.be happy for this moment.this moment is your life.

love to sarah. I hope you are better soon hun!!! *hug*

ok, I've come to the conclusion that when I do get a boyfriend, he will have to like dancing...

went out to the standard last night (dancing) - get this: shuttle bus there and back, 2 free drinks, no cover...all for 5 bucks!!! (so i made like $10.50...plus what we would've saved on cab fare) oh yea!! my friend's b/f (who she met on a pub crawl, and they just clicked...so there is hope) got us tickets, and brought some of his friends...oh man!!! there is this one friend - I think his name is jarred, but i'm not sure...*sigh* he just has this aura of hotness about him...but i don't think he realizes how good looking he is. he has this unique dancing style that is just so cute *grins and wrinkles nose* and hes on the track team...OH MAN!!! they left too early though...right as we were going to ask them to actually dance with us (we were just kinda in a big group) grrr....must think of a way to hang out with them again...hmmm

...sortof

and i was sitting there for like 10 freaking minutes like an idiot b4 i got up the nerve (which looking back, makes no sense b/c really it wasn't "scary"), and even then i talked so fast i think he was kinda in shock...the conversation went something like this "hey, are you taking organic chem?" him: "yeah" me: "Is it hard? b/c i'm thinking of taking it next year, because i switched out of engineering..." (like did i really need to say all that?????) anyway, that got the conversation going for a bit...but really what kind of conversation starter is "are you taking organic chem?"

ok, i'll stop beating my self up over it, and just be glad that i talked to him, though it SHOULD NOT have taken that long...*sigh* he seems super nice, though i still no pretty much nothing about him...i'll have to work on that next class i supose...

so it was sooo incredibly warm today (though nothing compared to Victoria i'm sure)...i wore capri's, no coat, and sandles all day!!! woohoo spring!!! I'm lovin it!

then tonight we went to this irish pub for dinner, where we can use our meal cards (from rez)...mmm food thats not aramark...thats what i'm talking about! I was a little dissapointed with dinner (it was still good), but i could have picked better i think. anyway -dessert made up for it (though not as good as sams bday cheesecake), Bailey's cheesecake OH MAN soo good!! My friend kathrine's bf came with us - they are so cute! I wish there were more guys like him (yeah i know, i am just looking to hard etc etc).

oh and for the record, i didn't mean anything mean by my comment on kristen's blog about how she is the only one who is dependable for leaving comments, its just she is usually the one that leaves the majority of them...anyway love to all, see you soon! (yay dinner dance. oh ya!!!...btw who is going? b/c we should plan for a table together yes?)


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"Could i have missed my chance and watched you walk away?"

so friday i went home. I ended up taking my bag to class with me, (bigger than i needed), but it has wheels, so its easy to "carry"...geez i got sooo many dirty looks, cuz it made more noise than i thought. whatever. so i caught greyhound home, after paying 80 bucks for a round-trip ticket. had an amazing dinner with my family - salmon that was actually edible, and brocolli....mmmmm brocolli!!!! Then went out for Sams birthday to Laser quest. to be totally honest i wasn't really in the mood, b/c to put it bluntly i suck at laser quest. a friend of mine was super upset due to a stupid guy though, and she is the last person that in the past i would expect to get upset over something like that. i felt so bad for her, because i didn't have any respose or answers for her ( i also don't know all the details of the story, which makes it harder to help)...you are amazing hun, and he's not worth getting upset over, if things are meant to end up ok between you they will fix themselves eventually...in the meantime i'd go for keith

anyway, i came in 18th out of 21 for laser quest (i told you i wasn't very good!) and then we went to eat our hearts out at jack astors....mmm pan bread...and calamari, and nachoes....*sigh* after that we went back to sams for a bit and just chilled and listened to the amazing marnie play her guitar...i must learn (only i don't have the greatest singing voice). so i ended up going to bed about 230, but i had to be up for a facial at 9 that morning...yeah, sooo not enough sleep. after my facial i drove down to annie's bakery in fish creek park, to meet the lady that runs it, because i'm going to be working there during the weeks in may and june - you all must come and visit me -that is an order! then kari and i went to the mall, and i finally found capri pants that fit !!! and kari bought me a belated birthday present t-shirt from bluenotes...all in all, some good procrasination.

