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"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."
- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Showing posts with label Timbuktu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timbuktu. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

What Is Happening?

mY DON JUST WON TICKETS TO THE DIVERGENT LA MOVIE PREMIERE????!!!!!!!!!
Also, what the heck is going on with this weather?

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

No Roommate

An update on the potential roommate: no roommate. The girl moved into the room across from me. That room was empty in the first place because there was mould in it. So this could mean one of three things:
1. The mould is gone (unlikely; they haven't had anybody in to clear it out or anything)
2. The girl was just really desperate to get away from her previous roommate, or
3. She chose mould over me.
I'm not going to take anything personally, but do you see what I'm saying?
Regardless, I am happy and have no roommate. I've been thinking about how to potentially rearrange the furniture, but any layout that I would actually want it to be in doesn't work. So in the mean time, I've stolen the other mattress. I feel like I'm at camp when the cabin isn't full and you steal the extra mattress, hoping it won't be needed by another cabin. There was one time when both my CIT and I had three mattresses. That was a good week :) So now my bed is super tall (or at least it seems like it) and has more of a sinking feeling when you sit on it. I just washed the sheets and I even shaved my legs today. So needless to say, going to bed tonight will be an extremely pleasant experience.

Monday, 20 January 2014

Roommate

The other girl on my floor, who from here on out will be referred to as A, who has no roommate, was saying that our don came up to her and was asking if she would mind if another girl on our floor moved in with her. Apparently the two girls aren't getting along very well.  A said no. So I'm guessing that sometime in the near future, our don will be asking me if I wouldn't mind. I don't want another roommate though. I just got used to not having one. So if she does ask, I'm going to say no. At least that's what I tell myself. I'll probably actually say that I would prefer not to, but if there were no other options for her, I would do it. I've been thinking about how I could potentially rearrange the furniture.  A has moved the two beds so that they're beside each other. I was about to do that, until I realized I don't have anything to cover the other bed with, and I don't want to be lying on the mattress cover. So I'm still thinking of different plans. I want to organize it to that I can have the two desks beside each other so I have a lot of work space.

73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy?
March 14th, 2009. (I didn't know that off the top of my head, I had to look it up). I was going on vacation with my BFFLAAT and we were standing in Port Everglades. We had arrived later than planned, and so were a little restless. After entering the United States and getting on a plane with the documentation I had, I was being told that no, I could not get on the Norwegian Jewel because I did not have the proper documentation. J was saying that this form had gotten me into the US, it should be good enough for NCL. And then J whipped out her lawyer card (not literally, unfortunately, because that would have been enough for NCL) and they still wouldn't let me on. Then there was this whole fiasco trying to contact my parents for permission and is it the proper form and she needs a witness and how will she get it to us. Then my parents couldn't find the form online and everyone was panicking. And then the fire alarm went off. I started panicking even more, but nobody else did anything, so I continued to sit there. Then the NCL people are asking what our luggage looks like so that they can take it off the boat. Meanwhile, J was starting to loose it and I thought, "I'm not going on a cruise. J is going to hate me, I ruined her vacation (cause they couldn't very well just leave me there and go on the cruise themselves). I'm not going to be able to hang out with my BFFLAAT anymore." Finally, NCL gave in and said I could get on. About bloody time! But before I could even rejoice, the port security come in and are asking people to leave the building because of the ******* fire alarm. WHICH HAS BEEN GOING OFF FOR 20 MINUTES. So we are standing outside, aware of the minutes ticking by before the boat leaves. Finally we are let back into the building. Where we have to go through security AGAIN. And so, after a painfully long and stressful afternoon, we walk onto the Norwegian Jewel. And that is when I cried happy tears. (I just want to thank J and I* and my BFFLAAT for still liking me after that whole situation and putting up with me after that. And even more so to be willing to face that situation again.)

I'm gonna do more bonus questions for a while. These ones are all about Sherlock.
1. Favourite male character: My first reaction is probably Sherlock. Cause he's amazing. I love what he does. Especially seeing him show more emotions and being in his mind palace this past season makes me love him even more. But also seeing this last season, I have realized I have this hidden love for Moriarty (and Andrew Scott, who plays him). So either of those two.

