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Aaah my dog won't leave me alone! Most dogs when they want your attention they'll just bark or whine at you. Not Blue, he just STARES at you when he has to go out for a pee....you kind of just feel him looking at the back of your head ._.;;;. He was doing this to me at about 2am yesterday, I let him out and waited on the deck for him to come back in...I went back upstairs to my room and 5 minutes later he was staring at me again and following me and was very persistent so I let him out yet again....then my dad came to see what was making the motion sensor light go on and off in the yard and realised it was me and the dog so he got Blue inside and into his and my mom's room, but then another 5 minutes later Blue is back and staring at me again!!! It was after 2am and I really wanted to sleep ;___;. Finally he gave up and then about a minute after our other dog China comes into my room to hide from the loud wind outside (she doesn't like the noise it makes and usually hides in the basement). She was really nervouse so her paws were constantly clicking on the wood floor as she was walking around. So I ended up sleeping in until 12pm. -___- And now Blue is starting at me AGAIN right now! Arg!!!
So a few days ago (maybe a weekish?) I was so bored out of my skull I decided I would watch Avatar. I honestly never cared about it and was just totally uninterested...mainly because "American anime" is not a very appealing phrase to me, and the commercials made it look dumb (from what I remember, because there were really only commercials when the show was first coming out). But I was curious about the hype, I saw the teaser trailer for movie, and I was really freaking bored. And you know what? I am SO happy I was really freaking bored because this was actually a VERY well done cartoon/anime/whatever and I enjoyed it immensly and I want to go and buy all 3 seasons now....*cough*. I loved all the characters and the plot was really very good and well thought out, and the humor was quite funny. :) So yay.
I saw Transformers 2 with Ainsley yesterday. It was.....not that good. Oh well -_-
Yesterday I also took Laura to see The Comedy of Errors at the Bard on the Beach festival for her b-day gift. IT WAS SO GOOD. I love how Bard does comedies and I understood what was happening too. XD I also took Erin and Hillary for their b-days as well a couple of weeks ago, we saw Othello and it was really weird because Comedy and Othello have the same cast. :P Zomg <3 Shakespeare.
Oh hay, it's 1am now so I should go to sleep because I am starting my first class for this beginner Italian course at the Italian cultural center. Every Tuesday at 9:30am from June 7th-August 25th. x_x I hope I don't suck as much as I did with all the other languages I attempted to learn...
8 days 'till Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. FINALLY. Geez. Oh! And I'm going to a Wizard Rock consert this Friday with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) _pseudofriends , and our fellow Fine Arts classmate and Harry Potter freak friend Anita. The Remus Lupins and the Whomping Willows with be performing. XD
'Night LJ!
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[22 Jun 2009|02:16am] |
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56475
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Gah, I had my mock driving test yesterday and my instructor said that I didn't pass. So I'm going to cancel the actual test which is next week to later in the summer. I'm still not confident enough and I don't feel like I'm good enough to take the test yet so no sense in spending $35 on something I know I probably won't pass. -__-
So I've been reading lots of Spider-man comics lately! I downloaded the Marvel box set disc thingy that is scans of all the comics from 1963-2006. I'm only on issue 70 so far out of like 530ish. XD I also watched the Spectacular Spider-man cartoon series. I really like it! I'm excited for the next season!
I also watched the directors cut of Daredevil a few days ago. I've never seen the theatrical version before so I don't know how different it is. Apparently it got terrible review but I really liked it! Though then again I've never read the comic so I don't really have that to compare it too...
And I saw Up a second time too. <3
I'm also happy that I got called into work this Saurday, I will have a little bit more money now! XD Even though I will now be late for my friend's b-day party...she understands. >_>
OOH! ooooh! I'm going to see Othello and The Comedy of Errors at Bard on the Beach in a few weeks! I am excited! Though I should read the plays so I actually know what they're about before I go (Spark Notes ahoy!). Tis always a fun thing do do in the summer. The only thing is that the plays are at 1:00 so I really hope the tents are not going to be swealtering. I hate heat.
I have on more day of class and then my final and I'm done summer school! I really really really should start on my essay outline (final is an in-class essay x_x) and I need to finish my art gallery journal for tuesday. dfjsfdjgkfdjgk I suck at writing, it is something I am not good at....like everything else. Then I'm doing a beginner Italian course one day a week for July. :)
Hooray.
