New Years Resolutions!

I have never actually made any of these...so here is my first ever list of resolutions for the new year:

--For every class I skip, I have to go to the gym and extra time for as long as the class was.
--I will get my N......eventually.
--Finish something I started writing for fun..but left to rot in a file in my documents.
--Do something exciting on New Year's Eve!
--Watch more comedy.

Well thats kind of a lame list, I am disappointed.

Love always,

Janelle

So far..

..so good:

--coming home!
--Internet that DOESN'T flicker
--fooooood!
--Getting eyebrows tamed, and ridding my hair of the blonde thatonce plagued it. Not that I have anything against blondes! It's a very nice color for hair, but I was sick of it being in my hair.
--sushi!!!!!
--Seeing Sweeney Todd
--Old Spaghetti Factory AND Girl's Night tonight!!!
--Christmas is only 2 days =)
--Getting one percent higher than I needed in AFM =)

...so bad:

--My bed and pillow are not as comfy as I remember....
--soooo tired


Love always (and Happy Holidays),

Janelle
--

Janelle only has 49 hours and 17 minutes until her flight leaves....

I have truly, been going insane.

I have one exam in about 2 and a half hours and it's not one I'm able to really study for.

I am done everything, even work.

This might sound very fortunate. But really, it is horribly unfortunate.

Why? Because it means I've been sitting on my ass waiting to leave. What makes it worse is the fact that my Internet connection has been down. The problem (says my computer) is in the router; apparently it needs to be reset. This isn't such a big deal other than the fact that the router is in my housemate's room. My housemate left for home a few days earlier. Uuhhhg. I just want to go hoooome =( This time tomorrow, I'll be waiting in the Kitchener airport.. I am wondering how patheticly similar it is to Abbotsford's airport.. it must be similar..both towns are equally small..


Anyways,

Love always,

Janelle

Only

Only 2 more exams left.

Only 5 more days until I'm going home.

Only 8 days until Christmas.

Only a couple more centimeters of snow please.

Only 2 and a half weeks until I can change my piercing.

Only 8 more months until this house becomes a party house.

Only 6 months and 4 days until I'm 19...finally.

Only need 65% in AFM to keep arts and bus.

Only 24 hours left until French exam!

That is my cue to go and study...

Love always,

Janelle

For the record

These are signs that Janelle is getting drunk:

--Janelle says "You guys I don't feel drunk at all"
--Janelle says "I'm fullin' it"
--Janelle takes 3 or more shots in a row

These are signs Janelle is drunk:

--Janelle smiles somewhat goofily after saying "I'm fullin' it"
--Janelle is laughing a lot
--Janelle does not feel the need to chase after the 3 or more shots in a row, but does on principle

These are signs Janelle is too drunk:

--3/4 of her bottle is empty
--She is positioned horizontally somewhere
--She wants everyone to know....who she wants...


Love always,

Janelle

I want these

and these

and these

"What should I do next time?"

Getting called in to work an extra 4 hours was worth it for this customer. He came up and placed his order in that kind of snobby and bored way. He said everything really sluggishly and without any emphasis on any syllable or any word. After he pays he asks:

"Yesterday I came in and ordered a sandwich combo, but I never got my donut. Can you give me the donut now?"

I explained to him that due to the circumstances (that it happened yesterday, and I have no idea who the fuck he is or if he is telling the truth--I put it much more politely), I couldn't do anything to help him. He replies:

"Well I really wanted to get a donut".

Again, I apologize and tell him there is nothing I can do, if he wanted a fucking donut he should order a fucking donut because I am not going to give them away. (Again, I put it much more politely). Then he asks:

"Well what should I do about it next time?"

I don't know why this seemed ridiculous to me, but this guy was driving me nuts and I wanted to laugh quite badly. "What should I do next time I realize no one gave me my donut??!?!??Maybe I should realize before 24 hours has passed, or hell, before I'm done my meal, that I didn't get my fucking 90 cents worth of pastry!"

I told him that we always grab pastries/cookies/etc. before the customer has paid and put it on the counter in front of them. (This is to prevent from forgetting things......) If he didn't grab it from the counter someone else may have. (Basically, pay attention). Also, I told him that if he's missing something from his order he should ask one of us to get it for him right away, versus a day later. Then...

"OK, well the other thing is that I think whoever makes the sandwiches needs to learn the difference between turkey and ham. They are different and yesterday I got ham on my turkey sandwich, which I wasn't too happy about. So, I dunno, maybe you guys need to have a lesson or something."

