bees

i was pondering tonight about how there are no spelling bees for adults. sure, adults are supposed to be smarter than your average grade 7 or 8 student who are in those super hard spelling bees now, but adults still want to prove their skillz. i mean, those words that those teens are spelling are dang hard - could you imagine the ones that adults would have to spell? and at the rate words are being produced these days, it would be impossible to study for a task such as this. i mean, i think 'bling-bling' and 'crunk' are in the dictionary now...hence i would be the master of the adult spelling bee.

in fact, i think adults should be privy to alot of things kids are. i think there should be four-square outside office buildings, milk sold at lunch hour (at a smooth price of 25 cents) and the option for people over ten to get those dinosaur shaped chicken fingers at restaurants.

and speaking of milk sold at lunch, i miss beep. i love that juice. i heard a nasty rumour that you can still buy it at safeway. if the person who told me that is lying, and i go to buy it and it's not there...well, let's just say it won't be pretty.

look at yourself

i bought crash tonight. i watched crash tonight. i loved crash tonight.

it's scary to look at our world sometimes. we all think we walk around with no prejudice, no judgements of other people, but it's there. i hear it everyday. i think it. we all think it.

but what can be done about it? can we ever truly be judgement free? even if we don't say what we think on the outside, how can we stop from thinking things on the inside?

how can we rid our society of the stereotypes that fuel our insecurities?

we can't.

so the cycle continues.

you snooze you lose, well i have snost and lost

i love how shows these days are posting their music listings from each episode. grey's anatomy has great music, and they put up the tracklisting here. last week they featured a song called 'i hear the bells' by a guy named mike doughty (they got his name wrong on the website). not only is the tune catchy enough for me to have listened to it 8 times today, but he uses the word 'ampersand'. all you english-loving folk should love that.

oh, and i have heard tegan and sara on that show twice now so i have to admit whoever does their song selection is not only cool, but super cool.

other cool songs of the day to help me make it through my studies:
minibar - choked up
a.c. newman - on the table
all saints - pure shores
jeremy fisher - suckerpunch
the futureheads - decent days and nights

stupid blogger

so i wrote a huge rant this morning, and just as i pushed 'publish post' something wonky happened and i lost it all. i have a huge midterm thursday, so in the interest of saving time, i will give you this to entertain you. yes, i'm 22 and still think prank phone calls are funny.

'arry potter

i'm so excited for the new harry potter movie. yes, i'm a complete loser. yes, i probobly will live in my parents basement next year. but do you know what? i don't give a crap. i just can't wait to see harry fight those dragons, hermione kiss that uber-cute viktor krum, and ron cut his hair. he really needs a haircut.

i'm also excited to get over this cough/cold situation i've got going on here. i also think it has morphed like one of those power rangers into a lovely ear infection. yes, i'm so tired that i'm actually blogging about my sickness. i'm so going to be one of those old ladies that talks about her bowels for ten minutes.

well, since i did nothing this weekend but take a retarded first aid/cpr class (which i already have) and sleep, i'll sign off here. i will also mention that the riders really need to work on their defensive strategy, because obviously what they've got going on isn't working. i mean, i can see that, and i don't know diddly piddly about football. sheesh.

afternoons....

i went to see matt mays and el torpedo last night, and as usual they put on a rockin' show. not only did they play a long set of their own songs, they came back for a 2nd encore (saskatoon loves the matt mays) and played bruce springsteen's 'born to run'. it was dope.

after the show my friends and i headed to the roxy, (formerly the wash n' slosh, where one could do laundry and get d-runk) met some of the band and listened to the cover band playing bastardize rage against the machine's 'killing in the name of'. oh well.

here are some pics. (and yes, there is one of me with matt, but i look like a goon, so it will not be shown. but fyi, he is the nicest boy ever. everyone! listen to matt mays.)

sickly

okay, so i've had this hacking cough for too long. i can't carry on a phone conversation without pausing like forty times to cough. and now, it has migrated to my brain, so i can't smell/taste anything. how fun when you go out for coffee, order a drink, pay $3.75 for said drink and can't taste anything.

i've managed to live through two midterms this week. now, only eighty-seven projects, two hundered midterms and four mental breakdowns to go.

tonight was filled with applications. i typed out a generic cover letter to hand into our student employment office to apply for some interviews. and i wrote out some stuff for my ubc hospital residency application. how wicked awesome would it be to live in vancouver? fairly wicked awesome. however, on a wicked awesome scale of 1-65, i would say that it doesn't rank as high as living in ottawa, living at home for cheap, and spending all my money on rickshaw rides and gelato. i love me some sugar mountain gelato.

okay this one is for ky and lynnie c: primitive radio gods just turned up on my itunes. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevery since the day we met. eeeeeeeeevery since the day we met.
sigh. they just don't write strange songs like they used to.

