[ on rotation ] :: "date with the night" - yeah yeah yeahs
honestly, who wants to know what's on page 47?? i am so frackin' addicted to the OC it's kind of embarrassing. really, i thought i outgrew this years ago...ergo, after season 1. and with 2 and 3 being failures, you'd think i'd be able to let this go easy. thursday's episode was damn good. damn hilarious too. and damn disappointing (in the end..."dream" sequence thingy, but with a nice touch). but honestly now, for those of you who watched it, aren't you the least bit curious as to what the hell was on the infamous page 47?? i love this new season. i love this new cast. thank God marissa's gone. however, there was that one marissa scare in the chrismukkah episode. thank goodness it was a false alarm. anyways, last season, 6 episodes remain, whatcha gonna do? i've only got one thing to say (and in the risk of sounding like an obsessed tweenage fangirl) ryan and taylor better stay together. she was so good at being bad; she's so good at being good; she's so good for ryan. there. got it out of my system. it's probably a good thing it's ending...and not just because they're ending it on a high not and all that glory...but because then it would mean one less thing for me to keep obsessing about. i mean with smallville, grey's and television in general...i might not get any work done.
i bought that bsg game yesterday (well, the 11th) and tried it out this morning with my group members. it looked fucked up. like, i had seen it before from when my friends took the course last semester, but working on it yourself was a little more intimidating. we did tinker with it a little and it's not as bad as it seemed. i'm actually a little excited about it, as geeky as it seems. basically, myself and 2 other group members are supposed to run and manage a company in the athletic footwear industry and pretty much stay outta the red. go bankrupt, fail...or just probably do really poorly...haven't figured that out...can't remember what the prof said...but not wanting to find out. i want to win. maybe i won't, but i want to. badly.
my capitalism course doesn't seem to be as exciting. my prof seems a little, how should i say...cynical, about business. well, big corporate businesses in particular; and perhaps a little bitter. but he's a very good lecturer. i think he intentionally tries to get under our skin, but something, somewhere in me, i know he's right. well, maybe the cynic in me believes him. and we all have one of those in us, don't we?...(and pause for effect :) ). the rest of the time, i've developed my own views and beliefs about the culture and environment about business and economics. but at this point, i'm just looking for the green light to graduate, so i'll just spit back his own political and economic jargon and hope that it's somewhere near his line of thought.
speaking of graduating, i went and talked to my program councillor and so far so good. just gotta pass and i should be "golden" as she said. now i just have to figure out how to do this registration business. stupid webadvisor won't let me register. i'm thinking it's because it doesn't show that my tuition is paid, but i paid it a few days ago. it's just a retarded program that doesn't show the transaction for like 5 working days so i'm stuck here worried that the payment didn't go through and might possibly be de-registered on my last semester. this happens every year, and the worry never goes away. it's kinda like when i thought i had lost my student card just a few days ago. i refused to pay the $25 to replace it and would rather think of ways to scam the system and find another means of a bus pass (though guelph's public transportation service is as efficient as a bicycle in the arctic). ok...maybe it's not quite like that...but the bottom line is that i'd be a stubborn bitch about it and bitch out financial services.
and i'm lying...i'm actually listening to teddy geiger right now. yeah yeah yeahs was playing maybe 20 minutes ago, before i went to the loo and brush my teeth. yeah, ok, so what, we all have guilty pleasures. i'm just willing to admit mine to the www.
cheers.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
woodwork
[ on rotation ] :: "level" - the racontuers
and so i am back in the g-town scrambling to figure out how to organize my next few months of academicness. i have 2 classes in class and 3 de classes. and it turns out that i don't have any classes on fridays. huzzah! i got a phone call from a mr. associate from sdm behind my house and i'm a little weary if i actually get the job. they might expose me as being a fraud in disguise as a tech. oh dear. what to do, what to do...
i have grad photos coming up in a little over 3 weeks and i still look like dora the explorer. this is going to be interesting. something amusing to look at over the mantle, i suppose. and $40 for the friggin' proofs! robbery!
spent these first few days in front of the tely. i'm on/off addicted to csi. i'm still hopping the boat between miami and las vegas...but i think i might be more partial to las vegas...only because the crimes are more fucked up. it's really quite intriguing! hahaha. aaaaaanyways, that is it for now. i still need to buy the BSG game for business policy and probably start taking a look at some of my de courses before i fall behind.
cheers.
and so i am back in the g-town scrambling to figure out how to organize my next few months of academicness. i have 2 classes in class and 3 de classes. and it turns out that i don't have any classes on fridays. huzzah! i got a phone call from a mr. associate from sdm behind my house and i'm a little weary if i actually get the job. they might expose me as being a fraud in disguise as a tech. oh dear. what to do, what to do...
i have grad photos coming up in a little over 3 weeks and i still look like dora the explorer. this is going to be interesting. something amusing to look at over the mantle, i suppose. and $40 for the friggin' proofs! robbery!
spent these first few days in front of the tely. i'm on/off addicted to csi. i'm still hopping the boat between miami and las vegas...but i think i might be more partial to las vegas...only because the crimes are more fucked up. it's really quite intriguing! hahaha. aaaaaanyways, that is it for now. i still need to buy the BSG game for business policy and probably start taking a look at some of my de courses before i fall behind.
cheers.
