TYWO in NYC!!!

What an incredible trip.
Please go to LJ to check out some awesome pictures and read an over-view of the trip. You won't regret it!

VICTORY IS MINE!!

.. is officially a Senior Counsellor at Day Camp!!! YEEAHHH I GOT THE JOB!!
.. can now relax for the next month until it starts :)
Though I have almost no experience with kids. I hope they don't hate me.
:D

Alkaline Trio Etc

Yesterday afternoon, Kate, Jamie and I gathered and proceeded to goth ourselves up. Mostly, applying lots of eyeliner. Jamie looked like a transvestite. AWESOME. Pictures hopefully to follow. We subway'd it downtown to Union and meet up with Alex (who was at least wearing black :P) Ok so getting up all gothy punk is SO much fun. I want to do it more often, just for the looks and the comments hahah!

Girl 1: Look at those scary people!!
Girl 2: *Giggling* Shhh they'll hear!!
Me: *glares*

Or, random person: It's like it's Halloween....

The concert was at Kool Haus, and was pretty awesome.. and violent! And painful!..... IN MY SOUL. (we like to make fun of angsty emo teens by adding that to the end of every phrase lol) We spent most of the concert by the front of the stage, at the top of the mosh pit.. most of the time couldn't move as far as to raise one's own arms.. there's something disgustingly exhilarating about being crushed and shoved and suffocated by an excited crowd. I got into it, anyway, and had a great time. That said, I'm now pregnant with the children of like 5 different guys whose faces I never saw! (I'm not being literal, but yeah, close quarters). And that said, I hate crowd surfers. Why? Because they love to kick me in the head. That, or use me as a launch pad. Dude, I'm clearly not that sturdy, why are you using my shoulders to try and climb on top of my head? Alex and Jamie did their best to protect Kate and I from dying, I was clinging to one or the other at any given time to avoid being pulled away or knocked over (I feel much closer to both of them now.. I swear to god I didn't mean to touch your penis!!!! :P) Soaked after like 15 minutes.. and only half of that sweat was my own (eewww... though I definately dried my face inadvertantly on whatever guy was in front of me a few times when I was shoved into em haha).

Great times guys. Punk concerts are SO MUCH FUN. Fucking Planet Smashers being in T.O only when we're in NY.. BAH!!! We got back to Markham, stopped briefly by Wes's party.. (happy b-day man) conversed with Colin.. oh Colin.. you huge drunk *shakes head*.. parted ways to scrub the borrowed sweat off, then reconvened at Jamie's where jello was had.

Anywho, today the SCP got together to rehearse for the first time in too long.. not gonna lie guys, I was in an awful mood when I got there but it didn't last long! :) We practiced then went out and got food then came back and watched Hocus Pocus cuz Helen and Brian hadn't seen it.. CLASSIC! "Je veux un livre" HAHAHA I love it. And Jesse left cuz he sucks and had cooler things to do *booo* but the rest of us ended up watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights (which was next on the tape) ah so good.. Cary Elwes is so funny.

*english accent* Everytime they make a Robin Hood movie they burn our village down.. LEAVE US ALONE MEL BROOKS!!!!!!!
<3

YYYEEEAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Crs Code Title Mrk Grd
ENG110Y1 Narrative- 82 A-
HIS106Y1 The Americas- 86 A
MUS111H1 Survey of West Music- 80 A-
NMC260Y1 Archaeol of Anc N E- 86 A
SSC199Y1 Yr I Sem: Social Sci- 84 A-


YEAH FUCKING RIGHT BITCHES HOWTHE FUCK DID I PULL AN 80 IN MUSIC HISTORY?! I coulda sworn the exam raped me... you have absolutely NO idea how happy I am with these marks. I never would have thought that I'd be getting A's from U of T. Like, -never-, even during the year. YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, EVEN WITH THE BEING STONED ALL SATURDAY THE WEEKEND BEFORE 2 OF MY EXAMS!!!

BOOO FUCKIN YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Ok, so I did get a 75 in the first term music history.. which isn't so grand. But ya can't win em all, and fuck am I pleased with myself right now.

I'll post tomorrow about the Alkaline Trio concert, which rocked.

Intuition

The long awaited post.

