in. They pulled the laptop free of it's lock and took off with it.

Something like this has only happened once in the past seven years. Why the person picked Katie's room, I'm not sure, but I think it's because the parking lot is on that side of the building so the thief could have easily parked in front of the window and driven off with it.

We all think it had to have been someone from our residence. Someone had to have known that we were all going out together at 9pm because we had messages posted in our little hallways of our little exhibition off campus.

We just feel so bad for Katie. She's only had her laptop for three weeks. She just got it!

It makes me want to be more careful now too, since I have a small laptop and a tablet that my German 203 class lended out to me. My room mate Kristen has a laptop too. If someone came into our room, they'd get three computers. It would really suck for me, cuz I paid $1500 (includes two extra years of extended warranty plus the one year of warranty it came with) and a $2800 tablet. If that tablet got stolen, I'd have to pay for it. I sure don't want that to happen...

Now we all know that we can't always rely on the locks to keep our computers safe (not that I have a lock, but they gave me a lock for the tablet, which looks like a piece of crap lock anyway... I'm better off hiding my laptop in my suitcase under my bed where no one can see it).

Now Katie and her room mate (she had a desktop computer) don't feel safe to sleep in their room tonight because their screen is all cut open...

It was just... such a shock. We had such a fun evening and then...

It sucks. It sucks big.

It sucks even more for Katie though...

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

   Blinded

E-gad. I got a detailed email from Ian (my ex) going on and on about the past, how he still loves me and hopes that we can get together again. I had to stop half way in reading it because I just couldn't READ it, you know? How many times has he emailed me the same shit over the past two years almost? Ja, I'm getting pretty darn sick of it.

I don't even go on MSN anymore because he's ALWAYS on! Doesn't he have a life or something? If I blocked him, he'd just call my cell or text me asking why I "never" go on MSN.

I think the thing is, I haven't gone right out and told him that I can't stand him. I find him to be the most annoying person in the world and I wish he would just leave me alone, crawl into a hole and die. He'd probably do that too if I told him... "Without you, I have no reason to live"... GET A LIFE!... "I've tried, but the world keeps screwing me over"... WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASS, GET OUT OF YOUR ROOM AND QUIT COMPLAINING ABOUT SHIT AND FIND SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY!

I'm not his frickin mother.

Ugh, he just really drives me crazy. Like, what the fuck am I supposed to do? I don't pity him or myself when it comes to him anymore. I'm over that. Way over that. I've moved on a long time ago and he hasn't.

Can't he see that?

God, he must be so blind. His stupidity and "love" has blinded him and the only way for him to probably see it is if I yell at him "I CAN'T STAND YOU! FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE!"

I can't do that though. I just can't. I wanted us to just have happy memories, a happy ending... not a verbal fight filled with loathing... I'll just hate myself for being so cruel with his feelings.

But... he's brought it upon himself... right?

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Friday, September 9, 2005

   Sweat, Dancing, Grinding Package, Ew!

We had this Monty Carlo night thingy today where everyone got dressed up in semi-formal attire. Our residence had a nice meal made for us, with cloths on the tables and cloth napkins. Then at 8pm, we all went over to the Student Life's Center where there was karaoke, dancing, salsa dancing lessons, live bands and "casinos" where you bet on tickets that would be entered in a draw (so the person with the most tickets would have the best chance at winning something).

By 11pm, Amy (a girl on my floor) and I were wearing out and said that we'd hold everyone's purses by the sidelines while everyone else danced.

So, I'm talking to Amy and I'm suddenly pulled away from her onto the dance floor by some black guy soaked in his own sweat. He starts dancing with me so I start to dance too because I thought it would be rude to just walk away. He introduces himself as Anthony and I tell him I'm "Jo". The song changes and he starts grinding me! His package was right between my legs and I'm thinking, 'Oh my god...'

This guy started dancing with my room mate Kristen earlier around 8:30pm ("grinding" her, as my floor mates described), but it was nothing compared to what Anthony was doing! I mean, he was right against me! I was so embarrassed!

So then he takes my hand and twirls me around. He wraps his arms around my chest (probably realizing then that there's not much to grab while he's at it, lol) and starts grinding my ass!

I'm thinking, 'Okay... this guy is pushing it!'

I never even met him before! His hands started grabbing my ass and when he started necking me, I knew enough was enough. I had to get away from him.

The song quickly changed and I said that I had to go and I took off, searching for Amy. It took me awhile to find her because she wasn't where she was when I first left her, and I told her what had happened.

I felt flattered and all that he wanted to dance with me... but grinding me, and necking me... it was too much. I didn't even know him; it just creeped me out!

He tried to get me to dance with him again, but I was all alone on the sidelines with the purses and told him that I had to watch them for my group. He moved on to the asian girls standing next to me and found one of them to dance with him... only he wasn't grinding her!

I felt so dirty too... His sweat was all over my back and my chest. I felt so vulnerable...

I mean, his package was right up against me, rubbing up against me! *shudders*

I left at midnight (it's 12:50am now) and everyone's still out. They said that they were going to leave soon... well, 50 minutes later, I still haven't heard them come in.

