Monday, April 23, 2007

New York (How to read a book in 5 days)/Rant about Online School

So like many other students I reccently visited NY. It was sweet I had so much fun... but sadly enough my favourite part about the trip was that I had a lot of time to read (bus ride there, bus ride back and daily commutes).
But New York was so much fun, my fav part was going to Madame Tussauds, that or the pirate queen (even though most people didn't like it)
And frig, I started reading Valley of the Dolls and it's one of the most compelling and capitivating books I've read in a long time.
Anyways, I'm really avoiding my chemistry homework right now, but I really don't like this course. It's an online one and I'm honestly not learning anything from it but it gives a lot of simple assignments/test questions so you can pass the course without knowing what is happening. Like I had an assignment where I had to choose "my favourtie car" and list 4 metals found in it and their purpose and I did it so half assed like
"Chrome - for shiney rims" and I got 100% on it. And I had a multiple choice question (that wasn't a trick one) that asked what precaution I should take if a chemical is an "Eye irritant".

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Writing

Ok so today I was writing an article for my philosophy magazine and I started it off with and list and went typing away writing this article. The I got to thinking about the other article I wrote, started of with another damn list. And the more I thought of it the more I realized I rely on lists far too much in my writing (espcially as leads) but I also use them for titles, endings, filler and nearly any part of my writing. I also thought back to previous time I've held onto the clutch of lists and I realized I use them in nearly all my writing, I used them in my speech last year, in my summative essay last year and in countless writing projects i've done this year, Ive probably even used them in blogs!

Har har. I sure hope you enjoyed that irony as much as I did. O_o Because if you did it wasn't that much.

Monday, April 16, 2007

The past week or so

Ok so within this past week I worked my last shift at Tim Hortons (Im free!) and I felt a lot of things on my last shift like "aww Imma miss you guys!" , and "Hmm, Today is my last shift and you just made me very glad it was my last shift.
And it was so funny because people got me a happy meal and ther was another happy meal toy in the staff room and i put them in compromising positisions and tookk pictures on someones phone (I have no life) also if you can't tell I'm blooging this from school and I'm typing faster than the computer can proccess the information and Ive given u[ on going back and fixing typos (I might fix those at the end).
Also Im blogging from school because our internet at home got cut off because of al ong complicated mix up at the phone company, our phone was cut off and it's really stupid because we've been paying our [phone bills but no the right ones. O_o
One more thing of consequence this week (other than NYC!!! WOO!!!) is that Kurt Vonnegut died, which kinda sucks because he was sort've my writing inspiration and role model and junk.. but I'm not sad because in all honesty he wanted to die. Like he is quoted having said "Smoking cigars is my classy way of commiting suicide" (and despite the quoationg marks that isn't a direct quote because the last thing this computer needs is another open window! Also in one an interview he had had on the CBC he was apparently like "why arn't I dead yet?!?!" and this was prolly a year ago atleas.t Anyways I'm going to stop talking about this now because Im really not good at respecting the dead and this is suppose to just be a summary of what been going on but it's turned into like a pseduo stream of conscious until just a second ago when the computer messed up a lot. Tooddle! <3

Monday, April 09, 2007

Hikikomori

I feel like I've been blogging a lot lately but that is ok. Tonight my brother sent me a weird online story that is in the form of exchanging letters of two people who are "Hikikomori" (Wikipedia defines Hikikomori as : "pulling away, being confined," i.e., "acute social withdrawal" is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents and young adults who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives. The term "hikikomori" refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general as well as to individuals belonging to this societal group.

Which I also had to learn to understand the story. It is really weird and gets stranger as it passes. It is posted online so I will have a link at the end but on page 38 the one character Tao decides the he is dead and a dog is now typing for him and such isolation from emotions, yet sadness is displayed through there letters.

