Friday April 21st, 2006 @ 10:06 PM
Music: Hello it's me - Todd Rundgren
Happy 5th Anniversary :)

    Due to time constraints, Andrew and I celebrated our five-year anniversary last night, beginning at midnight.
    Originally I was upset about this, but then I realized that it was actually more in keeping with the tradition of "us." After all, we did technically start together on April 21st, 2001, between the hours of 12-5 AM. I never got to see you the day of the 21st back in 2001, due to time constraints (more specifically, a plane that was leaving that I almost made everyone late for!). So maybe it's better, or at least more accurate, that we celebrate our anniversary during the night, and not the day.
    And then I was thinking that maybe that's just a gift we have...
    In spite of both of us having exams tomorrow...
    In spite of you having to work tonight...
    In spite of our lack of planning...
    In spite of my compulsion to make things perfect, even when it ultimately makes me unhappy...
    In spite of your making a toast to my ass...
    In spite of us doing EVERYTHING "wrong"...
    ...I have had a wonderful anniversary, just having a lot of fun with the person I love more than anything in the world. It wasn't particularly different from any other night we spend together (with the exception of the champagne!), but that's probably because we always have a lot of fun together. :)
    I've spent the past week agonizing over what I'm going to write here in honour of our anniversary, and in the end I had nothing planned. This all came out on its own, as it often does when I sit down to write.
    I wish it had been better. Why is it that you and I are the only thing I can't put into words?
    Oh well, you know all that I wanted to say anyway.
    And like most aspects of our relationship, we are the only ones who would understand anyway. ;)

~Shayla

PS. The line of the evening still goes to me: "Yeah, like in Russia where all the buildings wear hats that look like desserts." ;)

Tuesday April 18, 2006 @ 3:47 PM
Music: Same Situation - Joni Mitchell
"Shayla" stories...

    Okay, so Sam posted this thing on her lj, and I thought it was such a fun idea that we should start a blog "fad" with it... So feel free to post it on your journals, because I think we'll get a lot of laughs/good stuff out of it.
    Give me your favourite [Shayla] story. ... It can be anything from something we've done together, to an online conversation, it can be humorous, sad, any sort of [Shayla] story you can think of. ... Tell me a [Shayla] story, so I can reminisce, laugh, and then blush like a doofus from behind the computer screen.
    If you don't have a journal, feel free to leave a request in my comment box (along with your story of me, of course!!) and I'll post a story about you here. :)
    And thanks again to Sam for the fun trend. ;)

~Shayla

Thursday April 13, 2006 @ 11:35 AM
Music: Number One - Catlow
The is the closest I will ever get to posting lyrics...

Here's how it works (stolen from Sam):
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post a line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: No cheating.

Hints from me (this isn't technically part of the game, but whatEVER):
    - Over half of this list is over twenty years old
    - A TRUE Joni Mitchell fan will know 3 songs
    - I don't expect ANYONE to get #9
    - Only 2 songs came out in the last year or so     - For the record, #18 is actually "Sunday Morning" and not "Just a Girl." But Carly WAS right about it being No Doubt.

1. It's important to me that you know you are free
   'Cause I never wanna make you change for me
2. Oh didn't it feel good, we were sitting there talking,
   Or lying there not talking, didn't it feel good?
3. I don't need to fight to prove I'm right
   I don't need to be forgiven
4. I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky like a tiger
   Defying the laws of reality
5. Tear down these monuments
   Bury the coat of arms
   Build for me a factory
6. His eyes were the colour of the sand in the sea
   And the more he talked to me the more he reached me
7. There's a little black spot on the sun today
   It's the same old thing as yesterday
8. Did the clown make you smile?
   He was only your fool for a while
9. When I awake I want my memory erased
   And all the taste on my lips gone
10. If I had ever been here before or another time around the wheel I would probably know just how to deal with all of you
11. Illusions of some day casting a golden light
    No dress rehearsal, this is our life
12. So I send up my prayers wondering where they have to go
    With heaven full of astronauts and the Lord on death row
13. Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
    No time to hesitate
14. Well I guess if you say so
    I'll have to pack my things and go (that's right!)
15. These are the days of empty kitchens
    The rise and fall of Mary Ellen's hairdo
16. I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
    I just can't remember who to send it to
17. Eat all the grass, eat all the grass that you want
    Accidents happen in the dark
18. Sappy pathetic little me, that was the girl I used to be
    You left me on my knees
19. Have you asked why you seem to fall in love and out again?
    Do you really ever love or just pretend?
20. All lies and jest
    Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest

