Tuesday, March 29, 2011

all along the watchtower.

hey, boys & girls.

I apologize for not posting in yeons, but what can you do! My wonderous Sarah lappie has more or less died an unpleasant death, or should I say is pretty badly crippled as of right now - its in denial that it has a hard drive. hopefully my darlingboy can do something about it and make it live again, but I don't really have my fingers crossed too tightly. I have the worst luck.

Today I had my biology lab final, and I was pretty saddened by it. I'm going miss giggling over dead rats and frogs and grasshoppers with my labmates, they were a delight this semester. It was the best of times. Hopefully someday in my studies I'll get to take another laboratory course, I really enjoy the hands on aspect of it. And, well, I just plain like looking inside stuff, I know thats kinda creepy and gross, but its so interesting seeing how everything works! The body is such a brittle, delicate thing when you get down to it. Frightens meee.

The last few weekends have been far too much fun, lots of drunken chats and love and being silly with the gang. A lot of it is pretty fuzzy, honestly, but I remember coming out of the blurriness with a big ol' smile on my face and thats good enough for me.

I don't really have too much to say right now (as you might've been able to discern from my inability to speak proper English and my vagueness towards all manners of life), so I shall stop here for now. Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still very much alive, and very much well. I can only hope that when I crawl from the dark, dank abyss that is threatening to consume my life for the next four or so weeks that I shall feel the sunshine on my face. Damn you, school. Damn you winter.

But the rest of you get my love.


XO

Monday, March 14, 2011

vanilla dome.

I made the mistake, as I do everytime I have anything important to do (i. e. schoolwork/studying), of finding something so impossibly entertaining that I can't do much aside from be distracted. Yup, I downloaded an SNES emulator and have been immersing myself in various Final Fantasy Titles, Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Super Mario World for more or less the entire weekend. My entire Saturday was spent in my bed listening to David Suzuki podcasts (which, in my defense, were actually for a class, sorta) and cycling through my newfound game collection. Its been both too nostalgic and exciting to put into words.

David Suzuki. What a guy. I'm convinced Mother Nature won't let him die until he saves the planet, dude is super old (though in incredible shape for being 74). I think he's definitely one of the most amazing people alive right now. The podcasts I'm listening to are called "The Bottom Line", which is a series he did that was aired on CBC Radio One in early 2010 or something I think? Its basically about how lifestyle is affecting the environment. He travels around to different places interviewing people about different topics like climate change, agriculture, oil, etc. Its a great series, well worth a listen, and I think you can stream it off the CBC website for free. Conservation biology and environmentalism are love.

Its time for English now though, unfortunately. How was everybody's weekend?

XO

Saturday, March 12, 2011

the origin of love

Last night me and my lovely friend Allan went for dinner and a show. We headed downtown for delicious food at Jungle Jim's (and multiple delicious cocktails that tasted like yummy tropical juice), and then headed to the Rock House for HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH. This was a really special night; Allan and I have been in love with the movie almost since we first became friends. I didn't know what to expect at all, really; I knew the play would obviously be very different from the movie.

It was incredible; the actor who played Hedwig was perfect. He looked the part entirely, and he was such a diva. I'd imagine its an incredibly difficult part to play; basically putting off a concert while in character, as a female, and he didn't break character once. He was sexy, hilarious, perfect really. It was essentially a one-man show, just Hedwig and her band, the Angry Inch. They even added a bunch of jokes about St. John's into the opening of it; it was basically supposed to be a concert, with Hedwig telling her story. The music was sensational, the acting was astonishing, and I loved how interactive it was.


If you've never seen the movie, I'd get on that. If you like musicals, its definitely a treat. A very sad story, sassy, hilarious. So many things. Hedwig had a sex change operation performed so as to able to leave communist East Germany and get married (a marriage which collapses rather quickly), but the operation was botched, leaving Hedwig with a mound of flesh that leaves her neither male nor female (her "angry inch"). Its a story about finding love and finding yourself. Super smart and funny. And the music is so goddamn catchy. 

My favorite part of the movie, and one of my favorite songs, is when Hedwig is telling a story that his mother told him, which is actually Aristophanes' speech from Plato's Symposium. Its about how humans used to be beings with 2 faces, 4 arms, 4 legs, and how the Gods were angered with them and cut them in half. Now we spend our lives trying to find our other half, and sex is how we try to put ourselves back together again. Its a beautiful story, both the song and its original philosophical manifestation.

Thats enough gushing for now (I could write a lot more, trust me). Now I'm going to go listen to music and read about the Athabasca oil sands (for academic reasons). I hope everyone is having an amazing weekend.


XO

Sunday, March 6, 2011

are you human?

Another lovely weekend spent with my lovely friends. Friday we hit up Mullock House for exactly what I wanted after my hellishly stressful week - a sloppy, silly night full of awesome music, dancing, hugs and delicious food. I passed out in my friend Daniel's bed like a happy, drunken baby and woke up to a day of pretending it was summer with 10am outdoor beers and wandering around parks with two of my favorite boys.

I followed that up with two days of lazing around with one of other favorite boys reading and studying. Tonight the boyfriend & myself left the cozy confines of our underground lovenest for bookshopping and delicious food.

At the end of this weekend - which turned out to be lovely, stressfree, productive, and comfortable as anything - I could really not be happier. Its time like this that remind me how lucky I am to have the life I do, and to have the people in it that make it so very sunny. Thanks, friends & lovers <3

I decided to take the summer semester at MUN, as well. Its either go to school or have a shitty job, and at least taking classes I won't have my soul hollowed out by a minimum wage job. In the meantime, I get to stress about this semester and try not to think about my Centre for Nursing Studies application, which I am hoping is in loving, considerate hands.

I am in the process of writing a short story now, an odd thing for me. I don't usually write, well, anything. I am also working on another mysterious short piece (SARAH) which I'm hoping will reach completion by tomorrow at the very latest. I am way past my deadline.

That is all for tonight. I am off to sprawl out on my couch like a comfy, happy cat and finish reading "The Divine Ryans" by Wayne Johnston, which so far is actually really enjoyable.

XO