Yep, he told us we needed a lesson. This concern is understandable, but way too late. Had he have come back when he noticed, we would have made him a new sandwich. We might have even given him two donuts for fucking up so much. (Assuming we did forget the donut and screw up the meats). I was biting my tongue when he was leaving and trying to hard not to be rude and laugh.

I dunno, it made my day.

That and Nadine's Dane Cook impression..."Welcome to the jungle".

And now, back to studying my ass off for Econ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love always,

Janelle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whNUdqQKMCY

(at the end!)

Giddy Up

This post was modified by Janelle as some 13 year old girl seems to have hacked her account. (Mainly, Janelle on diet coke with a crush --what else is new?)

On another note: bad-ass=hot

On yet another note: desperate=ugly. Like demented, bog-dwelling, monster type ugly. Desperate=other people : "STAY THE FUCK AWAY" (screams).

Just don't do it. Less ugly scary, more sexy scary, please.

Love always,

Janelle

Con Fused

I've been thinking (and we know that gets me into trouble), but
Does negative mean bad? Does it not just mean at the opposite end of the spectrum to positive. Can something bad not bring something good, or something good bring something bad? Then how am I supposed to know the difference?

I should really sleep more than 4 hours in a night.


Love always,

Janelle

A Timmy Hoe's List of Woes.

Customer service jobs provide services to people. I work one of those jobs, and it's not a bad job. What's bad is how rude and dumb people can be.

--You wonder why your coffee is cold. When I say I'll remake it for you and ask what you had in it, you reply "5 milks and 3 sugars". 5 milks takes up over half the cup, of course it's cold.

--The correct reply to "Do you want your sandwich on white or whole wheat?" is actually not "yes".

--Telling me you want a bagel with cream cheese doesn't really help me help you. We have 7 or 8 kinds of bagels and 5 kinds of cream cheese. Would you like me to pick for you?

--Ordering a 40 pack of timbits and telling me you want "10 chocolate, 5 honey dipped, 3 honey crullers, 8 snowballs, 4 old fashioned glazed and the rest sour cream glazed" surprisingly, is difficult to remember and I'm not really sorry when I have to ask you again what you wanted.

--When you ask "What kind of soups do you have today?" and I say " Cream of broccoli and vegetable", that really means I don't have chicken noodle.

--No, we don't take Visa.

--No, we don't take debit.

--We never close.

--No, we aren't still selling the breakfast sandwiches, it's 2pm we've been out for a couple of hours.

--You wonder why your combo costs more than the advertised price. Well first of all, there are taxes, second you ordered a danish instead of a donut and an XL french vanilla instead of a medium coffee, oh and you added bacon to your sandwich.

--Just because I am close to the counter when I'm making an iced cap, doesn't mean I can get you an extra cup, I'm in the middle of something. And also, I have no idea how much longer your sandwich will take, I'm not in charge of it.

--I know what regular/single-single, double-double and triple-triple mean. You can even throw me a "quad-quad" and I'll figure it out, but I have no idea what a single-double is. Single what, double what?

--I am sorry that your baked, but we haven't baked any of that donut you really wanted in a while, so choose something else.

--No, we can't toast croissants. Why? They light on fire.

--If you ask for your bagel triple toasted, it will probably be pretty crispy.

--When you say "I want a toasted chicken club on whole wheat" and I ask "Is that everything?" I assume that you didn't want the combo.

Just so you know =)

Love always,

Janelle

Good:

Good is:

--Broccoli, carrots, peas, low fat alfredo sauce and pasta.
--Lazy, not hungover Saturday afternoons
--Having only one day of class left.

Bad is:

--anxiety
--Room smelling of popcorn and Bacardi
--Every item of clothing I own needs to be washed

Ugly is:

--My hair.
--Ice/snowy weather
--Accounting.

Books:

I am in a reading mood and these are what I want to read:

--The Tipping Point:Malcolm Gladwell
--Blink: Malcolm Gladwell
--My Secret :Frank Warren
--Post Secret: Frank Warren
--Secret Lives of Men and Women: Frank Warren
--Lifetime of Secrets: Frank Warren
--The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner
--The Five People You Meet in Heaven: Mitch Albom
--Christmas Wishes: Debbie Macomber
--This is Your Brain on Music: Daniel Levitin

Snow, snow go away, no one likes you anyway...

Operation Girls Night:Success.

