Take Back the Album

I am a terrible blogger. Oh well, nothing terribly interesting (that I would discuss on the internet) has happened to me lately.
Have two (2) jobs now. Still at Hava Java, and now also at the new Living Planet store. Love love love both of these jobs. I don't care if my enthusiasm makes me look like a dork. How lucky am I to have even one job I enjoy, let alone a second? I have worked plenty of crappy jobs in my day, so it's nice to have coworkers and bosses you get along with and customers who don't treat you like slaves.
My Actionsampler broke ages ago, after only one roll of film (and a half, which I ruined opening the camera after I thought it was rewound). Blah. Still desperate for the Lomo LC-A+ RL, but at $280 US plus tax/customs/blah I don't think I will be purchasing it anytime soon.
Writing a blog is so weird. I read lots of blogs, but I generally assume that this one has an audience of zero (0). Doesn't matter.
Ok, here's a list of things that are making me happy lately:
1. Edamame (have you tried this? You can make it at home!)
2. The Tudors
3. Kings of Leon (although I am currently trying to rid myself of negative associations with these guys. Love the newest album and I am taking it back, dammit!)
4. Raymi the Minx (Love this girl. I think she is hilarious)
5. The Banjo
6. Klezmer music
7. Having my sister as a roommate (totally awesome)

Not feeling it right now.

I am learning to crochet. It is HARD! Harder than knitting, anyway. Knitting is really straightforward.
My actionsampler is broken. I am quite sad. Hopefully it will be either a) still warrantied, or b) cheap to fix. If it costs more than $30 total to send away, have repaired, and get back, I will just buy a new one (someday). The camera is barely worth that much.


Starting with Big Brothers/Sisters again this week. Got some kid-entertaining supplies today, including play-doh and a massive box of crayons. Kids like that stuff, right? Also hoping to start with St. John Ambulance soon, too. Free first aid training = yay!
So so so so dissatisfied with life right now. Trying not to be that way.
Reading this right now. Very very good book.
Still pouring coffee for a living. Could definitely be worse. Liking my job and coworkers for the most part. Free coffee a plus.
Slightly obsessed with Nümph lately.
Still in love with this city, but needing a break from it. You know how it is.

Messy mess.

So, Stef moved in yesterday, and because I have more clothes and junk and useless crap than any single human should own, my house is now in complete disarray. You would think that the girl who just MOVED would have a harder time with organization, but no, I moved all my stuff from the smaller bedroom to the (very) slightly larger one, and it is quite literally the messiest room I have ever lived in.
At least I have today off to clean. And it is not nice outside so I won't be tempted to say screw it and go take pictures. It is actually so foggy that I can't see the other side of the harbour.
No med school for me (again) this year. I am over the part where I am sad about it, but not yet over the part where I am bitter that some people got in and I didn't. Oh well, on the bright side, I am guaranteed a job for the next year. And if I find out next spring that I got in, I might just choose to be unemployed for a few months before the madness starts.
Anyway, that's done, and if there was a way I could magically stop people from talking about it and asking about it, I would. My family especially. I know they mean well, but I don't think I've gone one single day in the last two years without it being mentioned.
Going to pick up two sets of prints today: one from my Holga that sat in the camera so long I forget what I even have on there, and the other is 35mm slide that I used in a friend's Nikon SLR, for practice. I hope it came out. Slide film is finicky sometimes, and this stuff was expired.
Ok, enough. Coffee time.

RDF

Well, I suppose that rather than hijack the communal blog I am also a member of, I should save the mundane details of my life for this old place. I thought I had abandoned it for good.
As much as I promised I would never complain about the heat, since it took so long in getting here, I am (almost) sick of summer. Ready for it to be chilly again. I just wish that also meant blue skies, but somehow I doubt it.
Lately the only reason I care about the weather at all is because my little toy cameras function best when it's bright and sunny. When we had that 2-week-long spell of RDF and coolish temperatures, I did not really mind, as I was too poor to buy film. It was a nice break from being constantly sweaty and disgusting, too.
Going to keep this brief for now. So much to talk about, but none of it really matters.
Still no phone call from MUN. All those people were right when they said that getting into med school was the hardest part. No matter how hard the work is once I (someday) get there, at least I know I can DO school. I've already done it. It's not that hard, just takes a lot of time. Getting there is tricky because THEY don't know I can do it.