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I saw 'Up' a few hours ago.
All I have to say it that it was BY FAR the best movie I have seen this year, and in awhile.
I FRIGGIN LOVE PIXAR.
I cried so much in this movie. XD The sad parts were really emotional and the funny parts were so funny I was crying from laughing too hard. I actually don't think I have ever laughed so much in a movie before. Good stuff. <3
Whenever a movie can really affect me emotionally then IT IS A GOOD MOVIE IN MY BOOKS!
Remember to wear waterproof mascara! (I didn't XD)
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[28 May 2009|09:40pm] |
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Ok, so remember how I said I was SLIGHTLY offended in my last post that it was me told not to come into work on the Saturday? WELL GUESS WHAT. BECAUSE OF THE "ECONOMY" MY HOURS GOT CUT SO MUCH THAT I AM WORKING ONE DAY IN JUNE. ONE DAY AND THE SHORTEST SHIFT.
I don't get it! I know because of the economy our boss cut everyone's hours so that there are only two people working at a time instead of three, a day. I don't get WHY it was only me that got cut THAT MUCH, everyone else's hours are all evened out. The thing that confuses me is that if it had to do with me doing something wrong or not working to the standards of the store then the boss would've already talked to me ages ago. But that hasn't happened, so I'm guessing (hoping) it's not anything personal which is the big "wtf". I asked for more hours and I get THIS?! I feel so betrayed. And the fact that I wasn't told this and I only found out after our staff meeting when looking at the new schedule. >:(
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[24 May 2009|11:52pm] |
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Ok, so I'm totally screwed. I have my Modern Art History mid term this Tuesday and I still DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. We're given a page with a list of 17 paintings. We have to be able to recognize the painting, know the title, know the name of the artist, the year it was painted, the art movement it is, the technique, content/meaning, and historical context. Then the teacher will chose only 6 or 7 and we have to write a paragraph with all of that memorized info for each. DDD: MY LACK OF MEMORIZATIO SKILLS ARE GOING TO COME BACK AND BITE ME IN THE ASS LIKE THEY DID IN BIO 11! HOORAY I'M GOING TO FAIL.
I don't even know where to start! I feel that if I study some paintings more than others than she'll end up chosing the ones I didn't give as much attention too, so then I want to try and study them all equaly and so far that hasn't been going over well, and all the other info just get's all jumbled up in my mind to the point where smashing my head agains the wall sounds like a good idea.
Life hasn't been totally exciting lately...I was even told not to come into work last Saturday because the weekend before out store did so crappily that the boss couldn't afford to pay the 3 reguraly scheduled people. -___- I'm just slightly offended that it was me told not to come in insted of the other guy who has been working there for a shorter time than me, but also gets more hours. (So he get's to keep all his 4 days of work but I don't even get my 1 day?! D:)
On the bright side I finally got my ticket to Faerieworlds! My mom still seems to be trying to convince me not to go though, but after spending a non-refundable $55US I'm just going to ignore her now. At least my dad is helping me out. He even said he would drive me to my friends house in Washington instead of me taking the train. :) My mom is always so paranoid about the little things, and "omg how are you going to afford it! You have no money and need a better job rawr. >:o" it's like she's not so much worried about me, but instead how anything is possibly going to work out! All it really is is: get dropped off at friends house, drive down to Oregon, have fun for 3 days, drive back to Washington, get picked up and go home. But she makes a huge deal out if it and is really nitpicky and it's like she's TRYING to come up with stuff to make it sound like I shouldn't go, just leave me alone and let me do SOMETHING that isn't school over the summer! My dad is way more laid back and wants me to start doing bigger independent things, which I totally agree on (omg I'm SO excited for Italy next year :O).
But yeah....I am dead. D:
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[17 May 2009|10:56pm] |
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Hey! I haven't posted in ages but since I had such a good day today I though I would write about it!
