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[Feb. 4th, 2010|10:30 pm] |
i'm currently sipping diet coke, wondering how the fuck i got so exhausted.
i miss real, normal, deep sleep, which seems to have been replaced by restless, apnea driven sleep lol.
tomorrow is midterm 1 for the students, and i was lucky enough to be chosen to invigilate in the morning rather than at 7 pm. although i am starting to think it may take a miracle to get my ass out of bed before 8 am.
i spent a lot of time this week with my new swiss friend fabrice, who is the biggest sweetheart and won even more brownie points by giving me a whole bunch of lindt chocolate bars exclusively from the zurich airport.
i also realized i have so much crap to take care of for school: training updates, marking, experiments, planning my committee meeting, figuring out who the hell is even in my committee lol and other logistical things. looks like i may have to spend valentines day with my new boyfriend the olympus microscope.
anyway this post is annoyingly lame and aaron is here so brb! |
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[Feb. 4th, 2010|02:03 am] |
What a night for a dance,
You know I'm a dancing machine
With a fire in my bones
And the sweet taste of kerosene
I get lost in the night
So high I don't want to come down
To face the loss
Of the good thing
That I had found
In the dark of the night
I can hear you callin my name
With the hardest of hearts,
I still feel full of pain
So I drink and I smoke
And I ask if you're ever around
Even though it was me who drove us
Right in the ground
See the time we shared it
Was precious to me
But all the while
I was dreamin of revelry
I wanna run baby run
Like a stream down a mountainside
With the wind at my back
I don't ever even bat an eye
Just know it was you all along
Who had a hold of my heart
But the demon and me
Were the best of friends from the start
So the time we shared it
Was precious to me
All the while
I was dreamin of revelry
Dreamin of revelry
And I told myself boy away you go
It rained so hard that it felt like snow
Everything came tumbling down on me
In the back of the woods
In the dark of night
The Palest of the old moonlight
Everything just felt so incomplete
Dreamin of revelry |
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| in search of my soul, a plane ticket, and a tablespoon of buckleys |
[Jan. 31st, 2010|10:13 pm] |
i am so sick
i knew it would catch up to me eventually
i think i went out with a bang though; and although brief, the ride was fun while it lasted.
friday ally, sandra and i met with our swiss visitor who happened to be one of the coolest, well-mannered people i've encountered in a long time. we took him out for beers and had lengthy discussions about travel, work, school, life, etc. he ended up covering the tab with his company credit card and to repay the favour i took him up the CN tower saturday afternoon. as i looked out over the city i couldn't help but be disappointed with the view - flat, gray (metallic, really) and so uninspiring. as much as i love downtown, it always seems to pale in comparison to other cities that have stolen my heart. fabrice seemed to enjoy it, however, and it did kind of help that the sun was out that day.
we grabbed coffee afterwards and continued talking about anything and everything. it was my first real CS experience as a host rather than a traveler, and only re-instilled my desire to fly away. at least now i have a place in zurich :) |
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| warning: this post is lame and boring.. do not read |
[Jan. 29th, 2010|10:59 am] |
it's friday morning and the last place i'd like to be right now is in the nuclear research building. it's interesting that on the fridays where i don't have much to do, nothing on campus seems to be going on; and yet, on the fridays where i actually have shit to do (TA, experiment, meeting) there are like 50 other things happening either in the department or just at mac in general that i would like to participate in or attend.
for example,
today i have to TA from 11:30-2:30.. within this very short period of time there is a medical physics symposium taking place, a free lunch with one of 3 candidates for a new faculty position in the dept, AND a human research ethics board workshop that i really should be checking out given i haven't even thought about how i was going to put together my ethics application for the next part of my thesis.
so moral of the story is the world has a vendetta against me and wants me to fail.. haha, well ok not necessarily, but why does everything have to happen at the same time?!
tonight is my second soccer game. i won't be surprised if i have absolutely no energy left to spare as i've been mentally and physically exhausting myself over the past few weeks.
on the upside, this weekend looks promising and i'm looking forward to being in the city.
i was recently contacted via couchsurfing by a guy from switzerland who is in town for work and requested that i show him around, which i think could be really fun.
speaking of fun, i may as well mention that i went out for sushi with the grad folks last night, and actually decided to go for some sake. i hadn't had sake since japan and so it was a slightly nostalgic experience. anyway, we polished off 3 bottles of this shit and i have to say sake is one great beverage that i will be consuming more often ;)
tgif, peace out. |
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[Jan. 25th, 2010|09:01 pm] |
i just paid off my recent credit card bill, which has automatically put me in a bad mood lol jk.
i'm actually in a good mood at the moment, which may be because i decided to skip school and instead went crazy at the gym right before heading over to value village with aaron. i found some amazing CDs for 2.99 a piece.
we picked up travis' 'invisible band' album as well as ben folds' 'wathever and ever amen', equipped with great tracks like brick, cigarette and evaporated. i was actually surprised that people just dump their old cds there.. i guess they felt that the music no longer served a purpose in their lives, and as a result it found its way into mine. i personally enjoy listening to cd's that i'd purchased back in the day, reminding myself of just how much i used to love these artists and how often i played their songs.
in addition to good music i also scored a [most likely fake] balmain purse and a pair of loafters.
the past weekend came and went. friday was my first soccer game with the mac intramural league, and i absolutely loved it. it's an awkward change from basketball because you can't use your hands at all and have to be quick on your feet, but the challenge makes it more fun.
saturday i went out for drinks with a friend and sunday was the typical do shit all/upoload photos/re-evaluate my life day - all of which i did lol :) |
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[Jan. 21st, 2010|08:05 pm] |
i spent the last half an hour looking up stupid gameshow contestants on youtube. cruel? no.. funny? oh yes.
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| and if we all explode, see we would never know, and i hope the pieces of my soul reach out to you. |
[Jan. 17th, 2010|03:14 pm] |
i woke up in my dress and figured it must have been a good night.
actually thinking about it now, i had an incredible birthday.
my dad cooked a feast of epic proportions which kev, ally, jose, gel, sandra and i thoroughly enjoyed.
sitting together at the dining table was nice, and i realized how lucky i am to have such an amazing family and group of friends.
i guess we can all agree that the people in your life and the way they view and treat you are a reflection of who you are as a person. bearing this in mind i can safely say that, at 24, i have much to be proud of and grateful for. whether i've known my friends for a couple years or since the teen days, i've built solid, fulfilling relationships with each one of them and wouldn't be able to get through a damn day in this life without them.
so in other words, i'm a sentimental sap that seems to get more emotional with each passing inebriated birthday lol.
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