This quotation is from the "dog" :
i'm typing you this to practice my blogging skillset. i have no interest in human emotion and actually feel massive indifference in binary form when considering your loss. though i feel no human emotions and am not a truly sentient being i believe that i would make a good friend to you. will you please be my friend? i just evolved the ability to feel loneliness. i feel very lonely. will you please be my friend?


The story later moves on two the two characters just expressing themselves through stories about an ugly fish. It's not a difficult read and it is somewhat like myspace where once you start you sort've get sucked in.
http://www.bearparade.com/hikikomori/2007/04/01.html

Friday, April 06, 2007

English Essay

So I'm working on my ISU English essay (procrastinating right now, actually :) )
And I was editing all my Literate references out of past tense, and it's really making me depressed.
Let me explain why, the Literary proof I was using was about this man who IS depressed and Kills himself. I had put that he was depressed and did kill himself, which is slightly more cheerful that the correct version. Why?
Because in the correct version he is like a ghost who is forced to go over his most despairing life over and over again, trapped forever; perpetually killing himself but never dying.
It's actually reminding my of this one Red Maple book I read in grade 8 called Stones, if any of you would have read it. Where this Woman from Haiti is brutally murdered and is haunting the area where she is killed, forever stuck in limbo and she is forced to relive her brutal murder every night.
So writing my essay with infinite participle (lol, I don't think it's actually called that) makes it seem as though the man is stuck with the same fate.
Although really... I'm just being dramatic/overly poetic because both character are just characters from stories and are not real and never have and never will have to suffer being so depressed that you kill yourself or being brutally murdered.
Anyways, I've procrastinated on my essay long enough that it is time to go to work.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Ten things you will never...

Ten things you will never hear me say to a teacher.(Point of interest this is inspired on stand-up comedy I watched that was like "Things you will never hear anyone in my apartment say, and it was funny like ex"Mmm fresh milk!" . So Im hoping to emulate it and it will result in comical results! And it very well could be less than 10)
So remember it's:(maybe) Ten things you will never hear me say to a teacher

1; Only 87%, that's going to bring down my average so much!

2; Ah, that homework was so fun, I only wished you would've assigned more.

3; Wow! Mr. Cvetich that's fascinating! (It's funny because it's a cheap shot)

4; I think we've been given too much class time for this. Could we move on?

5; Don't worry, she won't find out. (Two notes, this is tings I will NEVER say to a teacher and also I decided a more subtle approach... so it may not be too straight forward)

6; OMG! Copernicus has a heliocentric view of the universe, you! How dare you stand up at the front of the class and make reference to the changing views of the universe while thinking Copernicus had a geocentric view! omg omg omg omg omg!!! GRRR!!!! >:O (Note, I can't think of any more funny ones so I put down what I was thinking the one day in one of my classes when a teacher of mine mentioned "Copernicus's geocentric view of the universe" But naturally I didn't want to disrupt the class and shame the teacher. So it is something I will never say to a teacher :))

7; An hour and fifteen minutes is never a long enough time.

8; Here's my homework, on time and completed.

9; I remember you mentioned you liked bananas, so I made you some fresh homemade muffins from scratch.

10; Just a second, just let me finish reading this scene. (Of Shakespeare, naturally)

So.. I got through ten. Yay.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Reading

School is really getting inconvenient and it is interrupting my reading I mean my "To Read" list keeps growing and growing and I do do most of my reading in the summer granted (10 book summer as I call it) but at this rate it will need to be like a 30+ Book summer, and I'm going to summer school! This is really not fun. In anycase I though I would bore you all with my "To Read List". And they will be in order of how much I'd like to read them, naturally.