So for the Modern Art History course I'm taking right now (I hate modern art) we have to go to 4 specified art shows and write journal entries about them. Since 3 of my friends are in the same class as me we decided to make a bit of an outing for the first gallery (unfortunately Zara had to cancel, so it was just me, Cathleen, and Anita). We went out to Daiso in the morning (Zara, and Anita have never been. But we will go again when Zara is able to come along!) I bought some wood ovals and some canvas paper stuff to paint on, and awesome blue coloured nail polish. And then I ate eel. :D
We bused to Downtown to the gallery that we had to go to for one of our journal entries. The exhibit was just one sculpture of this crazy tree made of manufacture wood and plastic leaves with a hypnotically shiny chainsaw hanging off of it. And a big cooking pot full of melted marshmallows on a plexiglass fire. It was kind of cool. :P
After that we went to go see MY kind of art. At the Vancouver Art Gallery there's a new show on right now all on the Dutch masters called "Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum" IT IS SO COOL. Sjfkdsdjkghshjg I love Dutch art! SO much damn detail and insanly realistic still lifes. I feel like I just want to give up art. D: I can never be that gooood!!!! Then we had a nice drink in the gallery cafe. The weather was very nice all day. :)
We popped into HMV after, because the new Mediaeval Baebes CD comes out tomorrow and I wanted to see if I could order it or something, but it didn't even show up on the new releases when the guy was looking for in on the computer! Noooo!!!!!
I then met Erin and Hillary to go and see Angels & Demons. HOLY CRAP I WANT TO GO BACK TO ITALY SO BAD. And the movie was really good I thought! They obviously had to cut and change things but they mostly just cut a lot of the information that wasn't really relavant to the movie anyways, so it was all good (the ending changed too)! But omg it was SO painful to watch Langdon push over that whole bookcase in the Vatican archives. D: kjdgksjdgsjgjfksghdfjg
And then I got asked out on a date by a creepy 23 year old guy from Montreal when I was waiting at the bus stop.
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zomg I also saw X-Men Origins twice already. I love Hugh Jackman.
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[09 Apr 2009|12:42pm] |
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Finally DONE SCHOOL. For now. I only have my English exam on the 16th and then I have the rest of April off...except for when I'm working. Then I do a summer course on Modern Art History for May and June and then I have July and August free to work AND HOPEFULLY GO TO FAERIEWORLDS since last year ended up....not working (>:O). I just need time off work (which shouldn't be a problem) and a way to get down to my friends house in Washington...and I'm excited for the costumes I'm planning on putting together! I already have pretty much everything I need fo my Bad Faery costume (I just need a set of bad ass looking wings and some red flowers for my hair), I have a really clear idea of what I want to wear on the Family Day....I just don't have any of it yet. And I really have no idea what my Good Faery costume is going to look like. XD Baaah, I have until the end of July to worry about that.
But yeah. And since my last post I got some stuff sorted out. Though I'm not going into second year, I will take first year Seirigraphy and first year Sculpture so I will have enough studio courses for diploma and I will also be taking Western Art History and Latin. :D And even thouhg pretty much all of my friends are going onto second year or going to a different school, I will at least have Sculpture with Cathleen and Serigraphy with Cathleen and Natalie. So I won't be too lonely! And I will still be going on the Italy trip at the end of that year. So I guess it works out.
The weather has been super nice lately! It was a bit gloomy yesterday, but it's starting to brighten up a bit today. I'm going out for dinner tomorrow night with some highschool friends so I hope it's nice out tomorrow since I plan on going early and poking around the store on Broadway even though I have no money at the moment.
If any of you have a Twitter account you can follow me, and I'll follow you back! I'm PennyDreadful27 over there. :D And my Daily Booth is Penny_Dreadful. These are 2 reasons why I haven't been updating here lately. Sorry. -__-
Have a great weekend!
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So I only just found out TODAY that I haven't met all the friggin' course requirements to go into 2nd year. It was made rather clear to me when I was first starting out that we needed minimum of 5 studio courses + English + art history if we wanted to get a college DIPLOMA. Which I am not going for, I just want credits and experience so I can transfer somewhere else. So I thought then the minimum requirement was 1st year English, plus the required Design and Drawing. But NOOOOO apparently I need a minimum of 4 studio courses + English + Art History if I want to move on to 2nd year regardless.
For one thing I have my English, and it is perfectly fine for me to do art history in the summer (which I was always planning on doing). BUT I ONLY HAVE 3 STUDIO COURSES. I need 4 . And the only studio course in the summer is painting which I've already done! SO I HAVE TO DO THE FIRST YEAR STUDIO THAT I AM MISSING, NEXT YEAR WHEN I COULD'VE BEEN GOING ON TO 2ND YEAR IF ALL THE DAMN INFO WE WERE GETTING WASN'T DIRECTED ONLY TO THE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME PEOPLE I WOULD HAVE KNOWN. >:O
WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE JUST TO WRITE "If you don't want a diploma but are planning on going into 2nd year then you need to have [this many courses] anyways."!?!?!!?!
