ramblings.

Finally! 110 hours of World History crammed in my brain, give or take. Ending with an exam that was so easy it was like…well, easy! Wow! And now I’m done. And now my four weeks of summer are about to begin! Four fun-filled weeks of…fun and excitement and adventure! Or at least getting more than 6 hours of sleep a night.

But onto a rather troubling matter:

Dollar stores are jumping the gun a little too much.

What do I mean by this? I mean Hallowe’en merchandise out in JULY. I mean, September is understandable, because Hallowe’en is at the end of October. But July? MID-July? That’s just wrong. It’s not as though the prices are going to CHANGE, and because of this, people are just going to buy their stuff at the very last second anyway. So really… why bother? Tch. Same goes for Christmas and Back-To-School.

Today I’m not doing anything. But ze day, she ees young, non? *crazy throaty Frenchman laugh* Yeah. Anyone wanna chill, call me.

So, movies I’ve seen so far are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Dark Water. Dark Water was………bad at best. Everyone who was there was really hyper and ADD-like.

Yeah, yesterday was fun. Went with some people from my class and also the people they brought, and we went to Kelsey’s. Good food. Amusing conversation

Played some video games, the movie (Dark Water) was miiiiserably bad, but then again I paid very little attention. =\ Wandered into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory afterward, just to see what was going on.Went home. Couldn’t sleep. Fell asleep at some random unknown time, overslept like a banshee, now I can’t go get my marks =\ Boo….Well, we get them mailed to us so it’s all good.

And now I go outside.

The other day, I noticed that people complain about their significant others. A LOT. So, during a conversation with a bunch of good friends about it, I came up with:

THE SIGNIFICANT OTHER POINTS SYSTEM (SOPS for short.)

This handy dandy system will revolutionalize relationships as we know them by reducing their actions to a list on an index card! Because Cosmo and the like don’t do it enough.

The SOPS is available for both males and females, and includes such things as

Forgetting to return a phone card: minus 4-12 points, depending on urgency
Unexpected presents: plus 6-24 points, depending on how good the present is.
Compliments: (If compliment was blatantly fished for) +3 points (If unsolicited) +4.5 points and an incredibly suspicious glance and being asked “What was that all about?”

And so on and so forth. It also completely reduces the need for long rants complaining about the state of your relationship! It could even be a part of your LiveJournal!

“Music– The Beatles- Octopus’ Garden
Mood– Angsty
SOPS Number– 72″

Bwahaha, this would make SUCH a good commercial. But seriously… If you find yourself whining about and evaluating your boyfriend or girlfriend’s actions so much that you need some kind of scoring system to make your whining and evaluation easier, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG. I still find the concept very funny, though.

In other news…
School is going well. Time seems to be passing faster, which makes me happy. Oddly, I manage to see the whole summer school month as both a full school year and just one giant week. Spring break coming soon! Time to PARTY HARDY. Or at least go downtown lots. Yeah!

That is, if I’m not STUCK IN HOSPITAL. Pains still going strong on-and-off like. Ugh. Man, this garbage better not interfere with my studies.

The kids at my camp are REALLY CUTE. No musical ability whatsoever, but REALLY CUTE. The recorder group (the youngest ones) are particularly cute, but make hideous screeching noises. The brasses and woodwinds (oldest) are the ones I work with. It’s really more of a buddy system, so I’m like, mentoring the bass clarinet kid. Free lunch and snacks. Woo….! Creeeeeeepy head couselor dude. Booooooooo….!

My piggy bank is jingling promisingly. *GRIN*

Yup… I start my three-day stint as a teacher tomorrow. I’m not making any money, but instead am getting free snacks, lunch, and volunteer hours. Woohoo.

I had to undergo some tricky manouevers in order to get permisson to take half of the day off at school for three days. But hopefully it will be worth it. And it’ll make the whole thing go much faster! =D

(In case anyone was wondering, I lost seven pounds and am that much closer to not being a fat cow by the end of the summer. =))

Apart from that, my “Christmas Break” was… kind of icky. I spent part of yesterday in the hospital, and will probably have to go back periodically due to some insane biznaz that’s resulted in a HOLE INSIDE OF ME that feels like something is ripping my innards out with rusty iron claws.

I figured out the chords for “Swing Life Away” as well. I really need to take my guitar skills somewhere further than…umm…. learning chords and really basic melodies. I haven’t touched the contrabass. I hope I have a reed, or else I’m screwed….

You know you’re bored when Harvest Moon is suddenly a good game.