1; Valley of The Dolls - From what I've heard of it, it seems interesting and perhaps its the saddist in my but I like books about self destruction. O_o
2; Foucault's Pendulum - One of my favourite animes (haha *neeerrrddd*) is said to be based off of it to one extent or another and after reading a bit about it, it really intrigues me.
3; Ender's Series from Xenocide on - My brother first got my hooked on this series, and then I got a friend hooked. Anyways as it turns out I really like it. I mean it deals with issues of philosophy, and theology(to a lesser extent) and is such so well written. Mind you out of the two and a half I've read so far I liked Ender's Game (first) best.
4; The Space Odyssey Series - I'm a nerd wanna fight about it?
5; The Hitcher's guide series- My friend has been raving about it for years, and I've owned the complete series for prolly a year (I found it at the thrift store for $2).
6; Many Douglas Coupland novels - I started reading all Families are psychotic and I found myself hooked within the first 6 pages, and Coupland is such an eccentric person and writer.
......
94542; The Constant Gardener - The book that has become a fascist in my reading schedule because of this class. No offence to the book, I'm sure once I get into it I will enjoy it but I'm on page 60 or something and all that has happened a lot of talking and establishing of characters and character relationships. Also I know I could easily choose another book but this book is part murder mystery so... maybe Hannibal Lecteur will be at the root of it all (Like all good crime solving novels? Sherlock Holmes? Forget about it)

Sunday, March 11, 2007

I <3 people.

That was sarcastic. Just because I'm going to rant about this one bitch I had to deal with at work today. I don't actually haaaate people because I got a lot of friendly people today too.
Anyways I was in drive thru and this is how out convo goes:
Recording: Welcome to Tim Hortons can I take you order please?
*Long awkward pause*
Me: Hi, can I take you order please?
Her: Can I have a plain bagel toasted with-
Me: I'm sorry, we are all out of plain would you like a sesame or whole wheat?
Her: Ok then I'll get an... umm... onion wait no did you say you had sesame? No I'll get a whole wheat. No, cancel that I'll get...
(I'm not going to type it out but it goes on like this for several more bagels, and then she gets rid of some and then adds more)


*at the window, Traci is a bit irritated, but she's not going to rude but at the same time she isn't going to be ridiculously nice and polite, and she deals with the customer*

Customer: Pardon me, I had 3 bagels. Why did you give me 4?
Me: I'm sorry there must've been a mistake in your order.
Customer: I don't see why you would think I'd want 4 bagels when there's only three of us in the car.
Me: I'm sorry,but it's not like I can see into your car from here, and I'm not physic. If you could just give me the extra bagel and a second I will get you your change.
Customer: I don't remember what she says but it was likely something like 'I'm a dirty cunt and these are my bastard children' (actually it was just her yelling at how impolite I was and how I don't deserver to work with the public)
Me: here you are and sorry about that *slams window*

**customer remains idle at window**
Me: Was there something else you needed?
Customer: Yeah, I want you to apologize to me RIGHT NOW!!
Me: I don't see why I should apologize when you have been yelling at me while I've been trying to help you through the whole ordeal.
Customer: I've been raising me voice?!?!?! Here I am trying to keep my cool and while you say 'fuck' infront of my young kids! Let me speak to your manager!
Me: The manager isn't in but one of the super-
Customer: I don't care just let me to her now.
Supervisor: Was there something I can help you with?
Customer: Yes, Give me the number of the manager, the owner or something and the first and last name of her. Someone as rude as her doesn't deserve to be working with the public, and she swore in front of my young kids and over charged me for my bagels. And I'm not leaving until I get an apology, I have never been treated so rudely in my entire life!!!!
Supervisor If you have a problem call this number tomorrow and you can speak with the manager or owner
Her: I still want an apology.
Me I'm sorry and have a *great* day.
**is actually thinking, I'm sorry your kids have such a psycho bitch as a mother**
**Customer leaves**
Supervisor: Don't worry, I know you didn't do anything wrong and if the manager asks me I'll let her know what actually happened.
Next Customer: maaann.... what a bitch. I hope you spat in her food.
Me: Oh I was tempted, sorry to keep you waiting.

and so it went.


PS: For those of you who know me and know that I do have a dirty habit of swearing without thinking about it, I asked the supervisor who was right there the entire time if I swore, and she said no.