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I have to have 6 drawings done for Drawing class this Friday, we've had this assigned for 2 weeks and so far I only have 1 and 1/2 done.
I have to study 4 (fairly large) chapters for and English quiz on Thursday. Also figure out what poem I want to sign up for for the poetry seminar
Need to get started on an essay on 'Blade Runner', I have no idea where to start, though. Due March 5th.
Also have some Design homework to finish up for Thursday.
Should really start on my painting project. Also due March 5th.
So obviously that means I should sit on my ass all today and watch 'The Hulk' and 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' because OBVIOUSLY I have nothing better to do with my time!!11!111 =DDD
QUIT PROCRASTINATING, SHAWNA, AND GET TO BLOODY WORK ALREADY! D:<
Edit: SNOW?! AGAIN!?!?! wtf!
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[15 Feb 2009|09:34pm] |
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Happy belated Single Awareness Day. :D
On Friday I went to go see Coraline with some high school friends I hadn't seen for awhile. We bused aaaaaall the way out to Richmond (which took about an hour) because the movie was apparently playing in 3-D out there. Turns out it WASN'T in 3-D....but that's fine. It was an amazing!!! :)
Then I worked on Valentine's Day which suited me just fine because I don't really care at all about that day . Work sort of sucked because one of the girls phoned in sick AGAIN. All she does is drink and do drugs and forget to take her medication and then she phones the next day crying about how she's too sick to come in. -__- It sucks because she is such a nice person and knows a lot about the store, but she just doesn't think and doesn't know how to take care of herself. But our boss brought my co-worker and me a box of chocolate to share between the both of us. :D
After work I was talked into going to my aunt and uncle's V-day party that they have every year...I haven't gone for the past few years or so because it's just too awkward. But they food is always good so I decided I would go...but I didn't last very long because I had been standing all day at work for an 8 hour shift, and the standing for another 4 hours or so in a kitchen did not go over well. x_x
Today I got to see Coraline again, but this time with college friends. :) And this time in 3-D. But I find this so-called "Real-D" disappointing. Even with the glasses on some scenes were still double-imaged, and the things that were suppose to pop out at you didn't really. At one point I looked at the screen without glasses and it looked like a normal movie. Wtf. Don't try and develop new technology if it doesn't even work properly! I also played DDR at the theatre arcade, I haven't played in MONTHS and I'm reallt rusty (and out of shape XD Damn college! *shakes fist*). The one for Wii annoys me because of the fact that you have to use your arms...and I like the original DDR songs better than that boring mainstrem stuff they have for Wii...  They would've looked cooler if they were blue and red...
Yay. We get a reading break this Thursday-Friday. But it kind of sucks because pretty much every other university gets a week....oh well. I'm not complaining, I only have class on Tuesday! But I have a driving lesson Wednesday morning and then I have to go to the school to watch Blade Runner (Harrison Ford! <3) for English.
I creeped myself out by realizing just how much medieval torture deviced facinate me. I'm not crazy. D: (Machines of Malice on Discovery Channel ;D)
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QUIT SNOWING ALREADY!
(Nothing exciting has been happening....thus the lack of updates)
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So I was planning on sleeping in to about 11am today and then going to see a movie at 2:00. But I got an emergency call from work at like 9:30 asking if I could be there asap. Only one of the girls was there and she could hardly even open the store, she's been sick a lot lately and I guess she still hadn't recovered. So I guess it came back and she could hardly even speak when she was on the phone with me and she was totally freaking out so I had like 5 minutes to get ready and then my dad drove me there. I hope she's ok. D: I was sort of freaking out too because I didn't want to be stuck working until 6:00 because I still have a lot of homework to do. Though luckily I worked for only a few hours until some more of my coworkers showed up and then I left at 1.
I still managed to get to the movie on time, I even beat Laura and Ainsley to the theatre....We watched Inkheart and it was actually a lot better than I was expecting! I also can't complain about any differences from the book because it was awhile ago since I read it and I don't really remember anything (also I had just finished Inkdeath last week so I kept getting things confused...). The special effects were really good and NO I do not think they were overdone at all (as some reviews were saying...). Wheee.
