Saturday, April 08, 2006

r.i.p. unquiet fiend

Why do they call reading, writing and arithmetic the three R's?
They clearly haven't mastered the first two.
heh. Only the last: they got the 3 part right.
Such role models.

Came home, sat with the animals, had food (real food!), did the stupid dishes, took a bath, had a nice relaxing read of Proust, then passed out.
Apparently sleeping past 9:30 is terribly decadent.

Still very tired, and I won't tell their majesties how much sleep I had this week because they'd freak out at the lack. Any all-nighter at all they cannot understand, and they're still utterly convinced that it is perfectly reasonable to expect an university student to regularly sleep 8 hours a night. Ok, perhaps one who has mastered time-management might, or something, someone without much of a social life or one with late classes, but for those of us who require time spent working, and lots of it, need more than a lack of a social life to enable crazy studying and satisfactory marks.

So, I am home for t'weekend, bidding farwell to our precious unquient fiend. She is apparently going senile and had been terribly agitated of late, scared of nearly everything, creating untold chaos anytime left alone at night...I would object to choosing the cleanliness of a floor over the life of a pet most strenuously, only she is clearly fairly miserable much of the time, and she is very old, and sick, and I obviously have no say in the matter so there's no point in objecting and no point in hating over this as that just makes me sick to my stomach. So my baby's going to have the best weekend ever, and then...

I think I'll sleep downstairs tonight, with the unquiet fiend. Maybe watch the second hockey game while I'm there; the more reasons the better. My stutter and habit of trailing off in the middle of sentences is freaking my parents out and they're big on the nice comfy proper bed as early as possible thing.
Early to rise, early to bed
makes a girl healthy, wealthy, but dead.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

A dubious distinction

I hate the Canadian tire commercials.
Oh my god I hate those. Imagine living next to that guy?
AH my god!
He’d be all like over fixing things...
With all his evil plastic tools…
It’d be like “What are you doing in my house?” (happy voice) “Well, I unlocked your door with this…”


--Yeah, so I just found out that the Canadian Tire guy went to my university. Mmyup.

--Only one more essay to go. So tonight I am watching the hockey game, as a break, then staying up all night again for the fourth time this week to finish writing about 'the death of the author.' I think maybe my mood's given me too morbid a reading of it. Aheh. But hockey will cheer me up, with the insanity of Spazz and Matilda adding to the enjoyment greatly. It should go something much like this:

Oh, I uh, get the, uh, crappy chair. Wait, you get two chairs…mm…whatever…
*suture* no, stop it; seizure comes first. mm. ok, Caesar. (laughs)
eh?
These guys, you know, it was, all four of them were stabbed to death within 10 years of each other.
Yeah, I’d probably kill myself if I were taking that course.
Shut up. Classics is the f**king best course in the f**king world!
Yeah, no, I…
You can just shut up now.
no, that, that course...

Heh. This book…
Oh my god I don’t care.
Hey, smell this book.

Nooooo…
It smells really good.
Get it away…
Classics is so useless…’slike…
You’re in philosophy.
Yeah…
We’re all going to be poor.
I’ll just depend on my brothers. They can support me.
I’ll marry a hockey player.
Spezza…
Spzza….Havlat…
I like Comeau too. Ryan…
Crosby…
So many to choose from. ‘Slike those adolescent girls with, like, twenty crushes...
It’s hockey
.
An…you can never keep track of all their, like, nicknames. “Wait, who’s Sunshine again? What? Who's Cupcake?"
You know if you marry Spezza I’ll be over a lot, eh.
Ok never mind then.

GOOOAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!
YES! You freak! Spezza, you wonderful freak, you!
AH! Fuck you Spezza!!!
hey
I'm sorry; I meant in a good way!
You're not allowed to talk to my future husband that way!
Look at that freaking genius move!
Who wouldn't want to marry that!
My god!
*Did you ever know that you're my hero? You're everything I would like to be... (or marry)*
stoooop singing, you lunatic. you nearly poked me in the eye with your flailing arm. And careful with the sacred flag, eh.
HIGH FIVES!!!
See, when I say 'fuck you Spezza' it is in a good way because I sorta mean it literally.
shaddup. aw, he's smiling! That's so cute! Aww...
Spitting kinda ruins it though.
yeah
Ever wonder if people who walk in take us seriously?
us?
Like the whole..aw, girls, obviously like hockey b/c the players are hot! Like, totally!
It's just a nice bonus.
We're here for every game. They know we're real hockey fans.
meloves hockey.
Yeah, and hockey...it's not like their uniforms are all that flattering. They've got all that equipment, you know, covering...
That's what an imagination is for.
Always interesting hearing that from your baby sister. That's...nevermind
We do have a good looking team. I must admit.

yeah, sooo...here's hoping for a good game, with a healthy dose of nuttiness, then I can get back to my focus and finish editing the essay from hell. Well, one of them. Actually, it's the easiest, only it's the last, so it's pissing me off....
Matilda has traded Sidney Crosby to Spazz for Eric Bana. They've a fairly organized approach to this, actually. There may even be a list...

---5:30 am. 'twas an ok game, though we lost. The best part was the fight--all they did was circle each other and pose for the cameras, yet they got 5 minutes anyway...laughed a little too hard at that...
sometimes e.e.cummings is so awesome and sometimes he is such a dork
right, back to Barthes..

Sunday, April 02, 2006

esprit d'escalier

"reading dead languages does not necessarily refine one's sense of humour."
"it would not matter if these associated reflexes stopped at the mind, but they issue by way of the tongue, which is bad, or the pen, which is worse."
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devising childishly shameful or shamefully childish mnemonics
"well, it might be something to do in winter evenings."
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a well -punctuated death threat.
they don't laugh because they're all fu*king sore losers, the bastards! but we laugh! ha ha!
a bad habit, even for a fictional character
my pseudo-anecdote could go on...
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when in doubt, mumble.
espressos help expression
he was so drunk and so coherant.
"a close study of the body and eyebrows and blinking frequency is the mirror to the soul."
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it's true in my world, which, all things considered, has a fair bit of overlap with reality.
and after thinking far too much, I decided...
sometimes I worry that fake worlds are making me believe mine is insane
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"but do blondes prefer gentlemen?"
(forgive the irrelevance)
but skittles are fruit!
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Spazz has a SENS jersey now. She has named the face-logo on it Cromwell Quintilian (Crommy Quinty for short). Matilda and I objected on the grounds of ease of expression (hence the ekename) but then Spazz said "how often do you expect to be talking to it?"
I must confess that a valid point.
We'll let it pass.
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-That's an odd cheese sauce.
--It's functional.
-Functional?
--It makes everything taste cheesy and it sticks the noodles together. What more do you want?