This scares me
Oh
Paris! Now everyone can look as trashy as you do, at a fraction of the price!! She continually amazes me, and on some small scale, by posting this, I'm directing more attention to it. Please, for the love of god, stop giving in to her blank stares and toneless cries of "that's hot"!
I waste waaay too much time at the front desk.
IMDB and
TV.com are my vices (is that the plural?). My reccomendations if you haven't seen/heard/downloaded:
Robot Chicken - possibly the best TV series ever made
Trailer Park Boys - Best cultural TV series in Canadian history
Scrubs - Made me rethink going to med school (as in wanting to go again)
Movies:
Serenity - if you haven't seen Firefly the TV series, it's like space cowboys, only cooler!
40 year old Virgin - Yay Steve Carrell!!
That's it for me wasting time, I swear!!
Wu Zhaoning
So that's my Chinese name, according to
this link, which is pretty cool! I need to have a Chinese name, or they will assign one to me. I figure, it's the only name I'll really ever choose for myself, so I might as well make it as cool as I can. The characters, other than Wu, which is a surname, mean omen (zhao) and serenity/calmness/peaceful (ning). Interpret as you will, but I feel that on some level it describes how I would like to be seen by others, as a bringer of calm and comfort. (cheeseball, eh?).
topic switch! (Screw you lead-in sentences!!)
So it's been raining for a few hours, so I decideed to go outside after I finished reading one of my lectures to enjoy the nosie and the cool air and just the rain. I didn't get out here until 11pm, and my internet is still kinda sketchy as I write this, so I hope that I don't lose anything. It really is beautiful. I don't see that much lighting any more, only what occassionally lights up the sky like a small "snap" of light.
The only less than positive thing about this night was the first 20 minutes that I was outside, some car parked right outside my door had 3 people inside with the blinkers on, the lights on the inside turned off, and they just sat there, eventually getting out and going across the street to a side house ... wierd ...
Anyways, my computer is starting to get wet, and from what I understand, that's not an altogether very positive thing
Finally
After MONTHS of not posting a single thing, I figure I might as well get back "on the wagon". I've decided to use the blog-space to be my little adventure vehicle when I head off to Shanghai in about a months (holy crap). I guess a whole lot of things have happened, and I guess I better break it down into categories.
1. End of school (well, not for me)
2. The GHETTO house I now reside in
3. Summer stuff
4. CHINA!!!
End of School!!
Well, I no longer live with 20 18-year-olds. Kind of liberating, and kind of depressing at the same time. I miss the caf food for it's convenience and bland taste, and the way it made me softer in the middle. I also miss the handful of cool people who decided to stick it out in residence again (or for some, the first time). Well, handfull means 5 or less, right, so that's kind of inaccurate, I guess. Maybe a few handfulls. An armfull. Well, whever it was, it was pretty fun.
Ghetto House + Jenn = Tru Luv 4 Eva
My shower & washing machine may share the same room, and I may have to wedge myself between the shink and the toilet to go to the bathroom, but it's home. 237 Earl St., it's the closest ghetto house (not including a summer at 41 Clergy - but that's a Queen's hosue, so it doesn't count) that I've ever lived in. I spent a month alone in there with no TV & Internet, just my cell phone & laptop, and whatever unencrypted internet I can get sometimes on my porch. (well, all of that is the same except for the alone). I now have a housemate Brandon. Cool dude. He's from Tennessee, and (I'm not going to lie) I was a little worried about the random housemate situtation, but he's cool. He's in town to shoot/edit a doccumentary on the Ontario beef industry, focusing in on Bruce County (Owen Sound area!). Seems interesting. I'm still half packed/not yet unpacked, I've got too much stuff, I've realized. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it all!! But no packing until I finish my spring/summer course! Yay first year Sociology!
Summer time ...
So I had for about a month & a half 4 different jobs. it was awesome & awful all at the same time. Mostly awesome because I was working a lot and making some $$, but awful because one of the jobs was at the GAP. Puke-much? It was seriously horrible. I wouldn't reccomend it for anyone, except the discount was pretty sweet. I mean, I understand the appeal for maybe younger girls/boys, etc. It's a job where you don't do anything but stand around. The hardest part is trying to find a 2 in that crinkle dress that's on the top shelf of the storage room. I felt I was getting stupider for having worked there. I really did. I mean, 3 hours of "welcome" is essentially standing at the front of the store, pretenting to be busy only to allay the feeling of uselessness. That and 3 out of 4 bosses were sucky. My other jobs rock, though! AMS front desk, I sit around and write my blog, like now, and answer questions. it's great. I've also done a few co-gro shifts, which is awesome. But the danger is that I drink soooo much coffee on shift, it's ridiculous. For anyone who has seen me on too much caffeine, you know how ridiculous that can get. The last job I've got is at Staples, which is pretty cool. I work in the copy centre there, which isn't that different from the P&CC, but I do more actual copying than sitting in the office, and I kind of like not having to be the one to deal with all of the problems anymore. Woo hoo!! It's a great store, and there are a lot of cool people working there. I didn't really expect it to be as fun as it is.
And Finally ... CHINA!!
So, for those of you who don't know, I'm heading to Shanghai for 4 months (Sept-Dec) this fall for a development studies exchange program. It's crazy and wierd and unique and probably going to mess up my degree situation (again) but it's seriously cool. I'm flying into Beijing on August 24th and spending a week or so there before I head over to Shanghai to start school at Fudan University. I've started learning the 4 tones of Mandarin, but I don't think I've put in enough time yet to really start speaking the language. I've visited tons (tonnes?? Oh, the metric system) of websites, I have a few books and a CD collection all to help me see what I've gotten myself into. It's interesting to hear from a girl who is doing a language course in Beijing right now about what is or is not available, what the food is like, the people are like, etc. I still haven't fully planned out my trip yet, but I'm waiting until this crazy course is done (again, with the course, I've got to stop using it as a crutch!). Well, I hope to log onto here at least once a week or so (a little ambitious, yes) and put up some photos and the like. I figure it's better than the mass e-mail, and a little less annoying.
That's about it! I haven't really found my blog niche yet, but who knows, right?
I'm also still figuring this fun bloggin thing out. I should attach my camera soonish, but alas, no internet, so it's kind of difficult.
The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