And now I am stuck on my essay which is due this Tuesday, damnit.
Edit: Hmm....well my essay is suppose to be 750-800 words and I already have well over 1,000. Normally my problem is that I have way less than what is needed. Crap and I still need to find a lot of quotes to put into it, too. D: I think I'll go to bed and just come back to it in the morning...
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Ug...my life feels so hectic right now. I have so much homework and yet I'm still procrastinating...I never learn. I tend to do better at the last minute under stress, but I'm STRESSED and I don't like it. Because I use to never get stressed and that's one thing I was proud of was my ability to just stay calm (both the outside and inside)....well so much for that. I can still control it outwardly but my insides are all "fksjdgjshfkgfjdhkgjhlfgh" like. Not a good feeling. :(
I've also been reading more lately (I always read a lot but since college it had died down a bit), a good and bad thing, I stay up too late and then regret it in the morning. But I do.not.learn. I've been doing this for so long, reading until 1am and then regretting it when having to wake up at 6:15am. In the past 3 day's I: finally finished Inkdeath (I didn't find it that great and it took foreeeever for me to finish because I just couldn't get into it..), read Coraline, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and am now almost halfway through Bloody Jack....and I have so many more books to get through afterwards. I just want to read all day and not do homework. Gaaah D:
I haven't worked for almost two weeks and I actually found that I really miss is. I love the store I work in so much and my coworkers are the greatest people! It really truly is a magical store and whenever I'm there I'm totally calm and happy and I don't think of school and homework at all. So nice.
Baaaah.....well at least it's Friday tomorrow, so it's a short day and I like drawing class. :) Now excuse me while I go and stress out and procrastinate all at the same time.
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[15 Jan 2009|11:19pm] |
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Why is it so difficult for people to believe that Loreena McKennitt lives in Canada!? SHE IS CANADIAN. IT IS POSSIBLE FOR GOOD MUSICIANS TO LIVE IN OUR COUNTRY TOO YOU KNOW! D:<
BAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I ♥ her so much.
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First day of school kind of sucked...It rained non-stop. I lost my umbrella. My design homework got crunched, and then wet. I fell out of the bus and crushed my thumb and got my pant leg all muddy and wet. I didn't have enough money for my English books so I had to borrow some money from my dad to go out at like 6:00pm and buy the book I need for this Thursday....and then I have for read 100 pages by then too. And all today I was so out of it that even the simplest questions like "how was your break?" made no sense to me...-_______-.
The only good thing that happened is that I got to see my friends again and that my English classroom has windows.
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Aww....last day of holidays. I still haven't got all my stuff together. I hope this term is better than last...now I know how the teachers mark I need to work even harder! Especially in drawing, I want at least an A!
I hope the snow doesn't effect (affect? I've never been able to get those 2 straight...) the buses either. Blaah.
I've been discovering so many new bands lately that I'm almost out of space on my iPod. Oh no! And I don't want to delete anything either. >:(
I got my blood doner card in the mail yesterday! I am type O positive! Woohoo I feel so special. :D
Now to sit here for a few hours and then get my school stuff together at the last minute!
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I hope everyone had a great New Year. =D
I haven't been up to a whole lot, on the 28th there was a Vancouver Yule Ball (as in that dance they have in the 4th Harry Potter book/movie) that I attended with some friends. It was quite fun and there was much wizard rock played. :)
On the 30th I went to Richmond with Kelly and Carma to get cream puffs...they were very good cream puffs. It was nice to get too see those two again!
Today I went out for lunch with my mom, dad, and grandma. I went to HMV afterwards and bought 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'Master and Commander' (hey Nomi, I can give your copy back to you...er..your uncle's copy ^^;;;) since they were both the 2 for 20$ deal. I also got a Nightwish CD.
I ran into some friends from high school while I was downtown (Kristina and Lucy for those of you who know) and they invited me to watch 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' with them. It was a very good movie...it really makes you think. I never really cared much for Brad Pitt but after seeing him as an old man and then get younger really makes you appreciate just how good he actually looks. :P Just saying.
Asides from that I've just been sitting at home infront of the computer. *sign* School starts back up on Tuesday for me. ~_~
ps: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE AWESOME STUFF, REINA. I <3 YOU. :D
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