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I have a slight hangover and barbecue breath from last night's charcoal grilling fiesta - which is how I prepare for exams. I should teach a seminar...

Goals for February

1. Be less of a bitch - sometimes it's just best to shut up and keep it to yourself.
2. Avoid celebrating my birthday
3. Call my parents - without an ulterior motive of getting money (it's like squeezing blood from a stone, fyi)
4. Actually do readings for my classes and go for a change - I might learn something, and you know, make a good impression on profs who might be able to help me with the whole grad school thing...
5. Not spend $4k in the span of 2 weeks (give or take a couple of days)

I think that's it.

This is only a test...

...but I'm trying to see if I can actually make it through a week in September without having a drink.

So far so good, but I've still got 5 days left.

It's been easy so far because I've been playing catch up with school, and it's been pretty nice to not be ridiculously hungover at work but I miss hanging out at our campus bar.

In other news, I broke the arm off our brand new mannequin at work today - smooth! Oh well, my plan is to ask someone else to change it next time and let them take the fall.

Wonders will never cease

Yesterday I raged on about the bitches in my soc class for taking up all the seats, blah blah blah. Turns out the reason there were so few seats is because I have a midterm tomorrow in that class. Um, right. I figured a midterm was coming up sooner or later, it just never occured to me that it would be tomorrow. This might not have snuck up on the average person, but since I ditched school for an entire week last week, I have no one to blame but myself.


I decided to skip my criminology class this afternoon to study (I have to work in 6 hours), and my first order of business was checking my RSS feeds (the second of course, is watching my stories). Kate over at Logged Hours outlines why relationships make you fat, yet another reason why I'm not in a relationship Latte. This of course makes it somewhat hard to find a formal date*, so as long as you're not Franchise, I'd be down with taking you as my date.


On that note, I have to go watch Days...and study of course.

*my only real requirements being that you:
are literate, are funny, will put out

Move Bitch!

Yeah, so I'm sitting at home right now watching Days instead of sitting in my sociology of gender class. Why? Well because I was supposed to meet a friend for coffee between classes and then we walk to class together. The coffee* place is literally across the atrium from my soc class, so imagine my surprise when I arrive in front of my class 5 minutes before it's set to begin, and literally every seat but two in the middle of class is occupied (one of the seats was next to 'Dumpy Dave' so that option was obviously out of the question).

Fuck!

I know it's a really hard concept to grasp, but sometimes people have to go to the bathroom between classes or their previous class is across campus. So if you could simply move one seat over and leave one or two seats near the edge of the class free for people like myself it would be greatly appreciated. I pay the same $500+ per class as you do, so it's the least you could do.

Today's reasoning for being slightly late was somewhat lame, but 2 years ago I had an 11am class in Business (as far south as you can go on campus pretty much), a 12 noon class in Med Sci (on the edge of the north end of the main campus), and then I had to get back to Business for a 1pm class. If you're lucky and you aren't trapped behind the slowest walkers on earth, you can barely make it on time (assuming of course that the traffic lights are in your favour), I don't think I was ever on time for my class in Med Sci, and the prof totally thought I was the biggest slacker, but it wasn't my fault. On the plus side, the TA was quite fond of my friend and I, so it didn't really affect my mark in the class.

i'm out

team gingerbread

*oh, and I forgot to mention how gross the coffee was. Somehow I always conveniently forget how bad Aramark coffee is; I swear to God there were undertones of roasted goat meat. The only reason I drank it is that I'm so bloody cheap that I refused to throw out my $1.59 hot cuppa ass. I could have gone to Timmy Ho's on the way home and played Rrroll Up the Rim to Win!

Who needs food and shelter when you've got music?

So both Bonnaroo and Coachella have announced their lineups. I'd prefer to go to Coachella, but I just don't know 1. if I can afford it and 2. if I'm going to be finished my exams. I would KILL to see some of the acts at Coachella mostly b/c I'll likely never get another chance to see them as Edmonton isn't exactly the first stop on anyone's tour.

While Bonnaroo's lineup which includes Cat Power, Damian Marley, Ben Folds, Death Cab, Dungen, Donavon Frankenreiter, the Magic Numbers, Beck, Radiohead and Tom Petty is good; Coachella's is better.

The full lineup according to NME and Stereogum includes Cat Power, Imogen Heap, the Subways, Bloc Party, Sigur Ros, Common, Franz Ferdinand, Ladytron, the Go! Team, Clap Your Hands, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, Youth Group, Scissor Sisters, Sleater-Kinney (I absolutely love them, I last saw them in 2000), Depeche Mode, Metric, Wolf Parade, Digable Planets, Phoenix, and the Dears just to name a few.


I am at a loss for words. Being broke all summer would definitely be worth it if I got to go to Indio!