So Tuesday was my first day working at the landscaping place. And my last day. So uh first I was handed over to the guy in the garage with the tractors and stuff, Chuck, and he was told to what ever he wanted with me.. except.. he didn't know what to do with me.
'Uh.. well you can take this box over to the burning pile.. just dawdle about it.. uh.. you can straighten out my work bench.. just dawdle about it' Ohhh man... 'You could go up to the house and ask what Cathy wants you to do.. OR you can hose off this tire." (So, he watched me hose off the tire, because it was his job and he had nothing else to do while I was doing it!) Next, I was taken to a big shed and told to straighten it out.. it being full of things like bags of cement and asphalt that were CLEARLY too heavy for me to lift. Lets just say, but the time noon came around I was DELIGHTED and relieved to begin weeding her garden. Even though it was raining. That is, until the flies started swarming my face. And biting me. I went to ask if there was any fly spray.. she only had Raid.. so I tried spraying Raid at the flies. I'm not sure if it worked. After at least 3 hours of weeding (wanting to DIE) the rain got REALLY heavy, and my hero Chuck came and got me ("here, I'll find something for you do inside that makes a little more sense") so I swept the garage floor for 45 minutes.

By the time I went home, I was soaked, my jeans saturated in mud, my jackets and t-shirt layered in dirt, my face streaked in fly blood from swatting at them. When I got in to the car I started laughing hysterically and then cried.
It gets better. So, the most recent count of how many insect bites I have on my face and neck is about 38. THIRTY EIGHT BUG BITES ON MY FACE AND NECK. Plus a few on my stomach, back, and the top of my head. There are so many really close to my right eye that it swelled way out of proportion.

Yesterday my eye was so swollen that I couldn't open it at all for most of the day. (I went to the doctor and got a perscription and today it has thankfully improved though it's still swollen and I still can't open it the whole way)

I quit before I left. I'd rather gnaw off my arm and beat myself with it than go back to work there! Now Lowe is trying to get the job there. Good luck to him. I wouldn't have made it through the day without Chuck, let's have some good quotes from middle aged red-neck Chuck:

Chuck to Doug: She's got that look on her face.. the one people always have their first day.. the "what the hell am I doing here" look.. [to me:] I've got news.. that feeling never goes away.

Chuck: Uh... when you bend over you're really.. uh.. exposed [from me not wanting to hike up my jeans with my filthy hands].. not that I'm complaining but uh.. a lot of guys come through here.. I wasn't sure if I should say anything
(by that point I was too miserable to even feel embarrassed lol)

Chuck: You really don't want to be here do you?

Cathy to me: Are you doing work?
Me: Yes
Cathy: Well, can I SEE you doing work?!
Chuck: What did Cathy say to you while you were on your break?
Me: [repeats]
Chuck: You're not going to be coming back here are you?
Me: *shakes head*
Chuck: Well this was a good experience for you... shows you why you should stay in school.

HAHA I love you Chuck.

So yeah. Misery. Thing is, the couple of days before going in I had this awful awful feeling about it, I REALLY didn't want to but I couldn't think of a good reason why. The morning of when I was on my way.. I wanted to cry, I was being a HUGE baby about how I really really didn't want to go.. and felt like an idiot about it because there was no good reason why I should so strongly not want to.

From now on, I trust my intuition. Ladies, if you ever have a strong though unexplanable gut feeling about something.. do NOT ignore it.
My intuition is on fire this week.. when I was coming home from class Tuesday night I was looking at guys on the subway and thinking to myself how much they looked like Kyle (old roommates boyfriend) and thinking about how nice it would be to see Kyle again right now. I stepped off the subway and a few steps later heard "Hey Jenn!" looked up.. and low and behold.. KYLE! Pretty cool, eh?

So Tuesday night was my first 20th Cent Canadian Lit class.. I was 20 minutes late because of work.. lol thank god Carolyn is in the class with me.. I'd say 85% if not more of the class is 3rd/4th year.. it was very intimidating.. they had so many sophisticated things to say.. I'm afraid I'm going to get owned. We'll see. I actually felt pretty good about my diagnostic response paper that we had to write on a short story before leaving. Though it's no doubt going to be a HUGE drag.. as 3 hour long classes always are.. especially during a hot summer.. it'll hopefully be worth only taking 4 courses come fall.

The Ayn Rand institute sent me a free copy of Atlas Shrugged!!! I entered their essay competition on The Fountainhead last year, and though I didn't win anything I fell completely in love with the book (Toria feels me on this one) and they sent me a free book over a year later for entering their contest! How sweet is that? I think it's amazing, I was planning on reading Atlas Shrugged anyway cuz.. Ayn Rand is awesome.

I still haven't unpacked.
Since being home we've.. gone to Laserquest.. I came in absolutely dead last. No kidding. But I used Kate's name as my game name.. she was mad that her name was in last place HAHAHA. Went to Golden Griddle Tuesday night, last night went to Jack Astor's, watched Lost together yay.

Hollow

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a...

No, fuck you. Enough whimpering.