saturday night we went out to outlaws. they have heat lamps outside, so that when you are waiting in line you don't freeze...such an amazing invention!!! so for the first hour the music really sucked, not going to lie, and we all were really bored. then it got better, and we ended up dancing till around 2. good times. and you will never guess who i saw - Tyler manion....crazy. it was kinda funny cuz he recognised me, but of course couldn't remember my name. he really hasn't changed from what i could tell (the little bit that we talked). why is it that its always the creepy older guys always want to dance with me, and not the cuter ones that are probly the same age as me? whatever, i had more fun when i was just dancing with my group of friends.

and now i am back in edmonton once again for the last stretch...only 2 1/2 weeks of class left - UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!

~Sarah, don't worry to much about next year, it may go slowly if you are just working, but maybe you could join westwinds or something (i don't know), and in the end it will probably be for the better. its not the end of the world, even if it seems like it! and no matter how cliche/motherly it sounds...think of it as an opportunity. In the end it will ALL work out. *hug*~

Why is the year almost over...I'm not ready for 2nd year.

Why can't i be more sure of what i want to do with my life?

why can't i be more confident, and stop caring so much about what other people think of me?

Why did it take me till the end of first semester to actually come out of my room in rez...the people on my floor are amazing, fun...and are not the type of people that would pressure me to drink. I got here, and after the 1st weekend, had my ideas that thats what everyone else does - which is totally not true. Probably the majority of people...well maybe not the majority aren't into the whole getting smashed thing. I have made some really good friends, and met some very interesting people this year, and we have a blast together. They are a totally different group than either of my groups of friends from home, but i only wish i could have spent 1st semester with them too. I just wish i hadn't thought that if i went to hang out in the lounge that i would be pressured to drink, b4 i wanted to...grrr

Why can't I just talk to him???...why can't i stop being so self-conscious/shy etc etc and take a chance and just do it. that quote by mark twain (i think), is constantly running through my mind "20 years from now you will be more disappointed by what you DIDN'T do, than by what you did." ok, so i'm a chicken...enough said...that and that fact that i don't really know how to start a conversation with him...ya "hi" works pretty well i've been told...grrrr

Why won't my skin clear up? (you've all heard that one b4)

Why do i always get my "inspiration" for this when I'm walking to class, and then when i actually sit down to write...it never sounds the way i want it too.

Why are people pigs? when will they learn to wash their dishes, or at least do something with their left over kraft dinner, as opposed to leaving it in the pot for a week? and when will they learn to cover stuff when they put it in the microwave - especially when someone spends an hour cleaning it, when she didn't have too?

And well i'm on the subject...why can't people find a more constuctive way than war to resolve their differences?

why can't it be spring?...i'm beginning to really dislike the wind.

Why can't i just talk to him?

lol (enough said...just read on my friends...)
25 WAYS TO TELL THAT THE SEMESTER IS DRAGGIN' ON TOO LONG
1. Shaving becomes more and more optional by the day.
2. You get more sleep in class than you do in your bed. 3. You can no longer distinguish your bank balance from your GPA.
4. You actually think, "If I were diagnosed with Pneumonia, I could get a doctor's note excusing me from finals!"
5. You can't say the word "Lab" without qualifying it with some
kind of profanity.
6. You spend more time calculating the lowest possible mark you can afford to get on your final exam than you spend studying for it.
7. You only wash dirty dishes when they outweigh you.
8. The tomatoes in your fridge have become sentiment. 9. The first thought you have when you wake up is "20 more hours and I can go back to sleep!"
10. MasterCard is now master over you!
11. You forget to pay rent, hydro and phone bills. But you'll do anything to ensure cable isn't disconnected.
12. Your concept of cleaning the toilet is "Aim for the stain"!
13. Those "Train At Home For A Better Career" commercials seem like a viable alternative to your course of study.
14. Being a stand up Comedian seems like a viable alternative to your course of study.
15. Being a Professional wrestler seems like a viable
alternative to your course of study.
16. Your IQ exceeds your body weight. But you're just as stupid as you've always been.
17. "Tearing your hair out" used to be a figure of speech.
18. Just about anything constitutes a healthy meal provided that you drink it with milk.
19. You are briefly convinced that your inability to get dates is actually a blessing because you don't have time for it.
20. 3 meals in one day is special occasion.
21. You memorize acronyms you learned in class and use them regularly. But have no idea what they mean.
22. You can't remember a concept you learned last semester, but you can quote word-for-word an episode of the Simpsons you saw two years ago.
23. "Catching the news" means watching Sportsdesk while eating breakfast.
24. The only thing that keeps you from causing your roommate serious physical harm is the fact that the
Hydro is in his name.
25.You begin to remember high school as the
best years of your life - in other words, you've become delusional
26. Lists like this actually describe your life.

