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Monday, July 28, 2003 I'm trying to train my cat to not jump up on the desk if there's a shitload of papers there for him to mess up. Not going so well. I even left his favorite side table (wiggum's a big fan of sleeping on hard surfaces: the tables, the desk, the lino.. he really really likes the coffee table - for this reason I can't seem to figure out why he likes sleeping on my belly/breasts so much.. then again he is male - I digress) right beside me so he could still sit there and watch me type my boring ass paper and covered it with treats. He's gotten mad at me for firmly yelling "down" at him and has now evacuated into the other room. anyhow.. in other news, I had a table tonight of really nice people from Quebec City who were driving across the country. I was very ashamed when they asked if I spoke french and I had to answer not well (even though I took it all through school - then I learnt German and forgot all the french) .. they were super nice, though.. Once I got out a little french they handed me this cute little painted heart, as my reward for speaking french. It was cute. they tipped well. I make a point of being super nice to french canadians, as I have this fear that they'll go back to Quebec and tell everyone that the stereotypes they hear about Westerners are all true and that we're all like Ralph Klein or Stockwell Day and that we're all rude and ignorant and what not. Cuz I always feel bad when I can't speak french. Really, should I? I can if I try really hard and you give me a few days.. and I speak German.. I mean whatever. anyhow.. that's my little story.. Song to download next time you feel like breaking copyright law: "Easy" by the Promise Ring.. it's unreleased except on the Location is Everything Vol. 1 compilation (on Jade Tree) - another song on this disc I'm really liking is "Lukewarm" by New End Original.. posted by kim | 1:21 a.m.| (0) comments Sunday, July 27, 2003 I think I'm getting another ear infection.. I have to get the hell out of this town.. in Feb. I had two, I show up late for class one day and am all bitchy cuz of them. My prof's like "wow Kim you look like hell this morning" I mumble something about getting home from work 7 hours before the class began (9 am class) and having 2 ear infections. His retort (rather than feel an inch of sympathy) "I thought only kids got ear infections".. I went home after that.. lucky for us both I found it kinda humourous, as it was intended.. plus I never got them as a kid, only after moving here.. go figure.. posted by kim | 3:21 a.m.| (0) comments Saturday, July 26, 2003 Allie's doing Blogathon. Don't be a bum, go sponsor her! posted by kim | 3:48 p.m.| (0) comments Friday, July 25, 2003 Once again I turned up athiest. Although this time it was not on a test of "which enemy of the catholic church are you" but instead "which enemy of dubya are you?"  Threat rating: extremely low. You may think you can subvert the government, but if you should try you will be smited mightily because God likes us best. What threat to the Bush administration are you? brought to you by Quizilla posted by kim | 4:26 p.m.| (0) comments so I finally succumbed to peer pressure and chose to do the friday five. Lucky for me it was an entertaining topic.. 1. If your life were a movie, what would the title be? "What Now?" - cuz it's always what I'm wondering.. what is going to happen next.. 2. What songs would be on the soundtrack? For sure some Celine Dion for the tracks while I'm at work.. lite 96 plays alot of Celine Dion.. they also play alot of old Elton John, which is way cooler than Celine Dion.. there'd be some weakerthans, as they always seem to fit the bill.. maybe some Bad Religion or something.. Beastie Boys for sure, especially for my late teens, when that was most of what I listened to.. old Pearl Jam for my early teen years.. damn would it be a long soundtrack 3. Would it be a live-action film or animated? Why? Live action baby.. it's all about the action.. cuz if it were animated the animator would proably give me an even larger chest than I already have... I'd be like an E cup or something crazy like that 4. Casting: who would play you, members of your family, friends, etc? Angelina Jolie would definately play me. she's f-ing hot. My brother would be that guy in American Pie, what's his name, Jason Biggs? Ed Norton would be the man I eventually spend my life with.. wait this is turning into a dream world! Ha, I'd let my friends and family pick who they wanted to play them 5. Describe the movie preview/trailer. It would start black, with an alarm going off.. fade into me sleeping, and hitting the sleep button in my sleep.. this would go on for a while, as they describe how great the movie is according to critics. then the phone rings. it's my mom. she's phoning to wake me up. I"m late for class..... (coming July 25) posted by kim | 2:11 p.m.