Surreal

MY FINAL MARK IN ARCHAEOLOGY IS 86%!!!! WOOOOOOt!!!! Who'd a thunk? I giggled like a little school girl when I found out. Goes to show you just gotta set your mind to something. Unfortunately if I put that amount of energy into all of my courses I'd never eat or sleep or anything. But yeah.. an 86 in an upper year course in a difficult subject that I have no background in is completely worth all the emotional break-downs it took to get there :)

Tomorrow I start at Markham Landscaping (I think that's what it's called.. though it's in Stouffville..) and I'm honestly DREADING it. The good news is that I finally got out.. I guess everyone finished so far before me that no one is in a partying mood.. but I needed to get have fun at least once before starting work.. to celebrate school being done and whatnot, so I crashed at Strahan's last night and did so. And it was great. Thanks for that Strahan! (With Jesse over msn while he enthusiastically cheers me on does -not- count.. though that was pretty darn hilarious :P)

p.s. harry potter and 'great songs from the silver screen' for alto sax = I LOVE YOU CHELSEA!!!

Hello Summer

Well, I have forever said goodbye to Innis Residence. Funny how you suddenly start feeling a lot more affectionate towards a place when you realize that after the next day you'll never be coming back.

My last night in residence was SO much fun.. finally being free of the burden of exams I could fully appreciate the awesomeness of having a whole suite to myself. I started off by taking a nice sweet long nap.. mmmm.. sleep after being sleep deprived is the best.. watched the Gilmore Girls season finale.. OMG!! Did some good old fiddling on my baby and on Betsy.. I realized that if I played the panflute in the suite hallway/kitchen, the echo mades the tone so UNBELIEVABLY FULL AND BEAUTIFUL. So I had a LOT of fun with that. A friend came over and we watched one of my favourite childhood movies, "The Land of Faraway".. I never realized what an enormous homosexual undertone it had.. the guy at Pizza Hut gave me a large order of breadsticks instead of small by accident and just let me have it! How awesome is that.

Anyways, after friend left I decided to get down to it. And by -it- I mean the DISGUSTING bathroom. I have no idea how it got so dirty.. but it had a seriously thick layer of dirt. I pulled my cd player out into the hallway cuz everything is more fun with music. I put on some ska, more specifically The Planet Smashers and OMFG IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! This is retarded but I think that it came close to being the most fun I've had in that suite all year. Cuz honestly guys, how much fun is it to dance when no one can see you? And dance scrubbing? It felt really good and was awesome. I almost wished I had another bathroom to clean.

Moving out was a huge hassle. It was pouring rain all day.. it took sooo long to get everything out and get the place clean.. thankfully mommy dearest took the initiative with
most of the cleaning.. but I finally got home, and now here I am, in Markham. I slept for most of the evening.

This morning I had 2 job interviews.
#1 having already checked my references and actually having a daughter that I used to work with at the barn (which is next door) pretty much offered me 9-5, mon-fri (landscaping, aka garden bitch.. she asked if I'd feel comfortable working the tractors/fork lifts hehe)

#2 was at Day Camp. I want this job SO much. At first I was terrified cuz the interviewers were young guys, early 20's, and after the girl who got interviewed before me left (I was still filling out applications) I overheard them just ripping her up and laughing at her and making fun of her.. as boys will. BUT I think it went really well.. I managed to develop a really good rapport with them, laughing and joking and poking fun at them which they seemed to like, I even have a "bit" with one of them (as they'd call it on gilmore girls.)Damn he was really hot too.. and they seemed to like the answers to questions I gave.. and they spent a lot of time talking to me about what the job would actually be like, so I think I've got pretty good chances!! *crosses fingers*

But, I won't hear from them for another couple of weeks.. so what I'm probably going to do is take the landscaping job (the labour will me good for me) and then quit if I get the day camp job.

Jamie came along with me in the car to handle the directions and make sure I didn't crash or get hopelessly lost (which I definately would have..) and we rocked out to Sum41 and the Backstreet Boys.. AWESOME! And he's the one that put the cd in... hehe what fun <3

And so summer begins.. a work filled summer *sigh* It may be work filled but at least it'll be structured.. I agree with Chelsea on how not having a routine is maddening.

Two Exams And Six Days To Go

Is it weird that I enjoyed writing that English exam? I wish every exam were an English exam.. eff History and Music.. only in English can I truely flex my muscles, that is to say, do some splendid bullshitting. I mean, where else can I write like 4 pages on how the use of narrative in non-fiction makes the world a better place? Or write pages on one line in a sight passage ("It's bitter, but I'm happy here on father's lap" Do you have ANY idea how much information one can infer about a novel one's never read just from analyzing one line?)

*glee*

Now it gets really hard.

.. CONCERT TOMORROW!