Update, in list form

The low down thus far:

• Manicures and Martinis- we tried, last thursday for some special reason, it was suspended until next thursday, thus feener will get to partake in the festivities.
• Mud Oven - Check. How ugly or beautiful (lets be realistic... how utterly disgusting) our creations are will remain to be seen until we get around to going back to pick them up.
• Ice Princess - SO CHECK! That capped birthday extravaganza day. Worst. Movie. Ever. Yet, enjoyable....
• Wasted on Wednesday: Due to lack of time, I don't think this will happen... not in Ottawa atleast... If Kat comes to Halifax, we will go to the Dome for cheap drink wednesday for shizzll.
• 80's Night at Barrymores: not yet, but tomorrow night IS sunday afterall...........
• Brunch at NAC restaruant: sort of... had lunch at Canal Ritz... sort of the same deal, only involving more lettuce than breakfasty items..
• Go Bowling: Done like dinner man!!!! That is the best sober fun I have had in a long time. Glow in the dark AND disco!! wooooop! They played Ricki Martin and the Macarana, AND Mambo #5 as well as a bunch of other totally chessy music that everybody knew the words to regardless......

And so, since this is the 1 week mark of my departure from this fine city, I have prepared a list of things I will miss, and then a list of things I will not miss....

What I will miss:

• You. and you, and you, and you.... all of you.
• OC transpo, specifically, the O-train... I have a secret obsesion with the o-train, although I guess since i just said that its not so secret anymore...
• Driving by parliment on the bus, or walking by it on the way downtown
• All the national museums
• living in the captial
• the canal
• Pizza Pizza pizza
• the abundance of starbucks and second cups.... are there even starbucks in Halifax?!
• Jacob, Old Navy, Ikea, Nine West and any other store we don't have in NS
• being from "away"
• satellite TV

Things I will NOT miss

• My appartment
• my sketchy neighbourhood
• the fricken -40 C winters
• the lack of garlic fingers
• my landlord and his band nerd kids; the flute, trumpet and entire beginner band that constantly disrupted my quiet.
• bilingualism

Blah.... somebody live this next week for me... k thanks.

Overheard in Ottawa Part 3...

Lady to her wandering dog....

"Oliver! Why did you run away?! Dogs don't run away, that's what teenagers do!"

-Overheard in the Glebe

Twice in one day? woah sebessa...

The past posts I have made haveing been BORING. Lets face it. They've been boring. I'm sorry.

However, this
is anything but boring..... A 30 day road trip on the bus through all of Canada, the States and even Mexico.

or

You can take the train

So........ who's in?

X-Treme Birthday

So lets see...

I managed to turn 20 without having any significant breakdowns and I am quite unscathed by the whole thing if I do say so.
Friday was a great day, I had ice cream for lunch, I mean a day thats starts off like that cannot go downhill. Did some shopping, checked out Holt Renfrew, which was like... ultra disapointing. I was expecting.... more stuff that I would like? Instead there was like stuff that my mom or grandma would wear.... Either way, it was still cool. Later on me and Kat went to see Ice Princess......... Yes.... it was lame.... and corny... but thats what was to be expected, so I mean we didn't go in expecting to be watching the future oscar winner for best picture, and we weren't disapointed.

Saturday consisted of helping move stuff and cruising around in a U-Haul to south of ottawa south, yes my friends, a way mini road trip in a u-haul. It was a bitching good time and I am not even being sarcastic. I miss driving, and driving around. I'm tired of being a slave to ths bus schedule.
And then..... Saturday night was a birthday surprise party... Super cool, super fun.. A great night all around for sure.

So I think its safe to say that this has been one of the better weekends ever, and to cap it all off, it's a solid 20 degrees outside. Could it be any better?? Well.. yes.. I guess it could.. I suppose it could be september or something and I wasn't leaving so goddamned soon.........not that I don't want to go home.... but I'm just having such a damn good time here.

I for sure had a funny story but I really don't remember it now. Eff.

Ugh I do not want to be reading 18th century British literature today..... Maybe I will put that on hold for awhile and go out and enjoy the day......

Truthfully, Truthfully

Dear Mel,
WHAT the FUCK?

- Your Liver.

Sooo... this weekend eh? It was pretty benderiffic... Thursday night especially was wuite hardcore. What are best freiends for if they cannot take pictures of their friends puke on the sidewalk? I think I captured the angle very well, and the lighting definately was working in my favour... DISGUSTING!

But seriously, fun times were had by all (for the most part) this weekend. Friday was a chill, chill day. However, not really for me since I was awakened at 8am by some really poor trumpet playing. Like beginner band kids on the first day with their instruments were better than this sucka playing away at 8am. Just because I had a party the night before, doesn't really warrant such a wake up call in my opinion. Crazy french bastard.

Saturday was.. shit what did I do during the day?? Study I guess... I get the feeling I did something else but it really escapes me at the moment... Either way, checked out Ottawa's Lower Deck. Not bad at all. Fake seagulls, old barrels, buoys... made me feel like I was back home.... well not really, but it was still a pretty nice place. As an aside, I applied to the REAL Lower Deck in Hafilax (I intended to spell it like that...) so lets all hope that works out.

Finally, yesterday I studied, I got my mystery film developed (Ps, it's AWESOME!) But then.... Last night I finally hit up 80's night at Barrymores!!! I only live less than 5 min away, and there is no cover, so what the shit took me so long to get there?! Either way it was a good time. I vote we all go back before the end of the year and totally 80's skank it up.. Like lets find a crimper and some neon spandex and everything my friends...

