hallow-whore

So I went out for the first bar night of the Halloween season last night. Just wanted to get some dance action on. We also went out with Chalmonds who is tiff's (our old roommates) boyfriend. It was so fun! It was great to see him again. The best part was 'knowing people' and calling ahead and getting in in front of the longest line I have ever seen there. The worst part about going sober though...it smells just awful.

I must say people really stepped it up last night. I don't care what you say, if you go out in public wearing a bra, you are a slut. You are good for one thing. I don't care if any boys are saying 'ya but it's hot' (roommates included) it's still so so trashy. Even celebrities on music videos or lady gaga or britney spears back in the day, all sluts. I feel like your parents are so disappointed when they see it. I remember back when showing a little midriff was cool back in the day and I totally got in trouble for it.

I guess these costumes also gave people the excuse they need to dance harder than they ever have before. Now, as someone who is starting 'out-grow' the childish let's go dance with boys at the bar...(to be honest I don't think I was ever in this phase) I just don't care to dance with anyone. I have much more fun with my friends. One of our neighbors pete is a barback and said that girls were upping up their moves and driving their assets into 'frontal regions' so to speak. No thanks. I'm really laughing at the thought of all the one-night standers waking up right now and thinking omg I slept with where's waldo, or even worse a costume that had lot's of facepaint...or worse yet, someone that had a mask ha ha ha

There were also a lot of fights, mix a lot of booze and some fairy wings and let's just say...shit's going down. Our other neighbor I learned last time she drank can get very angry and last night was not an exception. She got kicked out. There was also a girl fight with like six girls on the street. There was one inside the bar. Once we decided to leave and were waiting to see if anyone from the court was coming out so we could cab with them. Right there on the street some girl (little red riding hood) was yelling at some guy yelling stuff like 'where's your law degree now?' and dropping some c-'s and b-'s. Then there was another guy waving down the police who had apparently had his shirt entirely ripped down the front.

I didn't go in costume at all, but I'm real excited for you all to see it. I'll be sure to post a picture. You'll laugh

damnit janet

I am listening to the preview for the rocky horror themed glee tomorrow. I feel like I'm having a michael scott moment, because I love the songs but I'm to cheap to buy them.

I also wanted to say I have kind of a strange worry. I worry that when I'm older weekends are going to suck. I'm going to not have school work to do. I probably won't have hobbies. It's weird thinking there are people that always stay in on saturday nights. I admit I do it now but I have no reason. Like I'm just worried I'm going to get bored. Another plus for having kids.

That does really sound like a negative attitude!

floating world

I am going to talk about differences today.

A difference with boys and girls. This came up with a conversation I had with purdy. He was saying that his bed is not very comfortable and I was bragging about how awesome my bed is (I don't want you all to think this was some sort of flirtation because it was not). But it's true. I would say the bed I have is one of the comfiest beds I've ever been in. He retorted by saying that girls always have comfy beds, it's true. None of my roommates have comfortable beds. I'm really trying to find a way of talking about boys beds without sounding like a whoore. But anyways you all can probably vouch for this anyways. I believe this is because we more often have full sets of sheets and we care more to be comfortable when we sleep. We also have way more pillows. I see beds with one flimsy little pillow and I couldn't imagine sleeping in such discomfort. I generally sleep with about three or four pillows having a direct impact on my sleeping space. I just want to be comfortable. I have thought about trying to limit myself because I'm worried about possible back problems. It's just not going to happen though

Another thing I've noticed through facebook creeping, and just life in general is that high school kids in manitoba look way younger. I remember going on volleyball trips to nebraska and seeing girls thinking they must be playing for older divisions, only to find out that we would be playing them our next game. Even on television you see movie stars that are around my age and they look way older as well. Like taylor swift is younger than I am (I think). It's crazy. I feel so old.

It always seems that I blog on mondays, I wonder why that is.

From here it's clear that I'm not getting better, when I fall down you put me back together

I have just discovered a new favourite song. Saturday I was creeping through some blogs and saw an accoustic version of the song Put me back together from the Raditude album released last year. I have listened to this song countless times, and I even spent yesterday learning it on my uke. I just LOVE IT!!

