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[23 Jul 2009|05:18pm] |
I've been approved for a student loan, paperwork is in the works for a line of credit, and my registration date for classes is next week. Things are showing signs of improvement!
Today's my birthday and tonight, Brendan is taking me to Boneta for dinner. I'm in the process of getting all prettied up for it: flat-ironing my hair, putting on pearls, and deciding if the shoes below go well with my short black dress with the clasp and three quarter length sleeves.
I'm awful at walking in even the smallest of heels.
Tomorrow is my party - people from out of town are coming to the mainland for it, so I'm excited - and Saturday is Illuminares.
Notes to self:
- be home at 2pm for the keg delivery
- mop floors
- clean bathroom
- finish quinoa salad (peppers & cilantro)
- make pasta salad (defrost tempeh)
- deposit birthday cash
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| introduced by a friend of a friend |
[25 Jun 2008|01:10pm] |
I'm exhausted but cheerful.
Bought tarragon & morel sea salt at the Farmers' Market, missed a birthday party, drank afternoon beer on Granville, drowned happily in dreams, went to the Naam at midnight for soy & blueberry shakes, made coconut carrot cake, and pushed goodbyes forward to the following morning. Received a bleary-eyed text message on the bus to work telling me that you managed to catch the seven o'clock ferry, amazingly.
My contract was renewed, so I'll be working for this tech company until at least November. I'm learning all sorts of new things.
On Saturday evening at Malkin Bowl, Torquil Campbell threw roses into the crowd in the pale light of early evening. "Welcome to summer," he said happily.
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[17 Jun 2008|07:44am] |
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This past weekend was pretty much everything that summer is supposed to be, and it's only going to get better.
I work downtown now. The main kitchen has an accompanying balcony that faces north, so our office building overlooks the library. I can wear flip-flops and listen to music, and I'm learning that office life is largely composed of two things: idle chatter and multiple beverages. The combination seems to get everyone through the day.
Supposed to go to Tofino this weekend, but plans were cancelled at the last minute. So it goes! Instead there will be shows and festivals and park beers and potluck-style Sunday brunch. Vancouver events are still such a novelty to me after living in Victoria for five years, oddly.
I had several of my photos printed on matte cover stock. Craig was the first person ever to pay me for a print! Excitement.
Any recommendations on summer fiction? I've completely finished my Miéville binge (until he writes something new, anyway) and I've been reading some Chabon, but I think I'm looking for new authors to delve into instead of just new works by the same authors I already know and love. I'm pretty sure that Gene Wolfe and Mervyn Peake are next, but is there anything else that you think I should be reading right now?
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[11 Jan 2008|09:28pm] |
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Oh Neil, you had me at Lady Door.
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[03 Jan 2008|10:11pm] |
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cheapest beer on granville! |
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Is it strange to feel vaguely guilty about getting drunk at Café Crêpe?
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[01 Jan 2008|02:36pm] |
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I'm going to update this journal so hard later on today. You have no idea.
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| your hot kiss in mid-december |
[12 Dec 2007|10:44pm] |
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I love it. I love it.
Uh, real update pending. I promise.
It'll be about dancing in socks at the Astoria, dinner at the Ethiopian place on Commercial with a brown-haired boy I haven't seen in years, somewhat amusing work anecdotes about silly but adorable hippies, the farce that is the Amateur Bowling Club, tasty food-related things, books I've been reading, painted walls, mix tape parties, condensed Christmas shopping, imported green apple beer and homous at Stella's, dance crushes in awkward yellow shirts, holiday plans to go to the island and drink mickeys of warm vodka in parks & go sledding with dudes up Mt. Washington armed with a flask & new gloves, and possibly even my brief trip to Victoria a few weeks ago.
I miss the Lotus Pond, okay?
An update! Just like that!