This nice guy, Justin, walked me to my dorm, despite my protests that I could walk myself. I think he likes Kristen. He's cute too.

There are a lot of cute guys here! Most of them are really nice too (Anthony was nice... but... you know...). I was taking salsa dancing lessons with this cute asian guy named Julian, and talking to this cute guy studying computer tech named Jeff. Justin's studying Science (Physics).

Anyway, I should wrap this up... I mostly just wanted to write about that Anthony guy grinding me... I can still remember the feeling of him and his package rubbing up against me...

Scary...

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Tuesday, September 6, 2005

   Two New Friends...

Things have been going pretty well. I bought another one of my textbooks for a few bucks less at the used bookshop here on campus. It looks practically new...

I don't think I'll be able to find another bargain for my other books like I did for my Eastern Religions one. $10, regular $78; I got so lucky!

I've made a few friends here. There's just so many people, you can't remember everyone you meet. The two girls that I recently made friends with over the past two days, were both asian, lol.

Maggie was one of the girl's in my square dancing group (one of the activities on the first night here) and Ling... Actually, I can't remember how I met Ling. But Ling sat with me on the bus to cosmic bowling last night and I was on her team with two other asian girls, Qi (pronounced "chi"--I ACTUALLY KNOW SOMEONE CALLED "CHI"! XD) and Stephanie. There was this other girl I was talking to a lot on the first day... but I can't remember her name! *cries* I'm not sure what ethnicity she is... maybe part Native American?

When I first heard Stephanie say Qi's name at bowling, I thought she had pronounced it "Gi". So for about an hour I was cheering her on as "Gi"! I felt so stupid! Ling corrected me, and I was all the more glad to find out her name was pronounced "Chi".

Things have gotten fairly quiet now. I think the movie they are playing in the lounge ("Napoleon Dynomite"... took me forever to think of the title!) has started. I'm not going to see it. I have to get up fairly early tomorrow to go to the financial aid office to drop off some papers... I could have sworn that I mailed them back in August... but it hasn't shown up in my online account and I really need these papers to go through (ie, they're my bursary papers). Then I have this "English Proficiency" test that I have to write at 11am (everyone has to write it) which is basically a 300-400 word essay. I hope it's something easy for me to write about!

Ling's really worried about the test. If you don't get 65% on it, you have to take a course for it in the winter in order to get your degree. Ling's Chinese and hasn't written anything in English for 4 months! She invited me to her room tonight and was giving me kind of the grand tour of it, lol, which included lots of Kanji characters on her computer (she went on MSN for a bit... I don'tknow how anyone can write Kanji on the internet! There's like, this whole other menu to use with all the characters, or something like that). I hope she passes! She's such a nice girl! She even learned a little bit of German when she was in junior high! She doesn't remember any of it though, lol.

It's about 11:45pm now, and my room mate hasn't shown up. I think she went straight to the movie cuz I've been here for about an hour and a half since my shower. Anyway, I'm going to go to bed now. I need to get as much sleep as I can because over the past two nights, I've only slept a total of 6 hours. I just don't sleep well in strange beds...

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Monday, September 5, 2005

   It Donned on Me...

9:10am

Well, my first morning on my own in Rez, along with my first shower.

I didn't sleep well last night. I can never sleep well in a bed that's not mine, even if I was as exhausted as I was last night. I got 2 hours of sleep, if that. There was a lot of tossing and turning. The springs in the matress make it uncomfortable for my hips and after laying on my side for so long, I couldn't stand it and had to roll over. I need to get something to make my bed a little softer... Damn boney hips, lol.

So it donned on my this morning. I'm an adult now. I have to take care of myself.

I got so nervous, and yet excited, that my stomach was starting to get upset as it has been known to do when I'm really nervous. I'm so glad Mom bought me some of those pink pills to calm my stomach. It was really starting to bother me.

So, in about 45 minutes now, I'm going to be heading out for our first breakfast. I'm really hungry. Before, when my stomach was upset, the thought of food was even more unsettling.

Kristen's out of the shower now.

Which reminds me, I have to fill out this blue piece of paper and give it to my don, Laura...

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Sunday, September 4, 2005

   In Rez Now!

10:50pm

I'm in my rez now! I'm so tired though! My legs are so sore!

Our rez has this western theme so for the past 3 hours, we've been line dancing and square dancing... I'm so out of shape!

I've had a headache since this morning... I think I need to get new lenses for my glasses soon. I think they're the major cause for my headaches because I get them so often enough and my eyes always seem liked they're tired...

My room mate didn't arrive until 4:30pm and we got to the rez around 11am, lol. Her name's Kristen and she sort of reminds me of Mel. Very quiet, but very friendly.

Um... I dunno what to say now... other than I need sleep, lol. My throat's doing alright so far... last night it was giving me a hard time, but it seems to be fine. A little sore, but I'll live.

Anyway, gonna get some rest hopefully! Got another eventful day ahead of me tomorrow!

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Thoughts from Work

Going to leave for work soon. Today's my second last shift! It's a Cafe Matinee; I took Gina's because she was looking for someone to take hers because she had previous plans, and I just happened to be there looking for someone to give up their Cafe Matinee shift to me! I was originally going to ask for the Wednesday Matinee shift so that I could take a break on Tuesday (today), but that didn't happen.