Anyways, last night I didn't sleep. Obviously I slept a little but it was a very unrestful sleep. Before going to bed I was watching Paranormal State followed by psychic kids on A&E. I used to watch paranormal state all the time, but the problem was the commercials for paranormal activity, the movie. I kept having dreams that I was doing ghost hunting and I would be seeing the creepiest stuff, like unexplained doors closing and stuff. The thing is...I don't believe in ghosts. I'm not sure how to explain it. I don't deny the fact that some people may experience the paranormal but I don't feel that I could ever have such an experience. I feel like my mind is to cynical to experience anything. I think it's interesting to think though that as children our minds are much more open and I could have seen a ghost on the street and just not even realized that. I think that experience that we may have with the paranormal are mental, not that I'm insinuating mental conditions for those who do have these experiences, but I feel that it may not be what we think it is. With the psychics on the show I felt it was weird because there was one kid who had experiences with a man who followed him and was trying to kill him named Mr. Rosenberg (apparently this guy followed the kid home from the cemetery....messed up). I don't understand how one person can have these experiences and another psychic wont see this Mr. Rosenberg.

Also, I was thinking about how asians have "american/canadian" names. It's always interesting what kind of names they choose. It seems very old school names, like wendy or ann. Never any of the names that were popular when we were children. No madison, or taylor, or even the classic jessica which was the top name of year I was born. It's all very british names. I wonder if this comes from the fact that Hong Kong was under british rule until only recently.

Another thing about asians. I feel at my school if they are ever exchange students from china they come solely for business. i wonder why they wouldn't come for anything else. I feel it's the same with brown exchange students to. I feel that business is the most culturally diverse faculty.

One final thing. I went to go get hot water for me tea just now at school and I think the girl working at the coffee shop had her gum pierced. I've never seen that before.

who knows

It's continued to be a great week. I realized that my life on a chain of happiness goes from just mediocre to really great but it never really dips into the poor side. I'm really thankful for that, but it could also be the kind of personality that I have. I don't really get mad that easily.

There's lots that I could say about what I've been up to lately, but I'll focus on yesterday

Yesterday Galen Weston, the CEO of Loblaws was at our school receiving a distinguished leaders award. And yes it is the Galen weston from the superstore commercials (worth switching supermarkets for). It was really a neat event. Number one he is a great looking guy, number two he is quite tall, like exceptionally tall. I want to see a commercial now so that I can put his height into context. So the topic that he was talking about was the future of food. As the guy running the largest supermarket chain in canada he needs to be the kind of person that is leading change. The global food market is one that is really skewed in terms of people eating 'fairly' (Know that I think about it I wish he would have talked more about fair trade). He was talking about the changing trends in eating, and how growing countries like india and china are changing their dietary needs. He also talked about the depleting fish stocks. Different demands that we are going to have in the future are something that we do need to look at now. The problem for him is that he needs to find someway to remain profitable but change the canadian eating habits. He did give some good examples of how canadians have already been changing their minds by voting with their wallets. Canadians typically don't care where their food comes from. If they did, we would all be vegetarians. The way that meat is prepared is just awful. Lately I have been thinking about becoming a vegetarian, but the problem is that I just love meat to much. So I have decided to take out meats one at a time. So far I am taking out bacon, I feel that bacon makes the biggest gluttons and It's in no way beneficial to eat. I am also hoping to give up fast food hamburgers. Anyways...it really came clear to me that we need to make people change their minds.

My final reactions, I feel like he was like a walmart type organization trying to make a turnaround. I feel that there is a lot that is unsaid about the company and that a lot of their changes have been made as part of a campaign to get more people to shop their and not as family orientated as Galen would like to have us believe. If Galen really wants people to change, he would need to lose money. He would need to change packaging of his products, he needs to change the sourcing of the foods and he needs to prove why this is a better way, and make everything affordable. I think that I am willing to spend more to have better sourcing, it is definitely something worth investing in, and I think that if canadians realized this they would change as well. Sadly not all canadians can afford to think ahead like this because face it, prepackaged food is SOO much cheaper. I do my best to avoid pre-made food, but sometimes it is good. I do also hate how foreign foods get americanized so that it can be appreciated by our 'delicate pallets'.

another thanksgiving blog

So it comes around every year. Thanksgiving. I don't think that I have ever gone a major holiday without going to a family dinner. There are some people that are just like 'no we're not doing anything this year' or 'I have to miss it' but that has never happened for me. Like last year I am at becky's again and I am having a swell time. I am enjoying the holiday much better as well due to the fact that I have much much less homework than last time. I have also not really been stressed out at all this year. So I did some homework yesterday and today, just some studying and have really just been pretty lazy. I have been doing a lot of work to catch up on watching it's always sunny in philadelphia.

