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[17 Feb 2007|09:18pm] Check this out, I made this! ( Duck! ) 4 just sucked succeed

Okay...so what am I supposed to be doing? [17 Feb 2007|09:17am] Don't you love this time of year? There's always something you're supposed to be doing. Right now I'm supposed to be preparing three different projects, two unit plans on different novels, an assessment rubric, AND applying to school boards. Gah! And I'm not too sure what I'm supposed to be doing on the summer job front. If I get picked up by the board, I could supply teach for May and June ( when no one gets sick). If I don't, I should have something. But since I'm no longer a student, a lot of the stuff that would be open to me won't be. So I'm not even sure where to look anymore. Any ideas? succeed

[31 Oct 2006|01:58am] Well, I'm back from my first practicum. I'm really not supposed to talk online about my placements, but suffice to say it went well. But now I'm at Althouse and I'm hating it. I don't want to be here. I want to be back teaching in the classroom. It doesn't help that I know that my next placement is going to be in Cambridge, which is even further away from where I actually live. So I'll either have to uproot my life again and live far away with family, or else commute every day. I've tried to get my board switched, and they've shown absolutely no willingness to work with me on it until next year. Meanwhile, I have to put up with people talking about their placements, conversations which generally go like this, "Ohmygawd! I got placed at this high school five minutes away from my house! I can walk to work everyday!" "Ohmygawd, me too! We're so lucky!" And since I've been away from school for three weeks, I've lost touch with all the friends I was supposedly making before I left. Not that I still want to associate with them ( for the reason stated above), but it makes this place feel really alien. Which sucks, seeing as what with the chaos from the flooding at our house in Fort Erie, this is the closest thing I have to a home right now. 1 just sucked succeed

[11 Sep 2006|08:39am] Today I went and explored downtown London. I learned a few things today: 1) London looks like the lovechild of downtown St. Catharines and Toronto. 2) Museum London is a really good art gallery, and cheap to visit too. 3) There IS a comic store in London. It's called Heroes and it carries Kabuki and the Playmates series of TNG action figures. Score! 4) Only the crazy people are downtown on a Sunday afternoon. One of them sang me a political song. It went like this:"The USA went to Iraq and Afghanistan, to tell them what to do. The Taliban shot them all because they don't like the red, white and blue." You try to tell a crazy person their meter is off! succeed

[05 Jul 2006|07:28am] Well, I'm back. I haven't posted here in almost 2 months, mostly because I've associated the internet with bad news, since every day off for the past month Western has chosen to send something stressful or confusing at me via email. So here's the synopsis of my time away: I'm working at Riverbrink, the art gallery in Queenston. No, not Riverview, or Willowbank. The other one. And I like it there. After months of inactivity, I'm back to drawing everyday. I figure it has a lot to do with being in a more stable setting, although I do miss having other artists for support and competition. Oh yeah. I graduated from OCAD. "With distinction", whatever that means. "President's honor list" or something similar. None of which is actually useful. Roy Thomson hall actually kicked us out of the grad reception. Apparently they booked another event right after ours, and we ran 30 minutes late. Going to see "Spamalot" on the 18th. Yaye! Anyway, I'm in Fort Erie until the end of August, so anyone who wants do something can message, post or email me. I'm generally free. 3 just sucked succeed

[05 Apr 2006|12:09pm] [ mood | jubilant ] [ music | Abandoned Pools ] Some good news, finally! I was offered a place in the B Ed program at Western. Yaye! 3 just sucked succeed

[04 Apr 2006|04:19pm] So, I stepped out to go to work today and the mail was early. Rejection letter from University of Ontario. Awesome. Which means that I'm pretty sure Western and York are out of the picture too. At least now the suspense has been broken. I really wish I hadn't gotten this news until after my classes were over, seeing as now I'm killing myself over major assignments which I now know are for absolutely nothing. Plus now I have to decide what I'm going to do with next year, seeing as I really didn't have a plan B for this scenario. To quote the great Zaphod Beeblebrox; "I'll just go and find something else for my entire life to be about." 1 just sucked succeed

[03 Apr 2006|10:17pm] So, I got my first letter back. From Brock. I didn't get in. I'm not really surprised. It was a long shot, and I have a better chance at the schools that interviewed me. But what if I don't get in, anywhere? It could easily happen. What would I do next year,work at Sobey's? The notices get posted online on Wednesday. Which means potentially no sleep tonight, and constant fretting tomorrow. Tuesday promises to be the longest day of the year. You know what the worst part is? I'm in classes with all these other people who applied to teacher's college. Can you imagine how humiliating it will be if they all get in and I don't? I've been working two jobs, not sleeping and generally being miserable for the past eight months. It had damn well better not have been in vain. succeed

