You Should Be a Poet

You have a way with words... and a talent for drawing the pure emotions out of experiences. Your poetry has the potential to make people laugh and cry at the same time. You just need to write it!

What Sort of Artist Should You Be?

You Are Most Like Bill Clinton

No doubt, your legacy may be a little seedier than you'd like. But even though you've done some questionable things, you're still loved by almost all.

What Modern US President Are You Most Like?

You Should Be a Film Writer

You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind. You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life. Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling. And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!

What Type of Writer Should You Be?

Your Blog Should Be Purple

You're an expressive, offbeat blogger who tends to write about anything and everything. You tend to set blogging trends, and you're the most likely to write your own meme or survey. You are a bit distant though. Your blog is all about you - not what anyone else has to say.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

You Are Broccoli Casserole Soda

Vegetarians taste better!

What Jones Holiday Soda Are You?

Random quizzes and musings.

School starts in less than a week.
I'm going to be working while at school.
I have amazing teachers and two have won teaching prizes and this is only the first semester. However, it's still school.
Yay parties and expected and unexpected outings and bouncing about somewhat aimlessly and getting good results.
Bah on people who are leaving (you shouldn't be allowed to pursue an education that sends you off to faraway lands) and on doing inventory, it's not fun to be hunched over in half trying desperately to scan huge duvets and bed sets that are covered in trillions of years of dust and gunk that's pretty disgusting.
Also, yay and bah on me for cleaning/organizing my room. It's not all finished yet but the drawers in my desk are useable for the first time in ages, the filing cabinet isn't too hideously unorganized (and overflowing to the point that when I pull out a drawer it doesn't lean forward a bit [really, it's just asking for trouble]), only a few boxes filled with mostly papers to be sorted and probably recycled at some point are still in my room making walking about trying, and my bookshelves are nice and moderately organized and don't have little boxes or cards or papers or Lego cars on them. In short, my room looks and is less cluttered! w00t for me! Bah though because I started last week and just let it stay chaotic for a good while.
So work has been a mixed blessing: money and friends and connections and twirling umbrellas while dancing down an aisle right before closing time just for the hell of it and naming socks with faces and snowmen on them but it took time away from socializing and some people I'll see at school and others are moving away and I'll probably not see them for too long (which is flexible but nevertheless unfortunate).
I'm going to go now and email Kathleen, my SUNIA blog buddy, this here url and go and finish up my room then call Kelci and see if there's any way we can get together before she leaves tomorrow for Flatland.
Bye to everybody else and I'm sure I'll bother you on your blogs and MSN and on Skype when I find the wireless attatchment that'll give the laptop internet again (damn desktop doesn't have the right plugins for my headset).

Til later,
Me.

One of my favourite planets isn't a planet any more...

Pluto has been officially downgraded to a "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5282440.stm) :-(

I'M BAAAAAACK!

So basically I miss SUNIA a lot. SUNIA is life and I miss really living. :(
Devon's party was fun last night as was Georgeanne's sister Alex's party after that.
Sears was pretty lousy today until I had a few nice people starring an almost older lady (early 60's I guestimate) who I told to keep her shoe box exactly a month ago and she came back with them thanking me profusely for having encouraged her to keep it because her shoes ended up being terrible and falling apart a bit. So she said she hoped I had kept telling people to keep their boxes because she was sure they'd bless me too for doing so. I got warm fuzzy feelings from her. :-D
Anyways, I'm going to go call Gee to see if it's worth me trying to go see Bon Cop Bad Cop since it starts really soon and I don't know exactly which bus to take to get out to Crowfoot...

'Til later all (and btw Devon, your stories = omfg amazing),
Me.

Comics from my birthday

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=665


Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

People are back!

Candace is back and Georgeanne is back and Joseph got back Saturday night!
Work isn't too too bad, people are generally fun. I have a new pair of dark blue pants and really nice new black shoes for work/debate.
I talked to Robyn Fulton for the first time in I don't know how long. It was fun. We're going to see what we can do to get together.
Arg that Meghan's fun summer party is while I'm off at SUNIA.
Devon, I'll see what I can do to get to your party, I'd love to come but we'll see what kind of shift I get that day or if I'm even scheduled *crossed fingers for another day off but doubts it'll happen b/c of the week-ish off for SUNIA*.
Cake is lovely. Mum made cake for Joseph when he came back and it's very delicious.
It definitely hasn't sunk in that I'm going to either SUNIA or that we should really start thinking about Debate org stuff and our trip and such.
Some people have already gotten their info for school, schedules and all, and I'm sad that I haven't yet and I don't know if I will or not as tomorrow's Heritage Day and all.
Joseph brought back fun French music which will be discussed in a later post some time.

Anyways, I'm going to have cake then sleep.

Bonne nuit à tous!

Me.

Guess who got an important package today?