Yesterday we were at sandy's daughters house and it was very nice to see them again. Phenomenal food (of course) and time spent in the hot tub after dinner. Before dinner becky and I were hanging out with Jodi (sandy's daughter) daughters. They were showing us their halloween costumes. It makes me wish that I was young again. They also informed us that Becky should dress up as a pumpkin and I got to be the princess. I think becky got the short end of the stick there. Then we went outside with them and jumped on the trampoline and were so thankful that there was netting around the outside because I was sure we would have killed one or both of the girls. I also jumped so ferociously that I broke my necklace. Then after dinner we hung out in the hot tub and the girls were showing us all their hot tub barbies and were climbing all over us and we were just the apples in their eyes. I have one more meal coming up in about a half hour. Best stuffing ever!!!

this is why I had a great day

- iggy just made this

- I slept in

- it's Katies birthday (but it actually sucks because I didn't get to join her)

- I get to go out tonight

- I didn't really study that much for a german test, and I did alright

- I got told by my german classmates to dumb myself down

- I won a $100 gift cert to canadian tire

- although I did purchase tofu and noodles from teryaki at school and it was awful. I have never had such horrible tofu in my life.

networking breakfast

I completely forgot to write about the networking breakfast I attended yesterday...it was pretty much one of those events that people go to in attempts to make some sort of connection to the real world and hope that someone spots something magical in them and offers them a job on the spot. I feel that is an extremely irregular event. So anyways... I got there (wearing my all black suit of course) and the first thing we did was eat breakfast. I wasn't feeling that hungry and a piece of toast would have been satisfactory. Sadly that was not one the options on the menu. So I had to suffer through some horrible looking scrambled eggs, cold hash browns and out of season fruit salad. So I met up with a girl I know through friends and we made our way over to the only empty table that had the reps from grant thornton sitting at it. To be honest I had no idea who grant thornton actually is, so I just played it cool and relied solely on the small talk aspect for that. I didn't ask them any questions about the organization at all, but from what I deducted i was an accounting firm...totally what I am not into at all. So I went to my first table which was stryker, a company that does medical equipment. The representatives were very intense people and it seems like a very intense company to work for as far as sales and all that go. In fact sales positions are more midlevel because the demands are so high. Then I went to pepsi and she was pretty intense as well. She pretty much talked the entire time and I feel that she really did not give anyone an opportunity to talk. She also talked about how she had to sacrifice having kids and marriage for her job. I do not want that to ever be an issue. I understand that work is important but I don't want that to be the only thing in my life. The best company I went to see what definitely Canadian Tire Financial Services. They were the only people to actually ask us at all about ourselves. I felt everything was very one sided for all the recruiters. Becky was helping out at the event and she said that she thought that It seemed like a lot of the employers were talking a lot as well.

a teacher

My finance Prof is a babe. Becky and I were just discussing course evaluations.. our suggestions...teach without clothes. I have a few stories he told us

1. Today he ended off our class comparing the last 6 classes to a bad movie. One that you don't really want to see and get dragged to, and the whole time you're thinking about how much you're hoping for a good ending, and then all of the sudden it's over and you leave with 'that's it?!' We finally got the last slide today and he could see the disappointment in our eyes that; that was it!

2. He stars off class saying, this is completely unrelated but it's just so funny I had to tell you. He first writes this on the board ....l-ea. He then says that this is the name of a brock student and that her mother had called in complaining that none of the teachers were saying her name correctly. Apparently the name is said ledasha...ha ha ha Nice spelling

Also, I'm sitting in the new marketplace at brock, time for breakfast and I am munching down on a chocolate scone. Living the dream is the only phrase that comes to mind. I feel like such a cliche though. Typing on my mac book in a public space....

Wow...this is a later edit...turn out if you google him my blog is like the 8th one down...how embarassing

2nd baseball post

So I said that there were a couple of good stories from the baseball game.