• Went to Sam's dinner party... "Apples to Apples" is the best game EVER, but I suck hard at Goldeye...
• "Inside Man" gets my award for worst movie ever
• Tried on lingerie for the first time yesterday with Claud... It looked like a 1950's bathing suit on me, but I haven't been turned off it forever or anything. ;)
• Knee-length skirts make me look like a kindergarten teacher
• I vow to send off at least one of my children's stories to a publisher by the end of May

Tuesday April 11th, 2006 @ 1:19 AM
Music: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
"DHA" - Dreams, Hopes and Ambitions...

    I'm beginning to realize the importance of having dreams and goals in life. No matter how great your life is, you'll never be fulfilled/happy if you don't have dreams, if you don't have goals to spend your time working toward. One of the things I base this theory off of (besides actual documented studies that I've been reading lately) is my observation that a lot of people in my life don't seem to have any clear dreams or goals. Maybe they used to have goals, but they don't anymore. And I notice that these people tend to not be very happy, or if they appear to be so it is mainly superficial.
    Anyway, so I've been thinking a lot about goals and dreams. I think it's one of the best things I've got going for me: I have a lot of interests, and I have a lot of BIG dreams. They include:

• I want to get published. Anyone who knows me at all knows that this is what I really want to do. I've been forever saying that I'm going to do it... I'll admit that my novel has kind of gone on hiatus lately... But I have several outlines for children's stories, and I'm really going to work this summer to get them published. In fact, I spent part of today at the library flipping through children's books to see which ones had the same "feel" as mine, so that I could consider those publishers (I've read that this is what you're supposed to do). After I find several good ones (no such luck yet) I'm going to write out my stories and send them off and see what happens. I doubt it will be easy to get published off the bat, but at least I'll be doing something to work toward my goal instead of just talking a lot of hot air. :)
• I want, someday, a really great marriage and homelife. Not much I can work on right now, in terms of having good kids, but I have read several parenting/child psych books (I'm going to be CRAZY with reading that stuff when I actually get pregnant/have kids) and I'm in an amazing relationship right now. I actually feel like this is the most "on track" area in my life right now.
• I want a really beautiful house. Not beautiful in terms of being expensive or originally stunning or anything. When I buy my house, I don't expect it to be beautiful at all. What I want is to lovingly design every single room, every staircase, even re-do the outside of my house. I want to buy old, unique furniture from random auctions and flea markets. This is SERIOUSLY exciting for me, to think about this. Andrew can tell you how excited I get when the annual IKEA catalog gets delivered -I don't even buy that much IKEA stuff or anything, but I LOVE pouring over the room designs and fantasizing. I'm pretty confident in this goal, since I have quite a bit of experience in designing and painting rooms in my current home. :)
• I want a PhD. in psychology. Don't worry, I'm not switching majors or anything. :) This is something I think I'd like to do after I have kids, maybe when I'm forty-fifty. I'm incredibly interested in psychology, and even if it takes a while I'd like to have that degree and write non-fiction pysch books. :)
• I want to run for MP. Again, not something I plan to do any time soon, but something I'd like to do within my lifetime. :) I'd probably only be a politician for a term or two, depending on how big of an impact I felt I could make/was making.
• I want to develop my musical talent. I've got a pretty wicked sense of pitch (wicked in the good sense!), but my musical abilities are entirely underdeveloped. I don't know the slightest bit of theory, I can't read music... Any songs I know I learned by ear, but right now I have to pitch out the melodies note by note. If I focused more on this ability, I would eventually be able to pick out melodies chord by chord and get increasingly better. Plus, I think it would be interesting to learn SOME theory, and useful to be able to read music. Plus, someday in my retirement (if I ever retire), I'd like to learn a new instrument, like maybe the violin or cello. And I'd really like to get back into a choir again (before I retire!) because I miss it terribly.
• I want to learn to use watercolour paints. I always thought I hated watercolour, but recently I read a book on it and now it seems much more appealing/plausible. Katie has watercolour supplies and I have a book on it (plus Katie can teach me), so this summer I want to learn how to paint. Just think: if I get good, maybe someday I can illustrate my children's books! :)
• I want to make a cartoon. This is just kind of a fun summer project that Katie and I are working on. I'm learning Flash, and Katie and I are making a cartoon like Home Movies (I say "like Home Movies" because that is also animated with Flash). We've done some character design sketches, done some voice recordings, and this weekend we're writing out the full episode outline. :) So far Flash is pretty tedious, but I'm slowly making progress --> I got the character's mouth to move with the sound file!! :D
• I want to read a lot and know whatever I can. This is significantly more vague that my other goals/dreams, but I'm very serious about it and have actually made a lot of progress I think. Since the beginning of February, there has not be a time when I wasn't reading a non-school, non-fiction book at all times. And I plow through them pretty quickly too. I'm interested in a lot of things: the environment, psychology, politics, science, history... Also, I think I've become much better at asking questions and listening as of late. I've come to view people as resources too, and I find most people have a lot to teach. :) PS. I this regard, I LOVE ANDREW!! That boy knows EVERYTHING!! <3
• I want to take better care of my body. This means getting regular exercise, cutting back on crap food, upping my water intake and getting in my 5-8 fruits and veggies a day. I think this will be a lot easier now that I'm out of school and not tempted to buy lunch all the time (also, this will save me a lot of money!!), and also easier when my mom goes up north and Katie and I get full control of the shopping list. I've been slacking on my 1-hour walk-per-day lately, but now that the weather's getting nice I want to switch to a daily/every-other-day half-hour run... And maybe I'll start using the UTSC gym too, especially since I'm there with nothing to do on Tuesday afternoons this summer...
• I think I'm going to take up yoga. I've never really "gotten" yoga before, but lately I've been reading about the mental side of it, and it's pretty interesting. It teaches you to concentrate and block out distractions... You have to admit, that's a pretty damn useful and worth learning. :)