--

Complaints: (We all love to do it)
--winter is DESTROYING my hair.. especially wind gusting at 76km/hr
--Jaw hurts. Wisdom teeth are definitely coming in, and in addition to the pain of them making their way through my gums, they are putting pressure on my jaw and causing headaches. This probably means I'll have to get them out.
--I'm sleeeeepy.
--I don't want to do my AFM report..again.
--I'm working 6 out of 7 days next week.....

On the other hand:
--Only one more day of classes
--Paycheck in one week
--No work tonight
--25 days 'til Christmas!!!


Love always,

Janelle

If Only..

I wish I was a flamingo.
That way, instead of writing essays that last over 3000 words (3604.. actually, thats 8 pages, 1.5 spaced.. NOT double..), I could laze around and eat shrimp all day. (And be the coolest colored animal). Also, I wouldn't be stressed out about my printer ink levels..
Basically Essays are a bitch and I disapprove!
And since they are a bitch, I wish I were a flamingo.
Sounds good.


Love always,

Janelle

Operation Girl's Night

Objectives:

-Get drunk
-Read Cosmo
-Enjoy Thursday night

Status: Not yet complete

--Cosmopolitan magazine:secure
--Venue: Cassie's abode
--Malibu: not yet secured. Waiting on Vlad. Rum secured.

I'm not going to lie, I'm quite excited.

फेक्किन बेऔतिफुल

So I dunno what happened there, but this post was originally in Hindi or something.. I'm not really sure why.

I'm also not really sure why my Mike's Bikes assignment has mysteriously disappeared from my computer..so now I have to do it all over again. Which sucks. should I skip French to do it? I don't honestly think I'll be able to get that and the rest of my Phil essay done tonight...uhg.

STRESSSTRESSSTRESS!!

Tonight is the last night though. The last night of assignments in Fall 2007. All I have to worry about now is studying, and I've already started a little..so I should be OK, right?

Time to get crackin'

Love always,

Janelle.

3 New Messages:

douggie: "you hot wanna chat" [i lik chat with dum ppl]

W3STB0~:"hey..i was wondering if you wanna chill tonigh" [meet u on da west side boi]

and the winner is.....

jonfreerides :"wanna watch me jurk off to ur pics on my cam?
add me jkk901@hotmail.com
thats me" [No.]

This is why Nexopia fails and Facebook rules the Internet.


Love always,

Janelle.

Only 29 Days!

I have decided to revise the list: (again)

--DVDs-seen them, or not, movies are the best study break in the world.
--Money (Cash or watcard)
--Large Puma bag. However they're pretty pricey and I might just get it myself.
--EARRINGS! I'm losing mine..
--Mascara (seriously, it's expensive and I don't want to buy it myself)
--Love-The Beatles
--Case for glasses. A nice one. One that is big. The one my glasses came in doesn't close when the cloth and glasses are in it at the same time. I can't leave the glasses out and the cloth gets dirty if it is elsewhere.
--A post secret book!
--Chocolate
--A 500mL water bottle that DOESN'T leak
--Nail Polish (really dark purple, almost black, not shimmery and a blood red one, again, not shimmery)
--Black printer ink...
--a book about yoga (Probably Hatha Yoga)
--A gym membership at GoodLife Fitness
--La musique. Including: The Beatles--(Rubber Soul, Revolver.....Everything I don't have.), The Fratelis-- I forget the name Costello Music? They only have one anyways, Maximo Park--anything if you can find it, which maybe you can't.

Sleeping is for Pussy-cats....(In the catnapping fashion)

This is what my time management skills have created. Though I procrastinate less than last year, I still do and it has come to slap me in the face. (Repeatedly, so I don't fall asleep). It's the final week before my first term ends, and the week I actually become and insomniac. Let me give you the plan:

Sunday:

--woke up at 7:30 to walk from REV to my house (after going to bed at 2:30)
--work on AFM report and realize I am missing more pieces. Not pivotal ones, but they would be nice to have my hands on...so that could need some more work.
--realize I haven't eaten since Red Lobster.. Realize and regret that I left my lobster pizza and biscuits in Cassie's fridge.
--eat Alphaghetti
--Go to work from 1 until 9
-- Consume turkey sandwich, low fat cranberry muffin, lots of water and a diet coke throughout busy ass, understaffed shift.
--Drink XL tea on the way home in attempt to induce a caffeine buzz.
--Notice that you've spent way too much time making a new blog entry.
--Rip apart English Essay for editing. (Literally, take it apart sentence by sentence and reorganize it more efficiently).
--Get extremely irritated by this and work on something else.. say that English presentation that's on Monday.
--Get even more irritated with the subject of English and move onto the French assignment.
--At about 3 AM, realize that I still have so much work to be done and decide that I am not going to bed.
--Practice yoga and drink tea in attempt to wake myself up a little.
--Don't fall asleep in corpse pose.
--Work on Essay/Project/French/Philosophy Essay until 7 AM, when is acceptable to be cooking things in the kitchen.

