I slept over at Jenni's last night and bussed on campus with her this morning, arriving at DC library at around 8:30am. Surprisingly, I'm not exhausted. But that's likely because I've finished inhaling my Tim Horton's. Tim Horton's is a good breakfast coffee, but UW should really invest in a Starbucks.
I should really get to work before I meet up with Jenni for lunch (Caesars! :D) and the purpose of my coming here so early is defeated.
I have a growing list of things I want to do after I finish all this crap:
read Pride and Prejudice, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, and the other book I said I was going to read
watch Gone With the Wind
see Mama Mia, The Dark Knight, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
I should have been back in loo yesterday-- but I'm still here. I'm sorry that you are now going to get a bit of a play by play.
Bee and Andrew's wedding rehearsal dinner was incredible- SewLungBao AND Peking Duck in one go. It compensated for the fact that I totally blew the song during rehearsal and how angry I felt about it. It's like... how do you spend hours and hours practicing and having it sound GOOD, and then, when it actually matters--you blow it? Life hates me like that.
I slept over at Alison's which was good laughs and good conversation, as expected. :) And we had brunch at Cora's! which I love. It gets me thinking about fall though. Because she was one of the people I spent the most time with in University... and come fall, I won't be able to. Fall's going to be an adjustment in so many ways.
After brunch I met up with Deborah and her mom invited me over for supper-- which was so delicious! I've never had Jewish food before! So it was quite enjoyable, and her family was so warm and friendly. We watched Alvin and the Chipmunks and went to a playground in the dark. Good times.
I meant to return to Waterloo last night. But by the time I got to Finch I knew I wouldn't make it downtown by 11:30. So Joanna saved me and let me crash at her place. And now I am here.
I just realized how everybody works here. So here is a song I love to help both you and I pass the time.:
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Some books I want to read but can't because I have too much work to do:
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (no, I haven't.) - Looking for Alaska by John Green - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
I started what was supposed to be a daily 'comic' of sorts, but failed on the 4th day to think of anything to draw. Go look anyway?:
I don't do change well. But improving? Looking to the future is always a mesh of both anticipation and dread. I found a song that I'm dedicating to a friend (maybe more than one, but one in specific) because well, you know. When the words fit! Listen and read along:
There's too many things that i haven't done yet Too many sunsets I haven't seen You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down You would've thought by now I'd have learned something
I made up my mind when i was a young girl I've been given this one world I won't worry it away But now and again i lose sight of the good life I get stuck in a low light But then Love comes in
How far do i have to go to get to you Many the miles Many the miles How far do i have to go to get to you Many the miles But send me the miles and i'll be happy to follow you
I do what i can wherever i end up To keep giving my good love And spreading it around Cause i've had my fair share of take care and goodbyes I've learned how to cry And i'm better for that
Sing how far do i have to go to get to you Many the miles Many the miles How far do i have to go to get to you Many the miles Send me the miles and i'll be happy to
Red letter day and i'm in a blue mood Wishing that blue would just carry me away I've been talking to God don't know If it's helping or not But surely something has got to got to got to give Cause i can't keep waiting to live
There's too many things i haven't done yet Too many sunsets i haven't seen
One thing I love about Social Group Work class is that afterward, there is usually room for an excuse not to go home. Tonight that comes in the form of Jenni's gigantic, family-less house with Jenni and Krystel.
Pizza and chicken fingers. Fashion magazines. Lipstick. Sex and the City.
I think I'm going to email Doreen tonight because I feel like I have an ASL hole in my life right now and I don't have time to take a course in the fall. :(
I found this video on youtube and the song's just so much more beautiful with this language. (although, the thing's not done entire in actual ASL, I think there's sign english in there too. but still.)