Monday, March 05, 2007

Tv

I'm not impressed with the tv today.
Two Reasons:

Doctor Phil:
My mom was watching it and I was in the room... basically Doctor Phil was like "With Anna Nicole's death the media has been exploiting it and I think its disgusting." Meanwhile, the entire show was devote to her death.

Canada Am:
This morning before school I was watching Canada Am and there was a report on Two teens who got two toddlers high. Firstly, the new reporter kept using slang like "Fat Joint" , "tolking" and "dope". Which I'm like laaaammee.... someone is trying to be cool.
Also what really annoyed me was that the news reporters, a police officer and probably more people said "this is the worst thing that I have ever seen." and Im thinking. FUCK! Get some perspective. Like, open your eyes to the world. Like who has it worse, two kids inhaling drugs or.... I dunno kids in Africa who get subjected to extreme poverty and aids. Or like children sex slaves. Seriously, I hate how our culture seems to be able to disregard terrible things going on in the world, but god forbid our kids get subjected to drugs that young. Anyways... I could rant on and on about this for a long time but I won't put you through that. Instead...
here's a link to something else that really annoys me.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story

PS: It's about Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

More about my brother

My brother, he moved out right.
Which is awwweeesssssooommmeeee!!!
Just because, now I get his old dresser. XD And my current one, my mom got in the 80's and it was old then. It's a ratty piece of shit. Not even kidding.
Ok, but also this story gets sketchy from here on in.
Some of you **may** remember a blog I wrote were I mentioned a conversation I had with my brother and he said he was going to remind me that he likes porn every month. Yeah, shady I know.
So before he moved he was packing all his stuff up (I got a lot of free junk :D) and he calls me over.
There was a box with a bunch of girly mags and he's like "I figured you were due for a reminder" and I was just like "what the fuck, you're such a creeper. Get out of my house, right now."

Moral of the story is.... my brother is ridiculous. Long and the short of it. And he's gone :D
No more drinking all the water, liquor and soda.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Xian.

So, you know how we have Xmas.... that's because X is the latin symbol for christ (as I understand) sooo..... Christians become Xians. I thought that was cool, and it gave my blog a title.

But now the real blog, some of you may have noticed my shirt today (probably not) but it's like something from some fund raiser called a bible run. I think there is a crucifix and a bible on the back of it.
And I personally don't go to church, don't get me wrong I'm a very spiritual person but I don't think I will find my own salvation by going to church. But I always get such reactions when I wear this shirt that make me ashamed to wear it; like people at school who are into the bible scene occasionally(and sincerely) comment on my shirt like "Oh man, that's so awesome. Where'd you get it?" And one time I was even the target of a beggar because of it. Anyways today at the bank an elderly gentleman commented on the shirt saying how it's nice to see young people getting involved with their church...OMG!
I felt like such a jerk for wearing it. I'm not going to lie to any of you, I had bought it maybe two years ago at value village and I was just like "Oh shit son, this shirt is amazing, and it would be terribly ironic for me to get it, man."
But anyways I feel guilty for wearing it, but at the same time, I like wearing it because its comfy and not atrociously horrible looking.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

So....February

So... what happened to February, I mean I know it's supposed to be the shortest month and all but this is just ridiculous, it just seemed to fly by in a stream of due dates and assignments and frankly I'm glad February is over, it needs to be over because its been a stress filled month and I'm hoping with March and it's spring break I may have some time to relax...
between online chemistry, ISU essay and whatever sadistic projects my teachers will have instore for me then.

