Revamping, Revamping, Revamping

Alright, so you probably noticed there’s not much pink on this site. I still have to but the CSS editing feature for wordpress to shape this blog like I want, but it will happen. Adam and I have been working on it and brainstorming ways to make it better. If you look to your right, yes that’s it!, you’ll see technorati, stumbleupon, etc links, and at the bottom of each post from now on, there will be a wide selection of links. Revamping the blog, you see. Also, I am considering adding some weekly features, so as soon as I figure that out, you can expect to see some continuing content!

I’m still job hunting, and still frustrated. There’s nothing I hate more than job hunting. I hate it. I love working, I hate trying to find work. Boo! I’m applying at more places tomorrow, if Adam gets back from Calgary early enough and is willing to take me around.

Other than that, nothing exciting is happening. At least not right now, just school and such. Though! Though though though!!! My dear friend Sarah is coming up in a week to see Hey Ocean (see inset, courtesey of Sarah herself) at the Slice (restaurant in Lethbridge, no website, sorry folks), and I will be joining her. I am super freaking excited for that, let me tell you!!! Sarah is awesome, and live music is too! I’ve never heard Hey Ocean before, but I hear you can dance to them, and I do enjoy dancing, especially with Sarah.

Still bored!

Okay not so much bored as really busy.

Adam and I started to revamp, but we’re nowhere near finished. I’ve been caught up in classes, volunteering, and this huge stack of reading I have to do. And I’m still looking for a job. The side of the city I am on does not offer many options aside from McDonald’s. And I am just not doing that. I’d rather starve to death.

At least I’m working towards #65 on the list, which is producing Vagina Monologues. The campus is putting it on, and it’s going very well. At least by March 8th I’ll be able to cross another thing off. I suppose I should mention I am no longer involved in the production I discussed earlier on this blog. Due to disorganization and general frustrations with the person heading it up, I felt it best to end my involvement. So from now on when I discuss the Vag Logs, I am referring to the campus production.

Oh and I have yet to get a fish

The Boring Life I Yearn to Avoid

These past few days have been nothing short of mind-numbingly boring. It is the only term to put to how I have felt. Thursday I went to my classes. My Medieval Violence looks to be good, but I ended up dropped the British History due to the fact I already took it at the University of Calgary. I have taken up a Anthropology of Gender course, which Adam kindly agreed to take with me. The only problem is that I lack the pre-requesites for the class and am still awaiting a reply to the email I sent her over a day ago. I have yet to take my History of Women course, which I know I will love, and my history of Napoleonic France.

Other than that, I have had nothing to do at all. I walked to Safeway yesterday and bought some more yams (see inset – yes I took a picture of the yams I just bought…). I cooked with yams for the first time on Thursday. Made a yam casserole of sorts (brown sugar, milk, honey, mashed with boiled yams and baked with pecans on top), and it was really good. I actually went to Safeway for margarine and cheese, but decided yams were worth buying more of.

Adam came over yesterday as well, for a little. We watched Home and Garden Television. We were planning on going to a movie, but couldn’t find anything worth going to see, sadly. We debated for a while, but soon the smooth house-hunting skills of Kristie and Phil on Relocation, Relocation took over, and we were laying around watching that. Such is life. He went home, and I went to bed, but woke up around 1am feeling naseous, dizzy, faint-y, and, oh lucky me, was hallucinating. So I gave Adam a ring and he came over and spent the night with me to make sure I didn’t die or anything drastic. I kept hallucinating about Dani Gore, and only thing morning did I find out who she was with the help of google. What a weird thing to hallucinate about. Jeepers.

Oh, I did start working on my passport application yesterday, which is the beginnings of #60 on The List and part of my 2008 Resolutions. I will hopefully be able to throw that in the mail by the end of this week so I can get on to travelling!

Classes, Work, Normal Life

So, I begin classes today. I have four history classes. I was taking a film class, but the professor sounded like a douche (see inset) in the course outline and I discovered care of a rather nice website, Rate My Professor that his first exam only had a 52% average. Yeah, no douchebaggery for me thanks! I have a class about Medieval Violence, Women’s History, Napoleonic French History, and British History. A good line up, and a rather nice schedule, I get Fridays off. Which will give me time to work or accomplish things on my list or something.

I went to my job interview yesterday, we’ll see how that turns out, I’m not overly sure how it went or what my chances were. I think I will stop at a few places today and grab applications.

Nothing exciting for the rest of the week. This weekend I may be re-vamping this with the help of Adam. So possibly, maybe?, expect some changes. I sort of want to go to Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump but I think Adam will be all driven out from his drive home and all. More time for a job search, I suppose.

New Years Parte Deux

So, Alexisonfire last night!
Went to dinner at Boston Pizza because we’re so incredibly classy (and Chianti looked busy). Then we took off to Mac Hall for the show. We missed the first band, Madcowboys, so I can’t talk about them.

Then came Chixdiggit (inset – see! super cuties!). I knew they were from Calgary, and that was it. I was more than pleasantly surprised! The music was catchy and the band was super endearing, I could have taken them all home in my pocket. Adorable and good at what they do. Indeed.