People are actually going to miss me there. I didn't know that they liked me at all. Maybe it's because I'm open and honest with them, and I help them out all the time. (by open and honest, I'm not afraid to let them know that I don't know what's in the concession popcorn combos--though I know them now--because I was never trained on concession like I was supposed to be... just for an example). Hmm... I dunno. I'm really not much of a Team Leader. I still feel like just a regular employee, and I think that might also take into account for why people like me; I didn't get all bossy when I donned the huge blue Team Leader shirt.

Still, my leadership skills are nothing to be proud of, but I must admit that I think they're better than they were before. The new employees are always surprised when I tell them that I'm actually very shy.

"You don't show that you're shy" they say.

"I can't be shy in this position; there's no room for shyness," I say back.

Cuz you really can't be shy in a Team Leader position! You have to take charge and make decisions on you're own.

The one new guy on Floor was surprised to find that I'm quitting even though I'm "a really good team leader. You're crew really respect you and listen to your requests without complaints. We need more team leaders in the working work to have the same qualities as you where respect is shared among everyone."

Or something like that. It was midnight on Sunday night when he said that, but it was close to that.

It's just like, now that I'm leaving, everyone is telling me how much they like me as their team leader and they don't want me to go.

Isn't that always the way though?

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Monday, August 29, 2005

   I Don't Know What To Do...

There's something I should do, but I don't know what to do or how to do it. I have lots of time to think about it today at work because I'm on Pizza Hut for the matinee, and they're usually pretty dead on a Monday matinee. My last Pizza Hut shift is today! XD

Nuhg... I dunno what to do... I'm thinking to think of what's the best thing to do, and I think (in my opinion) that the best thing might hurt someone. I could be wrong though. He might think it's the best option too...

Anyway, if I'm going to be at work on time and still take a shower, I better take my shower now.

*sighs* I'm hungry too.

I don't want to be a bad person...

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Friday, August 26, 2005

   Last Friday in August

I can't believe this is the last Friday in August! Where has the time gone!? Soon I'll be moving into Rez and going to university! I'm getting nervous just thinking about it! (but also excited!)

Only 5 more shifts at my work! Unless I get a Cafe Matinee one on Wednesday like I'm hoping... I really wanted to work Cafe and Pizza Hut once more before I left. So I took Steph's Montag (er, MONDAY... My German's already starting to kick in...) Matinee Pizza Hut shift since I had the call shift for it. We traded shifts. Now she's like, "Don't call in sick!" I really hope I can promise you that Steph, but my health is acting up on me!

I'm just tired. That's probably the reason why I don't feel well.

I also want to see as many movies as I can before I leave! After next Thursday (my last shift) I'll no longer get free movies! *cries* I've really enjoyed not having to pay for seeing a movie...

My brothers will probably end up getting a job in there too in September. They should have gotten a job when the summer just started when everyone was hiring... but there's not much they can do about that now!

Anyway, I got to get going. Gotta catch my bus to work in half an hour!

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

   Getting Fed Up!

Well, this is just great. I have 9 days left before I'm officially unemployed so I can study in university... and I think I'm getting strep-throat. DAMMIT!

I was chatting with Tashi-kun on MSN (old friend back in Junior High who moved away), and I found out that she's going to the same university as me! And just like me, she's having problems with the stupid financial office! They honestly expect us first years to know what the heck we're doing? WTF!? I've been there two times already, and no one told me a thing about filling out some kind of paper to confirm my enrollment!

So, this Thursday, we're meeting outside the building at 9am so that we can both get some questions answered and get our stupid OSAP!

They told Tashi-kun that, since they are renovating the building, the offices are closed.

NO! I've been there two times already! I see the renovations going on on the first floor, but it's renovations on the floor itself, they're replacing the tiles or something. I was just there today to pay my Residence fee by check, but found out that I'm supposed to pay my Rez fee together with my tuition, even though it clearly doesn't say that on the letter I received in the mail! Naturally, I only had enough in my one checking account for my Rez only, so I had to leave without accomplishing anything!

Then my mom's asking me when I get my OSAP. I told her that I had to wait until school started to confirm my enrollment (cuz I didn't know that I could do that before I started school, cuz nothing on the site says that!) and she was getting frustrated too, saying, "Well, what's the point in getting OSAP to help pay for your schooling if you don't get it until you start school, and you have to pay these things before school starts!"

It's so stupid, and I'm not sure if I'm making any sense or not...

I snapped at my brother a few minutes ago when he was trying to be helpful and remind me not to forget to pick up my birth certificate on the table. I'm just so frustrated with this whole financial thing! So he came up behind me a minute ago and was massaging my shoulders to try and comfort me...

I have such a nice family! *tears*

But my throat really is bothering me! If it's strep (and it probably is because it's going around and that's one disease I'm prone to catching), then I probably won't be allowed to work for a week!

GAH! I NEED MONEY FOR A UNIVERSITY THAT KEEPS GIVING ME A HARD TIME!

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