It’s pretty late, but I seem to write better at night so I’ll fight my increasing tiredness with some fascinating information about myself!

#1 I love poetry.  I’m not very patient (working on it) with getting through long books unless their mindless chick reads. So I love poetry because it’s shorter, but extremely powerful all the same.  It’s ruined for me, however, when it has to be studied or “analyzed.”  I just like reading it, not picking it apart!  Two of my favourite poems are “Why Did I Laugh Tonight?” by John Keats and “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams.

#2 I wasn’t a huge music person until a few years ago.  The wonderful invention of the ipod allowed me to listen to music more. I like all kinds of music, why would I limit myself to one genre?  Even a tiny bit of country!   :> My favourite band of all time is Billy Talent, who I have seen in concert twice and will again definitely.  Go listen to them now, they’re amazing.

#3 I guess I’m considered a shy person.  At least when I first meet someone.  I have many acquaintances who don’t truly know me, and a few close friends who do.  I think I’ve always been independent and self sufficient. I guess one area at least theoretically I could improve in is to be more outgoing or forward with people I don’t know.  But it takes all kinds to make up this world, even meek ones like me

#4 I haven’t figured out what I want to do in life career wise, though I know i definitely want to continue my education post secondary (I say that because I don’t mean necessarily university only, but also college)  Advertising interests me, I’m always critiquing commercials on their “effectiveness” and really find it fascinating how they seem effortless but are really quite complex in what they’re trying to get across and who it reaches.  So does psychology (funny, they really go hand-in-hand O_O ) So we shall see…

Okay, I’m extremely tired so I’ll call it a night.  Talking about music though reminded me I made a radio blog so you can listen to some songs I like.  Click the button on the sidebar to start groovin’  Night night! <3

Thinking about it last night, I realized anyone who happens to come across this blog and read won’t have the faintest clue what I’m talking about when I talk about how I’m leaving soon to go back to BC.  I don’t know, I’m always a little hesitant and paranoid about telling too much about my life on here, for anyone in the world to read.

But basically, in a nutshell,  I was born and spent the better part of my childhood in Ontario.  When I was eight years old, my nuclear family (which is only myself, my mother and father) moved to British Columbia.   That was many years ago, but last Fall, me and my mother came back to Ontario, for an extended visit with my maternal grandparents, who are obviously getting on in age.  Of course it’s hard to just leave the life you’ve known for many years on the west coast without ever looking back, but at the same time it’s hard to leave behind all your family on the other side of the country.  So we decided to come back for about a year.  It was supposed to be just for a year, then we return to BC, but now my mother wants to return to Ontario for longer.  So we’re returning to BC for the summer, to tie up loose ends I guess, and in the Fall sometime return to Ontario again with my father.

Sound complicated?  Yeah, it is.  I was happy to visit my grandparents who I love and missed out on a lot of time with after I moved to BC, except on brief visits.  At the same time I don’t know if I want to leave my life in BC where I’ve spent my entire teenage years, done stupid shit, eventually grown up and grown accustomed to the west coast lifestyle.

Yup, that’s it folks.  It’s an issue I’ll probably be struggle with for a while, I don’t want to seem selfish and say I want to live in BC where it’s more fun and I’m more comfortable but if that’s the way I feel some days why deny it?  It’s a hard thing to balance, and hopefully I can bring some light to whatever happens through writing here.

Okay, here I am for good ya’lls.  A kind stranger has generously hosted me, and to my DNS clueless self, that is miraculous O_O

So just to give my blog some content, I did import what little posts I have, though what they say is either irrelevant or doesn’t apply now, but oh well.  It just looked too darn empty.  And I’d like to remember always my struggles with setting this up, lol. :eep:

So I’m leaving in less than 2 weeks, actually tomorrow it will be one week?!  It’s snuck up on me way too fast.  I’ve barely done anything in terms of preparing.  I don’t want to leave it to the last minute so I’m panicking and forget important stuff.