Monday:

--Make eggs for breakfast and hope they keep you alive for first class.
--Go to French, the only reason being because I have an assignment due.
--Go to Timmy's and perhaps chat with whichever regulars show up.
--Go to ECON (on the way, the experimentation with energy drinks begins)
--Go to St. Jerome's and have a power nap between class..it will have been 30 hours now.
--Go to English and do presentation
--At home, email Nichole about French, work on Phil Essay and sleep until 7
--Work at 8-11 PM
--Sleep!

Tuesday:

--Skip Philosophy to sleep (most likely anyways)
--Meet with team about contract???
--AFM..only 2 more classes, I am forcing myself to go. It's like forcing a 2 year old to eat raw broccoli.
--Leave AFM early to go to work from 4-7 PM.
--Get dinner from work, after work.
--Watch House, for a break.
--Enjoy free food, no matter how shitty, or boring it gets.
--Work on Phil Essay..at some point.
--SLEEP AT LAST!

Wednesday:

--Wake up, hopefully in a good mood because a) I had more than 4 consecutive hours of sleep and b) because I don't have to work today!
--The uje in classes (Uje= usual, slang).
--Buy Cosmopolitan magazine.
--Stay up as late as it takes to finalize Philosophy essay. (ie. Kick it's ass).
--Break time =ANTM

Thursday:

--Go to Philosophy and hand in essay with a smug expression because you kicked the shit out of it, and there's nothing that francophone guy can do about it.
--Perhaps today would be a better day to meet with the team, pressure of assignments off and all
--Go to AFM for the very last time, and leave early because again, I have to work.
--Work from 4-11 PM.
--Get off work and dance like a lunatic. Why? a) I am never going to a Philosophy class eve again and b) I only have one more term to deal with accounting classes and c) I just finished a 7 hour shift, and that's kind of worth dancing about.
--Walk straight to Cassie's to reward myself for making it through this term. And with what? Malibu and a Cosmopolitan magazine. It would be even more of a reward if it were a UK edition. Even more so if it were the naked one, or the 101 positions one.

Friday:

--Realize at 3 am that you are going to class soon.
-- Go to class hungover. (Yep, I'm planning on having a hangover).
--Get home from school to go to bed.
--Wake up, shower and get ready for another party.
--Party.

Saturday:

--Study for French test all day.
--Party all night.
--Reflect at some point on how the week progressed, and how each day, less time was used efficiently.
--Have another drink and get over it.

Sunday:

--Postsecret.
--Laundry.
--Sleep.
--Study.


Then, exams begin.

This week will be extra crazy because my working hours have jumped to 24. I took extra shifts because they didn't schedule me last week at all and I just got my tuition bill.. and my bank account is still bigger, but it won't be for long..

Anyways. Time to get moving. Or writing. Or doing something more productive than blogging.

Everyone should get a blog, they are fabulous!

Love always,

Janelle.

Re:Puple Shoes.

They were not expensive.

These are the reasons why they are not expensive:

--They (as I recently discovered) are Robert Clergerie .
--designer shoes like this would probably be triple what I payed, normally.
--I read about the designer, but because they are made originally in PARIS, I read about him in French (they're not ment for poor university student in Canada like me).
-- The only places I could buy more of the same in North America are in MY and LA.

Yea, I have expensive taste.

Love always,

Janelle.

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i love YOU!
I love you

i LOVE you


love ALWAYS,

Janelle

Purple Shoes...

Last Monday I went to the mall here to find something to wear for a semi-formal I am attending on Friday. It was very unsuccessful. Nothing I tired on was spectacular and the only thing I ended up actually wanting were a pair of purple wedges. I still wanted them after I saw they were $100, but I didn't get them because, well I am fairly poor.. and I need to buy a new ink cartridge.