why does our bathroom smell like the dog kennels at the SPCA after the maid cleans it????? *wrinkles nose*

note to self:

do NOT wear sandles in Alberta ever...no matter if its been nice and warm for a week, because the one day you do it will snow.

yeah, so the story of my weekend. on friday night we went to the Mongoli (sp?) grill for our floor dinner. and i was like...ok its nice out i can wear sandles and a skirt...so i did...it was warmish (for march in alberta) and basically dry...considering it had been melting all day. however...once we got off the lrt downtown it was snowing a tiny bit, and it had gotten kinda cold (to be expected i guess, considering its not spring, no matter how much it feels like spring). then dinner which was amazing...though more expensive than i thought...and i couldn't really taste the sause that i put on mine. but by this time it was like huge snowflakes outside...really pretty, but really didnt want to go back out in it!!! however i did and froze my feet walking back to the lrt station (which is only a block), but it was even worse going from the station back to rez...alot futher, and plus my feet were already cold. i honestly couldn't feel my toes and thought i might have to cut them off if rez was any further. *sigh* but i made it, and my feet warmed up suprisingly fast all things considered, although there was kinda a burning phase. and the moral of the story is i need to go and invest in some black boots to wear with skirts in order that my feet don't freeze on those in between days.

then saturday we went to watch the national college volleyball championships at grant mac...oh man, this team from St Thomas University...soooo hot. man oh man...

saturday evening was kinda the drinking night of sorts...we tried to make margaritas...they weren't that bad, but definetly not that good...ended up drinking part of the bottle of wine my parents gave me for my bday (and no i am not a drunkard b/c i had one little margarita, and 2 small glasses of wine), however i can't speak for everyone.

then today i had this skating party concert thing...totally informal, but i will never complain about the spruce meadows set - up again. k, picture this - the band is set up on the bleachers in a hockey arena, and for the most part each person is sitting beside another persons stand...so everything is pretty precariously pearched and i managed to knock over this french horn girls (her stand was beside me) stand in the middle of the song...and not matter how much i apologised all i got were blank/dirty looks from her...geez, it was like the most informal concert...how much more serious could she have gotten??? oh well, i guess it was kinda fun...

after that i was dead tired (tooo much partying - considering i watched snl and then went right to bed saturday night) and so i lay down assuming that i probably wouldn't sleep, and intending to go for dinner at six with some girls from my floor...the next thing i know i wakeup and they are at my door watching me...apparently they had knocked and then talked really loud through the door, and eventually gave up and opened it, which is when i wake up. i swear it took my eyes like 10 minutes to focus...

and that is all. Later chiquas

hee hee its almost st patty's day!!

yeah thats right...and i haven't even talked to the guy

so there is this guy in my chem class who i have the hugest crush on (yes a crush), and today i saw him when i was walking to stats...and he made eye contact and smiled at me - of course i was kinda in shock, but managed to smile back...and then i got the butterflies and couldn't stop grinning all the way to class...i haven't had the butterflys in my tummy b/c of a guy for the longest time...i swear that smile is going to make my weekend...like i said -S-M-I-T-T-E-N!!!

K, going to daydream now

oh, but 1st - went to the powerplant last night (a bar on campus)...wasn't really in the mood to dance for once ( i just wanted to go to bed) so didn't stay long. but i tried beer for the 1st time...yeah - little miss innocent right here...i'm not sure about it - i don't think it tastes as gross as it smells, and as i was expecting - but i still like my girly drinks...mmmm, and then carolyn and i tried a porn star....freaking $3.75...we were like "this better be the best darn shot ever" - which from my limited experience i would say it was...sooo yummmy

and now i'm going to daydream thank you very much

lol...this cracks me up...and is what i felt like while studying for all my midterms, speaking of which:

74 in sociology...yes!!!...it a slight improvement anyway

oh man it is so nice out today...i love it - though i am willing to bet that it will snow again by the time march is over.

so...this is me procrastinating (what else is new?)...time to do some more work i suppose *groan*

Later chiquas!