Thursday, January 4, 2007
with a banjo in tow
[ on rotation ] :: "mad world" - gary jules
just thinking about what i'm going to type out makes me laugh inside my head. for the longest time, i've been neglecting the OC because of 2 really crappy seasons. now when they finally hit the jackpot with their best season EVER (thank you taylor townsend for replacing the dreary, one-dimensional, marissa cooper), they get the plug pulled. yea, ok, so i'm bandwagoning but hey, this season's actually made me want to come back and watch it again...religiously. i've actually put grey's aside for this, putting them on priority 3 for my thursday night TV lineup. i guess all good things must come to an end. and at least they end it with a bang (i hope. yet to see the season/series finale, but i've got my fingers crossed).
now that i've gotten the teenage girl in me out of the way...
had lunch with some old abbey friends. ok, do i ever feel old. we're all pretty much in our last year of uni and not one of us know what we are going to do with our lives. i believe it was fabiola who said:
"isn't it funny how we all went into university knowing exactly what we wanted to do with our lives? and now that we're graduating, we have absolutely no idea."
give or take a few words, but in the same context. regardless, she is absolutely right. funny how life throws you dem curve balls. too bad we all can't be babe ruths. it was a good day, ladies. we shall meet again soon! 20 year reunion, i hope to GOD that we'll all have flashy careers and bling to show-off. or just bling. just bling would be impressive too.
....and perhaps a nice, ripe, 20-something year old. hahaha! yea, you think i'm joking too...hahaha!
went to square one after lunch and met up with my alanna-giant and melo. did some of my trickery and got alanna to buy a nice pair of black, wedge-heel pumps from steve madden (ok, so maybe the fact that steve madden can make a 3" heel that feel like flats might've had something to do with it but c'mon...i'm taking the credit for slowly turning her into a name brand whore! :D).
it was a good day overall. and now it's a good night.
cheers.
just thinking about what i'm going to type out makes me laugh inside my head. for the longest time, i've been neglecting the OC because of 2 really crappy seasons. now when they finally hit the jackpot with their best season EVER (thank you taylor townsend for replacing the dreary, one-dimensional, marissa cooper), they get the plug pulled. yea, ok, so i'm bandwagoning but hey, this season's actually made me want to come back and watch it again...religiously. i've actually put grey's aside for this, putting them on priority 3 for my thursday night TV lineup. i guess all good things must come to an end. and at least they end it with a bang (i hope. yet to see the season/series finale, but i've got my fingers crossed).
now that i've gotten the teenage girl in me out of the way...
had lunch with some old abbey friends. ok, do i ever feel old. we're all pretty much in our last year of uni and not one of us know what we are going to do with our lives. i believe it was fabiola who said:
"isn't it funny how we all went into university knowing exactly what we wanted to do with our lives? and now that we're graduating, we have absolutely no idea."
give or take a few words, but in the same context. regardless, she is absolutely right. funny how life throws you dem curve balls. too bad we all can't be babe ruths. it was a good day, ladies. we shall meet again soon! 20 year reunion, i hope to GOD that we'll all have flashy careers and bling to show-off. or just bling. just bling would be impressive too.
....and perhaps a nice, ripe, 20-something year old. hahaha! yea, you think i'm joking too...hahaha!
went to square one after lunch and met up with my alanna-giant and melo. did some of my trickery and got alanna to buy a nice pair of black, wedge-heel pumps from steve madden (ok, so maybe the fact that steve madden can make a 3" heel that feel like flats might've had something to do with it but c'mon...i'm taking the credit for slowly turning her into a name brand whore! :D).
it was a good day overall. and now it's a good night.
cheers.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
oh, and one more thing...
[ on rotation ] :: "linus and lucy" - a charlie brown christmas
apparently, my celebrity look alike is dayang nurfaizah. yeah, "who?" my thoughts exactly. i googled her and according to wikipedia, she is malaysia's "r&b princess". that's right, bitches. brup brup. yeah, once again, "who the fuck?". yea, i hear ya. i had to do it. how could i pass up this opportunity?
special thanks to jen who introduced me to yet another great tool of procrastination:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php
hours of your day gone. it's great.
cheers.
apparently, my celebrity look alike is dayang nurfaizah. yeah, "who?" my thoughts exactly. i googled her and according to wikipedia, she is malaysia's "r&b princess". that's right, bitches. brup brup. yeah, once again, "who the fuck?". yea, i hear ya. i had to do it. how could i pass up this opportunity?