Well today I got up early to do some grocery shopping. Originally to go with Cassie, but the weather prevented her from coming out. (First snowfall!) I went anyways, because lucky for me, the bus stop is a minute away. Well apparently there are two number 12 routes, one of which I wasn't aware existed until today. It just so happened that this mystery route does not stop between my house and the mall. How ridiculous is that? Well luckily enough, there's a grocery store in the mall, so it wasn't too big a deal, just a bit of extra time on the bus. Well of course I have to pass the store where my shoes are to get to Zher's. And of course I went in and they were still there...and I had to try them on.. just in case they were horribly uncomfortable and I could forget about them. It turned out to be the opposite. They are the most adorable, comfortable wedge heeled, ankle strappy shoes I have ever put on my feet!

Well, they are on hold now because I decided groceries are more important to buy than $100 shoes...but I get a paycheck tomorrow and if I can get to the mall before 9:30..they're mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.



Mine.



Love always,

Janelle

Yes.

LOVE ALWAYS.
ALWAYS LOVE,
ALL WAYS.

love always,

janelle

These 'conversations' frustrate me the most.

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4635799802442727376

This morning I happened to notice a few of my friends, and a few old acquaintances had voiced their opinion on the note, and my comment on it (linked above). Perhaps my comment was not in 'fine enough taste', so I will respond with a less childish remark. I chose to respond here simply because I fear what I have to say might be taken as a slight to some. I guarantee this is not the case. I am in no position to criticize anyone I might have known since years ago and whom are all "hundreds of miles away". That would be like giving you my opinion on the War. I have never been to Iraq, why should I have any idea about it? That would be an outrage, imagine what you would have to do to diffuse that situation.

Well, if I may, state what I really meant behind my apparently insulting words...I merely was responding to what Darren alluded to occurring. Should it have been occurring, I felt a strong desire to smack the parties involved upside the head. Since Jason was so kind to remind me that I am in fact, way out of arms reach, I went with "Fuck" and "Yes" to assert my position. Now, I wouldn't have wanted to smack anyone around if the activity Darren mentioned hadn't been occurring. But again, I am so far away, how could I know? Don't be offended by my ignorance to such a situation, especially if you are pointing out the flaw in my judgement. Another thing not to do is assume I actually care about what you are doing. I personally don't give a rat's derrière what or whom you talk about, but that doesn't mean I can't have an opinion about it.

Don't bother apologizing, or making anyone apologize. No one over on this side of the world was offended. Go on discussing whatever you chose to, no one can tell you not to.

Love always,

Janelle

Things I Have Learned so Far!

My education at university has been very rewarding so far. These are some of the things I have learned through my, and other people's experiences:

1. Do not leave laundry detergent unattended, someone else will probably use it. Whether they mean to or not, but in the end, you will be buying the new bottle.

2. Essays can still be bee essed late the night before they are due, but one cannot expect a decent mark on it.

3. Snow is just as wet as rain and will definitely smudge mascara.

4. It is best to conceal alcoholic beverages while cops are around, no matter what anyone says. Unless of course you are experimenting with alcohol and foliage, see which bush gets drunk quicker.

5. Tim Horton's soups and sandwiches aren't actually that bad for you, which is great when it's the only non-pizza place open 24/7.

6. Sugar will not keep you as awake as caffeine will.

7. Aspartame and Splenda are two very different sweeteners. (I looked it up on Wikipedia).

8. Vodka is evil. It will do evil things to you and you should drink rum instead.

9. Chugging vodka is a bad idea, but don't worry, you won't remember. (Most everyone else will).

10. Procrastinating reading something as long and dreadfully boring as Ulysses leads to less free time later.

11. No one wants to know how drunk you are by reading about it on Facebook.

12. You might think Eminem rapping with a British accent would be funny, but it's not really, especially when it's videotaped.

13. If you are bringing your laptop to class for a presentation, you should probably bring the power supply, just in case.

14. Telling a girl that your parents are loaded is not actually as good a pick-up line as it might sound.

15. Iris is a really good song and pretty much everyone (seems to) know it (or they will eventually).

16. You will eventually fight with your roommate, conflict is inevitable.

17. Accounting is boring, and accountants should be pitied, because they have boring, boring things to do.

18. If you are too busy to watch TV shows, you can download them and watch them later!


Yay.





Love always,

Janelle

Eughh.

I got my Econ midterm mark back and was unpleasantly surprised to see that it was 15% lower than my last one, AND 8 percent lower than my Accounting midterm. How can I have possibly gotten a better mark in Accounting than Econ? What happened?