[27 Mar 2006|04:40pm] [ mood | nervous ] So apparently the teacher's college letters get mailed out this week. I'm trying not to think about it. I saw this huge package of letters in the mailbox when I got home and I freaked. It turned out just to be our jerk MP sending us junkmail. What makes politicians in Toronto think that if they send you junkmail and telemarketers you'll like them? Yeah, so anyway, a little stressed about the colleges. Seriously, what if I don't get in anywhere? succeed

[09 Mar 2006|10:39pm] So, I had my interview at York the other day. Not much really to report about that, since they asked me all of the questions I thought they would. The only big surprise came about an hour from the interview when I was looking for the building it was in, and I glanced down at my interview letter and noticed a sentence I swear wasn't there before: "Interviewees will give a five minute presentation on an experience which led them to apply to a Faculty of Education". Crap! This I was NOT ready for. So I run to the library, pull out the one piece of writing material I have, a single beat-up cue card, and start writing. Then I cram like never before. The surprising thing? It actually worked. I pulled off the presentation almost perfectly. Of course, I have no idea what my chances are of actually getting admitted into any of these places. So far I'm inclined not to be optimistic. 1 just sucked succeed

[27 Feb 2006|03:42pm] [ mood | cranky ] So, I got my interview at York. For a Tuesday. I was expecting them to snub all of us OCAD students, but apparently they're pretending to like us. The bad thing? Well, for one thing they want me to PAY A $40 INTERVIEW FEE when I get there! Let me get this straight. I gave OUAC $110 to hand them my application. I paid $80 to send transcripts to all the schools I applied to. I then paid York $70 just to LOOK at my transcript,and now I'm paying $40 for them to look at me! And I might not even get in! The good thing is now I'm too pissed off to be nervous. succeed

[26 Feb 2006|10:33pm] [ mood | bouncy ] So, I had my work in an art show in Fort Erie. I actually kinda enjoyed doing it. The show was in the old Methalaeum factory by the railroad tracks ( tres chic, no?). A lot of it was the predictable landscape and flower painting that any Niagara arts council show will have in spades, but there were a few surprises, like this illustrator who was selling Magic Card designs he had painted. I was actually kinda embarrassed that I didn't have any new stuff to show. Which was when I decided. From now on I'm going to use every spare scrap of time I can find to paint. I'm going to make a series of 5 to 10 paintings that will prove what I'm capable of. I won't worry about concept or how saleable the picture will be. It will be about trying to reach a personal best. And, if I ever figure out how to post pictures on here, I'll put them up. 1 just sucked succeed

[24 Feb 2006|10:26am] [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | new stuff from http://www.myspace.com/barenakedladies ] So, the interview went okay. We found the place alright (Oshawa really is dirty, isn't it?), and I managed to tie in my volunteer experience and my knowledge of the curriculum to their questions. So I think I have a good chance. Now all I have to do is wait until April. I'm not going to think about it until then. Good news: I got 93% on my dramatic literature midterm. Which will be a good buffer for when I get disemboweled mark-wise in Critical Writing for Artists. succeed

[15 Feb 2006|07:15am] [ mood | nerdy ] Sorry about that last post, everyone. As it turns out, my interview letter just got lost in the mail or something. I got it the day after I emailed them to find out what was going on. And I switched over my York application. So now that's done, but I have the interview I wanted next Tuesday is Oshawa, and I'm nervous about it because even though I've been travelling everywhere on my own for years, I don't trust myself to get somewhere I need to be on time going somewhere I've never been. I suspect a bus/train will be involved, followed by an expensive taxi. The Lord of the Rings Musical was amazing! They did a good job of shortening the story and still leaving in the right stuff. The music really suited the story, and there we're many moments where people spontaneously burst into song. In other words, it wasn't Broadwayish but something completely different. Not that that prevented us from making up a really musicalish song for the Battle of Helm's Deep later, but that's another story. Oh, and the staging! Incredible! The whole front of the theatre was taken over by vines and branches, which Gollum climbs at one point. The stage itself was a rotating circle with sections that rose or fell to create different settings. At the end of the first act, the Balrog rises out of the centre of the stage, and these huge fans blow confetti everywhere ( we were in the cheapish seats, so sadly I did not bring back any Balrog Confetti). The Orcs were fun to watch as well. They were acrobatic, and moved along on these strange sgringy shoes which let them do flips. Oh, and at one point Sam decapitates one. Simply put, this is an amazing show. Go see it. 1 just sucked succeed