| (0) comments Wednesday, July 23, 2003 so I finally started on the third installment of Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King) today. It was my summer goal to read them all, and it's going much much better than my goal last summer to read The Bible (being non-christian made me think it might be interesting - I never even got around to stealing a copy from a hotel room) or even Milton's Paradise Lost.. anyhow.. I'm really excited, I wasn't allowed to start until I wrote my midterm (which I wrote Tuesday).. then I had to get my hands on a copy, then I had to find some time to sit down and start reading.. all requirements have been fulfilled... posted by kim | 7:59 p.m.| (0) comments Tuesday, July 22, 2003 so for the past few days I've had "do you love me now" from the Breeders'Last Splash. I was all choked as I had thought that was one of the cds I'd lost when my car got broken into a few years ago, one of the ones I'd never replaced.. but I was wrong.. I just found it in my cd collection (a replacement, I also found the empty box from the first time I bought it).. anyhow.. damn is this a good cd (although the review above may not agree completely with me - I like the insturmentals, damnit!).. I'd forgotten.. that is all for now, I really should be getting ready for work.. a great little article from the village voice about the breeders posted by kim | 4:04 p.m.| (2) comments Saturday, July 19, 2003 so I still haven't gotten around to fixing the template.. sorry.. anyhow, I did get this nice little poem with the weakerthans email that I got last night that I'd like to share with you all.. I'm not sure who wrote it.. although I assume Samson. but really who knows... Hypothetical Say you wake up one morning without a language. Taken away. Stolen by a monster from a childhood fever for some small slight. You didn't eat your peas. You find a pen, begin to draw a day of watching shadows wander towards the door, of smelling the garbage and touching the furniture, pressing your face to the radiator, walking with eyes open, eyes closed, living without naming. Unnamed. Say you wake up one morning without time. That stoner's lament, "Dude, it's just a construct" You didn't anticipate that there would be nothing to say. No "Busy," and a sympathetic sigh to reply to the "How are you's that line everyday with possibility. Crowds of helpless mutes stand beside their wrecked cars at intersections, traffic lights pulse black. Say you wake up one morning without a body. You miss your hands like a dead friend. You play their favourite songs, mourn all their potential, what they held. Make a Missing poster for your heart with a description and a photo and your phone number. Find your ribcage full of topsoil in a garden down the street. Transplanted yellow flowers peeking out. Say you wake up one morning without the world. The world leaves you for another, never returns your calls, passes you on the street like a stranger. All you can do is eat potato chips, cry, drink warm vodka from a jam jar, and watch t.v. The National Geographic specials are especially cruel. Secrets of the Amazon. Plains of the Serengeti. And tearing up topographical maps doesn't make you feel better. Say you wake up one morning, or be honest, afternoon, without your constant fear for what you have. The season is a verb, and a window is open. The telephone rings to the traffic and birds. The clock is broken, blinking, you stretch beneath a single white sheet, and the world looks like it's about to say something, but then just shrugs. posted by kim | 3:18 p.m.| (0) comments Thursday, July 17, 2003 so I just found this book (journal-type thing) that my friends and I wrote in when I was 15. We all had them, and I found mine. It made me realise what I'd become, and what I'd left behind, and how I have no regrets. It made me realise that I had become bitter (as I've always maintained) but not overly, and not in a way that didn't make sense. It was weird, how much of what was discussed in it I remembered, but then again how much of it I had forgotten. And it reminded me of lost and found friends and how fleeting things are, but how I really can't do anything to change that, people come and go, they always find their way back, though.. anyhow, it was interesting, I didn't read the whole thing (like 300 handwritten pages), just kind of flipped through and read some things, there was alot of repetition and we all know I have no attention span..... anyhow, to anyone who wrote in my book in highschool, thanks.. do you still have yours? posted by kim | 12:55 a.m.| (0) comments Wednesday, July 16, 2003 I am not yet done with the improvement but I have a short attention span and am hungry, may come back and finish it later but I figured in the meantime you could all look at it so far posted by kim | 10:18 p.m.| (0) comments so I've been inspired by Allie to put the lyrics up on my site. especially cuz I thought it'd be cool to explain where I got the title of the blog from. so ya, that's what's up there. I don't give Allie enough credit. she rocks. posted by kim | 9:43 p.m.