near death

this morning as i was watching the view, my fish - j.lo - had a near death experience. roommate 'm' as we shall call him was eating cereal at the table, where j.lo's fishbowl sits. he was opening his new bag of weight watchers almond crunch, when 'bang!' it expolded all over the table.

i looked up from my position on the couch to see 'm' covered in cereal, the table covered in cereal, and a look of shock on his face. expletives came flying faster than the speed of sound. and then, the worst part happened. 'there's even cereal in the fish bowl!' he cried. i started laughing - i mean, out of all the cereal boxes in all the world, what are the odds that yours will explode? well, pretty good if you rip at it like 'm' does. anyways, poor j.lo was swimming around in a sea of raisins and flakes, while 'm' is running around yelling 'what do i do!? what do i do!?'. so, being the good roommate that i am, i prompt him to start scooping the cereal out of the bowl with a spoon. 'the fish is eating the rice crispies' he said to me. then, he looked in the bowl and said, 'those are my favorite too!'

j.lo ended up surviving, as her fish mommy came to the rescue. she now has some lovely clean water, and a story to tell all the other fishies at the watercooler tomorrow. that is if there were other fishies....and a watercooler...

self portrait

i should be...

i should be studying. i should be applying for hospital residencies. instead, i went on an outing. i filled my car with gas, bought envelopes for said applications, bought some shampoo, bought something to drink, and did some laundry. i'm always so productive on days i have to study. productive when it comes to other things i have been putting off, such as cleaning the bathroom, or taking random pictures of items in my bedroom. i haven't taken random pictures of items in my bedroom...well, ever...so here are some.

fireballs

some friends and i headed out tonight to the samurai japanese steakhouse for some fine dining tonight. at this restaurant, you get seated at tables of 10 around a huge grill where a chef prepares your meal right infront of you. not only is the food amazing, but they light things on fire for you. and our chef was so nice, he did it twice. i didn't mean to rhyme that - i'm just that good.

i took some pictures. i'm toying with different exposures and settings on my camera - so here's what turned up.
















it's my plate pre-chicken. it takes a really long time to eat rice with chop sticks. this photo is strange, because if you look through the plate, you can see the food cooking on the grill, the chef's hand, and two of the girls sitting accross the way.
















it's flaming! i love me some fire.
















i took this on the way home. i really shouldn't be driving and taking photos. stay off the sidewalk.

pity

over the past week, i have come to realize that saskatoon must be the international home of dopplegangers. in fact, i saw bea aruthur at superstore yesterday. she trumps my giraldo rivera sighting at my local corner store on tuesday. well - i suppose my revelation should be changed - saskatoon is the international home of the most unfortunate dopplegangers. i think i should start a collection of sightings, and rank each with a points system. for example:

5 points: (crappy to look like)
-rosie o'donnell
-girlado rivera
-kathy griffen

10 points: (you might want to consider a mask)
-bea arthur
-sandra bernhardt
-roseanne barr

50 points: (i hope there is really only one out there)
-carrot top
-danny bonaduce
-stephen cojocaru

looks like i'm in the lead with 15. any dopplegangers in your city?

i'm a student on a fixed income

fuck you, apple. this is getting to be a little rediculous. i only have so much money.

weekender fun

well, i had a good weekend of relaxing and eating too much food. now i'm back in town to do some homework - don't i know how to put the f-u back in fun!

now, there were some highlights to my weekend which i would like to share:

#1 - i was watching tv on saturday, and like my typical self, flipping channels constantl, because i think i have a.d.d. anyways, i paused on this cbc show about whales. these people were whale watching this certain type of whale because it was mating season. now, they're out in the middle of the ocean and there were these two whales humping, and everyone is on deck watching htis go down. as i'm watching this, the whale expert who was narrating went into a big explanaition about the male whale's man-bits being like 3.5 meters long. they're showing all the people on the boat all excited about seeing these whales get it on, and showing them taking pictures, when all of a sudden the male came out of the water and this one lady started yelling, 'penis! penis! penis!' like it was the most exciting thing she'd ever seen. i laughed very hard.

#2 - i saw an oldsmobile in a parking lot with a decal on the side that said 'sassy but classy'. may i just say to this person, that if you need to state that you're classy on the side of your car, you might not be. however, if everyone had adjectives on the side of their cars to describe themselves, then you would fit right in.

#3 - my grandma called martha stewart a bitch.

okay, now i have to get to work on some laundry, and the homework mentioned as above.

oh, and a big-up to k-rock on her birthday.

mini-me

look, it's me in lego form drinking at school. typical.


















thanks miss mary.

now i will be leaving for a few days to go eat too much food, make some crafts and forget about school. happy turkey.

unoriginal

okay, i couldn't think of posting anything that didn't relate to how much i love the arcade fire, so i copied something from here. oh, and i have made an executive decision to exclude excessively cheesy responses.