1. After visiting the VIP section, we were going to take the elevator down to the main level where our seats were. We were not allowed to take our open beverages onto the elevator so they all took the stairs. Sadly I was the last through and the only one to notice the sign saying that was an exit only, and there was re-entry allowed. I decided that I needed to be a hero so I was going to rush down and let them back in. Unfourtunatly I tried a little bit to hard to play the hero card and I was completely unaware of how to skydome works. This also left me separated from the entire group. Another problem is that I did not have my cell phone with me, thus NO PHONE NUMBERS! Luckily I have encountered this kind of situation before (one where I try to be a hero and get lost), and so I realized that I was not going to make it down the stairs in time. I had to take another elevator..so I got a lid and got on and made it down. Unfortunately I arrived on the main floor and there was no one to be found. I was feeling really dumb at this point. I made my way right over to someone standing near some doors and explained my situation. She then directed me to an attendant who let me use a phone. I tried calling becky 4 times, then finally she picked up. The day was saved! I was rescued. Thank goodness.

2. When we first arrived downtown it was not time for the game to start and so we went to this place called real sports bar. We were completely mesmerized by the number of TV's. This place was packed. We were also seriously underdressed. Many people had just come from work and were still wearing their suits and what not. Iggy was not prepared at all. He was wearing a long sleeve T-shirt and basketball shorts. As soon as we got there we all had a good laugh at our unpreparedness of the situation. It was a really cool place though. Probably had the largest screen I have ever seen and it probably had 100 tvs in the place. We then had a few drinks there and jeff and his buddy ordered some nachos and they were amazing. They had pulled pork on them. I had a tough time cutting myself off.

3. So for most of the game I did not pay attention. Instead I spent my entire time yelling at Swisher, one of the yankee right-fielders. It was great because he was totally able to hear us. We also got the entire section taunting. Iggy also said that he was right in front of the ballboy who had his head in his glove because he was laughing so hard.

4. There was one part of the night where there was a sign saying 'David Robert's the freshest name in nuts'. So I turned to becky and said 'I don't mean to be a bitch, but that's not how I want to be known' The guy sitting in front of us heard and totally kept turning around the entire evening. He was loving our conversations. We were to rockstars of our section.

Running circles through the graveyard throwing daisies in the air

So I'm just finishing up the classic catcher in the rye. An interesting story, I actually asked for it for my birthday from becky last year and we got it a day or two before J.D. Salinger passed away..weird coincidence. So anyways I'm at the part where houlden is freaking out a little bit about dying and his tombstone is going to have his name, years he was alive and then 'fuck you' beneath that. I was then thinking about my tombstone and I was thinking about what if I wrote something cryptic like 'I love you.' And then I was thinking about how some people always have the phrases like 'live, laugh, love' or some other inspirational phrases. (I'm taking you on the trail of thought I took). So I arrived here in the meadow of contemplating.

Why are phrases like 'live,laugh, love' so popular? That seems to be very popular for like tattoos or wall hangings and what-not. This is my personal belief. I think people have such a tough time dealing with big issues and their own personal views of the world that they rely on key phrases like this so that they themselves do not have to go into moments of personal reflection. When somebody young dies there is often a facebook group and many times I've seen the phrase 'forever and always' or something to that effect. Obviously this is something nice to say and it conveys the meaning that you wish to show, but I think it somehow cheapens everything because it's the only thing you know to say and I feel it's not genuine. Maybe people are just to scared to reveal their real feelings and so they hide behind these phrases. But on the other hand they may not know what their feelings are and so they use those as temporary pillars, but then don't go on searching for their own words.

I'm sure those of you that know me understand that I like to be different (that's a given). I don't like to sign my cards the same way as everyone else. Even in high school I tried to do every presentation in a different style. I just don't want to be boring. I probably might be giving people a hard time because they are not like me. I think sometimes I do have issues in recognizing the fact that everyone does not like being an individual. I do struggle with this. I hate when people fail to have their own recognizable identity. I might also just be a snob. I think this is also why I like reading so much, I get to hear a story that I don't already know.

Also it's been a rainy weekend. I won't lie. I love the rain. It is a great excuse to sit in and do nothing. I've just been reading and finishing up some work. And it's so much nicer to drink hot beverages when it's raining out.