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Welcome to my office
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it's gloomy outside but I'm all sunshine in here. got a coffee with my boss first thing this morning and worked on some hand-outs listening to This American Life all morning. love that show, Ira Glass is one of my heroes.
had a session today where I helped the sweetest lady look up the tiny town in Italy that she grew up in. she hadn't been back to visit in over 45 years and started to cry when we found her elementary school because she was so happy to see it. it's reasons like that why I love The Internet.
last night Tyrone and I had a home-made pizza party.
we got most of the ingredients from this fantastic locally-owned Italian store called La Grotta del Fromaggio on Sargent Ave and witnessed the sassy Italian cashier (possible owner?) argue with three of the other older men working there because the computer connected to the register wasn't working. we wound up being there ten extra minutes because they were sassing each other, but it was so worth it. I love locally-owned businesses specifically for that reason, you see the authentic side of people and it's such a better experience as a result.plus I got a massive hunk of prosciutto for only 9$ :)
busy day today. have another training session in ten minutes and a jam-packed afternoon followed by class this eve. this is my jam today:
Hip Hop Sunday #19 - Outkast - B.O.B.
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Outkast makes me happy 100% of the time, they're so weird and unbelieveably talented and Stankonia is one of my all-time fav albums
I also know all the words (but you'll never let me sing along, it's too embarrassing when I try)
busy day today, make the best of it!
Happy Hip Hop Sunday!
xo
The Zombie Gait destroyed my hips
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but it was all worth it!
Winnipeg Zombies were out in fine form last night, even Triangle Head from Silent Hill made an appearance as we all rallied at The Forks screaming for brainsssssssssssss
but we settled for Lil Pizza Heaven (twice! I know! and now I'm craving their garlic-buttered pizza crusts again... omnom!)
Zombie Afterparty at Pure. we tried to go to The Zoo but were deterred by the double-kick black metal playing (I'm not a metalhead, can you tell? hehe) and rallied there.
saw so many undead familiar faces out last night, it was so good hanging with everyone before I finally dragged my exhausted, undead self home. Tyrone had a shower with me to un-zombiefy and though that's not usually the sort of stuff I talk about on this here blog it was just too cute and fun, peeling the fake skin off each other and laughing, to not mention. it was the highlight of my night :)
it's already afternoon but it feels like morning to us. slept in like crazy and am currently lazing around in our pajamas. eventually I plan on dragging Tyrone out for some pho for lunch, I think (shh he doesn't know yet)
Half Pints 5th anniversary party at Lo Pub tonight! Can't wait!
Happy Caturday! xo
Some Friday advice for you
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it's true.
Fantastic Friday. Spent all morning teaching which is so fun and rewarding and surprisingly hard! I can't wait to do it more. had a mega-healthy spinach salad I brought from home & watched clips of my crush Stephen Colbert over lunch. it's chilly and sunny and just like I like my Octobers to be.
I'm jetting out of here shortly to get prepped for the Zombie Walk tonight, are you going? It's going to be an insane time, we're going to party like we're in North Korea.
Up too late. Again.
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but who cares? I'm young and in love and I'm happy. I'm scoring A's on papers and writing midterms so hard I feel dizzy at the end of 'em. I have great friends, a boyfriend who treats me like gold, and a life jam-packed with awesome.tomorrow I start teaching seniors to use The Internet. that's all I'll say about my job from here on out (I'm working with people, y'know how it is) but I'm excited and scared and I think it's going to be such a great learning experience that I can't wait to sit down with my first savvy student and begin sharing my knowledge.
Winnipeg Zombie Walk & Half Pints birthday party this weekend. oh my.
life is good :)
don't say I've never done anything nice for you
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because after sharing that piece of grilled cheese video wisdom you can't ever be mad at me again.
recently I've been trimming
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my FaceBook friends list.there's just so much crap on there that I don't care about. I don't care about those stupid 'viral pictures' or whatever that are going around. I don't care to have the same party pushed on me by two dozen people. I don't care about Justin Beiber.
recently I was on Tyrone's laptop and was looking at his feed without realizing it was his (since most of our friends are the same) and I was struck by how much irrelevant, whiny, trolling posts there were before realizing that I wasn't logged into my own profile and I was just seeing the fat I'd trimmed away from my proverbial FaceBook lean.
I try to make it a habit to not bitch about stuff that annoys me, or stuff that I hate, on FaceBook. it seems to be a cesspool for idiocy and let's face it: haters gonna hate. there's always going to be something pissing someone off no matter what time it is or what day of the week it happens to be, and though I generally try not to clutter up my FaceBook feed with rants about crap that I hate I present to you here a list of all the things that I hate that I don't deign important enough to clutter up other social media channels.