7 things you plan to do before you die:
- travel europe
- buy a condo and decorate it all snazzy-like
- go on a shopping spree in new york city
- get season tickets to a professional sports team
- learn to play tennis
- write the great canadian novel
- meet pete yorn

7 things you can do:
- recite pretty much all the dialogue from dazed and confused
- procrastinate (hey! i'm doing it right now)
- tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue
- make a mean home made pizza
- make my friends moon me in the library so strangers see
- sing along to almost every backstreet boy song up to their black and blue album
- make up a great excuse for buying yet another pair of shoes

7 things you cannot do:
- write with my left hand
- speak french
- lie
- have patience for stupid people
- wake up without hitting snooze on my alarm at least two times
- stop buying shoes/makeup/purses
- make a bet unless i know i'm going to win

7 things you never thought you'd do:
- want to be a hospital pharmacist
- get to see the arcade fire in concert in saskatoon
- camp on the grounds of a castle in england
- go to the just for laughs festival in montreal
- move to ottawa
- be happy that hockey is back on tv
- be sad that i'm actually almost done school

7 things that attract you to other people:
- sense of humour
- personality
- musical interests
- personal hygeine
- common interests
- shoes
- lack of them being an asshole

7 things that you say most often:
- you suck
- i love pete yorn
- i love the arcade fire
- you lick balls
- school licks balls
- i love the oc
- and pretty much any saying from wayne's world

7 celebrity crushes:
- josh homme
- brandon flowers
- dave grohl
- brody dalle (heterosexual girl crush, who is also marrying #1)
- pete yorn
- gerard way
- scott weiland

sometimes we remember bedrooms

okay, so i am on severe arcade fire rationing as of right now. i have to restrain myself from listening to them for fear i will become obsessed (i guess more so than i am right now) and do something irrational. like get the lyrics to 'laika' tatooed on my ass. that would be bad.

but seriously, i can safely say the show last night was one of the best shows i have ever been to. and i have been to alot of shows. the energy output from the band and the crowd was amazing. and they're all totally down to earth, wandering around the venue during the opening acts, standing in the crowd and rockin' out. okay, i can't speak of it anymore because i'm getting all worked up again. here are some more pics.

















look! it's win crowd surfing. with his guitar and all. and because he's so strangely attractive, here are some more random pics for your pleasure.

















it's a group shot! the stage had all these vintage lamps and flags on it. the lamps would flash and dim and stuff along with the light show, which was wicked awesome. vintage is the new new.

















it's another group shot! i think i took like fifty pictures. i could post group shots for days.



















okay, and here's the obligatory 'amanda you met the band' picture for ky. i think it's worth noting that i made a chump of myself while i was talking to him. and technically, i didn't actually meet the whole band, just richard *aka yelly guy* who is really tall, has straight teeth and seems to be a bigger nerd than me. he was leaning over the merchandise table after i took this picture and his blue jockeys were sticking out. it was totally dorky and adorable at the same time.

i have to go study and try and get my mind of the awesomeness of last night.

look out below!

okay, it's 1am and i just got home from the best show i've ever seen. i'm quitting school and becoming an arcade fire groupie. i'll post more later. here's a taste...

zonked

i'm so tired i could pass out, but i have been inspired by bron's meme o' the day. and in addition, i bought the matthew good compilation in a coma today, and i'm on disc two and pleasantly surprised, so i'm not ready to shut it off before bed yet. even though the dude totally deserved the shoe to the head for being a total dickis, i enjoy his music.

on to the meme!

of the movies in your current dvd or vhs collection, name seven (in no particular order) that you have watched enough times to make your friends suspect that there might be something wrong with you but that you can't imagine not watching again. *writers note: i'm pretty sure my friends think there is something wrong with me already - they don't really need me to confirm it with my insane movie watching habits*

#1. bring it on - i'm not too sure what it is. the spunky songs, the witty insults...or the fact that cliff is a total babe. i have seen this movie enough times to pretty much rival the monologue that the rock does in be cool.

#2. 10 things i hate about you - i purely love this movie. everything about it makes me happy. this movie made me love 'hypnotize' by notorious b.i.g. and heath ledger. for that, i owe it eternally.

#3. newsies - i think the fact that this movie is so bad makes it so good. the music is actually fairly decent...i used to listen to the soundtrack all the time before bed. weird. i think it could have gone the distance to the oscars if spot conlon hadn't been such an ugly fool, and david's eyes had been farther apart.

#4. orange county - this movie will never stop being funny. jack black is the best, end of discussion.

#5. wayne's world - i have gotten into this strange rut of pretty much referencing wayne's world once a day, even though i hardly watch it anymore. there are so many elements of this movie that translate into my life that it makes me question whether i should quit school and start my own local cable access show. amanda's world, amanda's world, party time, excellent, reeeer reeeer reeer.

#6. dazed and confused - this needs no explaining. this movie effing rules.

#7. sixteen candles - actually, this movie is going to umbrella all john hughs films. he is kick-arse. and i need a jake in my life.