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.

Boo hoo (anyone who hates complainers should not read this).

Because I'm cranky, and it's easier to make yourself sadder than it is to make yourself happier, here's a list of why I'm bummed today:
1. The weather: seriously, there has got to be nothing more depressing than an overcast and windy day. I would prefer rain to this, because at least rain is something. Today is nothing.
2. Today is Easter, and where is my chocolate? The answer is: there is no chocolate. How sad.
3. My room is messy and I did so much cleaning of the rest of the house yesterday that I have no motivation to clean it today.
4. I am wearing my scrubbiest comfy clothes, and the pants that were once too big are now tight around the middle. I am getting fat. Yes I am.
5. No one is home. Everyone else (except Dave) is gone to spend time with their families today, and I don't get to see mine until late this evening, and only for a couple of hours. And there is no chocolate there.
6. I am bored and lonely.
7. My only clean pair of socks are scratchy wool ones that don't have proper elastic in them so they won't even stay up. Damn you wool socks!
8. Ok that's enough whining. Bah, I feel useless today.

Slacker Friday

This is Winston chasing Mario. I wanted this at the end of the entry, but I can't figure out how to do that. Damn Blogger templates.

Today I woke up at 7:30 with a headache and feeling like I hadn't slept at all, so I did something (rather uncharacteristic) and turned off my alarm, and went back to sleep. Missed two classes today, but I haven't skipped a single class all semester, so I figured I deserve a rest-day. Not that it's that much of a rest, since I still have to go to work, albeit only for 5 1/2 hours. Hooray.
Speaking of work, my night shift job is over a week from today. While I didn't mind the night shift nearly as much as everyone else seemed to, I'm glad it's going to be over soon. I was mostly just sick of never having an evening off during the week. I missed many a wing-nite because of it. I start a much less stressful but more mindless job the following Monday. I get paid the same though, except I don't get the $2 an hour shift premium for working nights anymore. Oh well, I can live without that.

One more work-related story and then I promise I'm done.
Yesterday, I was chatting with two ladies who are friends of my mom (who also works there, but during the day) about weight issues, and one of them makes a comment about how I am tiny, but I have "very large breasts". The other lady agrees. What shocked me more than the comment was how nonchalent they both were about discussing it, while I was standing there, wide-eyed and stammering. Keep in mind that I barely know these women. Is this a middle-aged lady thing? To make very personal comments and not seem to notice how uncomfortable you make people?
Oh, and the best part was that the second lady (not the one who made the original comment) suggested that I get a breast reduction.
What?!
Up until now I have been perfectly happy with my body, at least in that department, but now as much as I try to ignore it, I can't help but feel like she might be right.

Tomorrow is my sister's 18th birthday, and in her usual style, she wants to spend it with her friends and not her family, but she makes an exception for me (probably because I don't live there anymore, and I'm not an authority figure). So after I go to the Price Club (was it ever even called that, or did I just imagine it? I know it's Costco now, but it will always be the Price Club to me) with mom to find some new frames and contacts, I am meeting her and her friend and boyfriend for lunch at Sun Sushi. I'm glad we are getting to be old enough so that isn't too weird. Mostly I just want an excuse to go to Sun Sushi. Don't tell her that, though. Hi Stef!

Well, I am off to work in half an hour. I never thought I'd get used to using 42-year-old software, but there you go. I did.

Blah, an attempt to keep myself sane and organized (failed).

1. How some people manage to be so together is beyond me. I feel like I'm the clumsiest, most awkward, graceless person in the world. Maybe I'm just not observant, but from what I've seen, most other people don't fumble through life like I do.

2. Yesterday I made a resolution to see more of my friends more often. I'm still busy, but not nearly as busy as I was the last few years, so there's no need, at least on my part, for us to go months without hangouts.

3. Got semi-yelled at (as a class, not myself personally) today by a prof that I actually forgot that I was scared of. She's always been nice enough to me, but there's always this feeling of dread, like she could snap at any minute.

4. Photoshoot with Heather and Philippe coming up this weekend, which I am fairly excited about. It was postponed from this past weekend due to Philippe (photographer) quite possibly having the Norwalk virus, though he says he feels better now, and from what I've heard, Norwalk = a week or more of nonstop vomitting. Vomiting. One t or two?

5. Why the list format? I don't know, it seems like it'll keep me organized. I'm feeling very disjointed and spaced-out today.

6. My new favourite restaurant, Sun Sushi, re-opens on Thursday after having been closed for a month for Chinese New Year (yes, I know, Sushi = Japanese, but this restaurant is owned by a Chinese family, so nyah). I won't get a chance to eat there until Saturday, but ohhh man, I can't wait.

7. My job, which I am trying my hardest not to complain about (because a: it is at the very least not mind-numbingly boring, b: the money is great, and c: I am lucky to have it) is over at the end of March, and although I am dreading the prospect of again being unemployed and having to hunt for another job for the summer, I am also looking forward to having a weeknight off. I have been working nights since January, and it hasn't wreaked havoc on my sleeping habits like everyone said it would. I maybe sleep in an hour later than I normally would, on days when I don't have class, but none of the staying up until 7:00am, unable to go to sleep. I guess it's just a middle-aged person thing, because I have no trouble going to sleep as soon as I get home, usually around 12:45.

8. Does any of this make any sense at all?

9. It was nice to catch up with a friend yesterday. It was also nice to get out of the house, which I hadn't left since I got home from work on Friday. This girl is always good for a nice chat.

That's all, I think.