yay for posting! i haven't posted in sooo long.
well... it feels that way.
i'm actually taking a break from studying and homework. haha.. it's fun. what a great day! i talked to Terry today about switching to his skills class, and he said it was okay! YAY!!! Terry Kroetsch!! i told mike the percussionist (not cute mike percussionist... the other mike percussionist) and he asked me who i have for skills now, and i told him Carol Bauman, and he looked all surprised and told me how she has breat cancer. i felt kinda bad, but then having breast cancer doesn't mean that you have to be a bad (or mediocre) skills teacher. *shrug*... okay, i'm cold hearted... so sue me. i just want the marks.

anywhoo! last night i went to the Rude with Timmy for drinks AND cheescake! it was awesome! i got a menengitis vaccine shot on monday, so my arm was pretty sore yesterday and i couldn't play for open mic. hell... i couldn't even practise. it still hurts today, but not as much. feels like my muscles are all stiff and shit. anywhoo... but it was fun chatting with Tim Louis and Ryan and Elaine and all the cool people who jammed.

oh yeah... HI CARMEN-BEAN!!!!
i love my Chewy hee hee!

ummm... what else...? oh! our bathroom is being painted today! it looks really nice so far! all clean and beige! and our new porch/deck is being built now too! YAY for new porches!

haha i watched the family guy movie yesterday, it was hilarious! my favourite part was the Sound of Music impersonation. i love Julie Andrews, who is my queen. *heart*

anywhoo.... im gonna go.. and do some work now.

i <3 nurds!

edit: my research methods prof is hot!

i was just about to post something about missing my friends, and i saw nique's post on the crazies. :( it was so touching. i usually don't bother reading song lyrics on a website, but i read that one all the way through, and it made me sad.

anyway... i was going to reflect on the fact that i feel so detached from everyone this school year. i mean, i don't know any of the first yr violinists, besides knowing their face (and even that, i don't know everyone). i barely have any classes with people in my own year, and i'm not living with any music people.
oh, and warren and i haven't hung out once, and neither have i and andrew abela. i know everyone's all busy and stuff, but still... it sucks. well... warren's always postponing hanging out with me. last time, he asked for a raincheck, and i was like "no i don't do those, because i know people always forget, and i'd rather not have people owe me." ha. i think he took it the wrong way. whatever.

the good thing is that i really like my new roommates, they're awesome. our unit of the house is finally starting to get some real renovations. we got a new fridge, new stove, new water taps, and vlad (the fixer dude) is coming in tomorrow and continue fixing up our bathroom. it's gonna look so awesome! today we all drove to the hmoe depot to buy a new shelf for our bathroom, and taps for the tub. it was a fun little trip. haha..

i have so much reading to do, i'm getting flustered. you know that feeling when you have so much to do and you don't know what to do first, so you don't do anything at all? yeah... that's how i'm feeling right now.

anywhoo... i'm gonna try one more attempt at reading more music history. wish me luck.

well yesterday afternoon, when i was at home in scarbro, i decided to watch The Joy Luck Club. Nan recommended that i watch it with my mother, but i found out that my mother was the one who bought the dvd, and already watched it a long time ago. anyway... i watched it by myself, and i'm not even kidding, i cried like a baby. some parts of it were so touching, and it's something i can totally relate to. aaahhh.... it really is a mother-daughter movie.

anyway.... Lorna and i looked over each other's Apocalyptica pics. i got mine developed yesterday. some of them didn't come out at all, which really sucks. but there were a few that came out awesome, and those totally make up for all the shitty pics. i'm actually going to blow one or two (one for sure) up and put them up as a poster in my room. it's really really hot! :) i love my hot finnish cellists. *heart*

anywhoo.... my break is over... back to being a nurd. yay baroque music! allemande! courante! sarabande! gigue!