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| you are a splendid butterfly |
[31 Oct 2007|07:42pm] |
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Of note:
Today I had a day off and cleaned the house from top to bottom, made carrot cake/loaf & chili & guacamole, and am waiting for Micah and Amy to get here for food. There's lots to say but I'm not really sure where to start. I work in a vitamin/health food store on Commercial Drive now, and that's okay for the time being, I guess. My computer has died on me for the second time in four years, so I'm using Craig's for now. It's not bothering me as much as it did in July 2005, for some reason. I remember being all panicky about it last time, and this time I'm all, "Oh, that means it's time to get things done and take more pictures." Maybe it's because the whole problem-- whatever it is-- was caught before all of my data was lost, this time? Yeah, that's probably it.
I still like it here. Chris came to visit a little over a week ago and we went to the Aquarium. Kids are loud, hey? I'd forgotten, somehow. I was going to link some pictures of jellyfish here, because Flickr's quality is much better than Facebook's, but I can't remember any of the information I gave to the Yahoo dudes for my Flickr account. You'll make due. Anyway, the jellyfish were all stringy and neat. Later, the service at Tentatsu was shitty and the sushi was poorly rolled, but after that there were half-watched Neil Gaiman audio books and a whole pile of arms.
Last weekend involved martinis at Delilah's on Comox & Denman and watching Murray throw up out the cab window on Venables. Is there a bridge on Venables? An overpass? Something like that? It felt like our driver pulled over on some sort of bridge thing so Murray could puke. It was pretty classy. Nelson rolled a joint outside the Burrard Skytrain station and Micah made fun of his jacket. Jeff showed me his unseen art and the view from his room, where he wants to push out the wall to build a deck. New names to employ. It's strange and interesting.
Watched The Wizard for the first time with Sacha. Cracked me right up. Ate banana bread. Stepped out Sweet Cherubim's door just after eight in the evening last Saturday and encountered the Parade of Lost Souls, which was amazing and pretty. So many lights and costumes! I'm not into Halloween this year at all. So it goes. Ate vegetable udon soup and agedashi tofu at Brittania Sushi on the way home after running into Micah. I like edamame.
What else is there to report?
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[24 Sep 2007|12:09am] |
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watching idiocracy somewhat halfheartedly. |
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I, uh, I have a Flickr account now, apparently.
( sun in an empty room )
I'm still happily unemployed. Gonna start putting resumé stuff together tomorrow. I like it here. Even when I'm alone I'm pretty much content.
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[05 Sep 2007|12:07pm] |
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Hey, guess what? I'm going to do a proper entry once I'm finished with cleaning and unpacking. It may even have pictures!
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| you don't mean that / say you're sorry |
[20 Aug 2007|01:31am] |
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lonely, i suppose. |
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I'm moving to Vancouver in about ten days. Eleven? Maybe eleven. I'm stressed about money and relationships. I screwed up unintentionally at work tonight and feel stupid about it. I have to make a hair appointment and figure out how to switch my cell phone number over before I leave. I need to budget and write out out exactly how much money a bed-like thing and various other peripheral devices will cost me. I will have two weeks for lounging and discovering before I need to search for an actual job- something work-wise that I at least find challenging, I hope. I'm tired and excited and anxious and happy, and worried that everything is changing- but of course it's changing, 'cause it has to change, and I've done what I came here to do and to stay would be to stagnate. I didn't expect to be in love and leaving anyway.
I had the happiest summer I can remember in this city, back when Colin still lived here and the Adams had just left in favour of Montréal and Vancouver, respectively. I was scared fuckless by someone I'm able to share pitchers of beer with now. I secured an easy job through a chance meeting at a party nearly three years ago, and finished a degree I poured only half my heart into from the beginning. I collapsed reluctantly into something soft and safe and sweet that fit perfectly and left my bed an hour ago, but not for the last time because that's not upon us yet.
I just, I dunno. It's been five years and that's enough time in one place, I think.