Between banging my head against the wall and screaming silently, I wondered, do marks actually matter? I've never been one to brag about them, or really care, but maybe that's because they were always good. Now I'm getting sixties and they matter? But really, all I need to do to get my honors degree is a sixty-five average. That need is being fulfilled, but what about wants? Is all I want to have the basics, or do I want to do better?

Anyways, I'm hopped up on Advil sinus and need to get some reading done.

Love always,

Janelle

Happy November!

I have decided to revise the list:

--DVDs-seen them, or not, movies are the best study break in the world.
--Money (Cash or watcard)
--Large Puma bag. However they're pretty pricey and I might just get it myself.
--EARRINGS! I'm losing mine..
--Mascara (seriously, it's expensive and I don't want to buy it myself)
--Love-The Beatle's
--Case for glasses. A nice one. One that is big. The one my glasses came in doesn't close when the cloth and glasses are in it at the same time. I can't leave the glasses out and the cloth gets dirty if it is elsewhere.
--A post secret book!
--Chocolate
--A 500mL water bottle that DOESN'T leak
--Nail Polish (really dark purple, almost black, not shimmery and a blood red one, again, not shimmery)
--Black printer ink...

Until next time,

Love always,
Janelle

So relieved.

Despite the fact that I am exhausted from midterms and work, and the fact that this morning I stepped on an earring and it went through my heel and my heel now feels like it's bruised, and the fact that grocery shopping today was an ordeal, and the fact that this is the ugliest run-on sentence of my life, I am so happy! So glad to be done tests until exam time and I have nothing to do tonight. What does that mean? I can sleep? Hmm?Loverly.

=)

Poem.

Barely morning,
late October.
You wouldn't believe
we were sober.
It's not a game,
but we broke the rules.
We're not the same,
but we're both fools.

Love always,

Janelle

Love!

I just saw Across the Universe and I loved it. I loved it more than I thought I would. It was surprisingly intense. There was even a part where I really wanted to cry. The littlest things made me so happy ... the old guy at the beginning " 'I thought to myself, when I'm sixty-four...' " and " ' Where'd she come from?' 'She came through the bathroom window' ". Ahhh, so good. I need to stop distracting myself from midterm studying...

Love always,

Janelle.

Bliss.

Ignorance is bliss.

Ignor(e)ance is bliss.

That might be stupid, but personally I think stupidity is trying to sneak around a right corner before a cement truck does. (As witnessed today while walking home from English). People are stupid and I am a person. I won't be afraid to include myself in this stupidity, because sometimes I really am. For now, I'm just going to ignore it.

Love always,
Janelle

Irritating:

I am trying to study for my accounting midterm, but I feel like I'm running through a forest blind. It's absolutely hopeless, and fairly annoying. What's more is I have to read something for Philosophy, complete an English assignment (copy Hemingway's writing style..eugh) and do three peer evaluations. I could personally care less about Philosophy because the professor will take 3 classes explaining each word in intense detail while the class drools all over the 35 page print off. English might be easy to do right before class and the peer evaluations should be done quickly, but I like to complain.

There is something about complaining that is so satisfying, and whether you realize it or not, you probably do it sometime. I know it's a habit so I don't even bother trying to hide it. So often when I am talking with someone, some part of the conversation involves each party complaining about pretty much whatever. We don't even necessarily listen to what the other person is saying, we just spit out whatever might have been annoying us recently. John says, "My cat pissed on my alarm clock this morning". Julie replies, "Yeah, shitty. Fuck my neck is sore and I'm so thirsty I think I'm going to pass out". The subject of the conversation isn't the content of what is actually being said, the subject is "insert complaint here". As annoying as it may be too listen to everyone's complaints, getting yours out is almost a relief of some kind. However, I do find my own voice annoying after a while and have to change the content of the conversation. Bigger complaints, I probably put here.

I think I'm the same way with excitement too. If I'm really pumped about anything, I always change the subject to it. I hope I'm not the only one out here...anyways, back to schoolwork I go!

P.S.- In Tim Horton's today, Avril Lavigne's latest was on the radio and I noticed she stole a line from Ashlee Simpson. "You make me wanna scream". No. Bad Avril. I am embarassed that I know this, or that I was ever a fan of Avril Lavinge, or ever went to her concert....

First Day.