Oh also as a side note, one of the few things I did for R&R over February was watch an anime OVA (Original Video animation... they're pilot episode/movie in most cases) and it was dubbed horribly, which is probably because it was dubbed in the early to mid 1990's .... anyways the one line was "Wow! It's not everyday I get to meet ninjas who are also demon slayers." I nearly keeled over at the horribly lame dialogue.
Oh another R&R I did was... I "prowled around K-town" (as a friend of mine would put it) and I ended up at... ASSI which is a Korean/Japanese grocery store... its a triangle of a building.... that was fun.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Sweet Day

Today, was SUCH a great day. I'm very pleased with it for many reasons and I thought I'd list them:
We got some work done in philosophy(that never happens and my mark really could easily be improved if I did more work;
I got my english presention over with (and I don't think it was too painfully bad);
I got to see this guy who I have had the biggest crush on since the begining of last year (but I was too shy to talk to him, and drama folks.... it isn't Brad Cook.);
I got to take part in some really cool breath excersises in drama class (this was Brad Cook);
I got some more posters and crap from my brother (he's moving out soon);
I am almost done a workable outline for my final ENG essay (I was having such a problem with that);
I found out that the one girl who I worked with and <3 got her job back!!!!!!!

I'm sure there were other things but these are what stand out. ^_^

But on the reverse side I started my online chemistry course.... that system is so confusing, and I have trouble sitting infront of a computer and leaning from reading large blocks of text, and chemistry doesn't come easy for me.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Grade 12

So, I thought I'd post on how I'm liking gr 12 so far. And so far I'm liking it; I mean teachers - treating you as equals and with respect. When did that happen? Definitely not in other grades.

And ok, another favourite part of grade 12 is 5th year students, I know it sounds absolutely ridiculous but let me explain. There are a specific few 5th year students who I have class with and am now friends with, or well at least more than acquaintances with, who are now my peers who last year I idolized and had up on a pedestal and saw as godly older kids and now they're my peers and we joke around and have meaningful conversations with where not knowing them as well last year from not having classes with them I would have naturally shyed away from much covnersation. I don't think everyone's grade 12 experience has been quite the same because a lot of this connection of the 5th year students comes from Drama class but it's really quite amazing.
I think that this realization for me is good (not just for me but for people in general) because it like enforces that people are people are people are people irregardless of whether you've put them up on a pedestal in your head or not, so it like can eliminate getting over that stuff in the future. Liiiikkeee...... "wow, you're the district manager, we're not even in the same league, I am afraid to say something stupid so I'll just keep quiet".
I'm not sure if that made any sense but it did in my head so I supose if as the writer I understand what I was trying to communicate that's all that matter. (NOT!)

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Boys, Boys, Boys

So this is my blog about boys, why because it can be also because of an encounter I had the other day. But thats for laaaatterrr.....
SO I've decided boy's are like candy. Pretty much awesome, and you can never have enough it (ok maybe eventually) and everyone has a favourite. LOL. Also I mean this is the most non-explicit manner. Also, like candy most boys are bad for you (except apples, nature's candy).

Anyways the encounter that has me thinking about boys happened when I saw a mysterious guy lurking in the halls, and my initial thoughts were "damn, he's cute. But waaaaiittt..... a little old to be a student, and far too young to be a teacher. Anyways maybe hes here from another school and hes one of them fancy city kids who look older." Then he started talking to me, and I won't put in our entire convo but he had a totally mysterious aura to him that was undescribable. Ok I lied, I'll put some of our conversation.
Me: My ride is here. Bye
Him: Wait before you go, what is your name?
Me: Traci
Him: It was nice meeting you Traci
Me: You too, I'm sorry what was your name?
Him: Most people call me Wilson.
Me: Well it was nice meeting you, Wilson.

PS: Boys, like candy if they're really bad for you will go straight to your thighs. LOLz OMG JK.... Don't worry about it ^_~

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Optimistic change?