[09 Feb 2006|09:40pm] Well, it's official. I have no future. Last week everyone I know who applied to teacher's college at UOIT got a letter in the mail with their interview times. Except for me. So I waited. And waited. And waited. I swore at my mailbox. I waited some more. But now I have to accept the fact that if they haven't given me an interview date by now, they aren't looking at my application. And if the school with the brand new program which is holding places for OCAD people doesn't want me there, then the established schools with tens of thousands of applicants won't either. That's okay. I didn't need that $400 application fee. Go ahead! Take it! And this essentially means that this whole year ( and the rest of the semester) has been and will be a waste. Terrific. I didn't want to hold onto a year's tuition and rent either. So I started looking into other post-graduate programs. I wanted to know what my options are. But every last one of them requires an honors degree, and apparently even though I have a four year degree, it doesn't count. So there you go. Over $20,000 in tuition and five years of my life. And at the end I'd be no more qualified than someone who spent that money on crack and fruit loops. At least they'd have some great memories to go with it. succeed

[16 Jan 2006|04:40pm] [ mood | annoyed ] So, my DVD player broke down. Nothing happened to it, it just decided to do this on it's own. I think it was just bored because I was trying to watch The Big Lebowski again. And of course this comes right after the warranty expired, so now it would cost more to get it fixed than buy a new one. Screw you, world. On the plus side, I am now a certified CPR/ Basic First Aider. So, for the 3% of you who will get this: "Your life is in my hands! Your life is in my hands! Your life is in my hands!" 1 just sucked succeed

[16 Jan 2006|04:39pm] I went to see Body Worlds 2 on Friday. It was amazing. They not only had plasticized humans, but also a colt and a camel ( no, you don't get to look inside the hump, sadly). I found it fascinating, and very respectful of the fact that he was working with bodies of the dead. The thing I objected to was how the pregnant woman with preserved fetus was set up. It was put in a tent-like enclosure with signs outside essentially saying "Come inside and see the miracle of birth!". It reminded me a lot of a circus freak show. But my favorite part was probably the sliced people. They cut a vertical slice through an entire body, so you could see the muscles, bones and organs and how they fit together. There were even organs you could pick up! I felt like such an evil genius holding a brain in my hand. Anyone who can get to Toronto for this show, and can afford the $25 to do so), should definitely do it. I bought the book, and I am totally going back. succeed

[05 Jan 2006|09:10pm] My left foot boot squeaks when I walk. So all day I hear this sound like a kitten being repeatedly squished. It's making me sad. 2 just sucked succeed

[03 Jan 2006|09:39pm] I refuse to do the obligatory post-Christmas/New Year's post. I also refuse to do the mandatory gift list. They can't make me do it. Absolutely refuse to. Sorry. Won't do it. Oh, except that I have a new project. See, I've always hated New Year's. So I figure I'll ruin it that way the PC movement has ruined Christmas, by acting indignant every time someone wishes me a Happy New Year. I'll tell them that since not everyone celebrates the new year at the same time, it is downright racist to not recognise, say, Chinese New Year, and that they should be ashamed of themselves for excluding others. And I'll make them call it something else. Like, maybe, Annual Retrospective Festival. That'll fix their wagon. 2 just sucked succeed

The descent into sad nerdom continues... [12 Dec 2005|04:10pm] So I borrowed X-men "E is for extinction" from Dave. First of all, it should be illegal to end a compilation that way. The whole point of a compilation is that you get the whole story. Leaving it off like that was just cruel. Second of all, I am ever so confused. Here are but a few of the reasons why: 1. So...Jean's not dead? When did THAT happen? She dies again, right? Should I just give up on understanding that one? 2. What and where is Genosha? 3. If Xavier's twin sister has identical DNA to his, should he also have the "E" gene that makes her want to wipe out all humans and mutants? Wouldn't that also make him a non-mutant? And wouldn't he have the same internal organs as her,which are apparently not like human or mutant anatomy, so they would have picked up on this earlier? Sigh...this is what I devote my mental energy to. Yet I regret nothing. 5 just sucked succeed

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