~Shayla

Sunday April 2, 2006 @ 5:00 PM
Music: Emotion - Samantha Sang and the Bee Gees
Intelligence or beauty?

    This post is in reply to Sonali's entry. Sonali asks what would you rather have - beauty or intelligence? Details can be found on Son's journal.
    I would absolutely choose intelligence... But I don't want to be the most intelligent person in the world or anything, because I agree with Carly that that would be very lonely. But I would much rather be very smart than very beautiful.
    Here's my reasoning:

• I'm convinced right now that happiness comes from doing things that require skill, that change you, that make you a more whole and complex person. These things can include doing school work, creating art, pursuing a sport, nurturing a friendship/relationship, etc. Being intelligent can help me to improve myself, and can help me develop meaningful skills that have the potential to make the world better (if I chose to weld my intelligence for good, which I would). Being beautiful can't help you do that, nor can it even help you to nurture a friendship/relationship, because the relationship would be built on (or at least influenced by) something superficial. On the other hand, I think you can love a person for their intelligence (actually, I know that from first-hand experience... Nowadays, a really great intellectual conversation with Andrew often feels better than sex. And I know also from experience that it feels much better for be loved for your mind than for your body). In a nutshell, I think intelligence can aid you in the path to happiness and progression, but I don't see how beauty can.
• Beauty is something you'll feel bad about as you age, because you'll never be as beautiful as you once were. On the other hand, people put more and more self-esteem in intelligence, because you can continue to build it for your entire life.
• I agree that intelligence can often be a burden, but I would choose it anyway. It's true that many highly intelligent people are very isolated and caught up in their work, but that's not to say that they're any less happy. There's a story about Democritus, one of the great thinkers, that illustrates my point. The Greek countrymen loved Democritus, so when they noticed him sitting under a tree lost in thought for several days, they became worried that he was ill and sent for the doctor, Hippocrates. Hippocrates came to examine Democritus, and found that he was quite healthy and happy in solitude, where he could ponder and think clearly. It was democritus who said, "It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new."
      Moreover, I think that all people in the world, dumb or smart, are happiest conversing and being with people who are relatively close in I.Q. In this case, perhaps people of average intelligence would have more friends because there are a greater percentage of people with their IQ level. On the other hand, it does not prevent people of higher or lower intelligence from meeting people around their range. Also, perhaps people with very high intelligence were miserable throughout history, but I think the situation is different today because of technology and urbanization: when you can chat online with essentially the whole world, or live in a huge city, you're far more likely to find people who are like you.
• I don't think that becoming arrogant is a factor in high intelligence any more than it is a factor in any other case. A person who is far more beautiful than everyone else will think him/herself superior. The same can be said about very talented people, or very skilled, or rich, or pious, or strong. There are too many measures of human value to make intelligence the exception.
• Ignorance may be bliss at the moment, but it will not always be so. If we are blissfully ignorant about global warming, someday we're going to fry ourselves. I think it is better to know so that we can make necessary changes.