ME!
Guess what was in it?
MY SUNIA INFO! :D:D:D:D

The Spanish phrase of the day:

Hay tan de cosas y yo no puedo hacer todo y yo sé que voy a matar alguien.

Rough translation: There are too many things on sale and I can't keep up with them and I can't do everything (check prices, see if suchandsuch is on 30% or 40% off or regular price, not go insane) and I know I'm going to kill someone today just because it's sooo crazy.

I don't pay attention to the world for a few weeks and look what happens!

North Korea goes all psycho and tests missiles over Japan and then very little afterwards.
One Israeli soldier is abducted and uncertainty grips Israel.
Two Israeli soldiers are abducted and Israel bombs and invades Lebannon to retrieve them and kill Hezbollah operatives.
Lebannon takes over Iraq's limelight.
A tsunami overtakes Java.
Nigerian oil pipes are attacked by militants.

The world is nuts!

I have decided what we shall do for the days off we'll have:

SALONS 17th century style!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_%28gathering%29
A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "to please and educate" (aut delectare aut prodesse est). The salons, commonly associated with French literary and philosophical salons of the 17th century and 18th century, were carried on until quite recently in urban settings among like-minded people of a 'set': many 20th-century salons could be instanced.

Hay una senora a Sears quien habla espanol y ella me dijo que puedo practicar mi espanol cuando ella viene.
(There's a fun lady at Sears who's hispanic who said that I can speak Spanish to her when she comes by to keep it up to snuff.) [Note, not a direct translation].

Arg at my lost memory key!!!

I can't find my memory key and I'm trying to move files from the desktop to laptop and it's not working very well with the laptop internet-free and the floppy disk I'm using less than cooperative.

Blank = blank

Stampede = waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many people.
Work = fun.
Zidane in the Final = WTF?
Hanging out with people at Stampede when not being sardined into oblivion = fun.
Indie bands with amazing names = amusing.

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Mike's Past Lives

V V V

1348 BC: Chinese Emperor

775 AD: A fish gutter

1672 AD: A corrupt politician

I know I was really bitchy to people online and negative about my first day at work,

However my second day was astronomically better: I knew more of what I was doing, I felt more comfortable, I had breakfast outside on the deck with Mum for the first time that I can remember in forever and had a really chill morning so I didn't feel underpressure and I was early for work; as well, I SAW MME SALLOUM AND SPOKE WITH HER IN FRENCH AS SHE PASSED MY TILL!!! And, when she left she ended with "ça m'a fait plaisir" It was a pleasure to see you again! AND! I had a really fun customer who bought the slippers the ordered downtown at our location, but the important part was she was really prim and proper and had an Upper Canadian accent and exuded the desire to be called "Ma'am", so I did and it made me really happy to have such a traditionalist-esque customer who I didn't have to worry if she'd mind being called "ma'am" (which I reserve for older ladies, just to be courteous and such). Those two encounters made my day!!!!!

BUT! I'm going off with Oriana to wander the city for a while then I'll be home to bother Joseph as he's leaving tomorrow morning realllllly early for Québec where he'll stay for five weeks.

So, à plus tard,
Me.

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 30% Conservative, 70% Liberal

Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

Guess who's now employed?

MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Guess where? Sears! Coles wants me too but they can't guarentee me the hours I want to get money for Germany/Prague so I'll be over at Sears at a Customer Service desk 37.5 hours a week at 8.50$/hr!!!!!!!!!!
So yeah, little excited. Torn because the Coles people are really nice and I really wanted to work with them but I go where money and hours and good so....
How are the rest of you doing? :-)

Me.

Yay UDP, Nose Hill, Myspace music and MSN and people and Coles!

Meeting up with Gee, Caitlin, Sean, Devon and Kelci on Saturday in Prince's Island Park then debating with the Green Peace people, then up to Gee's for the BBQ, Twister games and Cranium then walking up to Nose Hill, seeing the deer on the way, and then being eaten alive by mosquitos and taking pictures for the UDP, then slurpees while waiting for the bus... A day to be repeated many times this summer!
I was on my Myspace for the first time in months last night and stumbled across Myspace Music and found a few new bands that I love: Panda (at myspace.com/pandalandia), an indie rock band from Monterrey, Mexico, Plain White T's, who Oriana told me about, (http://www.plainwhitets.com/) and Feeling Left Out (http://www.myspace.com/floia).
And MSN is lovely just because. Same with people because they're awesome as a rule.
Coles = happy so far because they called me this morning to arrange for an interview to get me on part-time. In other words, around 2.30 tomorrow afternoon I'll be tied up for a while. :-)

I'm going to go eat some more and then go sneaker shopping with Mum and Joseph then drop off applications at Best Western and another place...Econo Lodge, that's it...

Hasta luego!
Me.

Happy Fête Nationale!

Joyeuse Fête Nationale, everyone!