Car commercials, sports bars where the girls dress up like slutty referees, Glee, 3D, Jane Lynch, newer Tim Burton movies, autostereograms, Republicans, Libertarians, reality tv, infotainment, Alice in Chains, Justin Beiber, homophobes, Stephen Harper, blues music, Willem Dafoe's face, Fox News, people who hate Apple products (idiots), most stand-up comedians, gameshow music, the circus, clowns, smelly children, most children, Dora the Explorer, TreeHouse TV, Kim Kardashian, people who care about Hollywood marriages, girls who look down on me because I don't go to Whiskey Dixx on a Friday/Saturday night, The Harper Government, Steve Buscemi, meat loaf (the food not the singer), T-Pain, polls, platform shoes, kandi kids, The Situation, the war on terror, puns, (most) movie remakes, people who have fake FaceBook names, punk rock, clothes with spikes on them and/or black jean clothing, the word 'pasture', spiders, scary-long fake nails, white pants, inflation, LiveJournal, weeaboos, Habbo Hotel, Chinese knockoffs, Westboro Baptist Church, ragecomics, people who don't get memes but insist on making them, squat toilets, GW Bush, people who obsess over World of Warcraft, The Blue Waffle, Gilbert Godfrey, all Disney sequels except Return of Jafar, vampires, Twilight, werewolves, people who pick their noses in public, Jennifer Aniston, duckface, Nicholas Cage, and Taco Bell, people who don't 'get' social media, people who wear too-tight pants, Colonel Sanders and Adam Sandler comedies.
oh there's lots more but, I've got work.
facebook is driving me insane
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while I may know 361 people I am certainly not friends with 361 people and have decided to do the requisite FaceBook Purge today and it's like the instant you start trying to unfriend people the site goes I SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING THERE and begins to screw up and lag and basically not work unless you go back to your feed and do regular stuff like comment on your friends stupid pictures of cats, or whateverI've said this before, but I'm kind of sick of FaceBook
yes I know the benefits of being on the biggest social network (that's why I'm still on it) but I find myself frustrated and annoyed with it more often than not and I don't understand why people continue to use it if it is as bad as we all perceive it to be? all my friends bitch all the time about how 'FaceBook sucks', but nobody I know has made a serious move to another platform.
I feel bad for not using G+ as much but only like three other people I know use it so it's just me and Shabooty most of the time.
I found a recipe for these online and now all I can think about is skipping Sociology and making these (I won't). Also I have been trying really hard to eat less bacon but it's hard around my social circle because we were all obsessed with bacon long before it became cool.
Will says he is going to make them when we come over and watch a Jets game sometime and now the interest I have in seeing a Jets game has gone up by 40% which is 40% more than I cared before.
though I'm sure you'd love to keep hearing me talk about food and hockey and stupid FaceBook I have to put on pants and go to class. lucky you guys.
where have I been
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where has the weekend gone?
saturday spent lying in a living room as dark as I could get it popping leftover T3's from my surgery because the Migraine From Hell that I developed in the early afternoon made me feel like I was going to die. spent all day nearly getting sick from the pain & unable to really move, sipping on flat 7Up to try and calm my stomach and with a cold cloth on my forehead/neck. tried to sleep most of the day away and spent all night drifting in and out of sleep whole playing Netflix on my iPad because the silence was driving me crazy.
I had weird dreams about Apollo 13 and Tom Hanks that I can't really remember.
that made-for-tv movie for Dead Like Me wasn't any better than I thought it would be.
Sunday stumbled into the living room stuffed up and cranky, eating a slice of old pizza and glued to the couch with Tyrone.
we watched all of season one of The Walking Dead which is, wow, amazing and also embarrassing that I hadn't seen it before.
I also made him watch some X Files (thanks again Netflix!) and we had dinner at my parents where I drank a few gross Budweiser because it was either that or Lucky Lager which makes me nauseous just thinking about it
was passed out on the couch by 11pm and woke up at 10am.
I am officially a sickly, exhausted old lady.
I woke up today and the first thing I thought was 'I haven't been on The Internet in two days' and it freaked me out so I began writing this right away still unfed still unshowered in a camisole that doesn't match my panama pants and sniffling and coughing with Tyrone playing Super Paper Mario in the other room.
I feel like a freak when I am sick and this doesn't want to end.
I didn't eat a single thing all Saturday and yesterday I had a slice of leftover pizza and some roast beef and roasted potatoes and two Yorkshire puddings and two beers from my dad and thinking about that makes me want to get dressed and inhale a giant plate of poutine from Papa George's in the Village or for some reason have a hot dog from a vendor and I don't know what those two have to do with one another but I think I will be harassing Tyrone into going out for dinner today because there is no way I am making anything so there.
speaking of food Tyrone wants to discuss making me breakfast and what I want to that is more important than writing this nonsense right now.
TIL that Jean Chrétien was a badass
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one of my favourite pieces of Canadiana is the "Shawinigan Handshake, which is featured in the above video.
the best part is Jean Chrétien's commentary after the fact.
it's one of my favourite JC moments, right behind when someone tried to break into The Two-Four and he fended off an assignation attempt until the RCMP got there.
Canadian PMs used to be so cool.
now we have Harper. wtf happened.