Then came 10 Second Epic (no link for you!), who was not epic and I only watched 10 seconds of them prior to leaving to save my sanity. I dubbed it “you’re-cutting-the wrong-way-music”, bad emo shit. The last song they played was a radio “hit” on X92.9 (the radio show hosting the shindig), and one that I had found myself making fun of time and time again. I believe it’s called “Count Yourself In”, which is a whiney, nasally sap song that I imitate by making nasally noises in tune to the lyrics. The only good part about their set (which I could hear from where I had gone to sit) was their cover of Third Eye Blind’s “How’s It Going to Be” (I think that was it), which they announced they were not going to be performing anymore. Sad they’re getting rid of the only good part of the show, but I must admire their dedication to not making music I enjoy.

So of course, Alexisonfire came on after that. 11:30 their set started (sooo late for me haha), and it rocked. Some songs were a bit off, like they were a few seconds off from each other, but no matter, because they gave it their all. Dallas Green was cute and charming, just doing his thing. The drummer…well what can you say about drummers, they rock out and sit in the back. Wade was amazing because I have my secret 50’s poodle-skirt crush on him and all. The bassist, Chris Steele, looked like a serial killer with his epic (yes more epic than 10 Second Epic) beard and messy crazy hair. My only complaint about him was that he was wearing a white v-neck t-shirt that gave the illusion of him having well defined breasts. Intentional? I don’t know. He ripped his shirt at the end, and indeed, he did not have boobs. And of course, my baby’s daddy, George Pettit (again inset – sexy) was there, in fine form. *swooning*

Probably the best parts of the show were these:
1. When Wade kissed George. Awesome.
2. When they came back out on encore, said they had written a special song and it was the first time playing it, and ten proceeded to play the song they had just finished with, Accidents. Gotta love rock stars with a sense of humour.

And then I went home.

Oh, and I got attacked by several hardcore Tool fans, for wearing a Tool hoodie/being with Adam who was wearing a Tool hoodie. One good encounter with a guy who was a Tool fan, discussing seeing Tool in various places, I think his name was Garret Head (sp?) and he was talking about his band, which I cannot find. Sad state of affairs. Anyways. Side note: I hate people who are really into the music and get crazy and violent, yet insist on being crazy jackasses in the outer rings where the people who just want to stand politely or maybe toe-tap are. Jerks. Go into the mosh pit!

Leave tomorrow to go back to Lethbridge, and I can guarantee I will have a lot less to write about…

New Year’s Eve

So… New Year’s is upon on us (at least in Canada, in Japan it’s already happened, but sadly I am not there). In less than 12 hours I will be in a whole new year. And what, 4 more to go until the Mayan Prediction of the end of the world?
I’m celebrating tonight by going to the show being put on by a local radio station X 92.9 where Alexisonfire is playing along with Chixdiggit, 10 Second Epic and…someone else (none of which get links, take that shit rock!!!…actually I’ve never heard of any of them, so I don’t know if they are shit rock).
I guess the fourth band is Madcowboys. Doesn’t that sound like fun. If you can’t tell, I’m going to see Alexisonfire. Adam got me into them a while back, but only their newer stuff. I still can’t stand the incessant screaming on their older albums. But I digress.
That is what I am doing for New Years, nothing overly exciting. Dinner and a concert at MacEwan Hall.

I got a job interview too, which is good. It’s on January 2nd, for an on-campus job. I need money for travelling this summer. I’m hoping to convince my mom to let me take her to Scotland (#258 on the list). Hopefully we can do other things, like spending a few nights in a Scottish Castle (#86), or drinking tea in England (#220), or dancing in Stonehenge (#107). So yes, job interview in a few days, so I can pay my rent and save up for travelling this summer! And get like 10398102398 things off my list done!

My mom better let me take her, otherwise she’s getting a lot more than a kick in the ass!

A selection of photos from my Montanarama roadtrip

I started photobucket account to upload pictures, which you can find here. I’ll post some here from time to time or alert you to when I update thephotobucket account. I just uploaded a new album called Montanarama.

Here’s a few

In Billings, Montana at the Women’s Museum

Moccasin, Montana

Road from Great Falls to Billings

Goose Orgy

Edit: Suppose I should say these are from my trip to Billings Montana with my boyfriend Adam to see Tool in concert.

Night out dancing

Had a good time last night.

Went back to Milestones with Sarah and Gwen and spent a lot of time chatting. Milestones is pretty good, at least in Calgary on Stephen Ave, really good Long Island Ice teas (which I tried for the first time last night!…so maybe I can’t judge them yet…) and blended margaritas. Then we cruised around Calgary looking for somewhere fun to just dance, and ended up at Bamboo. Great place! A little too indie-scene and crowded for me, but any where with no cover and no drink minimum where you can just dance is fine by me. Pretty decent music as well. Oh, and my gin and tonic was almost entirely gin, which rocked!!!

I miss being back in Calgary where I can have something of a life. Sarah and Gwen have promised to come visit me in Lethbridge though, and we’re going to get a limo (#212) and go out for the evening! They better keep up their end of the bargain, that’s all I can say.