( cloud atlas )
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| soft atlas |
[04 Jun 2007|01:30am] |
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sleepy, content. |
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Friday was work until four, a gin and tonic on the front patio, flat-ironed hair, average Thai food at Saigon Harbour, Claire's pink dress, a bottle of Gazela, feet on cold grass, home movies from an unrecognizable past, rocks glancing off a window, and falling asleep in a small bed before everyone left.
Saturday was waking up feeling awful, bleary eyes, hurrying home to shower, pig-tailed hair, coconut sunscreen, a barefoot drive to Parksville, more cheap Thai food, Mike cheating at mini-golf, a ripped skirt, soy ice cream, sand between my toes, water crawling up my shins, five-beer Craig, dozing in the car, sunny pastures, an impeccable sunset as we drove over the Malahat, a quick shower while everyone else went out for Mexican, a walk along the breakwater in the dark, impossible cruise ships, Rome, softness, and falling asleep like spoons.
Today was the last day of the Oak Bay Tea Party, as I learned when talking with Tracey this morning. I got to go on a ferris wheel for the very first time! Chris won me a stuffed gorilla- King Karn, if you will- and Will won Tracey a unicorn (or Unicarn, yes?) by popping balloons with darts. The boys ate corn dogs. It was all very quaint and satisfying. Later- dinner at Ferris', including a mango margarita, followed by pool and the most recent episode of Doctor Who.
I didn't want to forget how pleasant this weekend was, so I thought I should record it.
My parents are in town as of tomorrow afternoon. Stress awaits.
Hope you're all well.
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| kiss me like you mean it |
[31 May 2007|12:00pm] |
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the magnetic fields: parades go by |
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I have four days off soon! I'm going mini-golfing in Parksville on Saturday! My parents and grandparents are coming to town on Monday! I get my degree on Tuesday morning! I have a credit card now and used it to buy a frame for my diploma! My room is air-conditioned! I like white tea! I uninstalled World of Warcraft! I have memorized how to make a paper crane! My hair has almost grown out enough to be considered 'long' and that makes me happy! I still don't know how to walk in heels! I am starting to read Don Quixote!
It's summer and I want to hang out with you!
Exclamation!
Eee!
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| don't let him waste your time |
[13 Apr 2007|05:29pm] |
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jarvis cocker! in my head! |
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So.
I have the last exam of my undergraduate degree next Friday, and I'm going to move to Vancouver in September.
Yep. How about that?
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| a hat full of sky |
[05 Feb 2007|11:42am] |
I've never had a cat. Ever since I was a kid, it has been drilled into me that my father hates them- "You know what the worst part about kittens is, Alison? No? Well, they turn into cats."
( But I think cats are adorable, dad! )
I have a small crush on Michael Enwright, I won't lie. And Stuart McLean, though I find him a touch too arrogant-like for my tastes these days, still makes me feel like a ball of mush.
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| beep beep goes the livejournal jeep |
[17 Oct 2006|04:19pm] |
Living alone in the summer is much different than living alone in the fall.
I've been making delicious pea soup. And peanut ginger soup.
School's almost finished and I don't really know what I'm doing after December's over.
I'm tired and somehow drained, although I only work part-time and go to classes three days a week. I want to go for a walk on the beach but I have a midterm to write in an hour. I'm not ready for it, 'cause I forgot about it until yesterday or so. Only worth ten percent.
This is really fucking banal.
Drinking coffee. Still half-asleep. Hope you're all well.
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| baby, i'm a fool for you |
[09 Aug 2006|11:39am] |
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haircut! seattle! sandwich! |
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i can't stop listening to muse |
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Hi! How're you?
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| nobody, not even the rain |
[10 Jun 2006|07:51pm] |
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has such small hands |
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I have blackberry port and it is very much summer right now!
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| double helix |
[28 Mar 2006|06:33pm] |
I just need to write in here so that I stop getting these fucking nudges to update from Craig in my inbox.
Um, how are you all doing?
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