Daily Offerings: February 2008 Archives

A lot of people are going to laugh at me when I say this, but the best date I've ever had was probably a walk through Waterloo Park and "downtown" Waterloo. Come to think of it, its one of the few dates I've been on that actually count as dates. Probably why I rank it so high. Thinking about it, the only other real dates that immediately come to mind are a night at the movies, and another one that shouldn't even be counted as a date because the guy had a sort-of boyfriend at the time.

I don't like the standard dinner date. Not because I'm trying to be some neo-hippie that doesn't like society's whatever. I would feel trapped at dinner. That would require me to drink a lot. Then I would make a fool of myself. My aversion should be pretty simple to understand after that.

I realize the importance of dating to find out what you like and don't like about a person, and whether or not the likes outweigh the dislikes. But trust me, if anyone ever comes up with an alternative, I will be one of the first using it.

I was awake when the sun rose. I tried to go to sleep shortly after, only to wake up about three hours later to a frantic phone call from my assistant manager who needed me to cover his shift due to an emergency. I could only cover half of it. Longest five hour shift of my life.

I saw the Spice Girls last night in what the billed as possibly the LAST SPICE GIRLS CONCERT EVER!!1! It was pretty good. I was happy I got to see them after the disastrous attempt on the 4th. Amanda and I had a pretty amazing night that included gossip, the Old Spaghetti Factory, and Second Cup (because Starbucks was closed).

I had my prep appointment at the Sleep and Wellness Clinic. I'm not looking forward to being attached to a machine for a night and then spending a day there anyway. Sounds like a waste of a day to me.

If I am still awake when the sun rises, I am going to shit things.

Every now and then stars somewhere in the universe align and give you the opportunity to do something stupid. Yesterday was my turn: I got drunk in the early evening on a lot of vodka and red rave. Now the vodka has worn off, but the red rave hasn't. So I get to be awake and twitchy. Win.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

LOL GAYS

This is a wall post I got from my good friend Matt regarding a speech he's written for Obamarama's next big event.

img 088, originally uploaded by scott_loudoun.

Today is Caturday. I am posting a cat.

I'm not sure who's responsible for this..., originally uploaded by Kelly Sue.

HOPE. CHANGE. HOPE for CHANGE! Can has.

Please, please browse around. I can't imagine how many times I've tried making sure that all of the entries are rebuilt properly. I just reinstalled MT again (still didn't fix the problem), so I'm willing to be they're not. If that's the case, let me know? Thanks.

I hate you almost as much as I hate stats right now.

Well. I think this is as good as it gets. I need to fix the comment form. I still don't think commenting works properly. I also have issues rebuilding Entry Archives properly.

MT 4.1 = Lose.

Well. It publishes properly now - sort of. I just need to change around all of the way links were done internally. Once I finish that I'll be able to access to proper entry archive pages and see if the comments (the whole reason I upgraded) work properly.

As always, upgrading has been the biggest hassle ever. The reason I upgraded was to try and fix the comment problems I was having. As a result, I have to tweak a few templates, redo a few more, and figure out why the "Publish Site" button crashes half way through its process and doesn't actually update.

I just upgraded to MT 4.1 in an attempt to fix comment problems, and also deal with the fact that stats stopped making sense about an hour ago. Only now I'm getting problems with the way it republishes files, and the permissions it saves the new files with. So. This is mainly a test entry to see if comments work.

I've never claimed my study habits were the greatest. In fact, up until December I didn't really have any. So that fact combined with my constant state of illness meant I would barely skim by in my post secondary education. I've been trying very hard to remedy that recently. In December I started my study campaign on the simple premise that I would first get caught up in classes based on the order up upcoming midterms, up to the point in the text covered for that test, and then work from there afterwards.

I've got some pretty good results. My marks can still use a whole lot of improving, but I've managed to retain most of the theory (the problem comes from when the practical is much more complicated than the textbook and class' theory, which is usually is). Thursday is the final of the four term tests that I've been studying for, in dreaded Stats (ECO227Y). Last week was my Labour Market Policy (ECO239Y), and before that it was Microeconomic Theory (ECO206Y). So as you can imagine, I've been doing a lot of studying.

While studying, I have a habit of leaving my msn on, set to busy, so I can access people when I have a quick question about my study material (or need a quick sanity refresher). This is where the major problem occurs. People have completely lost all respect for what 'Busy' means.

Guess what: It means I'm busy. It means I don't want to hear about how you were so drunk last night, and now you have a big hangover. It means I don't want you sending me random song lyrics. It means that, as much as I care about how bad a president Obama will be and how much it sucks that he's doing better and better, I don't want to hear about it right now. I'm BUSY.

Unless I've messaged you, I don't give a shit what you have to say. I can think of a hand full of people who it is ok for them to message me when I'm set to busy. And this isn't one of those "You know who you are" things, because there are always the idiots who think it's about them when it's not. Not at all. These people either know explicitly because I've told them, or implicitly, because I message them all the time anyway. So if you don’t know, explicitly or implicitly, then it is not ok. Fuck off. Go do something else until I'm not set to Busy anymore. As much as I like to think I am the centre of the world, I know that it's not true. You can find something else to pass the time until I can return to being the centre of the world. And you know what? That probably won't be for a while. So suck it.

It is Monday. I already have my replacement Blackberry, and it is up and running. I managed to save most of my contacts through a combination of my previous back up and emailing the remainder that I could remember I didn't have saved. I am a happy customer.

I'm amazed at how nice Roger's was. This is the first time I've been satisfied with Roger's Customer service since I switched, and it should be known that I switched because (among other reasons) I knew the Roger's rep; everything after that was pathetic. It was a game of hot potato to pass the blame around internally with a heaping side of "Sorry, there's nothing I can do for you [to remedy the fact that you were both mislead and lied to]." This morning took a grand total of half an hour to get through, 4 minutes of it on hold, and another 10 walking to the store to pick up my replacement. 10 points for Rogers.

I can't WAIT for summer. I might lose my mind. Fast forward button anyone?

I'm still sick. It's not fun. I stopped throwing up, but every few hours I get that feeling in my stomach like it's going to happen anyway. Missing the Spice Girls sucked major balls. So did making delirious phone calls to people just so I didn’t feel like I was alone. After the first round, there wasn't anything left in my system to throw up so I just threw up green looking fluid. That was kind of fun. But not as fun as the one round where there was red fleshy bits in it.

I didn't get any sleep that night. I finally fell asleep around 7a.m. That gave me several naps during the day, with time to meet my dad to get my back with my health card in it (should I need to freak out and go to the hospital) and try and prep myself for my Labour Market Policy test that night. I'd like to say I did well. That would require a memory of writing it.

Mmmm Clinton win in CA.

Instead of seeing the Spice Girls last night, I gave my ticket away and spent the night throwing up. Sympathy please?

Today I'm supposed to study. Of course that really means I'm going to procrastinate. I was planning on updating "About Me" part of the site, but could only think of one point: I have the world's best roommate. So I changed some of the CSS in regards to the already finished character pages. Maybe next time.