*that's not I as in me, that's I as in a short form of a name.

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

QOTD #62

So I was walking around campus today cause I had a bunch of things I had to do. I picked up "course work" for my GBDA 102 course. Basically I paid 16 bucks for 20 pages of stuff I could have found on the internet. I picked up my art tool kit, for my FINE 150 course, which is all about drawing and painting. I have to say, it was a bit like getting a present, even though I had to pay for it. There's a bunch of stuff in it including a sketchbook, paints, paintbrushes, big paper, a portfolio (!!!), pencils, charcoal, etc. They gave me a glue stick, which I thought was cute.
I was sitting in my room going through my new supplies when there was a pounding on the hall door, at the other end of the hall. I knew, from previous experience, that it was two of the girls from my* floor who didn't have their keys with them. I figured somebody else would let them in, so I ignored them. But after a couple minutes, nobody had let them in, so I made my way down the hall to let them in. I could see through the glass that they were giving up, one had even sat down. I open the door, and the one girl (who was still standing) has the nerve to say to me, and I quote, "Wholly f*ck, Heather, what took you so long?"
!!!!!!!!!
excuse me?
excuse me?
EXCUSE ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I'M THE ONE WHO JUST LET YOU IN. SORRY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR KEYS WITH YOU.
So I asked, with obvious disgust in my voice, "Why don't you just take your keys with you?"
And the girl sitting down says, "No need to be sassy" while the standing girl says "Heather, it's only our second day back, we can't be expected to remember."
YES YOU CAN BE EXPECTED TO REMEMBER YOUR KEYS BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR 4 MONTHS with only a 2-3 week break. I just turned away and hoped for their own sake that they caught the door before it shut again. (Bittersweetly, they did catch it).

Now about Sherlock. **slight spoilers** I watched the two episodes that have aired in season 3 so far. I am not sure how I feel about the first episode. It was well done, obviously. But there were some things that I'm not sure I would've done had I been in charge. I don't want to give too much away, but Sherlock acts differently regarding some situations than I would've thought he would. And I'm still confused slightly about how some things went. I was watching it with my friend in her room. Her roommate would start talking sometimes and then people were dropping in, so it was an interrupted viewing. I want to watch it again so that I can watch it straight through and catch everything that Sherlock says. Cause he can talk fast. However, there were still lots of moments that I ABSOLUTELY LOVED. Ohmigosh there was this one scene that kept replaying in my head as I was trying to fall asleep last night. I can't even handle it. Episode 2, I LOVED. It was beautiful! It's about John getting married to Mary. It was so cute, but still had the "Sherlock" feel in it. And of course, Sherlock still finds a way to make deductions. One of the things I love so much about Sherlock (the tv show, not the character. I just realized this might be really confusing if I don't differentiate.) is the cinematography. The transitions between scenes are beautiful. The way they represent Sherlock (the character)'s thoughts on screen is so cool. AGH. After watching them, I went on tumblr for the first time in over a week. And it was just what I expected: everything Sherlock. The fandom has taken over. (That's why I didn't go on for a week, I didn't want anything to be spoiled). BUT THEN TUMBLR GOT TOO CLEVER and everybody's pointing things out and it's like, oh that's cool, I hadn't noticed that. But then people were pointing out foreshadowing and THERE IS A LOT OF FORESHADOWING AND THEY RUINED IT (it as in "something") FOR ME. I don't know if it's going to happen in episode 3, but you can be sure that it will happen eventually. I was reading the Sherlock Holmes books during december, but I had stopped before Sherlock "died" cause I didn't want anything to be ruined. Apparently there was more to be ruined than I had thought. I might keep reading them, since I know now. But yeah.

62. What do you wear to bed?
Right now, it's these really old Aeropostale pyjama pants and a Renison t-shirt.

*before typing 'my', I typed 'our', which is weird, cause that's like I'm writing to someone who is on my floor. But none of you are...