My first day at Timmy's was rather odd. I was given no training, which was fine because I was only running drinks and that has been ingrained in my skull even after a year. Still, it seemed odd just to walk out to the counter and start making coffee. Also, we don't time the coffee. At home after 20 minutes we had to dump the coffee, here we use our discretion. However it goes fast enough, I doubt we're breaking our "always fresh" policy. Everything else is laid back too, standing and chatting while it's dead wasn't a big deal apparently (not that it happened often, and if it did it lasted for a minute) and we could have drinks up front as long as we weren't drinking while taking an order or something. Speaking of drinks, we are allowed to have as many as we want! As long as they are not bottled or iced capps, they are essentially free! For $1.70 a shift, I can have whatever food or drink I want. Good deal. It really was weird though, knowing how to make everything and not having to be followed around by a trainer, but I guess it was nice. :)

On a completely different note, here is my Christmas wish list so far:

--DVDs-seen them, or not, movies are the best study break in the world.
--Money (Cash or watcard)
--Large Puma bag. However they're pretty pricey and I might just get it myself.
--EARRINGS! I'm losing mine..
--Mascara (seriously, it's expensive and I don't want to buy it myself)
--Love-The Beatle's
--Case for glasses. A nice one. One that is big. The one my glasses came in doesn't close when the cloth and glasses are in it at the same time. I can't leave the glasses out and the cloth gets dirty if it is elsewhere.
--a post secret book!

That's all..for now, I will keep this updated.


Leave a comment if you actually read this. I don't know if anyone does. I enjoy doing it anyways.

Love always,

Janelle.

Pleasantly Surprised.

My new job, at Timmy Hoes, pays $9.25 an hour! How excellent is that. The downsides are that that I have to pay for my uniform and my weekends will probably be eaten away a bit. BUT for only $1.70 a shift, half hour before or after, I get free food! None of this "you can have tea and a donut...or a sandwich but it's only 30% off" business. I can probably get a free meal 4 days a week. MONEYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

In other news, it has been decided that the male sex, despite popular belief, is just as confusing as or more confusing than the female sex.

Also, I am excited because I am probably going to a show on Saturday night. "Last Five Years" it is called. Only $10! Woooop.

Ok I'm really tired and I can tell because this is not proceeding in any logical order.

*still smiling about the fact that she will have money in her pocket soon, oh so soon*


lalalala

Re: Classes thus far.

Correction 1: My French prof. is still crazy, but the class is monotonous and has proven to be less intensive. How well I do is (not so surprisingly) dependent on how I study. Everything we are taught in class has already been taught to me in Grade 12 French. I never thought I would thank Ms. Rajabally for those study sheets, but they have been the most useful tool for FR 192A. I'm not even worried about being tested on pronouns next week! (Anyone who has studied French knows pronouns are a B-I-T-C-H).

Correction 2: I will never take another English course again unless is is absolutely necessary or it is a creative writing type coarse. Maybe it's the 20th Century that is stimulating my gag reflex, but I'm pretty sure it's all the bullshitting that's making me sick. I wonder how I ever wanted to major in English. From now on, I read and analyze what literature I want to , when I want to and how I want to. Peace English department.

Correction 3: AFM 131 is not alright. It is 1 hour and 20 minutes wasted pointing out logical conclusions that anyone could make. There are two reasons I go to class: 1) I get a portion of my mark from clicker quizzes and I usually get 100%. I need all the marks I can get there because my group term assignment is struggling to stay afloat. And 2) Sometimes, Sproule's jokes are funny nad he sometimes has interesting stories/details to share. For instance today we talked about Dell and their Just-in-time production method. It explains why my computer was so delayed. They don't order parts until customers order parts. Very smart Dell, but not so much when you have to ship orders a month late. I would never have bothered to find this on my own, but perhaps it's only interesting because it relates to me somehow. Anyways...

I'm not even going to start on Philosophy, which would be correction number 4.

Classes thus far.

The reviews are in and the first impressions have been made. Here they are:

French 192A avec Madame McLenaghan

The course description itself proves to be intimidating. It boasts of being "an intensive French language course" and has lived up to its claims with the help of Madame McLenaghan. Don't get me wrong, she is a very nice and knowledgeable lady, however her thoughts seems to be scattered like crumbs off of toast. (They're going off everywhere and it gets confusing when you find them in what you thought to be the most unlikely places). If this wasn't nerve-wracking enough, after 2 months of delay, not one FR 192A student has their textbooks. "They [would] be in by Wednesday" , the Bookstore staff guaranteed. This morning I got up early just for my French books and all I got was some shrugs and sorry, we'll put oyu on a list and e-mail you when they're in.