Yeah. We figured out today that if it were a real school year, this weekend would be Christmas break. Haha. So, yeah. Merry Christmas to all.

Today was just like all the other days, except people have found out that I am, in fact a human dictionary/thesaurus and have begun to take advantage of it. So I guess I’m out of exile…=\

Lunch was…lunch, nothing specific except for the EARWIG OF DEATH and seeing the guy who caught us at the pop machine.

After school… “helped” fix Shawnna’s computer. Which basically equals watching as someone else fixes it and occasionally commenting while drinking milk.

Came home, rollerbladed a bit. Low key day. Weekend’s going to be insane. Whoever wants to chill, CALL ME. I want to spend my “Christmas Break” having lots of fun!

Makes me want to shove a cucumber in my ear. Seriously. If I have to deal with one more idiot needing help on something that is as blatantly easy as “describe the scene in the picture below”, I will strangle someone. Grr, I’m all angry-like now. Another thing:

FOR THE LOVE OF THE BABY JESUS, STOP TOUCHING MY COLLAR. REALLY NOW. NOT NECESSARY. ALSO STOP TOUCHING MY HEAD.

Lessons Learned in Catholic School:

1. Dead baby jokes don’t fly well.
2. Neither does mentioning that “(insert thing here) makes the Baby Jesus cry”
3. You show up to a Malvern school that doesn’t have uniforms not looking like a gangsta or similar, you will be ostracized.
4. Being ostracized by the majority of your class is fun. The stupid people don’t talk to you.
5. There are no nuns. Don’t look for the nuns. You won’t find any.
6. Openly mocking the self-satirizing hip-hopper kids: BAD, BAD IDEA.
7. After a while, people will come to reealize that you are actually not dumber than a bag of hammers and will begin asking for help. Be nice.
More to come…

Not much to say. When I start having actual fun this summer, I’ll blog more. *readies the cucumber*

Nuar!!

Picnic was the bomb! Despite the fact that over half the people who were going to go got horribly and hopelessly lost and were unable to attend. NEXT TIME, MORNINGSIDE PARK. Gar.

Well, much of the party was summed up in (Justin’s blog) The night before, Leila came over and we didnt’ do all that much. Fell asleep watching Lilo and Stitch. I LOVE THAT MOVIE. Anyway, the next morning I went to get the stamp so I could take a course in Catholic school. BUT THEY TOLD ME TO COME BACK THE NEXT DAY. So I left. Leila, mommy and I went grocery shopping, resulting in several pictures of me and meat. Me telling Leila to go long attempting to throw a spiral with a chunk of beef. Me running rugby-style with a frozen turkey. Etc. Also the COCK bottle. Will post all these pictures when I get them.

Then went home, washed the cars with Leila, Andrew came over and we all made the food. Leila had an interesting time with the tuna salad…
“Did I add too much mayo?”
“It’s goo.”
Sophie and Philip came over, too. We all made food. Food food food. Then, after much difficulty loading stuff into the car, we went to the park.

Turns out almost everyne got lost. So out of the thirty or so people who were either a yes or a maybe, about half of that came. So we chilled. Ate food. A LOT of food, since so many people got lost. Went wading in the creek, which I found highly entertaining. Fought over the CD player. “MEAT JUICES”/”VARIETY BALLS”. The mosquitoes ate us alive. See Justin’s blog for pictures. The others played Manhunt. Justin(not GusGus), Hiroto, and Carl came WHILE WE WERE PACKING THE CAR UP. Because they SUCK. So we gave them food and laughed at them. And that was the gist of it. Good times, good food.

And yesterday was FIREWORKS!!! SO MUCH FUN!!! I love Canada Day! Yes, I did complain about being cold. Yes, I was cold. But now I’m comfortably warm and can say that it was crazily fun. What with the insane candy shop and the skipping rocks and the “pro pics” that I will soon post and Horatio dying like eight times. And post-fireworks was fun, looking for a bathroom and being cold cold cold and the whole bus/subway ride fiasco ‘cept we were too tired to really talk much. Saw Doug, saw Sam, met Ashley and Ashley’s Friend… umm, I forget his name, so now it’s Fabio. Walk home was freaking scary, and I now have a self-imposed curfew of 10 unless someone’s coming home with me =P

Today I bought clothes and made clothes. It was a very clothes-focused day. Also fucking boring. Hoping to attend some sort of get-together tomorrow. Woot. \o/ and such.

I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO DO THIS. Will do so tomorrow.