      Sometimes I look at my cat and think how nice it would be not to have to think. To escape from that specifically human curse, which we can call ontological anxiety or existential dread: the upset feelings that come from realizing that we exist and can think, but not knowing our purpose or why we're here. But then I think to myself that the human complexity that makes me feel upset sometimes also has the potential to do great things. Existential dread is something that we all feel sometimes, and people with higher IQs tend to be more likely to experience it. But it's not necessarily a bad thing, because the best way to get rid of it is to keep yourself active and doing things that build complexity. In the end, all human progress is a result of our existential dread. If I didn't experience it, it's unlikely that I would ever feel the urge to do anything.
• I don't think facts-based intelligence counts as intelligence at all. I believe the criteria for intelligence includes memory, but also the ability to comprehend, to analyze, to think critically.
• Think about the way that we remember intelligent people in comparison to beautiful people. The classic beauties, like Cleopatra, are recognized in art and history, but I've never felt any great admiration for them. We respect and admire intelligent people for their contributions to human cumulative intelligence and understanding. No beautiful person has ever influenced my understanding/perception of life like Socrates or Mary Wollstonecraft or Charles Darwin. In a thousand years, no one will remember Halle Berry, but I bet they'll remember Stephen Hawking.

~Shayla

Sunday March 26th @ 2:32 AM
Music: Prettiest Thing - Norah Jones
Am I totally missing something??

    Okay, guys, we really need to talk about something that almost all of you do, and all seem to generally understand amongst yourselves, and I really don't get it. I'm thinking you guys might need to explain this to me or something...
    Guys, what's with the lyric-posting? I think maybe I'm just really terrible at interpreting lyrics, or the messages in songs just seem trivial to me or something, but I really don't get the lyric thing. I always know the lyrics to songs I like but it's just because I like to sing the song so I want to know what words to sing. I almost %100 only listen to music for the melody; I'd be totally cool with songs that had no lyrics, so long as they had something I could sing along to if I wanted. So I just really don't get what you guys like so much about lyrics in general. Most popular songs are about simple, trivial stupid crap anyway, so even if I do understand what the song is about, it still doesn't mean anything to me.
    I'm guessing that by posting lyrics you are a) posting a song that you feel epitomizes your current thoughts/feelings, or b) just posting the lyrics to a song you currently really like. If it is the latter case, then that's cool, but I still have no idea how I should respond aside from saying "Oh yeah, I like that song too" or "You know, I've never actually heard that song before." If it is the former, I still don't know how to respond because I generally don't "get" what the hell the song is about and therefore I have no hope of trying to guess what you're trying to "say" or "express" through the song lyrics.
    So, I have devised two possible solutions for resolving this discourse:

1. Your initiative Consider posting a short description of what you think these song lyrics mean and how they relate to your life, so that I can understand.
2. My initiative If you don't choose option #1 I'm totally cool with that, but also I am then released from any obligation I feel to reply to that post. More clearly: I am hereby removed from "having" to comment on entries that contain only lyrics, since I have NO idea what you are intending to say, and therefore no idea of how I should reply.

~Shayla

Thursday March 23, 2006 @ 11:15 AM
I am SOOO wicked...

    So, GUESS WHO GOT HER G2 TODAY??
    Are you guessing?
    Are you guessing??
    Did you guess yet??
    ME! That's who, me! I GOT MY G2!!! YAYYYYYY!!! :D And I beat Katie!! BEST DAY EVER!!! ;)

~Shayla

Wednesday March 22, 2006 @ 1:11 PM
B-O-R-E-D, BORED games...