So I'm 20 in 4 days.. sucks. but I think I will live. A lot of other people seem to have turned 20 and come out of it all right, so there is hope for me yet.
Starting to get some b-day plans in the works as well. I do believe that it will be Zak's for lunch consisting of a bananna split. Yeah thats right bitches. When you're 20 you can eat ice cream for lunch. And then that night? I really have no idea.. Probably a pub... but where? and which one? Who will be there?? How drunk will I be? etc.

And finally, in recognition of the fact that I have too few days left in this fair city, Kat and I have composed a list of things to do before I go. In no order.....

• Martini-Manicure Thursdays at MTL (booze and fancy and manicures.. can you go wrong?)
  
• Mud Oven (paint your own pottery place)
• Go see Ice Princess (mock me and I'll cut you)
• Sassy Bead to make a necklace (insert witty comment here..)
  
• Get wasted on a Wednesday (We've done every other random, non-traditional drinking weeknight)
• 80's night at Barrymores (technically I just did this, but I want to do it again...)
• Brunch at the NAC restaurant (it overlooks the canal and is ultra fancy)
• Go Bowling..... (now, we all know how good at bowling I am, so this one holds a special place in my heart...........right.)
• Make fun of Derek. (his words, not mine my friends)

And so, with exams and all that stupid mandatory BS I will be very busy... but thats cool.

Roman history calls to me now.....yes... please help me.... save me from my boredom.... aaaaaaah...

-M.

What do you call cheese that is not your own?

... ready for it?!?!?!?!?

NACHO CHEESE!!

Ohhh man I slay me.... seriously.

So I am done classes at Carleton University. I am also done assignments. And will be done exams in like 3 weeks... How time flies.

Finishing up was the most anti-climactic moment of my life I'm pretty sure. I was just like, "oh. how's about that...." I also just realized that I am pretty much 1/2 way finished my degree. yikes.

I got a letter from DAL telling me that all of my credits transfer. How cool is that? I just have to take something called "Writing class" to fulfill the requirements of my degree.. I hope that doesn't involve soemthing lame like I dunno, grammer or something. I'm pretty sure I would lose my shit if I have to do a class like that.

I wore sandles for the first time this season today. Boy was it sweet. Makes me remember just how much I hate socks. But then of course it rained on the way home... but I made it before I did any damage to my Birks.

Tomorrow night= bender to celebrate being finished class. woot woot. It's been like.... a week, atleast since I've gone out to drink and be merry. Maybe less, maybe more, I really can't remember. Maybe that's a bad sign.

I totally got an FCUK shirt at winners today for a rediculously low sum of money. This makes me extra happy.

I turn 20 in rediculously few days.... this scares me. But at the same time, I've been easing myself into it... I still expect it to be a weird day...

I'm really just typing stuff for the sake of taking up space now.. so I will stop. Ok. I'm done. As of now. No more. The End.

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch...

As the end of the year is already here, this rant is less than timely, but I still feel the need to share this.
My psychology class is a big first year class in a lecture theatre. Many people bring their laptops to class to take notes since all the notes are on powerpoint slides and that's a big waste of paper having to print them all out.
This class is also quite boring. People with laptops play games on them when they are bored. They do not make noise, they do not pump their firsts in the air when they win their solitare game, they just quietly disengage themselves from paying attention. Where is the harm in this I ask you??
Apparently this is quite upsetting to some people. Or just one jack ass in particular.
This jackass happens to be a mature student too.
He is constantly heckling the prof and making stupid anecdotal comments about his stupid life.
So anyway, today we were talking about how in our worlds we have all this stuff coming at us, but our brain only processes what is crucial to what we need at the moment. Even though there are constantly distractions all around us, we all manage to function well. So this dick puts his hand up and says "Kind of like right now, as i look at all these people (there was 1 guy...) with laptops who seem to always sit at the front and play video games during the lecture." and the prof was like, "...uh... what do you mean?" and he was like "It's just hard to concentrate when the people in front of you aren't paying attention to the lecture" and then he points to the kid with the laptop! Who fucking does that?! And the prof gets all up in this kid's business about if he didn't want to pay attention he should leave, meanwhile this adult asshole sits back all smug with himself for tattling on an 19 year old kid. clap clap fucking clap. Pretty much everybody in the room was heckling him under their breath for being such a moron. I wanted to throw my coffee cup at him.
Who does that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I mean REALLY! What a crazy bastard.

Anyway.

Last night was another good night. Went to the Art Gallery to check out the 60's in Canada exhibit ( http://www.gallery.ca/exhibitions/exhibitions/sixties/english/index.html) . It was totally cool. They had this one part where it was the first 10 seconds of the top 100 songs from the 60's. And MAN! The music.... I have a hardcopy list... so cool. It was really weird because most of the songs triggered some sort of memory as soon as I heard them. Definately really cool.

Then, we met up with the boys and went to Second Cup and me and Kat had our plams read. It was pretty cool.. I don't really feel like posting all the deats here... Ask me about it and I'll tell you. It was cool, but at the same time for the amount of $$$ I shelled out, I sort of expected more I guess? I dunno when i went to see the tarot lady at the end of summer she was really good. Like the stuff came true good. This palm lady makes me skeptical I guess? (yeah I know skeptical about a palm read.. who'da thought?) But yeah... anyway It was a good night.

Tonight is Sin City woooop! Should be pretty cool hopefully. It's a night outa the appartment at the very least..

2 more days of class.... yesssss and woaaah all at the same time.