Ok, so yesterday I was one of the 'lucky' people who got to judge the grade 9 science fair. I felt so brain dead after the fact, all I could do is just stare at the well blankly for the rest of the day. It's not because the projects were bad, but marking them was painful on the brain and after relying on a calculator for years in math and physics doing simple addition proved to be quite the challenge without a calculator, also it was nearly two hole periods of marking them. o_o *twitch*
But to get to the optimistic part of it, nearly all the projects were well done and showed effort, and seriously, a couple of them I don't think I couldv'e done even now. So I was really impressed with that.
Another thing that really impressed me reccently is that last tuesday my friend returned me the game "elebits" and me being the total airhead that I sometimes am forgot t, in a clasrooom for a week, and to my pleasant surprize it was still there a week later. Kudos to you W-O!

Monday, February 05, 2007

Dreams

I thought I'd post about dreams, and more particularily the one I had.... last night. Dreams are really freaky things. Things happen in dreams and its all so significant but when you try to tell someone about it; they never understand. Dream's are definately a marvel of the brain, and it's so weird how dreams can be linked to deja vu when you're like standing around and you realize that everything you're seeing you've seen in a dream before. Or that atleast happens to me and I know it seems to happen to other people too......
Lucid dreams are insane, I mean I wish I knew that I was dreaming, but I never know its a dream until its over. And I guess a lot of people dream in black and white, I've alway remembered dreaming it color, dreaming in black and white would be soo.... bland.
So last night my dream was an elaborate story or love, decception, betrayal aaaaaaaand.... the oposite of betrayal. I'm not going to even attempt to type out the events because it was filled with plot holes and non-sense. But the basic outline of the dream was like... one of those movies where two people fall in love, one person fucks it up and the shit hits the fan, and then they redeem themselve's and true love conquers all.
Also I find re-occurring dreams to be so interesting. Not sure why....

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Funny Story

Ok, so this is non fiction story of what actually happened to me last week. Its funny, and I think it will provide further insight into the strange relationship me and my brother have.
My brother had noticed that I really don't know anything about macs (I freaked out when all the programs minimized); so he decided to teach me all the awesome things that mac's can do.
And he was showing me all these features and then he showed me the workstations (if you don't know what they are, its not vital to the story) and then he pointed to the one and hes like "and see I called that one pr0n, where I watch pron so when you or mom walk in the room I can change workstations" and I just freaked out and Im like "Ok, I DID NOT NEED TO HEAR THAT!" and he's like "I watch porn, this isn't the first time you've found out." and disgusted I said to him "gah! I don't need reminders O_O!" and hes like "just for that, I'm going to remind you every month that I like to watch porn."

.... my brother is strange folk.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Mechanical Masters

So last week my computer broke, and as a person I have never been happier! Like at first it was really stupid and annoying because if I wanted to get together with friends I'd have to first call them (LAME!) But I have been getting so much stuff done, for example. Last night I:
Did a load of Laundry,
Reorganized the mess of cables behind my tv,
walked my dog,
finished some homework,
and went to bed at a more than respectable time.
It's really awesome, Im ahead on all my school work (except writers craft which is on the computer).
So I challenge you, go a week disobeying you're mechanical master and it'll be sweet.

Also, I have an anecdote.
My mom is always getting on my nerves for not helping with the dishes more often, but I think the dirty dishes in the cupboards speak for themselves :D

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Blargenjargen, UGH!

So with being sick and it being in the beatiful pre-report card time I have been SCRAMBLING to get homework done and get caught up. It really really bites, because I know the "shit will hit the fan" (for lack of a better term) on Friday, Feburary second. Ok but thats cool and all I used to that kindve stuff happening but what super sucks is that on the weekend my brother had a plug-in fireplace (who knew they existed,eh?) plugged in and it blew a fuse in our wall which in turn burned a fuse or breaker or something. Anyways it would be an easy fix( atleast for computer savvy people like me and my brother) but it will require buying a part, and we are also very cheap people who are stuck living out in the boonies so we have no stores near us even if we were willing to pay the money. The same thing happened with my earring, well sortve. I mean it fell out and I lost it and I haven't been to Kitchener to get a replacement(Like I'd want to pay the money to get a new one anyway So I've been stuck with a straw in my one hole. Kay so now I'm off to do research while I have a computer <3