special thanks to jen who introduced me to yet another great tool of procrastination:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php
hours of your day gone. it's great.
cheers.
this is how we (as in i) do.......2007
[ on rotation ] :: "habanera (aria)" - carmen (georges bizet)
so unlike most people who were probably all merry and drunk the day before the first of january, i was asleep. let's backtrack a bit, shall we? let me tell you about how I celebrate the new year.....at home. by myself. in front of the television for 11 hours. and contrary to beliefs, it was good. very restful. very gretchen. are any of you surprised? thought not.
the short bit: watched tely until 11:30 then fell asleep until 2:30am.
why is it that there's never anything on new year's eve? i actually resorted to watching bollywood's best until a csi marathon. and what the hell is it with these bollywood movies?? granted, probably the first indian tv show, music video, or movie that didn't have the stereotypical chase around a tree/temple/whatever while the girl sings in a tone so high pitched even mariah would have to give props. instead, however, the girl was a snake that turned human and used a series of high pitched singing and dance moves as a battle to the death against an evil, power-hungry sage. ok. what. the. fuck. ? now this is something new altogether. now that i know that that's what you're supposed to do when you're in a magical rumble, i'd better sign up for dance and singing classes. never have i ever in a movie seen more cut scenes where the editing lab must've literally cut and paste the film together and ran them through a 100 year old projector. i actually wouldn't be surprised if this was just their last year's big blockbuster. i can't tell you why i actually watched the whole thing either. it was like a 10 car collision: you should just keep cruising, but you can't help but look at the chaos and carnage. you just couldn't not watch it. even my mom who had trouble reading the subtitles was intrigued by it. she almost missed a facial because she had gotten so into it. there had to be some sort of subliminal stint that movie was playing.
anyways, that's it for that. i've written far too much about it already. the rest of the day was pretty much me getting to know csi. erica would be proud to know that i stayed awake for 4 outta the 5 csi episodes i watched on the spike marathon. haha. fell asleep during the new york edition of csi. still working on ny. speaking of csi, erica would also be very proud of me to know that i watched 8 hours of csi: miami today. this is probably old news, but who the hell is leaking info to the press on miami?? and it only took me like what? 8 years to catch on to this show. it's not half bad. it's good to kill time (no pun intended) if anything. however, it's still taking a backseat on my thursday night lineups. :)
i think i'm good for now. i had something else i wanted to write down...but i forgot. i woke up this morning and planned my entire day, and i think i only checked off maybe 3 things from that list. i should probably make that list tangible.
cheers.
so unlike most people who were probably all merry and drunk the day before the first of january, i was asleep. let's backtrack a bit, shall we? let me tell you about how I celebrate the new year.....at home. by myself. in front of the television for 11 hours. and contrary to beliefs, it was good. very restful. very gretchen. are any of you surprised? thought not.
the short bit: watched tely until 11:30 then fell asleep until 2:30am.
why is it that there's never anything on new year's eve? i actually resorted to watching bollywood's best until a csi marathon. and what the hell is it with these bollywood movies?? granted, probably the first indian tv show, music video, or movie that didn't have the stereotypical chase around a tree/temple/whatever while the girl sings in a tone so high pitched even mariah would have to give props. instead, however, the girl was a snake that turned human and used a series of high pitched singing and dance moves as a battle to the death against an evil, power-hungry sage. ok. what. the. fuck. ? now this is something new altogether. now that i know that that's what you're supposed to do when you're in a magical rumble, i'd better sign up for dance and singing classes. never have i ever in a movie seen more cut scenes where the editing lab must've literally cut and paste the film together and ran them through a 100 year old projector. i actually wouldn't be surprised if this was just their last year's big blockbuster. i can't tell you why i actually watched the whole thing either. it was like a 10 car collision: you should just keep cruising, but you can't help but look at the chaos and carnage. you just couldn't not watch it. even my mom who had trouble reading the subtitles was intrigued by it. she almost missed a facial because she had gotten so into it. there had to be some sort of subliminal stint that movie was playing.
anyways, that's it for that. i've written far too much about it already. the rest of the day was pretty much me getting to know csi. erica would be proud to know that i stayed awake for 4 outta the 5 csi episodes i watched on the spike marathon. haha. fell asleep during the new york edition of csi. still working on ny. speaking of csi, erica would also be very proud of me to know that i watched 8 hours of csi: miami today. this is probably old news, but who the hell is leaking info to the press on miami?? and it only took me like what? 8 years to catch on to this show. it's not half bad. it's good to kill time (no pun intended) if anything. however, it's still taking a backseat on my thursday night lineups. :)
i think i'm good for now. i had something else i wanted to write down...but i forgot. i woke up this morning and planned my entire day, and i think i only checked off maybe 3 things from that list. i should probably make that list tangible.
cheers.
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