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| Make new friends, but keep the old... |
| 02.25.04 (10:26 pm) [edit] |
[i]I think it's the way God had planned it:
To open up your eyes, and make you realize,
that to some life is money,
but what's money without life?
Cause alls I need is the air that I breathe,
and my friends and family to believe in me...
[b]Trick Turner ~ Friends and Family[/b][/i]
Just got back from Phil and Andrea's. Jenevieve and I went there to watch a movie. We ended up choosing [b]Runaway Jury[/b], which was FANTASTIC. We ordered pizza, joked around, and had lots of fun. It reminded me of the way we used to be when we were all in the same town and hung out every weekend. I miss those days, and I couldn't help but wonder why we don't do this more often... a lot of us are in London now, it would be easy to get together once a week and hang out. Why do I spend so much time at home alone when I have friends so close to me?
I talked to my associate teacher for 3rd Practicum on the phone tonight. She seems great. She told me that if possible she wanted me to do a unit on [u]MacBeth[/u] in her Grade 11 University-bound course and that she would "ease me into" the two media courses that I've been positively dreading. I hope things continue to go as smoothly as they have been.
In terms of school things are rocking along pretty well, I got several assignments back, and 85, and 88 and a 90, all of which made me very pleased. If things keep up this way I won't have any problem earning Distinction standing on my Bachelor of Education diploma to make up for missing it on my Undergraduate degree.
I made a list today of all the big questions in my life:
:!: Why don't I know the things I should know?
:!: Why is it so hard to concentrate and get work done?
:!: Why don't I really hear when people talk to me?
:!: Why am I always afraid bad things will happen?
:!: Why don't I have any will-power?
:!: Why am I always afraid of change?
:!: How am I going to change these things for the better?
I really need to start making some headway on getting these questions answered if I want to be happy with my life. But not tonight. Tonight I need to sleep...
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| Immortality with a price... |
| 02.16.04 (9:52 pm) [edit] |
[i]Do you care if I don't know what to say?
Will you sleep tonight? Will you think of me?
Will I shake this off? Pretend it's all ok?
That there's someone out there who feels just like me?
There is.
[b]Box Car Racer ~ There Is[/b][/i]
Just finished watching [i]Underworld[/i]. I'm almost as much of a sucker for Vampire stories as I am for time travel ones. There's something about immortality that speaks to us as a culture. I think the reason Vampires fascinate us so much is that they give up so much to achieve that immortality; it comes at a price. Would you give up sunrises, kill to live, and watch the ones you love grow old and die just to ensure you never do? I don't think I could make that choice. I guess it comes down to living a short time filled with happiness and love, or a long time in misery and loneliness. I like to think I'd choose the former.
Phil told me yesterday that his fiance Andrea has met someone she thinks would be "perfect for me" and they wanted to know how I'd feel about going on a blind date. I can't say the idea thrilled me at first, but part of me is excited by the prospect of actually getting out and doing something that goes against my tendency to resist change. I'm hoping that maybe this could be a major step in the process I'm taking in making myself a better person. There's a good chance that the whole thing will be a collosal waste of time, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Those who make the attempt may not win every time, but those who never play don't even have the chance.
Third practicum approaches rapidly, only a little more than a month left, and I meet my new associate teacher on Friday. I'm petrified that this situation will be as bad as second practicum. People keep telling me to relax, but how can I when so much rides on a month of practice teaching?
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| Wrestling with Walmart... |
| 02.09.04 (10:57 pm) [edit] |
[i]Words are flowing out like
endless rain into a paper cup...
They slither while they pass,
they slip away across the Universe...
[b]The Beatles ~ Across The Universe[/b][/i]
It's been quite some time since my last post. School had been crazy busy up until now, but here I am back at home for reading week, enjoying the time off and doing absolutely nothing, which is nice.
I watched two time travel movies lately (I'm a sucker for any movie about time travel). The first one, [i]The Butterfly Effect[/i], was interesting and novel, and if a little conventional it was at least easy to follow. The other, [i]Donnie Darko[/i], was even more novel, but a little hard to follow. I enjoyed both immensely however, and even if [i]Donnie Darko [/i]was a little offbeat I found resources on the Internet that explained quite a bit of what was bugging me about it. It's definately not a traditional time travel story. I remember waiting for the bus outside school one day and seeing some girl write "Donnie Darko" on the dirty bus window. I guess she must have liked the movie.
Tomorrow I'm off to Walmart to barter over my broken digital camera. They were supposed to order me in a new one to replace it, but now they tell me they've stopped carrying my model. That means I have to drive over there tomorrow and bitch and chew and see what they can do about it. Dad figures if I offer to pay the difference they'll let me upgrade to the next model, but that could mean paying an extra hundred dollars! Damn you Capitalists!
Anyway, it feels good to be back writing again. Hopefully things won't get so busy in the next few weeks that I can't keep this up...
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