    I'm currently reading this book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "cheeks sent me high"), which basically discusses how people frame their experiences. One of the things it talks about is how some people can be bored during a very exciting activity, while others can keep themselves entertained even in very dull situations, depending on how they control their consciousness.
    People who keep themselves from being bored often invent challenges or games to amuse themselves, says Csikszentmihalyi. I thought that was funny, because I make up games all the time. Here are several games that I play sometimes to amuse myself:

• The Ceiling Game Sometimes when I'm bored somewhere, I'll think about how the room would be if gravity was reversed, so that the floor became the ceiling and vice versa. It's interesting to see how the features of the ceiling (pipes, chandeliers, etc.) become obstacles or furniture. Also, in rooms where there are tables, I try to map out paths that I could climb from the ceiling up to the floor, so that I could sit in the space "under" the table.
• The Syllable Game I take random songs -usually simple, well-known ones like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Santa Claus is Coming to Town, etc.- and replace all the words with new words that have equal syllables. The replacement words don't have to make sense (in fact, I prefer it when they don't), they just have to fit. Extra points for words with a lot of syllables that fit. Example:
  (To the tune of Yankee Doodle)
  Uncle Pickle Yesterday,
  Purple penis sunset,
  Marijuana Toys R Us,
  And March May April August.
• The Rhyme Game Basically, any time I hear a sentence I make up a rhyme to go with it. "Sign up for a student account" --> "If you have the required ammount"
• The Walking Game This one's childish, but it makes walking from one end of the school to the other a lot more interesting. Sometimes I imagine myself as some sort of vehicle... Maybe a spaceship? The goal is to drive (walk) as fast as possible, navigating the best route through obstable (other people) and making sure you don't hit anything (anyone).
• The Ring Game I take off my ring and put it on the tip of my thumb. Then I try to pass it from one finger to the next without using my other hand or dropping the ring... I don't play this game very often anymore, because one time I dropped my ring in Church and almost lost it. :P
• The Fuzzy Spot Game I don't play this one anymore, but I invented it when I had to go to Church as a kid (actually, I think that's when I invented the ceiling game too). You know how when you look directly at a light you see those weird spot things when you look away? I used to navigate special paths for the spot to travel, or place it strategically over people's faces (mostly the priest... :P).
• The Sidewalk Game Sometimes when I'm walking home I imagine that the patches of grass between the sidewalk and the road are walls, and the driveways are open. The cars are enemies, and the point of the game is to always be behind a "wall" when the car passes you so that it doesn't "see" you.
• The Cartoon People Game When I'm somewhere with people around, sometimes I look at individuals and imagine what they'd look like as cartoons. Sometimes I make them cartoon animals, sometimes people.
• The Ten Second Game I didn't invent this one. Actually, I learned it from Tom Volpe, but I find it so amusing that I figured I'd include it. You need a watch (preferably with a timer) to play this game. You start the timer and, without looking at the watch, try to stop it as close to ten seconds as you can. One time Tom got within .11 of ten seconds!! If you don't have a timer, I guess you just pick a time and try to look back ten seconds later, although you won't get to see exactly how close you were.
• The Nail Polish Game I didn't invent this one either. Katie did, and she plays it almost every week when she goes to Church (man, we sound like such bad Catholics!!). Basically, she paints her nails before Church, and then spends all of mass scratching the polish off.
• The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon OBVIOUSLY I cannot be credited with inventing this game, but I am pretty awesome at it. Seriously. Seriously, give me an actor and I will link him/her to Kevin Bacon for you!! :) This is how I survived Driver's Ed!!

~Shayla

Sunday March 19th, 2005 @ 1:20 AM
Music: Lump - Presidents of the USA
This took FOREVER...

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. Do yourself a favour -unless you're doing this for me (eh? eh? :D) I say skip it... Takes too freaking long...

Andrew:

1. Forgiveness is one your greatest strengths. I hope your forgiveness will influence me and cause me to be more forgiving too, over time. :)
2. Hello, It's Me - Todd Rundgren (just the chorus really)
3. The, uh, same thing we did this morning... wink, wink... ;)
4. "INTERCOURSE!!!!!!!!!!"
5. The first time I met you, you were sitting in one of the band rooms bitching about how you hated the remake of "Faith" done by Limp Bizkit. I didn't even know you were Jon's brother yet... I thought you were cute though... :)
6. "To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you -the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose." - The Little Prince
7. Choose: Have me die and never remember me, or let me live and always love me but never have me?