ECON 101 with Professor Carvalho..or something else with those letters, I don't even know how to pronounce it.

Very interesting actually, considering the subject matter. "Economics is people" and I like people. Enough said.

ENGL 105A with Duncan

He is down with me calling him Duncan, I am down with calling him Duncan (Versus Doctor Greenlaw). I am down with group discussions unrelated to anything in the course and looking at slides of old political cartoons that are somehow relevant to what we are reading. (They are I just don't feel like explaining them). Down, down, down I will go when homework piles up and I have to read an entire short novel in one night.

AFM131 with Professor Sproule

Entering late into this class I noticed only a small SpongeBob toy on the desk. Apparently, he likes SpongeBob, and Business? This is confusing to me. He does wear a pretty snazzy tie, so i guess it's alright.


PHIL 100J with Tremblay (it rhymes)

I knew there was a reason I chose 100J over 100. Apparently, this prof doesn't believe in studying philosophy in the traditional way. (Learning the history and technical jargon). Apparently we need to learn how to philosophize and analyze philosophies! And also, we need to watch the matrix. This is fairly difficult as it isn't at the only rental place I know of (and within walking distance)...so I might not do to well on that assignment.


Skype Phone

You took too long to install and took too many restarts to install.


QUEST

You will not let me swap that class. I don't know why, I know there is room in the class I want to get into, so what's the deal? I'm coming after you for your inconvenience to me.

Sunday equals laundry and cleaning.

I have learned that laundry is not as intimidating as it is made out to be --at all. Especially when your equipment is triple as old as you are and has only "gentle" or "wash" to choose from. Single-dialed washing machines are the way to go! Well with that all sorted out, I have time to make lists. (I am fond of lists).

Janelle needs:

--a dust removing device
--internet cord
--nail polish remover
--AA batteries
--a job I can't even make it to the job fair because it's only 4 hours and I have classes =( >___< --a good sense of direction --[strike]to fold the laundry[/strike] --to de-clutter her desk --[strike]to get dressed[/strike] (I might have scared the Asian boy downstairs.. apparently everyone gets dressed by 4pm, even if all they are going to do that day is laundry and clean) Janelle wants: -- about $50 000 --to not need a job --milk to be less expensive --to figure out where her new ziploc containers went --a bike --a camera --class to not be boring --to figure out which major and minor to choose --laundry to be dry! --that othe rbook by the author of "blink".. I think that was the one that looked good..The Tipping Point! Love always, Janelle P.S.- that guy , with the parachute. Yea he brought the rugby ball to start off the game. It was pretty much the best part of the day. That and Waterloo kicking Guelph's butt!

New Room!

So I'm going to add some very UGLY pictures of my new room. They are ugly because:

a) My camera screen is broken and my aim is WAY off.
b) It is still quite messy.

I live in an attic.

I cannot aim.

There's the other side of the room. Hiding behind the plastic containers is a dresser and under is a fridge.

Garbage and Abbey Road. They wouldn't last.

And the desk!

All Packed

Those three bags contain everything I own. I am all packed and ready to leave for Waterloo on Thursday morning. I. Can't. Wait.

An Adventure a Day...

..what good does that do anyone? I don't know, but it sure is exciting.

Best Adventures this summer:

--trying to go camping with 300 000 000 mosquitoes. Nothing repels them these days. At least Sara and I got good pictures of ourselves.

--Sam and I biking to Jason's. Actually, only I biked because my bike wasn't as dangerous to ride, however I could barely touch the road when my feet weren't on the pedals. The best part was figuring out how the damn tire pump worked, you'd think it would be simple.

--going to Timmy'snd hunting for peanut butter cups. "There's not a certain amount you have to spell right?" No, I am not mentally retarded.. or high.

--driving around with Sara on a Thursday evening. We like to take the scenic routes, maybe twice, just to make sure we saw everything. Also, getting ditched by Megh, Sarah, Alanna and Mike. Thanks guys, couldn't have waited 5 minutes? Well we had fun driving around with our McDonald's anyways.

Though they don't sound particularly adventurous, these are some of the best parts of summer. Meaningless? Perhaps, does anything have to have a giant purpose. Does everything you enjoy doing have to be grand? I'll sit back and enjoy the spontaneity of it all for now.


P.S.- I left out my favorite adventure where bank hottie was totes into me and bought me a hundred cheques "on him". Yeaahhh

Peace.