OH MY GOD.... the Apocalyptica concert was fuckin AWESOME!!!!!! seriously.. oh man... it was sooo great. hearing them live is a million times better! when the first band opened for them, lucas and i were outside chatting. he was sooo mellow. it sucked, cuz i wanted to be hyper. but i got a good dose of lucas, and i almost fell asleep. that party pooper. when apocalyptica started up we went in, and i dove into the front row... but off to the side. lucas went... somewhere else, i don't know. they played sooo many metallica songs! it was great!! the highlight of the night was when they played Nothing Else Matters (aka the Joni Glidden song, who, bythe way, wasn't there at the concert). oooohhhh maaaaannn... it was so fuckin orgasmic! i loooved Inquisition Symphony too. it's one of my other favs of theirs. anywhoo... the concert ended at about 9:30, and afterwards Lorna, Lucas Lorna's brother, and her highschool friends all waited til they came out. i swear to god, they are the most nicest, down to earth musicians i have ever met. you know how some rock starts are all assholes just cuz they're rich and famous? not them! perttu was so shy, it was the cutest thing. but on stage, he was the first one with his shirt off, leather pants, and i heard he goes commando under them! so Lorna was like "how many personalities do you have?" cuz he's so differnt off stage. and pertu was just standing like counting his fingers.. hahah! but yeah.. it was awesome chatting with them. and then we talked to the drummer, he was also very nice. he has cute hair. hahah. yeah... i don't know his name. but he signed my ticket as well. me, Lorna and Eicca had the coolest chat. we were talking about technique and stuff, and i told him that i played violin, and we (me and lorna) wanted to know how he kept his wrist (or arm, but it looked like he was playing from his wrist) soo relaxed, especially during the 32th notes. and eicca was like "just play from your ass! or your back." but yeah.. it was like a mini masterclass! with eicca! *heart!!* i seriously love them so much, they awesome. and when eicca was signing my ticket, he didn't know that he was only supposed to sign one, so he signed all 3 of them. haha it was funny. oh well. paavo was the last to come outside, and he was Lorna's favourite, so we had to wait til he came out. and we got pictures and all that good stuff, but we all had to agree that he was a bit of a letdown, compared to the bonding that we did with perttu and eicca and the drummer. oh well.. and then Lorna's brother drove me home and i didn't have to take the bus! yaaaayyyy!!

WHAT A GREAT NIGHT!!

edit: i also want to comment on the extent of the HOTNESS that was on stage tonight. fuckin unbelievable! mmmmmm.mmmmm.mmmmmm

awwww a first year violin girl is shorter than me! she's sooo cute! hahaha
this morning's meeting in jeremy's room (my violin studio teacher) was really interesting. we started off talking about our summers and music related stuff, then for some reason, it branched off to talking about cadavers and skinning people to see their muscles and stuff. it was weird. but fun still.

i'm at Fran's right now. i love her new room, it's so cozy! it's like being in a cave! awww.... but it would be nice to go home right now... but it's such a nuisance cuz there's construction all over. bah. ah well...

anyway.... i'm le tired. im gonna go hang out with fran and amie.

took this from my xanga.... didn't feel like writing the same thing again...

i just want to comment that i really really fucking hate little frosh kids who wear skirts so short that i can pretty much see their asses and get trashed and walk all around town talking at the top of their lungs. really... that is so degrading. ugh...

i just came back from going out with timmy and a bunch of his roommates. we had a drink at the Rude, and then walked home. on the way, these 3 girls were in front of us. two of them were holding up this one girl who was absolutely trashed out of her mind. we got sick of walking behind them, so we walked faster to get in front of them, and i turned around to see the girl who was really trashed, and lo and behold, it was shermeen. that blind girl who went to ACI. anyways... i told timmy, and we were all surprised and stuff, but timmy was kinda buzzed himself and started saying that blind people should be allowed to drink too. *rolls eyes*... anyways.... it just wasn't cool. and really.... her skirt just wasn't short enough. *rolls eyes in disgust*

okay, i'm done complaining. there's a laurier international students dinner party at the Rude tomorrow. i'm actually really excited, because fran's a mentor, and i'm hoping to meet her exchange students. i dunno if she's gonna be there, but... hopefully! anyway.... im gonna go... i have a meeting with jeremy tomorrow. i'm sooo nervous, because i wrote him a long email telling him about my schedule and plans and stuff, and his reply was only one sentence: to go see him soon. so... i'm worried that he doesn't like me anymore. aww... so yeah... i gotta prepare for that.

but before i part, i would like to say that i saw amie, james, liz and joni glidden today. i miss my strings people. *heart*

and jay hasn't called yet.... still waiting....

look! i'm stealing internet again! yay it works!

lots of people have moved into my house, so i just thought i'd try and see if they've gotten internet yet and if i would be able to steal it. it worked! stealing internet is great!

anywhoo.... i ushered tihs morning. it was ofr a graduate studies' orientation. it was sooo boring. i actually fell asleep during the 2-hour presentation.

anyway.... i would have thought i had much to post, but... i don't. not up to sharing stuff today. so i'll end it here. bye!

i could write this long post about my shitty life and whatnot, but i'll spare everyone of having to read my complaints. instead, i'll let y'all know that i can't wait til school starts in a week.

that is all.