I was all set but then I found out there is already a new version of Wordpress out, 2.5.1.  So I upgraded, which wasn’t too painful but time consuming all the same.  I haven’t noticed any obvious new features from 2.5, but apparently there was many bug fixes and important security fixes, so I didn’t want to put it off.  So here it is. Bear with me until I finish setting this up.  Once I’m back in BC, I might have even less time to put towards this, but I’ll probably have some more interesting stuff to talk about

No more slacking off, I have some pre packing organizing to do.  And I’ve just let soup boil for probably about 2 hours too long, so um, I should fix that.

Pretty tulips are starting to bloom in the garden! I love their colour

I’m not cut out for a lot of things, but right now I’m referring to the weather.  The twitter says it all!  About the hottest it can go before I launch into an It’s Too Hot™ campaign is 20°C.   Thank god I won’t be in Ontario for the hottest part of the Summer, but it still horrifies me to think it’s this hot in mid April..

So I took the science exam.  I’m both glad it’s other with and at the same time want to do it over again.  For one, I guess I majorly understudied for the Earth science part, because I barely knew it. Heh. I thought I had all the bases covered. :urgh:

The next thing that went wrong was the librarian cut me off at 2 hours.  And he wasn’t pleasant about it. That’s not fair because, yes, the exams are scheduled as 2 hours, but you are given an extra hour if you need it.  That’s 3 hours, bastard.  Yet it didn’t occur to my passive, glazed over self * that I did in fact have an extra hour, until I hit submit, gathered my stuff and went downstairs to the main floor.   Despite my failure to realize this, the guy was wrong regardless.  Honestly, with an exception of a rare few, my experience with librarians have been unpleasant.  Of all the librarians I’ve come across, I’ve maybe met one that was kind.  I’ve encountered many, however, that either have no personality, are in a permanent bad mood or barely seem to breathe they’re so unresponsive.  And usually it’s all of the above.  Of course this is a stereotype, that has definitely been proved true in lots of cases, but not all.  But this is my personal experience and this guy that very well might’ve fucked over my exam is another strike in favour of that theory.

So all in all, I’m not sure how well I did.  I don’t know how this works but, the good news is my final mark in the coursework part of Science was 97%, which counts for 80% of the final grade.  If the final exam counts for 20%. and I got let’s just say 50% on that, what would be my overall percentage grade? Anyone?

EDIT: Figured that out, that was obvious.

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I feel like I’m being pulled in 20 different directions which is funny because all I have on my plate right now is the upcoming science exam (on Friday) and my art course.  Last year I had five exams in a row with only a week to study for all of them, and I’m overwhelmed with this I’m not even going to deal with Math until science is out of the way.

I don’t know what the @*&# is up with my domain.  Make that my non-existent domain.  I hate to say it but if you want something you just gotta pay for it, or you pay in other ways..that’s a guarantee.  Yeah, I didn’t technically pay money, it’s a long story but I’ll just say I’m not too happy with this site. I’ll happily be a nagging bitch if I don’t get my domain soon

I’ve really been meaning to paint but I just can’t seem to get to it.  Last week or so I bought some canvas to paint on so I’ve been really wanting to get started. I love painting on canvas, I don’t know why but I do.  I like the texture of it I think, go figure.

I should really buckle down and do stuff.  I only have the rest of today and tomorrow to cram as much info into my brain for science, which is overwhelming when it’s involving four very different parts (biology, chem, physics and earth sci).  Oh yeah, I also have to majorly fix my effed ipod.  I need new songs desperately, and I have to replace some others that decided to not work.  I’ve also been putting off transferring my millions of pictures onto a flash drive, I just hate that task so damn much, soo monotonous.  But I want my hard drive freed up by the time I leave to go to back to BC next month, and an 8 megapixel picture x around 400 is a killer >.<

Yesterday I went on a walk down by the water with my lovely mum.  It was a pretty nice day, not particularly warm but sunny.  It was nice.  I went a little overboard taking pictures of ducks, but they were just so cute.  I’ll probably upload some to flickr in a bit.

I’ve recently gotten some nice summer things, including shoes.  Being the typical female I am, I want to share them here.  Which I will soon!