| (0) comments this is insane. It's basically a newspaper (true) story about this man that got put in jail because he convinced two teenage girls that they were trying out a new facial cream and instead blindfolded them and came on their faces. Interesting. He swears he's being framed. I'm trying to decide which side I believe, as I can't imagine falling for something like that. Although I'll go with the girls as I couldn't imagine if something like that happened to me and no one believed me when I went to the proper authorities. posted by kim | 9:03 p.m.| (0) comments Tuesday, July 15, 2003 this is brilliance, my friend Rich suggested this to me in a fwd go to google (www.google.com) type in the search thingy "weapons of mass destruction" hit "I'm feeling lucky" read the error page you geek (if it doesn't seem to work click here posted by kim | 3:15 p.m.| (0) comments I was all upset because I got home from work and my cable was down and I couldn't check my email or watch tv!! lucky for me I had an episode of murder she wrote that I taped accidently a while ago and hadn't watched yet so I threw that in... now cable's back so I could check my email and I was so thankful I figured I should blog as well. wish I had something to blog about. like maybe how much I think people are dumb. I work with some annoying people and sometimes they make me angry. but I won't go on with this, it's a no starter. What else. I recently got a letter from a very good friend of mine who I hadn't heard from in a while and I really want to sit down and write him a great letter in return but whenever I have time for stuff like that all I want to do is sleep or watch tv or veg or play civ III or drink beer. In the same vein I have these great people in Switzerland that opened their home to me, not once but twice, both times for many months, who I have not been in contact with for nearly 2 years. I should really do something about that. I feel like shit, but I am just not motivated to write anymore. I really should be, especially with the amount of time I spend feeling bad about it. ok, I gotta go finish ironing....... there I posted today, yay me hey allie? posted by kim | 3:04 a.m.| (0) comments Friday, July 11, 2003 (please note I am trashed as I type this)... I love the Calgary Stampede. I just got home from it. It gives all the white collar folks a reason to go out and get trashed for a whole week, making them feel all blue collar and what not. And you get to wear hats. and you don't have to come up with a reason for being trashed. Tonight I went to the grounds (the stampede grounds for all you non calgarians), an event highlighted with a visit to Nashville North with my family for some good ol' beer drinking. Yay me. Then Kristen and I proceeded to go and catch a little Sam Roberts before heading to the Cuff and Billy for a "few" more drinks. I managed to impress the lone gunmen (or good impersonators) while dancing to Village people impersonators doing YMCA enough to get some free drinks. I knew at this point it was time to go home. Especially when they offered more drinks. Anyhow, off to tv watching land for me, must sober up a little before I go to bed.. fight the hangover don't you know.... posted by kim | 1:43 a.m.| (0) comments Wednesday, July 02, 2003 I drive a black neon, wasn't I badass barbie as well? posted by kim | 1:14 a.m.| (0) comments so today is canada day. I guess it's not anymore, it was yesterday.. anyhow, I celebrated it by going to pick up my cat from his grandparents (his grandfather missed him so much there was a message on the machine waiting for him when he got home.. my father never phones for me but the CAT!!!) anyhow.. then I went to work. I lead an exciting life. Have I blogged about Wiggam yet? Who knows. I adopted him from the meow foundation, a local cat rescue group, a little over a month ago (if you really want to see him search around the site, look for an orange cat named "Chili" in the "happy endings" section). Anyhow, he's still kinda timid and afraid of people (especially men for some reason) but he's coming out of his shell. He'll hide under the couch all day but come and terrorize me and beg for attention all night. It's nice to have him around, I missed him while he was at my parents. Anyhow.. work was good. The past two days have been hella busy, which is good as I need money to go out on my two days off. just to the pub of course, but beer costs money. I'll proably be at the ship and anchor if anyone's interested, although you proably already knew that (where else do I go outside of den season??). Anyhow.. I'm going to go bond with my cat. I'm turning into a crazy cat lady. what can you do. posted by kim | 12:58 a.m.| (0) comments this was an entertaining little quiz. you should all do it.  Which Enemy of the Christian Church Are You? Take More of Robert & Tim's Quizzes Watch Robert & Tim's Cartoons posted by kim | 12:41 a.m.| (0) comments |
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