1. I love that you care so much about the people around you (although sometimes to the neglect of yourself, I think). You have always been so nuturing and affectionate toward people; this is perhaps something I understand least about you, because you know I am different, but perhaps in that way I can appreciate it most. :)
2. Lady in Red - because of your red dress at grade 11 semi :)
3. I walk by Barnabas like every day now... Do you ever think of going to visit? I don't know really who I'd visit... maybe Mrs. Richardson and maybe MacLean... Maybe in another 5-10 years we should visit or something.
4. Can I give you a bowl cut like Miss Worth?? :D
5. I remember meeting you first day of junior kindergarten... Looking back, you were SUCH a cute kid... Your face was too small for your glasses. ;)
6. "I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." - Oprah Winfrey
7. What do you want people to say about you at your funeral?

1. I love your humanness... Does that make sense? I love that we have come to each other for help in the past. You've made mistakes, which makes you relatible rather than pretentious, and you learn from your mistakes, which makes you increasingly wise. :)
2. The Sweetest Thing - Remember, you're Cameron Diaz. ;)
3. Someday when you're a nurse working overseas and encountering injustice, I want to come write about your work (same goes for Son). :)
4. "Joey is definitely not Dave!!"
5. The first time we really started hanging out, I think, is when you were dating Jon and I was almost dating Mike and we went bowling... And so began our bonding over boys. ;)
6. "Sometimes a walk outside is sex and work is a nap and a conversation is a prayer" - Zoe Whitall, Three Days was the Morning
7. If you could change part of yourself, inside or out, what would it be?

1. I love your openness. Sometimes I know you put up guards around people, but it hasn't prevented you from speaking honestly and freely when you want to, or from loving. :)
2. Snow White - It makes me think of your kindergarten costume... You were so cute!! ...I have pictures... ;)
3. We need to get together some time. We should do lunch or something (after classes end though!!).
4. "Why is the sky blue? Where is Alaska? What's a question mark?"
5. I remember going to your birthday party in like Kindergarten. I remember petting the animal statues, but I DON'T remember putting gum in your drawer!! ;)
6. "And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right hand side. It was called "Perfectly Contented." I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. "Pleading Child" was shorter but slower, "Perfectly Contented" was longer and faster. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song." - Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
7. What do you think is your greatest strength? :)

1. I love your sense of adventure. Sometimes it gets you in trouble, but it certainly makes both our lives more exciting. :)
2. Our sister songs: Brother Love - Neil Diamond, Pop it like it's hot - Snoop Dogg, I've Finally Found Someone - Barbara Streisand and Brian Adams
3. Go watch When Harry met Sally... Right NOW. :)
4. Hey Katie, who am I?: "FECES!!!! FECES!!!!"
5. ...I remember all the times you threw up... ;)
6. "Brendon, there's nothing wrong with lying to women. Or the government. Or parents. Or God." - Coach McGuirk, Home Movies.
7. Exactly how many pairs of my underwear have you stolen and claimed as your own???

1. I like your painting (the ones I've seen) and honesty
2. Peter Pan - I was watching it, and it's one of those movies where they have a set of twins, but the twins are supposed to be basically one person (they talk at the same time, say all the same things, etc). Every time I see something like that, I always think how upsetting it must be to twins who see that they are being portrayed as basically half of one person. And then I generally think of you and your sister because you might be the only twins I know.
3. Continue to read each other's journals??
4. I'm totally stumped as to what to write here, since we don't really have any inside jokes...
5. I remember when you and Hannah came to Ward, because a lot of guys talked about you and thought you were pretty. ;)
6. Especially in response to your Jan. 12th entry: "[N]ow he knew that there were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love." - The Neverending Story, p.368.
7. What are your life dreams?

1. I like your relaxed attitude: the world is what it is and you can accept that there are things you can't control. And I like your hair colour. :)
2. UHF - Oh man, we were such Weird Al freaks!! ;)
3. Go for wings again sometime - we haven't been since my birthday. :)
4. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN AND HERMIE!!!
5. I remember the video of our first meeting, and you ignored me for my rocking horse!! ;)
6. "In every life there is some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry, be happy." - Bobby McFerrin
7. Do you have any regrets, and if so what are they?

