Thank you Alan for reminding me that I haven't updated in a really long time. It is true, I haven't, except that this time I had good reasons. Exams and a 10 page paper (which my computer decided to lose eight pages of) plus a really boring holiday amounts to nothing fun to write about.
Aside: I would just like to point out that not only did I lose my paper at almost the exact second it was completely finished but that it also cost me $37 in library fines because I didn't have time to return the books until after my exams. I didn't have time because I had to study every second of the day to compensate for the fact that I spent the three weeks prior writing the stupid paper.
OK. Now on to actual updating. The reason why my holidays were uneventful is because on Christmas Eve my grandma went to the hospital. They thought she was either having a heart attack or had liver cancer. After about five days they realized she just had gallstones. Good thing that doctors know how to accurately diagnose things and keep everyone optomistic. So the entire family spent Christmas Eve in emergency and the days after staying with my grandma in the hospital because she is really nervous.
On New Year's Eve, me, Kris and Becky watched Shrek 2 while picking out a quilt from the Sears catalogue to go in my old room and drinking cheap strawberry wine. And that is literally about as exciting as it gets in small small-town Ontario. I got Douglas Coupland's Souvenir of Canada for Christmas and there was one part on small towns. He noted how every small town has exactly one Chinese restaurant. My town has no Chinese restaurant; it doesn't have a streetlight. You have to drive to the next town over to get Chinese. For example.
So that about sums up my holiday. School has started and I am excited because it means I am back in Toronto where there are actual things to do. Kris and I are going see Luke Doucet next week at the Trinity church. Apparently he is playing with a string quartet. That should be interesting. Luke Doucet could play his tiny acoustic in your basement and he would still be interesting.
On Wednesday, Douglas Coupland is reading from his new book in the theatre that my miscellaneous gography class was in last year. I would have to leave my population geography class (taught by the Irish professor circa Canadian geo in the summer) early and I haven't decided if I can sacrifice that. If there's one thing I love it's population and the Irish.
Right now, Kris is showing me all the things she would buy from Ikea if she were rich. I gave her the "don't consume for the sake of consuming" speech.
Question: what separates me from the Frames?
Answer: seeing Josh Ritter in two weeks (Kris can explain)
posted + 2005-01-06 at 9:05 p.m.