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
R.D. Laing.

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
Alfred Hitchcock.

"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?"
Lilly Tomlin.

"She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven."
Joan Rivers.

"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."
Cher.

"Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.."
Diana Jordan.

"Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions."
Woody Allen.

"Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them."
Steve Martin.

*People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot. (Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI)

I am a college student. Stealing from the caf no longer feels like stealing!

I am a college student. I have a specific shower stall which I refer to as 'mine' and my feet will never touch the floor of it.

I am a college student. I try to rotate stalls in the bathroom so I can read all the material taped to the walls.

I am a MALE college student. I always have more than one condom on hand. Two in one night? morning after? you never know.

I am a college student. I now fail to distinguish the difference in taste between water and beer.

I am a FEMALE college student. I own a sweater which resembles a bathrobe.

I am a college student. I didn't get my homework done cuz the kid I share a book with wasn't home last night to get it to me.

I am a college student. Drunken scrawlings on my message board or late night drunken IM's from friends across campus no longer perplex me.

I am a college student. Somebody keeps stealing my damn message board marker.

I am a college student. I pre-party in my room just so I will be drunk enough not to notice the sub-zero weather when I walk to the bar without a coat.

I am a college student. I pray for hotties in my classes so that I will have a reason to go to that class. I will, however, never talk to any of these hotties.

I am a college student. I can no longer remember what was cooked in those dirty dishes.

I am a college student. I have seen more than one party turn into a strip show.

I am a college student. I see no problem fitting 2 people in one twin size bed.

I am a MALE college student. I know that a gentleman would let her sleep next to the wall. (It's a long way to the floor.)

I am a college student. I will cross busy streets just to pick up what might be a quarter.

I am a college student. Answering machine messages are a thing to be celebrated.

I am a college student. When I see movie trailers on TV, I say 'I can't wait to download that'

I am a college student. Going 'out to eat' no longer involves getting in a vehicle.

I am a college student. I don't know half of my professors' names.

I am a FEMALE college student. I use empty beer bottles for vases.

I am a college student. Christmas lights are a year-round decoration.

I am a college student. Laundry bags double as suitcases.

I am a FEMALE college student. I have worn my huge fuzzy slippers to the cafeteria at dinnertime.

I am a college student. Going to bed before 2:00 is almost unheard of.

I am a college student. If it doesn't look or smell dirty, even if it has been on the floor for 3 days, it can be worn again.

I am a college student. I am accustomed to asking "do you have a student discount" wherever I go.

I am a college student. Going to early classes in my pajamas is fine.

I am a college student. Parties Wednesday through Saturday nights are never hard to find.

I am a college student. To get extra money, I sell my plasma, or my roommates cd's.

I am a college student. The only times that I eat breakfast are when I am still up from partying the night before.

I am a FEMALE college student, but you will never see me on a "College Girls Gone Wild" video.

I am a college student. I am an easy target for cops.

I am a college student. I have cussed out the people on the floor above me for being too loud at 3 am

I am a college student. I seldom make my bed.

I am a college student. I use milk crates for furniture and blankets to cover my window.

I am a college student. I enjoy seeing mail in my mailbox.

I am a college student. I have been to a TOGA party.

I am a college student. I have fallen down on campus before.

I am a college student. I plead to not drive whenever a group of us go out just so I don't lose my parking spot.

I am a college student. But I don't remember what home-cooked meals taste like!

I am a college student. Procrastination is a must.

...well for a few weeks anyway!

so yesterday i was walking back to rez for lunch after my psych. midterms, and i notice this trail of blood on the floor from CAB, across Quad, to the students union building (where someone was mopping it up)...i was like...ok thats kinda weird, cuz there was a whole lot more blood than if it was just a nose bleed. so it turns out some guy was studying in Cameron library (its attached to CAB), and these 3 guys came up, confronted him, and the guy ended up getting stabbed in the neck a couple times. Then he decided to run all the way to campus 5-0 in the SU building...must not have been thinking to clearly b/c running is going to ur blood pump faster, so he prolly lost a lot more blood than he would have if he had just stayed put and waited for an ambulance there...kinda scary though, and in a library of all places, seriously...so many more witnesses to it - i just don't understand people (like why feel the need to stab the guy in the first place???) *exasperated sigh*

hmmm, other than that, not too much excitement...i might be having my 2nd club/pub experience on thursday if all works out...and we still must have a calgary tequila night when i get home!!!

oh, have any of you U of C people heard anything about student summer painting jobs (or any other summer jobs for that matter?) cuz i need to find something to do for May and June, and then I am hopefully working at camp in July and August though i don't think anyone has heard anything back about that yet.

