Sunday, January 29, 2006

Year of the Dog

Today is the Chinese New Year. This is the year of the dog.

Furthermore, I have discovered that those born on January 29th of 1983 are also born in the year of the dog.

(from astrology.com... can you really get a more reliable source?)


In the West, the Dog is man's best friend, but in Chinese Astrology this Sign is a little more unpredictable than that. Dogs are loyal, faithful and honest and always stick to their firm codes of ethics. However, this Sign has trouble trusting others. It's generally quite trustworthy itself, the Dog makes a wonderful, discreet and loyal friend and is an excellent listener. This Sign tends to root for the underdog and its keen sense of right and wrong makes it duty-bound to the core. The Dog's mantra seems to be, Live right, look out for the little people and fight injustice whenever possible.

Dogs can also be rather dogmatic, too. They don't go in for light social banter; instead, they go straight for home, expostulating on the topics that are most important to them. This Sign can also be very temperamental; mood swings characterize its emotional life and often the Dog needs to run off to be alone in order to recuperate. Part of the problem is the result of this Sign's load of irrational fears that turn into niggling anxieties that turn into hurt feelings and occasional grouchiness. This sensitive Sign needs to warm up to others over time and gradually learn to trust them. The Dog's discerning nature does make it an excellent business person, one who can turn that picky, guarded nature into a keen sense of the truth of another's motives.

In any forum, this Sign is happiest when able to be quite physically active; at home or at work, the Dog will always be constructing something new or cleaning something up in order to make things better.

The most compatible match for a Dog is the Tiger or the Horse.



Happy Chinese New Year

and Happy Birthday Andrew :)

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Oh Whoa it's me!

my current WMplaylist (which is being shown instead of my "private message"):

Idiot Wind
Trouble
Me and a Gun
I Just Don't know what to do with myself
Grace is gone
Undone
I still haven't found what I'm looking for
I might be wrong
Caring is creepy
Semi Charmed Life
Don't get down
High and dry
All these things that I've done
Let it be
Another brick in the wall

I plan on playing this loop all night.

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Sorry- this post might make more sense if you go here.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

For OUR education?

Watch The Manhattan Project.

Since when do you grow beef? I guess I don't get "cowboy" slang.

Personally I wanted to hear more about the garage door.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Night Off

Here's the thing about rehearsal being cancelled: I don't have anything better to do. I have specifically organized my life so that I don't really have anything better to do. Yes, I got a little homework done, but all in all... here I sit, pondering my belly-button lint, trying to con my responsible friends into slacking off tonight (to no avail thus far as they are clearly a lot less lazy than I am).

I'm not great at killing time on my own. I think this is a skill I need to develop. Perhaps tonight is the night. I know! I will figure out who I'm going to vote for! I will spend the night reading about the political candidates in my riding, visiting their websites to find out each party's platform...
(ok I seriously had to leave that thought process in there, just so that you can see why I suddenly realized what a stupid idea that was).

Hm- this might suck less. Not a lot less, but less.

Night Off

Here's the thing about rehearsal being cancelled: I don't have anything better to do. I have specifically organized my life so that I don't really have anything better to do. Yes, I got a little homework done, but all in all... here I sit, pondering my belly-button lint, trying to con my responsible friends into slacking off tonight (to no avail thus far as they are clearly a lot less lazy than I am).

I'm not great at killing time on my own. I think this is a skill I need to develop. Perhaps tonight is the night. I know! I will figure out who I'm going to vote for! I will spend the night reading about the political candidates in my riding, visiting their websites to find out each party's platform...
(ok I seriously had to leave that thought process in there, just so that you can see why I suddenly realized what a stupid idea that was).

Hm-

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Psycho-analyze this!

I haven't blogged in a while and I can't think of anything to write, which is probably a good indication of just what's going on inside my head right now: A whole lot of nothing.


you look like a photograph of yourself
taken from far far away
i won't know what to do
i won't know what to say


Or maybe there's a lot going on in my head, and I'm keeping it all to myself for a change. You know, like I'm mysterious.


You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself
Just you and no-one else


I think I remember once saying "I'm the least mysterious person I know!"

Monday, January 09, 2006

One delusion of grandeur meets another

I haven't really seen any of the movies that will (likely) be nominated, but there is no way I am missing the Oscars this year. My boyfriend Jon Stewart is hosting. I will have to make special mention of him in my acceptence speech.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Took me WAY too long to do this

Ani Difranco

Are you male or female?:

quick someone call the girl police
and file a report!

Describe yourself:

I am not a pretty girl,
that is not what I do.
I ain't no damsel in distress
and I don't need to be rescued

How do some people feel about you?:

i'm too easy to roll over
i'm too easy to wreck
i just write about
what i should have done
i just sing
what i wish i could say

How do you feel about yourself?:

It took me too long to realize
that I don't take good pictures 'cause I have
the kind of beauty that moves

Describe what you want:

so no matter what i think i need
you know i can't possibly
have a need in this world

Describe how you live:

i wonder if everything i do
i do instead
of something i want to do more
the question fills my head
i know there's no grand plan here
this is just the way it goes
when everything else seems unclear
i guess at least i know
i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl

Describe how you love:

it's rock paper scissors as to whether
i will get over you at all
it's hand against hand and both hands are mine

Share a few words of wisdom:

art may imitate life
but life imitates t.v.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

A Surprisingly Not-Crappy Day

Feeling a little better about school all and all- Not quite as self-pitying/ self-absorbed as I was or usually am, which is always a good step.

I was really dreading acting class today. Truthfully I have been dreading this class since before Christmas holidays. Acting was stressing me out unbelievably and I really wasn't enjoying myself. Today, however, I felt good about something I did on stage for the first time in a little over a month. It was just a small thing, but it's a little boost of confidence that I needed. I wasn't feeling like I was actually capable of doing this realism scene, or quite frankly, that I was capable of doing any scene. I just really haven't been in the mood for acting for a while now, something that I hadn't really experienced before. I was glad that I was off book better than I thought for the scene and that I made some actual character progress. Sarah (the TA) is also really great for positive feedback and criticism, so that helped a lot.

I was also kind of dreading Shakespeare class today. 1) Because we were getting a bunch of assignments and crap back, 2) Because of the three vaccant desks surrounding my own, 3) Because I was quite worried we would be quizzed on Anthony and Clepatra, which I recently discovered can not be entirely read in one hour. But this also turned out to be a pretty great class. I got an A on my essay, which is pretty damn exciting. I've never actually gotten an A on "real" essay before, so that was kind of neat.

I rounded off my day by accompanying Steph to Human Evolution (a class that I took two years ago but for SOME reason :P really wanted to re-visit).

Now I am making up a costume plot and trying to figure out what to do for my autorama.
The autorama is supposed to be a one person play (performed by each student) about our own lives. Not that I've ever had a lot of trouble making my life the centre of everyone's attention, but to make my life actually worth watching for 6 minutes may prove more difficult than simply telling random stories everyone's heard five hundred times.

Speaking of going on at length about my life, I think shall finish off this post and go try to do something productive. The rest is silence.

(PS: I love using that to randomly end things that I otherwise have no ending for)

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Monday, January 02, 2006

Nerdiness

As an official Stratford Festival "Play-on" member I got a copy of the visitor's guide in the mail. This season is kind of exciting. They will be doing Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night (which is quickly becoming a favourite) and Henry IV part 1 which I only just recently read (not quite in time for class, but just in time for the exam I might add). If I got really ambitious I could actually see all three plays in two days on Labour Day weekend. Although I suppose that might even be too much Shakespeare for me.




Nah.