1. You have an innate honesty and genuineness... It's the kind of thing that a person can't really copy, you either have it or you don't. :)
2. Pocahontas - because of that raccoon. :)
3. Meet up like we keep saying we will... April 7th sounds good, except that if it's at night I realized that it think I'm going out to hear a band play... But I might not even go to that, so it's all good. :)
4. Star Ocean - "PUSH THE BEDS TOGETHER!!" ;)
5. I don't actually remember how we met (hey, it was senior kindergarten!), but I remember that I liked your Babs and Buster Bunny stuffed animals and I bugged my mom to buy them for me too. :)
6. "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks." - To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 22
7. What has happened to you, what have you done, in the time that we've been apart? I suppose I'll find this out from you soon enough. :)

1. I really like the way you see the world, and the way you interpret things meaningfully. Does that make any sense? There are unique ways that I think all people interact and connect with one another. In this intangible way, I think we most connect. I think it is a very rare connection. :)
2. Fire --> I watched it last week and the main character looked a bit like you. This is a REALLY good movie and you should see it if you haven't already. :)
3. HEY, if you haven't seen it already we should watch that movie!
4. Have you walked like a tall girl today?
5. The first time I met you was in TA, and at first you were standoffish, and then I guess you and Andrea realized that you were both brown and immediately started talking about that. ;)
6. "These trials only test your faith to see whether or not it is strong and pure. Your faith is being tested as fire tests gold and purifies it." - Peter 1:7.
7. Do you think you will only be happy if you accomplish your goals, or will you still have a good life even if you only enjoy the experiences and accomplish "nothing"?

1. I like that there is more to you than people see in one glance. Even though I'm sure it's hard for you at times, it makes me happy that I have known you and have gotten to know something about you. I feel sometimes that you are misunderstood, and I guess it makes me happy that I feel I understand you in some small ways. :)
2. Ever since your previous comment, Holst's Planet Suite. :)
3. When we're both big time journalists we should collaborate or something. :)
4. "'Cause hey, everybody loves Tim..." -->Remember the song??
5. I don't remember the first time I met you, but I remember the time you let Salini and I spray-paint your beard green and red and then Salini made the Christmas Tim poster. :)
6. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
7. What is your greatest hope and greatest fear?

Tuesday March 14, 2006 @ 5:53 PM
Music: Metric - Monster Hospital
TIME FOR A LIST!!

• Thank you all for your replies to my last message. I was in a pretty down mood, but I always feel better after getting it out there. :)
• I was working at Dr. B's on Friday, and I always open his mail, right? And there are always a few envelopes where the post office didn't mark over the postage stamps, so I always put on the kettle and use the steam to take of the stamps so that the office can use them again. Anyway, I was thinking: someday when I have my own house and my own mail, I'm going to have a pen-pal, and every time I get one of those unmarked stamps I am going to use it to mail my pen-pal a letter. :)
• Hey, remember in like grade seven when Comic Sans was cool?? :D
• House is on tonight... It is totally my favourite show on TV right now... I have a crush on Hugh Laurie, but only when he puts on the American accent. :)
• I'm stressed with school, but I'm hopeful because the end is very much in sight: less than one month of classes left!! To keep myself from totally stressing out about school, I've made an agenda of what needs to be done everyday for the rest of the term to keep me on track, and so far I'm even a little bit ahead of things. :)
• Remember my financial troubles a while back? Well, it turns out that I thought I was $1000 short for my university payments, but as it turns out, I'm actually only about $100 short!! Whew! Yeah, I totally misunderstood how much money OSAP was giving me, but it all worked okay so all is well. :)
• If I ever won an obscene amount of money, I would have the PRETTIEST house in the whole fucking world. Seriously, I would design it all myself, and people would be coming in daily to photograph it. :D Yeah, I've been flipping through a home design magazine lately...
• Hey guys, who wants to do this thing?? Respond and I'll...
  1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
  2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
  3. I'll name something we should do together.
  4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
  5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
  6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
  7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
  8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. I agree with Karen -do it or don't do it, whatever you want. I hope you'll all do it though, so I can come bug you! ;) I'll probably post my responses in a separate upcoming post.