Dinner time...yay...oh yeah, caf food - never mind. Kristen and Jacqui - you have my "room-mate" sympathies, though i haven't had to actually have one, just being in rez gives me the gist of it. Arg.....well i'm on the topic of rez, there is this stupid materials receiving place (something that im guessing involves alot of NOISY machinery) that decided to do their work from 1130 to 1230 at night when i am trying to get to sleep. Last night i was ready to go outside over there and find out what it was...it sounds kinda like a garbage truck...only continuously for an hour when i'm trying to sleep....geez..........SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!!!!

ok...that all for now

Yeah, so today it was supposed to be 12 degrees ABOVE...yes!!!! and i ended up just wearing a t-shirt outside for some of the day...so impressive! and i went for a run yesterday and didn't freeze...actually i was roasting, and there were so many puddles that i ended up running through (the streets i chose to run down didn't have sidewalks for some strange reason....yes they were residential!), so i had wet feet by the end of it too.


sooooo this weekend sucked for the most part...studied studied studied...ate and then studied some more. I think my head is going to explode from all the information i am trying to cram into it. thought us girls here kinda had a "let it all out moment" on saturday night in the hallway....good times

AJ came up to edmonton this weekend w/ this girl he knows from sait who was visiting her b/f who lives in rez. I am just in a total state of confusion as to why he would come up this weekend, when he and Garbs were planning to come up next weekend anyway... he (sorry if you read this AJ...but i'm so confused by it) sent an email to Lauren and i saying that he was coming up with some friends (yes plural) and could he "crash on one of our respective couches for a night". I said sure he could sleep on my floor, though i didn't mention anything about having to study for the whole weekend, from what it sounded like, he just needed somewhere to sleep. so he showed up and was all like, k so lets go out to a bar or w/e...and lauren and i were like...umm kinda have to study...4 midterms and going out do not mix!!! so then he got all disappointed and bored. I just don't understand why he bothered coming. one other thing to complain about... he snores worse than my dad (maybe he was sick...but still - i needed to sleep, and there he goes snoreing away...grrr )whatever....there is more to the story than that, but i have a ton more studying to do, so i will leave it at that for now.

(AJ please don't be offended...you just are kinda confusing at times)

Well, even though i'm not actually in it...cuz i barely ever get included in the activities on my floor, this is the video my floor made for ivanhoe (this tower wide activity in rez). i don't intentionally hide in my room...no one ever tells me when stuff is going on...and i usually find out after the fact, though it is better than last semester i guess. anyway, if you want to see the crazy people i live with, or are just bored and want some cheap entertainment go here: http://www.daveupton.net/9mac.mpg
it takes a while to open, so just be patient!

Crazy....Kristen and I are opposite (in a way)

So instead of studying on saturday like i should have...i went to the mall. yeah looking back - not the smartest thing to do, but it was fun nevertheless. we went and tried on grad dresses for fun, i fell in love with this pink one....oh man - so pretty. good thing we didn't actually look like university students, b/c the lady's in Laura treated us like we were actually graduating this year...muahaha...we sure fooled them.

And this week and next are the weeks from hell - this week b/c i have to study for my 4 midterms mon, tues and wed next week...fun...grrr, who gives out 6 chapters to read for a midterm anyway???? plus the stupid paper i had to write - and not even for english (since i'm not taking it). grrr i hate APA format...i'm so scared i'm accidentally going to plagerize, but using the format stating the psychologists name every freaking sentence doesn't make for a very concise paper....arg...people make me angery!!!

hmm i need a better note to finish on than that though...

well i'm thinking about coming home easter weekend, so that i can go to the Ataris concert....yay, and then the dinner dance is the weekend after, so i will probably come home for that too....it doesn't matter that i have exams to worry about at that time too does it??

heehee..this made me laugh: